I wast just listening to PlectrumElectrum for the first time since ages, I must say it is more entertaining than I remembered. Another later Prince album that I didn't much enjoy upon release but turns out not to be as bad as I thought.

My expectations would always be sky high for new Prince albums and this has ruined many later Prince albums for me, my expectations were seldom met. After his death I started listening to his later albums with new ears, less focussed on funkiness and production values, and more open to the total experience of a song instead of picking it apart and being annoyed with the things I don't like about it.

Anyway. let me get to the point. When listening to Anotherlove I couldn't help but wonder if the song is about Andy Allo. Especially this bit of the lyrics made me wonder: "Everything we used 2 share
Our clothes and even our hair". They both rocked the afro-look, but I can't remember when they broke up anymore?

Does anyone know anything about who this song is about?

(Yeah, I realise I could probably look it up using Google or Princevault, but it is more fun to have some actual discussion/speculation here...)

Although it's a cover, the end section where he goes off is 'ad libbed' from him and could potentially be about Andy Allo.

"Used 2 think eye was so much fun

Now eye'm just the guilty 1

Everything we used 2 share

Our clothes and even our hair

now all u see is what eye did

But how come eye can't - tell me that kid

Behind my back eye'm just a so and so

But eye'm the greatest living soul

U'll ever know"

funkaholic1972 said:

funkaholic1972 said:

After his death I started listening to his later albums with new ears, less focussed on funkiness and production values, and more open to the total experience of a song instead of picking it apart and being annoyed with the things I don't like about it.

This isn't the point of your post but I bet a lot of us can relate to this.

We're now listening to imperfect Vault versions of songs, and conditioning ourselves to appreciate the Prince songs burried in bad production, or just inferior arrangements. This era has some good songwriting that would have been better if they were recorded in another style.

Yeah, Prince changed the lyrics. The line about the kid, and being the greatest soul she'll know, plus the matching hair line, and "I was just something U flaunted, Hired and fired" lyrics were added.

The Vault has it listed as "the first by Prince and 3rdEyeGirl", and remember, Andy Allo had been struggling to perform with an early incarnation of the girls, so the timing is right.

With Prince it could also be about Andy, a lawyer he did a bad deal with once, Misty Copeland, and the beef industry. But I'm pretty sure you're right, it's about Allo.

laytonian said:

Next thing y'all be thinkin' "Computer Blue" is about Microsoft.

MinorG said:

Although it's a cover, the end section where he goes off is 'ad libbed' from him and could potentially be about Andy Allo.

"Used 2 think eye was so much fun

Now eye'm just the guilty 1

Everything we used 2 share

Our clothes and even our hair

now all u see is what eye did

But how come eye can't - tell me that kid

Behind my back eye'm just a so and so

But eye'm the greatest living soul

U'll ever know"

Hmmm...Bet I know what happened

TrivialPursuit said:

PeggyO said:

RJOrion said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Next thing y'all be thinkin' "Computer Blue" is about Microsoft.

LMAO!!! seriously tho...why just Andy Allo?...why couldnt it be about Mayte?...or Manuela?... or Carmen Electra?...or Vanity?...or ALL of them?..why would he say "Behind my back I'm just a so and so, But I'm the greatest living soul youll ever know", about Andy Allo, while continuing to do songs with her and produce her work?...makes zero sense.

This line makes people think it's about Andy:

'Everything we used to share, our clothes and even our hair'

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Possible as they apparantly shared clothes on tour and of course he grew an afro like her

dodger said:

LoveGalore said:

RJOrion said:

LoveGalore said:

Ah yes, so he releases two albums at the same time - one with a duet with Andy and the other with an Andy diss track? And then his next album has another collab with her??? Try harder folks. Or, don't.

my point exactly..."What It Feels Like" on AOA, should rule out Andy Allo

I think after 2013, they had their "ups and downs" and perhaps this is a reflection.

PeggyO said:

RJOrion said:

PeggyO said:

I think after 2013, they had their "ups and downs" and perhaps this is a reflection.

so what house did they share, that was no longer there?...reflect on that

Metaphor.

PeggyO said:

dodger said:

RJOrion said:

TrivialPursuit said: LMAO!!! seriously tho...why just Andy Allo?...why couldnt it be about Mayte?...or Manuela?... or Carmen Electra?...or Vanity?...or ALL of them?..why would he say "Behind my back I'm just a so and so, But I'm the greatest living soul youll ever know", about Andy Allo, while continuing to do songs with her and produce her work?...makes zero sense.

This line makes people think it's about Andy:

'Everything we used to share, our clothes and even our hair'

.

Possible as they apparantly shared clothes on tour and of course he grew an afro like her

She was on his very last album while alive. Doesn't sound like he was angsty toward her at all. The one person he took clothes from that we know about is Mayte. Now, doubtful he'd be writing about her after all those years, but who knows.

but what about da bourg....if that isnt the final diss

TrivialPursuit said:

jfenster said:

dodger said:

jfenster said:

but what about da bourg....if that isnt the final diss

Now you've opened up a can of worms

he couldnt have been on good terms with her near the end

jfenster said:

dodger said:

jfenster said: Now you've opened up a can of worms

he couldnt have been on good terms with her near the end

They were up and down, but he did call her after Moline which says alot.

TrivialPursuit said:

Next thing y'all be thinkin' "Computer Blue" is about Microsoft.

LOL Damn that was a good one! Well done!

coldcoffeeandcocacola said:

Did anyone see that Andys first Instagram post was the day before we lost prince? It’s a beautiful photo with the caption ‘you always know how to make me smile’ I wonder who it was to. P was dating Judith hill right?

I think he was truly mentoring and producing Judith Hill...I don't get romantic vibes.

He was also in frequent contact with Natalya accross the pond...likely the same as above.

My guess is that Prince and Andy had feelings but had 'irreconciable differences'

Prince seemed weak and had been fighting flu-like symptoms for awhile and IMO did not have a real girlfriend in the usual sense. Opiates also diminish one's abilities.

I think it's cute that you all think his songs were about real life. Maybe in the early days, but you really think he had women doing him wrong left and right all the way to the end? Prince was not a confessional songwriter.