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Thread started 11/22/04 9:29pm

MrSquiggle

The most cheesy and yet oddly moving, and profound P song ever...

I just downloaded the Graffiti Bridge outtake Seven Corners. What is it about this song that is so moving? It's a spoken-word/rap piece from Aura with pitter-patter beats and dashes of piano chords, with bass strings. It's so cheesy and yet I find myself moved.

Seven corners, two souls fight
One wants money, one wants light
Without peace, without love
Nothing's ever gonna turn out right


Perhaps it's got more to do with the spirit of the work -- a genuine attempt to promote peace and love with abstract art -- then what it turned out to be. I don't know, but it's the guiltiest Prince pleasure ever.
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Reply #1 posted 11/22/04 9:36pm

Dewrede

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Never heard it unfortunately
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Reply #2 posted 11/23/04 2:25am

metalorange

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Aura is Ingrid Chavez, and she is a kind of 'beat poet'. They got together to put some of her poems to music. So it's more likely she wrote it and Prince did the music, or at the very least it is co-written.
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Reply #3 posted 11/23/04 3:04am

thesexofit

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MrSquiggle said:

I just downloaded the Graffiti Bridge outtake Seven Corners. What is it about this song that is so moving? It's a spoken-word/rap piece from Aura with pitter-patter beats and dashes of piano chords, with bass strings. It's so cheesy and yet I find myself moved.

Seven corners, two souls fight
One wants money, one wants light
Without peace, without love
Nothing's ever gonna turn out right


Perhaps it's got more to do with the spirit of the work -- a genuine attempt to promote peace and love with abstract art -- then what it turned out to be. I don't know, but it's the guiltiest Prince pleasure ever.


I think I got that on a boot.....I didn't mind it if I recall actually!
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Reply #4 posted 11/23/04 6:39pm

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...actually its the 1st part of the Bridge movie, kinda an introduction 2 Aura-its the 1st thing she says on screen...but wait-there's more!!! Aura looks pensive up 2wards the sky & says, "what ever u ask of me, i will do..." was she talking 2 God or was it a stage direction from Prince confused
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Reply #5 posted 11/23/04 7:40pm

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I've always liked Walk Don't Walk for it's simplistic sincerity.
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Reply #6 posted 11/24/04 4:56am

Novabreaker

It doesn't move me. confused
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Reply #7 posted 11/24/04 7:57am

theoneNTN

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It doesn't move me. confused



check out Ingrid's album; "May 12th 1992"
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Reply #8 posted 11/24/04 2:36pm

andyman91

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Dolphin is pretty cheesy but probably my favorite prince song. Sums up what he was going through at the time.
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