Tag: electrifying mojo
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Podcast: All the Critics Love U – A Conversation with Jack Riedy, Author of Electric Word Life
For this month’s episode, it was my pleasure to speak to music writer Jack Riedy (Pitchfork, GQ, VIBE) about his new book Electric Word Life: Writing on Prince 2016-2021.
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All the Critics Love U in New York
The title and lyrics of “All the Critics” obviously point to New York, but the music evokes another metropolis that would be even more important to Prince’s artistic development: Detroit.
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Uptown
“Uptown” is perhaps most notable as one of the key examples of Prince’s myth-building: his uncanny ability to turn concepts into reality, and vice versa.