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Prince's pop life, song by song, in chronological order.

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Onedayi’mgonnabesomebody

September 27, 2019

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Zachary Hoskins

in What Time is It?, 1982

Recorded around the same time as “777-9311” in late Spring 1982, “Onedayi’mgonnabesomebody” was a slight, palate-cleansing trifle to fill out the first side of the album.
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Controversy, Part 1: Am I Black or White?

August 10, 2018

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Zachary Hoskins

in Controversy, 1981

To summarize any artist with a single song is no small feat. To do so for an artist like Prince, who reveled in his ambiguities and contradictions, is even more impressive. The brilliance of “Controversy” is the way it places these ambiguities and contradictions at the center of Prince’s artistic persona: his indeterminacy becomes his…
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Rough

December 5, 2017

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Zachary Hoskins

in Ephemera, 1979-1981

Its provenance as a side-project cut is clear, from the New Wave-tinged Rhythm & Blues sound to the lyrics, which sound exactly like the kind of thing one would write for a streetwise young Alexander O’Neal to sing.
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