SPECIAL: 20 Anthological Songs of Prince - Muzikalia

On the occasion of the recent book published about the legendary genius Prince, titled The Beautiful Ones and which our colleague Luis Moner already reviewed here at Muzikalia, we now address 20 of the most anthological songs of the singular, indomitable and mega-creative prodigy of Minneapolis; to which he died in 2016, unfortunately.

Two of our collaborators such as Luis Moner himself, in addition to Txus Iglesias, will choose twenty pieces by an American artist whose feats are countless, such as winning countless awards such as 4 MTV, 7 Grammys or 7 Brits Awards, dispatching 100 million albums or being admitted to the extremely select Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Here goes a tribute to this historic performer.

PURPLE RAIN

According to his last memoirs, or almost memoirs The Beautiful Ones, Prince was very excited to undertake his facet as an actor and film producer. He liked to dabble in different facets of art, this restlessness came to him as a child when he listened to his father play jazz at his house, or when his mother played soul records for him.

Debuting in the cinema at the hands of Albert Magnoli was, without a doubt, an act of narcissism, but also a way of proving to himself whether or not he was capable of the complicated art of acting. To tell the truth, the film was a huge box office success (today it's one of those “cult” Guilty Pleasure movies in the style of Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, which people like to see with a drink too much) in 1984, and it narrated a story of rivalry between gangs that had their own musical groups: Prince (“El Niño”) had his The Revolution, and Morris Day had The Time. Reality and fiction merge on celluloid. He showed, it is worth saying, that he was useless for an actor.

The OST is a Masterpiece without any comparison. All the songs deserve to be on this list, although, of course, "Purple Rain" and that final guitar solo by Prince already deserve a separate article.

In these almost nine minutes of song the best black music, and the most influential, that has been made in the history of popular music is condensed. “Purple Rain” is a generational anthem, the greatest love song ever sung and performed. It is solemn and exciting; It is Herculean and sculpted with wrought iron. The sky threatens temporary. Drenched to the bone in golden rain.

Luis Moner

BAT DANCE

This kind of danceable and unpredictable empirical funk-rock that is “Batdance” (1989) was not one of the songs offered by Prince to director Tim Burton for the movie Batman and therefore was not used for the filming itself , although it did obtain, with complete justice, its place for the soundtrack. Said juicy and sophisticated experimental labyrinth is made up of dialogues taken from the characters in said film, different effects and up to 7 songs interwoven, sampled, distorted, remixed and all created by the vocalist himself (some of those same cuts were unpublished). That incisive guitar that twists or that electronic drums that gives off smoke, at the irresistible orders of this chameleonic musical emperor, direct this peculiar song-collage for the better.

Purple is the color associated with Prince and it's also the color of the Joker's suit, so everything clicked in terms of the aesthetics of the complex video (it was also nominated for the MTV, Soul Train and Brit awards) which was shot from the song. Consequently, and along with 15 dancers dressed appropriately for the occasion, the "princely" singer appears partially disguised as the enemy, par excellence, the man-bat, leaving the other half of his characterized body for his own winged alter-ego. of Bruce Wayne. Said artistic hybrid was called "Gemini", which is the zodiac sign of the artist himself and is also a symbolism of the ambiguity of his music, where he also tried to adapt all the visual setting of the clip to the aesthetic concepts of the filmmaker Tim himself. Burton.

Despite the risky, strange and changing nature of this almost 7-minute sonic performance that is “Batdance”, it nabbed the number one spot on several charts in the United States, as well as Norway, Switzerland, New Zealand and it flew to No. 2 in England and Australia. Also the valuable and unlabelable “bat dance” even opted for a Grammy for “Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance”, although it did not win it.

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JUNGLE LOVE

Within that gold mine that is Originals (Warner, 2019) in which jewels that Prince had in his drawers inside his Paisley Park mansion were revealed, this “Jungle Love” stands out for being a piece of infectious and sexy funk.

Originally released by The Time on their third album Ice Cream Castle, the I-Cook-It-I-How-I-Cook It works again, and knows how to seduce, along with his cronies Morris Day and Jesse Johnson, with letters that were (and are) pure testosterone with a mutant look:

“I want to take you to my cageLock you up and hide the keyYou are only getting part of pigCause if you're hungryTake a bite of me”

Lubricant prints to the rhythm of programmed drums, buzzing bass lines, and guitars that have Sly Stone on an altar for the rest of our lives. Pure vice. Minneapolis sound in its purest essence.

