Tag: 1977
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A Million Miles (I Love You)
A definitive move into a new, baroque phase of Prince’s musical evolution.
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Controversy, Part 2: Am I Straight or Gay?
While Prince’s flirtation with “post-racial” ideas in the Controversy era now seems antiquated and naïve, his similarly post-gender aesthetic feels remarkably ahead of its time.
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Roundup: Ephemera, 1977-1978
I’m not gonna lie, folks: this “chapter” of the blog wasn’t always easy to get through. I’ve mentioned that For You is my least favorite album of Prince’s “classic period,” and his outtakes from that time are, well, outtakes. If nothing else, however, this was valuable training for when I trudge through the parts of his…