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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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Roundup: The Time, 1981
Folks, it’s been a whole-ass seven months since the last roundup post on Dirty Mind–where has the time gone? Dunno, but here at least is where the Time has gone (sorry): five posts on the first album by Prince’s first and arguably most accomplished protégé act. My ranking this time is decidedly anti-climactic, since I basically…
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Lisa
“Lisa” points the way forward to the kind of electronic music we’d later hear on and around the 1999 album… even in the midst of engineering his second big reinvention, Prince already had a third one on deck.
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Podcast: I Know That the Lord is Coming Soon – Erica Thompson on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
It’s been just under two months since I started interviewing presenters from this spring’s interdisciplinary Prince conference at the University of Salford, and I’ve been absolutely thrilled with the results. But all good things must come to an end, so I had planned to make this chat with writer Erica Thompson the last of my post-conference podcasts.…
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Podcast: Something Wrong with the Machinery – Carmen Hoover on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
We’re nearing the end of our miniseries on the University of Salford’s interdisciplinary Prince conference, but there are still a few treats in store–starting with today’s conversation with Carmen Hoover. Carmen is a current professor at Olympic College in Washington, and a former First Avenue employee who watched Prince conquer the world from Minneapolis in…
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Head
The foundation upon which Prince’s racial, sexual, and personal preoccupations of the next decade were built.