Tag: prince
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #2: August 12, 2024
I did not expect to be sending out another newsletter so soon after the first one, but there’s a compelling reason for it: Recordings of this past weekend’s #Come30 virtual symposium are available to watch on Zoom Events until this Sunday, August 18 at 11:59 pm ET.
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Roundup: Purple Rain, 1984
This past Saturday–the 40th anniversary of the film’s theatrical release–I watched Purple Rain for the first time in about two years.
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When Doves Cry (Why the Butterflies)
More perhaps than anything else, “When Doves Cry” existed for Prince as a symbol of what he was capable of when he pushed his artistry to its absolute limits.
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Love and Sex (1984)
When Prince mentions “the upper room,” he seems to be literally referencing Heaven; and when he sings, “Will He let you hurt me in the upper room?”, he’s asking if God will allow him to fuck there.
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Another Lonely Christmas
It’s tempting to assume that its weird, maudlin narrative is what’s kept “Another Lonely Christmas” from becoming a seasonal radio staple.
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Podcast: 41 Years of Controversy – A Conversation with Harold Pride and De Angela Duff
Here we are again, my first podcast in more than a year, and I couldn’t have asked for better guests than Harold Pride and De Angela Duff to discuss Prince’s fourth and quite possibly most underrated album, 1981’s Controversy.