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Podcast: 41 Years of Controversy – A Conversation with Harold Pride and De Angela Duff
Here we are again, my first podcast in more than a year, and I couldn’t have asked for better guests than Harold Pride and De Angela Duff to discuss Prince’s fourth and quite possibly most underrated album, 1981’s Controversy.
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Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
While most New Wave acts used rigid beats and jagged, nervous arrangements to express a sense of alienation and unease, Prince used them to evoke something closer to his wheelhouse: unbearable sexual tension.
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Podcast: Vous êtes très belle – Joni Todd and Karen Turman on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
Just under two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with two more presenters from the University of Salford’s interdisciplinary Prince conference: Joni Todd and Karen Turman, who you may know by reputation as the “esoteric French panel.” But if all that sounds too highbrow, don’t worry; we mostly talked about Prince’s impeccable fashion…