Tag: mattie shaw
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Partyup
What makes “Partyup” more than just ’60s fan fiction is the music: a lithe, infectious punk-funk groove, branded with the prophetic genre designation of “revolutionary rock and roll.”
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Sister
Shrug a song like “Sister” off as a joke, and one risks trivializing a serious trauma; take it at face value, and one can appear credulous–not to mention potentially libelous.
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Podcast: It’s Time Someone Programmed You – Leah McDaniel on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
For the third installment of my miniseries on the University of Salford’s interdisciplinary Prince conference, I’m talking to Leah McDaniel (née Stone), a businesswoman, world traveler, and lifelong Prince fan. Her paper was on the eternally unsettled question of whether or not Prince was a feminist; we reflect on that question, as well as the contrast…
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Rock Me, Lover
Prince’s character stands in awe of the woman: in the song’s raunchiest line, he even humbly gives her full responsibility for her orgasm.
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Home Recordings, 1976
The Anderson home provided a fruitful place for Prince to further his musical aspirations.
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Funk Machine: Prehistory, 1963-1968
Prince spent the majority of the next 50 years in a near-perpetual state of creation.