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PARTYMAN

Year 1989. Warner Bros. Offices. Producer Jon Peters and the executives of said multinational wanted the soundtrack of the movie Batman to be a half job between the stars Michael Jackson and Prince, although this attractive idea, finally , it didn't work out. The director of said film Tim Burton and the actor Jack Nicholson (who played the role of Joker in the film itself) are very followers of Prince himself and were using the songs "1999" and "Baby I'm Star" by the artist himself. as a background for the montage of some scenes, so the Warner Company insisted on Burton so that Prince finally contribute at least one more new song.

In this way, when the same singer (also a follower of Batman's own series from the 60s) was invited to watch a private showing of part of the film, he realized that not one but up to eight unpublished compositions of his could be coupled in the commented footage; something enthusiastically accepted by Warner Bros. Contradictory and unexpectedly, four of those songs ended up discarded by Tim Burton himself, who did not see how he could include so many pop-rock sounds in his celluloid and preferred the ambient pieces of composer Danny Elfman. Even so, later the filmmaker himself asked the "prince" for two additional tunes, which turned out to be "Trust" and "Partyman", the latter being vital for a sequence in the film when the Joker and his cronies destroy the Gotham museum. City and they meet, immediately afterwards, with the protagonist Vicky Vale (played by the actress Kim Basinger, who incidentally had a torrential love affair with Prince himself, during those years of filming the aforementioned footage).

The original idea to compose this memorable and highly skilled funk-pop about a “party man” came to Prince when he met, in person, the actor himself Jack Nicholson, who approached him, sat in a chair and put the foot on a table in an uninhibited way. This was a detail that reminded our vocalist of how the singer and actor Morris Day behaved, who had been his classmate and collaborator since high school, in Minneapolis and with the parallel group The Time, among others. many stories together. In the wild video clip for "Partyman", the always quirky artist appears dressed almost entirely as the Joker (although he also has some of the ambiguous "Gemini") and presents himself, in society, as the new king of the city, while supporting him his band The New Power Generation.

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DARLING NIKKI

Nikki is powerful. Nikki invites Prince's alpha male to her castle. A space to let the mind and the most irrepressible desires flow:

“She took me to her castle and I just couldn’t believe my eyes,She had so many devices everything that money could buy,She said “sign your name on the dotted line.” The lights went out and Nikki started to grind”

The Minneapolis man had many hopes for the movie Purple Rain, and ended up on a positive note in that he emerged as a shrewd businessman. Absolute critical fiasco, but an essential soundtrack will remain in the memory. In this song, Prince had to force his multinational to put that “Parental Advisory” thing because his tiny mouth released well-lubricated pearls, and we are told a beautiful metaphor of free love and atonement for any sin (that ending with the sound of rain is premonitory) through music.

Sharp rock sounds carried by the voice of a Prince always on the verge of going wild. Guitar riffs at the right point, and a controlled tidal wave of emotions until, in the end, everything falls into an abyss that reminds me of Frank Zappa's asymmetries, but also James Brown's hurricane. Nikki, the priestess of GOOD.

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CREAM

No. 1 on the US charts and No. 2 in Australia, Poland and Canada, the swaying and highly seductive beat of "Cream" (1991) contains lyrics that are not as sexually explicit as other Prince songs and more suggestive, something that perhaps could have been beneficial for a greater commercial reach of the song itself. In any case, according to statements by our protagonist today, this theme was devised by him while he was in front of a mirror, during a hot, “creamy” and self-indulgent inspiring situation. However, and as a counterpart to this supposed onanism, at the beginning of the equivalent video-clip, which takes place in a busy train station and in his cafeteria, the singer himself gobbles down, without hesitation, the cream from his fingers that He generously offers one of his beautiful and distinguished companions. This is the same passage that takes place before everyone begins a sensual and elegant dance choreography and the guitar whines in a peculiar and high-pitched way.

