Tag: 1994
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Erotic City
Here, Prince seems to hearken back to his electro-funk epics of the 1999 era; but rather than retreading past glories, he does so with a sense of tacit self-one-upsmanship, showing just how far he’d come as a musician and producer in the past two years.
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #2: August 12, 2024
I did not expect to be sending out another newsletter so soon after the first one, but there’s a compelling reason for it: Recordings of this past weekend’s #Come30 virtual symposium are available to watch on Zoom Events until this Sunday, August 18 at 11:59 pm ET.
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Lacuna: The Dawn
Underlying the mystery is the unshakeable sense that “The Dawn” holds the key to the next 15 years of Prince’s artistic development.
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Vibrator
A bold demand for a woman’s right to sexual pleasure, filtered through the distinctly 20th-century male anxiety of being replaced in the bedroom by a machine.
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Private Joy
“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.
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Bambi
“Bambi” was the heaviest thing Prince had recorded, and would remain so until his scrapped album The Undertaker–which just happened to feature an even heavier version.