Tag: prince
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Lacuna: The Dawn
Underlying the mystery is the unshakeable sense that “The Dawn” holds the key to the next 15 years of Prince’s artistic development.
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Sex Shooter
Prince had just a few weeks to mold Apollonia into the persona he and Vanity had taken months to create. He had his work cut out for him.
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Roundup: Ephemera, 1983
I know I say this every time, but hoo boy, has it ever been a while since I wrote one of these: one year, four months, and 30 days, to be precise. In my defense, though, the sprawl of the Purple Rain era has meant that I’ve been concurrently working on two albums (soon to…
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Father’s Song
Prince conceptualized Purple Rain during a period of estrangement from his father; yet the specter of John L. Nelson haunted the project from the beginning.
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Wednesday
“Wednesday” is over so quickly that it may take a few listens for the grim desperation of its lyrics to register.
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The Bird
A suitably ironic epitaph for the Time, Prince’s self-created rivals turned attempted usurpers.