On the contrary, other interpretations of the listeners deactivate the most lustful double meanings and affirm that the meaning of the paragraphs alludes, only, to an ostentation of the narcissism of the mega-star himself and to claim his return to the top of the charts (with his band The New Power Generation). This return to the creme de la creme was something that, indeed, was achieved with "Cream" itself, as we pointed out before, together with the corresponding LP Diamonds and Pearls (1991) and after the disaster, from critics and the public, of the film Graffiti. Bridge (1990). And it is that Prince always resurfaced, over and over again, as the most supreme artists do.

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CINNAMON GIRL

I wanted to recover this great theme from a record that, for many, is a fiasco (another one) in Prince's career, but for a server it still seems like one of the best records of his last period. Musicology is a very complete work brimming with songs with a slender line, without too many complications, and that captivates precisely for this reason, for making the "simple" add up, never subtract.

Despite its scant interest on the part of the artist's fans, this album managed to climb onto the charts of best-selling albums in the US, England, or Germany. Prince always had the handicap of generating expectation around his figure (many times unfounded, we already know how this bizness thing works), and great works were always expected of him, and in Musicology we find a creator who leaves aside his facet of provocative and revolutionary to deliver a pentagram that coaxes without raising the purple flag. Neil Young also named one of his best songs that way. Cinnamon is the color of dreams, and of silver saxes.

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LET'S GO CRAZY

During the impassioned introduction to this song, Prince adopts the style of a religious orator and the church organ joins him in his moralizing speech about enjoying this life and happiness in the next. Although said prologue is perhaps presented as slightly stretched in the duration of its studio version, the truth is that when he then puts in his sixth guitar gear and enters his packed and exciting rock-funk rhythm over, perhaps, the "carpe diem" , “Let's go crazy” (“Let's go crazy”, included in the Purple Rain LP, from 1984) stands as one of the compositional crests of the career of this enduring genius. Even its "revolutionary" musicians, Brown Mark, Matt Fink or Bobby Z., were pleasantly astonished by the unexpected and unstoppable creative paths that their leader took with this piece.

So, No. 2 on all charts in the US (and #2 in Canada) for this captivating, fast-paced wacko from the prince of rock and roll. Curiously, the Incubus group recorded a version in 2009 and Bruno Mars also sang it during the 2017 Grammy Awards, where he even dressed as Prince himself, at said gala. Also the Minneapolis ice hockey team, by popular vote of its fans, pays homage to its famous countryman since he left us, putting this song on the public address system every time said sports squad scores a goal at home.

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5 WOMEN

The last album that Prince recorded with the multinational Warner is dated in 1999, and I remember that I kept listening to it because it opened up a very wide range of styles for me. From the jazzy funk of the inaugural “The Rest Of My Life”, to the sounds inherited from his beloved Santana in “When The Lights Go Down” are just a sample of a volcanic album that is among the most hidden in his discography, perhaps also because Prince did not make the slightest effort to promote it.

Perhaps the roundest song is “5 Women”, a blues orchestrated with great detail. The wind arrangements, the bard's guitar topstitching the rhythmic base, and a piano that provides enough fiber to a theme of those that in its modesty revives the spirit of Stevie Wonder or Muddy Waters.

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ALPHABET STREET

Speculations spring up, as always, about the meanings of their songs and, specifically, the mischievous hip-hop funk of “Alphabet Street” (1988) perhaps, could refer to the signs of the highway junctions that lead to to the artist's hometown, that is, Minneapolis, since these turnout indicators are named after letters of the alphabet or also the initials of street names that Prince Rogers Nelson used, innocently, since he was a child. However, knowing the adult Prince, they don't seem like the most probable theories, or at least the main ones. The hypothesis with the most possibilities seems to indicate the intentions of oral sex, on the part of the protagonist, on a first date with a woman and allusions to the so-called "G-spot", although always expressed with an indirect and mischievous tone by the Minnesota crack. Consequently, and for example, when in his final sentence of the studio version (not like that in the video clip) the vocalist whispers "A-B-C-D-E-F-H-I, I love you", he cunningly and intentionally skips the commented seventh sign of the alphabet.

In a very curious way and adding even more origins of the interpretation of the cut, Prince could have been inspired by the American comedian Sam Kinison, who in a very eccentric way, traced the letters of the alphabet, with his mouth, when he practiced "cunnilingus" ” to her lover (an example of this is the word Tennessee, which appears precisely in the paragraphs of “Alphabet Street”). On the contrary, during the supposedly fictitious text of this tune, from the year 1988, the girl was not very much for the work of carrying out the "lyricistic" eroticism commented.

