I'm looking forward to the full studio version of Satisfied. From the excerpt, it sounds like it could almost be as good as "Adore." Any thoughts?

it features the word "Cellphone" so it can't be as good as adore.
well, that's just personal flaming from me lol, but i don't like
songs that mention new technology like cellphones etc.

IstenSzek said:

Wow, without knowing why I totally agree! It always bugs me; seems to date the song. Even in Adore, he says "U can smash up my ride." -- ride could be a horse and buggy, automobile, bike, or hydro-mobile -- it's timeless. Just compare that to Scan my computer - lookin for a site; w/ the AOL intro. Can't be a classic.

He says "two-way" on U're Gonna C Me (One Nite Alone)
How do ya'll feel about that?


wrong song.
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thekidsgirl said:

Drives me a little crazy -- but it's kinda amorphous so I pretend he's talkin about two tin-cans linked by some string

Yea, this song is as good as Adore. And Sisqo is going to have a comeback world tour that will break pollstar records.

Jatrig said:

It will be

GoldenGlove said:

stop it



driving me mad with your 3121 inside information

IstenSzek said:

I feel the same way about SOTT when he mentions "turn on the tele".

He even devoted an entire song "Little Red Corvette" to modern transportation with sexual overtones.

I bet you would like the song if the song went something like this.


blah blah blah....
here is the number to my celphone.
call me at (323) 936-0644
and ask for prince.
blah blah blah...

IstenSzek said:

3121, U can come if U want to, But U can never leave...

Seems like he might throw in the kitchen sink on this one. Maybe lyrically it ain't up to Adore, but I think this one will be good.

Regarding references that will be quickly outdated....


Kiss is another example. "You don't have to watch Dynasty, to have an attitude." So now he sings it with Sex & The City (which I don't think is JW-certified, but whatever). If we didn't have that show (which will be outdated soon too since it's gone off the air), then what's he gonna say?

I'm looking foward to hearing the full version also. I think it may be more reminisent of "Insatiable" or "On the Couch" than "Adore" though. It sounds as if it's another classic Prince seduction ballad and not watered down like "Call My Name".

The cell phone stuff doesn't bother me too much. By the time it's dated, I'll probably be too old to care. Besides, sometimes when songs have certain lines that are indicative of the time period it can be kinda charming because it takes you back to whatever you were doing then. However, I agree that it can be kinda cheesy at times like "My Computer" with the whole aol thing. It sounds like a conscious attempt was being made to be trendy.
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Jatrig said:

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Lord have mercy people. Ride would always mean a car in the African-American community and by this I would hope other communitites will have figured this out.

I don't think cellphones will disappear anytime soon.

Trickology said:

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What is your purpose dude !!!!

laurarichardson said:

Tell me more regarding African American community banter. I wish to only to learn and be able to decipher lyrics and function in normal society.

Jatrig said:

I'm sorry but "smash up my ride" doesn't sound timeless to me at all... there's no way I'd associate that as coming from the mouth of someone who owns a horse and buggy, let alone a bike. lol

Even modern references can sound timeless and classy, however. Rufus Wainwright's "Vibrate" is a perfect example.

jtfolden said:

Wow, I guess it's impossible to portray a sense of humor on a message board huh. Obviously, I don't think adore was referring to a horse and buggy, and obviously I realize certain dialects refer to a "ride" as their car. While I do read Prince.Org, i'm not a complete idiot

oh, by the way....when Prince says "mofo" - what is he referring to? I'm just not hip to certain cultures I guess. (i won't even reveal my race

jtfolden said:

yes! hell yes! i forgot about that one. that's such a great track.

i don't know, perhaps not ALL technology, but it sounds so silly
when Prince sings about "2 way" and "cellphone" etc. perhaps its
because it reduces him to sheer human size or something lol.

and a serious to "smash up my ride" being a horse and
carriage.

can you see her now, smashing up the carriage, swinging from the
doors, chasing the horse with a baseball bat roflmao.

IstenSzek said:

lol Yeah, and I suppose a lot has to do with how you treat it in the song.
I don't really think something like a cell phone is too objectionable, though... not any moreso than using an actual phone number for a song (777-9311).

Now, if he was singing about Rubik's cubes, Forest Gump, etc....




Yup, I can just picture Prince in the middle of a really nasty Jane Austen inspired scene.

8up said:

Probably not.

BorisFishpaw said:

What makes you say that boris? Cos of Prince's track record with changing song choices? Why do you think he would have sung it at the concert? Just trying it out?

Sorry to be so inquisitive, you're just one of the few Prince sources i trust.

8up said:

- Hmm...I didnt like it much when I saw the NACCP performance...but it will probably be included...probably one of the songs that Tamar is singing...

IstenSzek said:

IstenSzek said:

Yeah, I have to agree with you on this one. It just doesn't flow well in what is aimed at being a ballad. Otherwise, though, I liked what I heard of it at the Vanguard Jam. My guess, though, is that it'll probably end up on Ashley Davis' forthcoming album, along with "You Want Me".

DarkKnight1 said:

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You know where you can go I can't help you if you can't function in society.

I did not know so many people on the org just woke up out of their coma yesterday.

altavista said:

"You don't have to watch Desperate Housewives, to have an attitude."

Works 4 me, anyway!

love4oneanother said:

Good one!