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Love, Prince style

Prince's new spiritual album reportedly drops hints that he's finally found a woman he trusts so much, he hasn't asked her to sign a confidentiality agreement. "Although Prince is bursting with joy about his new girlfriend, he's still smarting from the broken heart caused by his ex-wife, Mayte," writes US Weekly's Hot Stuff column. "He tells all on his upcoming album 'The Rainbow Children.'" On the single 'She Loves Me for Me," Prince sings that his new girlfriend, (reportedly an unidentified Paisley Park Records employee), is "one I can tell all my secrets to/ I don't have to make her swear she would never tell anywho. ... 'Cause this one honestly loves me for me." Puhleeze. It's very interesting that he's kinda-sorta talking about a new love. Something tells me the media coverage about Mayte dating Tommy Lee prompted Symbolina to let the word out that he's having some fun, too, since their annulment or divorce or whatever it was. Couldn't confirm that Mayte and Tommy are still an item, and I wouldn't get too curious about Prince and ''the Paisley Employee.'' Prince hasn't proven to have enduring passions. ...

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