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Thread started 06/19/16 5:05am

gandorb

The meaning of Prince's song sequences

I have never thought a lot about how the sequence of Prince's songs might impact the meaning of any particular song except for his movie albums. However, I have been listening to ATWIAD repeartedly lately, and I started to realize that one of his most profound lyrics "we all have a space to fill" in Pop Life changed how I viewed the following two songs on the Album, The Ladder and Temptation. It was clear from Pop Life that Prince indicated that the search to fill that space can lead to destructive things such as drugs. In the next song, he indicates that this search to fill the painful void can move one towards a search for spiritual "ladder". But for Prince in his early days,this spiritual quest was interfered with by his obsession at the time with sex as a way to fill the void, leading the the wrath of God in Temptation. All this may already be obvious to others, but the sequence gave me a new respect of how Pop Life was a setup for the rest of the album. My question is what meaning have you gotten from song sequences from Prince's non-movie albums?

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