Tag: 1981
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Sister
Shrug a song like “Sister” off as a joke, and one risks trivializing a serious trauma; take it at face value, and one can appear credulous–not to mention potentially libelous.
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Hard to Get
Prince’s most conventional rocker this side of “Bambi,” with a swaggering rhythm guitar riff, honky tonk piano, and either Dez or Prince playing with a slide (!).
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Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
In hindsight, “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” sounds like pop/rock perfection; but, like many of Prince’s early “rock” songs, its unique blend of genres was ever so slightly ahead of its time.
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Wouldn’t You Love to Love Me?
Prince seems to have discovered early on that he was better at writing about sex from a woman’s perspective: his sexual appeal is simply more convincing, more fully-realized, when he’s putting himself in the shoes of his own seducee.