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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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Sexuality
Like Prince’s earlier stabs at social commentary, “Sexuality” offers a kind of generalized, non-denominational liberation through hedonism and individual self-expression.
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Let’s Work
Musically, “Let’s Work” showed the lessons Prince had learned during the making of The Time.
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Get It Up
Here, for the first time on record, was Prince playing funk in the raw, “uncut” style of Parliament and Funkadelic–or, for that matter, his former onstage rival Rick James.
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André Cymone, Godfather of the Minneapolis Sound: A Retrospective from an Alternate Timeline
It wouldn’t be fair to give a single artist credit for “inventing” the Minneapolis Sound; but the fact remains that when most music fans think of Minneapolis, one man in particular comes to mind. I’m talking, of course, about André Cymone.