Tag: 1977
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Just Another Sucker
Did Prince bring a dose of magic to “Just Another Sucker”–or did his own, much more lucrative take on the Minneapolis Sound owe an unpaid debt to Pepé Willie’s influence?
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I’m Yours
“I’m Yours” is one of the few moments of For You when Prince’s genre-bending later persona comes into sharp focus.
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Crazy You
“Crazy You” is straight-up pop-bossa nova; one could imagine Antônio Carlos Jobim singing it.
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In Love
The Minneapolis Sound was basically the defining style of the 1980s; but “In Love,” for all its structural resemblance to that later style, is still very much a product of the ’70s.
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For You
Despite all the studio wizardry, “For You” is a surprisingly intimate song: one of the few successful examples on a record that strives a little too hard to ingratiate itself to the listener.