Tag: warner bros records
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Electric Intercourse (The New Master)
Musically, “Electric Intercourse” is assembled from the same basic components as the songs from 1999… But this new track has a warmer, more organic feel–an apparently purposeful step away from the cold, mechanical textures of the previous album.
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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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1999
What set Prince apart from his early-’80s peers was his insistence on greeting Judgment Day, not with solemn gravity or mordant gallows humor, but with a seemingly irony-free display of millenarian ecstasy.
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Don’t Let Him Fool Ya
While it’s clearly a throwaway, I defy anyone to get through “Don’t Let Him Fool Ya” without at least a head bob and a smile.
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Automatic
On “Automatic,” Prince distills the intricacies of romantic and sexual connection into a clean, simple cause-and-effect relationship: love and lust as a computer programmer’s conditional expressions.