Tag: sound labs
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I’m Yours
“I’m Yours” is one of the few moments of For You when Prince’s genre-bending later persona comes into sharp focus.
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Crazy You
“Crazy You” is straight-up pop-bossa nova; one could imagine Antônio Carlos Jobim singing it.
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In Love
The Minneapolis Sound was basically the defining style of the 1980s; but “In Love,” for all its structural resemblance to that later style, is still very much a product of the ’70s.
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For You
Despite all the studio wizardry, “For You” is a surprisingly intimate song: one of the few successful examples on a record that strives a little too hard to ingratiate itself to the listener.
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Just as Long as We’re Together
“Just as Long as We’re Together” is less a pop song in the conventional sense than it is a four-to-six-minute demo reel all its own: an unabashed showpiece for Prince’s abilities as a singer, instrumentalist, and hooksmith.