A) Be Funky as as Hell.
B) Offend one race or another.
C) Be a big embarrasment for Prince.
D) Remind people why Prince is funkier than a WNBA locker room after the game.

I'll take A for $500.

E) I'll make up my mind when I hear it

E) Sound like "Musicology" with different lyrics.

F) Be about picking cotton on a southern plantation

G) Be about Shaquille O'Neal at the free throw line

H) Be about ghetto kids with a kilo in the trunk getting pulled over by the cops

I) Be about nubian passion

E) Will be a song. Maybe with instruments. I hear this Prince fella plays a mean triangle.

masbas said:

What's the difference between A and D??...

masbas said:
A) Be Funky as as Hell.
B) Offend one race or another.
C) Be a big embarrasment for Prince.
D) Remind people why Prince is funkier than a WNBA locker room after the game.

The level of funkiness...D is more funky than A!!!!

D-i've heard the live version from the musicology tour.

Black Sweat is going to..... be another James Brown pastiche, but will make a moderately bigger splash than Te Amo Corazon (that wouldn't be hard).

J) Based on the Musicology experience - Be about as black and as funky as Michael Bolton playing the theme from deliverence on a ukulele backed by a band made up of members of Def Leppard, Yes and Genisis in a Donnie Osmond tribute show.

Is this the song-text?


I don't want to take my clothes off | But I do | I don't wanna turn nobody on
Unless it's you | I don't wanna dance too hard | But this is a groove
I'm hot, and I don't care who knows it |I got a job to do

CHORUS:

I'm workin | Workin up a black sweat | I'm workin | Workin up a black sweat
I'm workin | Workin up a .... uh uh!

I don't wanna shake my 'do loose | Unless I do | I dance & I make you lose your mind, baby
Make you act a fool | Hot comb & a bucket of grease | On a brother, on a brother right |
Oh somebody come fix my 'do We're gonna groove tonight

CHORUS | BRIDGE

I don't wanna break your pride | ....but I got to | You better take your woman & hide
'Cuz I'm about to | Show her what's really good | Break her off like you knew I would |
Got a new dance, y'all It's called: "Shake-A-????" | CHORUS


then it sounds funky too me - what do you think?

SDNafka said:

(x) be another one of prince's funky criptic songs about dealing with darkness.

Hmmm-I'm gonna go with D

I'm going with Z) Yet another Prince song which gets intially bashed because it doesn't sound like what 75% of his fans think his new song should sound like...only to have half of those fans come back and say it's "grown" on them since getting over their self-made disappointment...

Byron said:

I'm with you

nurse said:

boy, you sure do flipflop.

MickG said:

I'm versatile-every person should be

Drop off the charts as fast as it rises.

If the first single and this song are picked as the singles kind scared to see what the rest of the lp will sound like. Weakest choice for a Prince single I've ever heard.

Thumparello said:

Weaker first singles (and technically this is the second single ain't it)

I Hate U
Dinner with Delores
Greatest Romance
Betcha By Golly Wow

Gotta disagree with you here.

GottaLetitgo said:

All those songs you listed were lyrically and musically better than this piece of crap. Sounds like he wrote it in 2 seconds. Prince can do better!

masbas said:

E) - Be redirected to the official sticky: http://www.prince.org/msg/7/176267