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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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Irresistible Bitch
Whether or not Prince intended “Irresistible” as his tip of the hat to the burgeoning rap scene, he was happy to take credit for it in retrospect.
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Bite the Beat
Prince’s main contribution was the lyrics: Vanity 6’s most sexually aggressive this side of “Nasty Girl.”
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Nasty Girl
The role that made Denise Matthews a star–even if, as she later admitted, it was one she played reluctantly.