I don't see this song getting the kind of love it deserves. This song would have been a much stronger opening track than "Jam Of The Year". It's my favorite track off Emancipation aside from The Love We Make", "Let's Have A Baby", "Damned If I Do", and a few others.

I love how it transforms from those awesome 2 chords on piano that begin the song to an emotional and quite electric song. I think this song captures the greatness that Prince rarely touched upon in the late 90s.

"That's my only mission"

I love it too. I think it just gets lost cuz it's in a 3 disc album.

It got lost (like may others) b'cuz Prince stops promoting his releases after a while.

i love this song. great strong pop

This is the first song I heard from that album and still my favorite song off Emancipation....should´ve been the first single.


Has anybody heard the acoustic version he played at Paisley Park in 1997 or 98?
This is a song that I simply can´t imagine as an acoustic version.
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I can listen to that one over & over again...

yep, i like this cut 2

It is one of my favorite songs on Emancipation!

I can appreciate it!

i was listening to it on my way to work this morning! this is the BEST song!!! i love his voice in this song!!! ooh the vocals . . .love it!!! love it!!! love it!!!!

It's okay, but I was very disappointed when I first heard it. I hoped Emancipation was going to be wild, free, creative music, but the second song on the album was just an average groove with average lyrics and no real hook.

It makes sense in the sequence of the album, the first song announces the album, and the next declares its intentions. But it was a letdown to know that Prince hadn't been holding back, except in terms of quantity. I learned to like most of Emancipation eventually, though.

Those years made TRC shocking, as I didn't know Prince still had that in him. That music was far more free.

andyman91 said:

I thought Jam Of The Year was a lot more average and boring. This song gave me hope for the rest of the album.

Gohi said:

I guess lots of people don't really like JOTY (and they do like RBHIMA just like you do). I think there's more going on than there is in RBHIMA. But really, I wasn't too impressed with JOTY either at first. I let it go, though, because I figured it was just an intro, and that the real album would kick in with track 2.

Oh, well. Like I said, I learned to like most of the album.

I love it!!!

Great to see this thread showing love for Right Back Here in My Arms.
It's one of my favorites off Emancipation, too.
Love the emotion, especially at the end of the first time he says RBHIMA, hmm-mmmm! Talk about crazy love. lol
I just knew this was going to be a hit on the radio. But nooo.
Not hearing that song, and other songs through the years, get radio play is one of things that has made me dag near give up on radio.

I like the song alot. It has an epic piano intro!!