Tag: dez dickerson
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Controversy, Part 2: Am I Straight or Gay?
While Prince’s flirtation with “post-racial” ideas in the Controversy era now seems antiquated and naïve, his similarly post-gender aesthetic feels remarkably ahead of its time.
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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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She’s Just a Baby
If one can get past the ick-factor, there’s a tenderness and loneliness at the heart of “She’s Just a Baby.”
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Cool
The mental image evoked by “Cool” was inseparable from the literal image being created around Morris Day and the Time.
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The Stick
If “Get It Up” was a proof of concept for the Time, then “The Stick” is the moment when their own distinct personality begins to shine through: cut from the same Minneapolis Sound cloth as Prince, but more unselfconsciously funky, with a sexuality that is less provocative than cartoonishly tongue-in-cheek.