strange song actually. complex lyrics and many things goin on at the same time, but damn i think this song is so beautiful. really good vocal work. saying emancipation compilation is a bad trip is a joke!
friend, lover, sister, mother/wife gives one the feeling that prince could, if he would, actually one day do another adore....

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It was supposedly written and recorded in secret specifically for the first dance after his and Mayte's wedding.

Wouldn't it be nice to be the lady who could be all of those things to our man Prince?

I thought this song was a revisitation of I Wanna Be Your Lover. To me it was amazing that this young kid intellectually understood these keys to male female relationships at such a young age. I am only now figuring out the dynamics of male/female relations in terms of how close they are to mother/father relationships. It's one of the things that make love so beautiful. The idea that a man is like a little girls father or a woman is like a little boys mama. How a kid like prince understood such deep psychological stuff at such a young age is incredible and a part of his artistry. When a woman hugs me and kisses me on the cheek, that's a fatherly and a motherly action, this is experience, at 20 i wouldn't know how to decipher it outside of random affection.

mozfonky said:

i think we underestimate the young...

but with that being said, beautiful thoughts on your end.

Excellent song, in my top 20. One of those joints that common folk have never heard. Then you put it on one day, and they're blown away, you look at them and say, "you late, I've been up on this song, it came out in '96. We need to freshen up your Prince collection, there's been some beautiful things after Purple Rain..."

sosgemini said
i think we underestimate the young...

but with that being said, beautiful thoughts on your end.

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Maybe, but as I get older, I see women as just as much sister,mother,daughter figures simultaneously, not only as sexual beings. Prince being that in touch with something like that is what made him perfect for his time and very appealing for women. Like many male Icons, he had the ability to seem brotherly, Maybe not fatherly, but childlike and sexual at the same time. Look at Elvis or Muhammad Ali, guys who hit a cultural nerve like that appeal to both sexes but they appeal to women as father figure, son figure, brother figure, it's just a theory but I think it rings true.