I love this song, but does anyone no anything about it?
Is there a deeper meaning to the song?

.....im sure there was a sister involved in it

Nothing deep here, he was just being nasty.
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Nothing deep as far as I know, but I've thought before that the song doesn't glorify incest as so many claim, but shows how ugly it is. What goes on in the lyrics does not sound like there was consent on the protagonist's (Prince's?) part.

Strangely this stune is...erotic!

Incest is one of Romanticism's oldest themes.

Prince is a Romantic. So nothing surprising here.

meow85 said:

There was a thread once that this song was all about drawing attention to incest victims. I disagree because even though Prince getting raped by his sister doesn't sound pleasurable, it's a very humorous song. If this were written for such a noble cause, it wouldn't be so humorous.

doctamario said:

That said, it does demonstrate a certain inequality between himself and a woman... for the rest of his career, he had some woman he was looking up to in his art to be his double or his savior.

His sister is literally his double in age, in the song, and has the ability to put him out on the street. It's an interesting contrast to the later image of him and Mayte, and his feeling that she was his twin from a previous life.

Heiress said:

Ya'll take Prince songs too damn seriously

DynamicSavior said:

I'm studying Prince's artistry at University, you big silly. I'm a student of civilization.

Heiress said:

Oh. Well at least you have a valid reason. I made a thread asking what a song was about, I forget what it was, and everybody was trying to get a philosophical on me for no reason when it wasn't even that serious.

DynamicSavior said:

Ah well, I like those kind of threads, actually! I can test my theories against them, and get into interesting debates. I get a lot of inspiration from around here (and credit prince.org, incidentally, on my papers!)

Heiress said:

omg have you ever tried to explain the org to anybody?

DynamicSavior said:

Yeah, but it's kind of hard to explain and I just end up sounding silly. It has to be experienced.

doctamario said:

I don't see the song as humourous. The melody is goofy enough alright, but lyrically there's no funny.

It's hard to say what, if anything, Prince meant by this song. But I just don't think it's meant to sing the praises of incest.

Heiress said:

In short, Prince is crazy.


j/k

It's interesting alright. One could do a hell of a psychological profile on the guy. Wasn't he seeing a therapist/psychologist sometime in the 90's?

Heiress said:

How do you go about studying P. in university?

meow85 said:

I know. Prince needs to be studied in a damn lab.

DynamicSavior said:

Like I said, Prince'd make for one hell of a case study. I'd love to dig around in his head for a while and see what makes the lil bugger tick.

meow85 said:

Not me sister.

DynamicSavior said:

Your loss. *readies the Rorshach tests and couch*

it was a quick jab at his stepsister
same way "darlin nikki" was used in pr

I think the song's embarrassing. All the non-fans keep hearing about how cool Dirty Mind is, so they buy it and then hear this shit and a scarred for life.

meow85 said:

I don't find it funny either.

I thought he was refering to a Catholic Nun, but then again Prince is not Catholic.

doctamario said:

Exactly. Per Nilsen's view from the DMSR book has quite widely spread inside the fanbase and I don't think it's a valid view at all.

Novabreaker said:

It's hard to say what is meant by the song. It's sorta humourous, but at the same time it's very much not.

Like everything else, only Prince knows for sure, and he ain't telling.

It's certainly not a confessional of a victim.

Novabreaker said:

But it's not bragging about some freaky conquest either.

meow85 said:

You just don't get men.