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1999
What set Prince apart from his early-’80s peers was his insistence on greeting Judgment Day, not with solemn gravity or mordant gallows humor, but with a seemingly irony-free display of millenarian ecstasy.
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I Don’t Wanna Leave You
It’s hard to hear this closing track without imagining a stronger alternative in its place: something that would end the album with a bang, rather than a whimper.
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Controversy, Part 3: Do I Believe in God? Do I Believe in Me?
More even than race and sexuality, the distinction between “God” and “me”–the sacred and the secular, the spirit and the flesh, etc.–was the prevailing theme of Prince’s career.
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Broken
“Broken” feels like Prince having fun, taking his new piano-recording capabilities for a test drive.
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I Feel for You
Prince’s vocal performance is his most charismatic to date, already nailing that unique mix of girlishness and understated virility that would make him the 1980s’ most potent sex symbol.