Although George Michael or Morrissey were already treasuring even more success than Prince in that 1988 (that didn't prevent “Alphabet St.” from reaching No. 1 on the New Zealand and Norwegian charts), this danceable song was never forgotten and it was honored . For example, and in their own “shoegazing” style, The Jesus and Mary Chain covered the song in 1994 and also adapted it, in a rather experimental way, by Sufjan Stevens, in 2012.

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SEX IN THE SUMMER

What a mess Warnergate had, not to remember! Prince tattooed Freedom on his face in order to obtain contractual freedom to control his career and incidentally show himself as a fine-beaked ragpicker. Litigation after litigation in the end he got what he wanted. Then he sent Warner a little gift: a cover with his fists stripped of the chains that bound him to the entertainment giant. Not only that, but also for that year (1996) Prince was happy to start a relationship with Mayte García, who would end up becoming his wife.

Double album, excessive, explosive, and boring in many sections. We know that the author of "Purple Rain" had a restless mind to the point of falling ill and it takes its toll. This “Sex In The Summer” is a hedonistic recreation of his past seen by a man who, from his long-awaited cloistering in his glass fortress, sees us all tiny:

“Sex in the summer, gettin' it onGimme that number, we can party all night longCheckin' for bikinis, layin' in the sandRub it like a genie, livin' while we can

Funky turned out with memories of his childhood, Mahalia Jackson, and free will in matters of sex. Right on!

Luis Moner

KISS

And once again, now with “Kiss”, a Prince song shot to #1 in the US and Australia charts, also hunting for a UK #6. The umpteenth controversy of his career arose when the musician was recording his album Parade, in 1986, and his bassist Brown Mark asked his boss for a song for his own parallel band called Mazarati. They gave an electric funky texture to that brief and simple demo of acoustic blues, which the star had composed for them. He then realized that the transformed version of the Mark Band was a potential "hit", so he recovered it, readapted it and retouched it, once again, for his solo repertoire. According to the words of a disgruntled Brown Mark, he himself was then removed from being Prince's musician, since Prince also did not pay him the co-writing benefits or assign him the credits that he had promised to his subordinate for said song entitled "Kiss ”. However, said manager of the four strings, in general, keeps good memories of his militancy under the orders of the glamorous Minnesota tornado, with The Revolution.

The “kissy” song received a Grammy for “Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance” in 1986, and the unforgettable falsetto in Prince's throat and that joyously “jangle” guitar riff were decisive for it. The lyrics tell us that to win over this performer, a woman must not be rich, powerful, aggressive, or very pretty: just being available to him and giving him a kiss is enough.

Of course, we found the famous and overwhelming version, from 1988, of the titanic Tom Jones (together with Art of Noise) and although the “Tiger of Wales” didn't make it go from no. 31 in the United States, it did climb it up to #5 in Great Britain. The British band Maroon 5 also scored a "cover" of "Kiss" in 2013, this time to the subsequent indignation of Prince himself, who did not observe any additional and significant contribution to his original creation of the year 86.

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THE MORNING PAPERS

I have a special weakness when Prince becomes effusive, throwing guitar hero messianic plus a plus of braggart ideal lover. Don't tell me why, but time has made me hold this facet in great esteem.

This great song was included in the excellent “Love Symbol” (1992), a work that has nothing to spare. In this tune, he bares his heart (and his hairy torso in the video clip) to dedicate a leafy love song to his beloved (Mayte García, possibly his great love) with a lyricism, yes, tending towards his verbal incontinence in which every image okay (stars, universe, a kiss, and even the memory of the last orgasm). Song that begins confessional on the piano, and ends in a carousel of winds, fiery riffs, and an artist in perfect tune with his prodigious The New Power Generation.

