Tag: stevie wonder
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Purple Rain (Verse 3)
It’s Prince’s contribution to the Great American Songbook, a modern-day standard that transcends (almost) all categories of generation, genre, and taste.
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Baby I’m a Star
“Baby I’m a Star” has the familiar air of Prince self-actualizing through music: projecting himself toward a celebrity status he was still years away from achieving.
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Podcast: Prince (1979) Revisited
October 19, 2018 marks the 39th anniversary of Prince’s self-titled second album–not the most glamorous occasion, perhaps, but reason enough to reassemble the review panel from our For You podcast for a reappraisal. Once again, Zach is joined by Harold and KaNisa for a track-by-track discussion of this underappreciated album, its resonances throughout Prince’s career, and why it still…
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Private Joy
“Private Joy” tends to be overlooked in Prince’s canon, possibly because its synth-heavy arrangement is more unapologetically “pop” than anything he’d done to date.