'MR GOODNIGHT' - WHAT A SONG!

Hi All,

I know you may think I'm crazy for saying this but I truly belive that Mr Goodnight is one of the best prince songs ever made.

But I've noticed that alot of fans dont like it. I think the vocal arrangement, the beat and the lyrics are just amazing. I think because the content is a bit of fun people underestimate the greatness of this funky pop/rnb tune.

When I first heard it I could not stop playing it and many friends who do not like Prince started getting into him after they heard it, they were amazed that he was still making such cool and sexy music.

This song also highlights that Prince can make anything sound amazing!

What does everyone else think ... I'm seriously hoping there are others out there who love this tune as much as I do!

I think it would have made an interesting B-side or individual release, but it's not album-worthy.

your right in that it gets more casual goers and the younger generation interested, a lot of his new stuff would blaze up the charts if they were everywhere but, i agree with se7en.

Its not particularly the sound by Prince that blows a hardcore fan like me away in most cases, newbies? i would say so it would grab them in most cases.
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yea i'm with u in the minority on this one. it grabbed me right away when i was listening to the PE link and i still like it. feels like a sexy summer song to me. and prince's vocals with shelby and bria just sound perfect.

It's one of Prince's near misses. Almost a good song if not for some occasionaly corny rhyming and a chorus that might have worked in '82, but by now is the earmark of someone who just doesn't get rap. It's not his worse song, but it sounds like it was put together by 'Band In A Box' or something like that. Prince wrote 'Holly Rock' during hip-hop's classic era and it was corny as can be back then, too. Prince and rap will always be a bad combination, he just doesn't get it. But on Mr Goodnight he wasn't bad for a lot of it, but then KABOOM! He fell into some bad rhyming habits.

Seek psychiatric help.

I like this song a lot too.

Se7en said:

funksterr said:

I love it.

The man is amazing, love all his music

Amazing: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

Amazing: causing great surprise or sudden wonder; to overwhelm with surprise or sudden wonder; astonish greatly.

Mr. Goodnight: not amazing.

I love this song!!!!! It's so catchy and cute. The line about "the little Spanish man" always makes me giggle, for some reason.

Irish Diplomacy: The art of telling someone to go to hell, and having them look forward to the trip.

My give a damn is busted.

it's a silly song

but deep down I like it

yo' prince came with the smoothest Pimp game on this....lol
the layed back delivery proved to me he still can flow...

this song definitely did grow on me. his delivery is excellent!

however, i don't understand your angry smiley for the thread hahah

2 me,it sounds like he was going 4 that same laid back hip hop groove of Notorious B.I.G.'s 1995 summer smash "One More Chance".The resemblence is uncanny!The chorus reminds me of TLC 4 some reason.

i Love the song too. But i Love "Somewhere Here On Earth" more.

I do love the light humor in this song..."Mr. Goodnight," is a great song.

Mindbells9 said:

Mindbells9 said:

It's fabulous no matter what anybody says.


http://prince.org/msg/7/234668
http://prince.org/msg/7/234332?&pg=4
http://prince.org/msg/7/298455

" LOVE YOU 4EVA GRANDMA LOLA, WATCH OVER US TILL WE MEET AGAIN. PRINCE: WH3N U L3T TH3 RAIN FALL DOWN, TH3Y ALL GONNA G3T W3T!

Great song Only Prince could pull it off

I don't love it, but I do like it.

ernestsewell said:

"I never self-proclaimed myself to be anything." - Michael Jackson
"You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee

his rapping in the song is corny as hell i was laughing all the way through

may u live 2 see the dawn

a yo prince im really happy for you imma let you finish but Michael Jackson had one of the best records of all time!

I never could get into it..it sounds old..his rhyming delivery is medicore at best..but I always applaud his attempts at rapping..no matter how corny he sounds

MR. GOOD NIGHT SOUND BETTER THAN ANY CURRENT RAP SONG ON THE RADIO RIGHT NOW

MJPNFORLIFE said:

I wouldn't say it's one Prince's best songs ever, but it's decent.

"And When The Groove Is Dead And Gone, You Know That Love Survives, So We Can Rock Forever" RIP MJ

I agree...top 20 Prince song of all time.

Love it