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Peach

In the slippery, suggestive, and filtered 12-bar bluesy (and quite rocky) “Peach” (1993), Prince sings about a stunning woman, who is capable of making absolutely any man tremble and as said female is out of your reach. The sensual moans, let's call them chorales, which reinforce this song, belong to the actress Kim Basinger, although she was not officially credited as a collaborator, since her artistically "excited" contribution was taken from the extensive maxi-single The Scandalous Sex Suite (a derivation of the theme "Scandalous", from the Batman soundtrack). Added to this, the other “background vocals” (“uh-uh”), this time more sugary and sensitive than “Peach” (to balance things out, wow) are pronounced by Mayte García, girlfriend of the “monarch”, at that time . Related to all this double aspect, the term "peach" can have connotations of a compliment to a beautiful woman but it could also refer to her genitals, so Prince played with those urban slang like a scoundrel.

It seems that the song, recorded as an exception in London, this time contains the letter “P” on purpose, since this melody is part of a shortlist also made up of his other songs, from that same period, “Pope” and “ Pink Cashmere”. Although “Peach” itself is a song that was included, for the first time, in the Hits 2 compilation by American crack, this same piece became a priority (and also very aggressive) for the live shows of our versatile showman. In that time frame of 1993, by the way, the bitter and bloody dispute between Prince and his record company Warner Bros began, which led, shortly after, to the maverick and enigmatic symbol that the maestro himself later used to redefine himself, among other protest messages of yours.

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GETT OFF

For a server, the nineties left for memory the fantastic Diamonds And Pearls (1991), a work full of songs that are counted as one of his most nutritious projects after eating all his competitors in the eighties.

“Gett Off” is a full blown hit. Right from the start, with that war cry, he puts us on notice of the cyclone that is coming our way. This is a rhythm coven, with Prince rapping over a quilt of (almost) industrial percussion, a surprising flute appearing out of nowhere, a trademark stringy guitar riff, female interpellations, more screaming, lots of Sly Stone without dopamine, lots of volcanic eruption from our Holy Grail called James Brown. A full-blown hit that was a commercial success and contributed to the fact that countless mix versions emerged like mushrooms.

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I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER

This catchy and spontaneous neo-funky and dance track, from 1979, is typical of its time, that is, it joined the blows of the North American disco fever of the time but was already beginning to pass the matter through the sieve so particular of a burgeoning multi-instrumentalist star, named Prince (including his famous falsetto vocal): something that has always made him so gigantic and special, musically speaking. Supposedly, "I wanna be your lover" could prove to be a sincere and humble, yet also explosive, declaration of love from the vocalist to keyboardist/singer/songwriter Patrice Rushen, who collaborated on the debut album. For You (1978). However, she rejected the passionate proposal of that young and daring suitor and even when he offered her this same song for Patrice's own repertoire, the refusal was identical.

Although on the official Billboard charts in the U.S.A. the “amatory” single did not go past eleventh place, it did reach number 1 in the more specific Rhythm and Blues rankings and with a position number 2 in the Disco charts (the company Warner Bros., thus obtained the first and total repercussion that he longed for so much with respect to Prince) but with England and the rest of Europe still resisting him.

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THE QUESTION OF U

The blues side of this man captivates your senses. If you don't believe it, savor this pentagram at its right point, because without being cloying, it is halfway between blues and soul, and with Prince's guitar phrasing that, although there was a time when I came to be Fed up, I always end up succumbing to its infinite nuances.

The one from Minneapolis launches again into the film adventure with Graffitti Bridge, and this time he gives himself the absolute leading role, he is the fucking master of the corral: producer, music arranger, direction, and main role. The less is more was not his catechism. The critics were in charge of putting it in its place, receiving terrible criticism in the face of its outrageous size, in which George Clinton, Ingrid Chavez, Tevin Cambell, and a long cast also participated.

The soundtrack is another double disc that contains enough reasons to keep trusting in its genius. My favorite of the lot is “The Question Of U” for its beautiful harmonies, and for verses in which she raises, again, her love affairs:

“All of the questions in my life will be answeredWhen I decide which road to chooseWhat is the answer to the question of you?You”

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SIGN O' THE TIMES

This disturbing, slippery and, at the same time, timeless and masterful funk-blues – passed this genre through the very distinctive sieve of the artist, through a Fairlight synthesizer -, is also the title track of his double album from 1987. And it is that "Sign o' the times" (It is the "sign of the times") shows Prince's pessimistic look towards the mundane sphere, based on stories and news that he heard in the media about drug addicts who collapsed due to AIDS , beardless gang members killing with machine guns, devastating hurricanes, mothers committing atrocities due to extreme poverty or the threat of the “Cold War”. However, all these facts did not cause popular interest in explosions of space rockets such as Challenger and stellar exploration to wane, despite the fact that the aforementioned more serious problems occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s; always according to the critical and cynical verses of the Minneapolitan vocalist. Hope for future generations also seems to be suggested in the rear area of ​​this sociological narration, not very common in the musician until then.

