Prince's pop life, song by song, in chronological order.
With “Doves” now on deck for his next single, Prince was in the market for a suitably killer B-side–a role “17 Days” would fill with aplomb.
“Jack U Off”’s approach to rock and raunch is inescapably camp.
“Private Joy” tends to be overlooked in Prince’s canon, possibly because its synth-heavy arrangement is more unapologetically “pop” than anything he’d done to date.
It’s difficult to determine just how seriously “Ronnie, Talk to Russia” was meant to be taken.