Tag: partyup
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Sexuality
Like Prince’s earlier stabs at social commentary, “Sexuality” offers a kind of generalized, non-denominational liberation through hedonism and individual self-expression.
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Do Me, Baby
“Do Me” wasn’t the first piece of aural erotica to reach the American charts… But those songs, however suggestive, had stayed within the realm of plausible deniability; in contrast, there’s no question what Prince is doing at the end of “Do Me.”
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Roundup: Dirty Mind, 1980
It’s been a long six months since my last roundup post, but this time I’m not going to make any promises about picking up the pace: my inherent slothfulness aside, Dirty Mind also marks the beginning of my personal favorite era for Prince, and I want to do it justice. Hopefully, with this latest batch of posts,…
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Do It All Night
Prince had been structuring his shows as a kind of mass seduction since his first “official” live dates in 1979. Now, he had a custom-built vessel for these audience flirtations.