It was on a Sunday, on a day of reflection and attending the parish, when the composer came up with “Sign of the times” due to a magazine called, as the song itself was later, and published, said “fanzine ”, by the Seventh-day Adventists. A religion that indoctrinates its faithful about the return of Jesus Christ and to lead a happy life while this happens. The song landed at #3 on the official Billboard chart and traveled to #1 on the Rhythm and Blues charts, all in the United States. For its part, the Warner Bros. company preferred to promote a live performance of "Sign o' the times" instead of the minimalist video-clip in which the lyrics of the melody appear stylized. Details like this one, from 1987, were already fueling the tensions between the guerrilla Prince and his all-powerful record company.

Artists as diverse as Simple Minds, Heaven 17, Nina Simone, Chaka Khan or Muse, among many others, covered this exceptional sonorous onyx, the same original by one of the most dazzling soloists who marked the sign of the musical times and in a positive way as well.

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THE CROSS

What to say since the Sign ‘O’ The Times has not been written about? For many, Prince's best album, and without question, one of the most iconic pop albums. At the age of 28, he had just offered another major work, 1999, and filled stadiums wherever he went. He was a star. I had got it.

Long the hand of their sound engineer Susan Rogers, they recorded this wonderful double album in different studios, both in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Paris. We face his most varied songbook to date: passion-filled ballads, playful funk, spartan homages to Sly & The Family Stone, to rap with Run-DMC production, and even crazy tributes to Mr. Dynamite with synthesizers and pre-recorded basses creating an amazing multi-layered scene. This guy was a visionary.

“The Cross” begins as if it were a kind of devotional song, with a subtle and temperate strumming of the guitar, while a sitar is casting some note to prop up the master bases. Later, a martial battery warns that an electrical whirlwind is coming. The fuzz floods all corners of this religious-sexual-fetishist plot with electricity, which is, for those who subscribe to this, one of the best gems of this ungovernable talent.

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RASPBERRY BERET

This is the chronicle of a lazy employee of a “Todo a 100” who finds himself in a fight with his boss, when a modern, very “beatnik” girl who wears a “raspberry beret” (“beret”) enters the establishment. raspberry colored") on the head, in such a way that the worker himself is totally enthralled by said lady. Perhaps the artist could have found inspiration in a lyrical novel titled Eugene Onegin (1825), by the Russian author Alexander Pushkin, where a woman appears wearing this same dark crimson garment and who deeply impresses the casanova protagonist, Eugene. He asks, precisely a relative of his, a Prince and General (named N.) to see who she is, to which the sovereign himself answers that it is his distinguished wife and princess, Tatiana.

We find ourselves before a festive pop-funky-new wave anthem, with very pompous and heavenly violins and cellos, which is representative of the so-called “Minneapolis Sound” (which is almost like saying the “Prince Sound”) and where the The interpreter born in that same city had already written it since 1982, although he did not record it until 1985, together with his band, The Revolution, for the album Around the world in a day. Said “raspberry” single, with its rainbow video clip, reached number 2 on the official US chart and it seems that, curiously, it began to convince and dazzle a certain sector of the general public, which until then had turned its back on Prince and he had regarded as little short of a degenerate.

However, and in a hermetic way, during the text of “Raspberry Beret”, does Prince park here the purest and hardest eroticism and head towards more romantic grounds?

Well, it might not even be the case this time either! As codebreakers, with more ardent minds, suggest virginity loss in a barn and the song title could point to another lower, redder part- purplish color of the body that does not refer to the head and nor to the aforementioned beret placed on the skull, precisely (bets are accepted on the specific erogenous zone suggested in the song). It has also been speculated that the story could even refer to a deleted sex scene from the movie Purple Rain (1984), with the actress and singer Apollonia Kotero involved in the fiery encounter inside the mentioned straw warehouse. Prince, deep down, never changed his skin during the 80s and early 90s, when it came to certain themes...

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