sosgemini said:

It is rather outdated but it doesn't bother me so much because Prince has done this before... in the song SOTT, no less, when he sings about "And we're sending people 2 the moon" looooong after we'd stopped.

jtfolden said:

Isn't that line referencing the Challenger explosion?

origmnd said:

He was thinking it's going down like...fill in the blank

its goin down like major tom to ground control

u2prnce said:

The chorus certainly does... the complete line in question is

"Sister killed her baby cuz she couldn't afford 2 feed it
And we're sending people 2 the moon"...

It's obviously another comment on space exploration but the problem is it's an out of date reference. The last Apollo landing was in 1972.

Am I the only person who thinks Prince was trying to be poetic in his allusion to the Berlin Wall and all it symbolized? Otherwise, yeah... stupid line.

Snap said:

Snap said:

goin' down like.... Snap's thumbs on this thread

First of all, to me it sounds like he's saying 'It's going down like the wall IN Berlin." which is fine.

Even if he says "of", artists have license to make up their own syntax in the name of creativity.

And I don't think it's dated, considering the Berlin Wall is still down.

But is is HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY LAME!!!

The first reference is Ok because it's barely audible..

But if they ever release 3121, they have to cut that last reference that ends the song. It totally fukks up an otherwise great song. Just end with "y'all can't never leave, not evah."

It's goin' down yall....like Starr Jones on a diet.

rstokey2 said:

I like the line. Go listen to old P-Funk and they say silly lines like this all the time, if you can hear that groove and a LINE bothers you, you ain't funky...you ain't funky at ALL!

I like the line a lot! especially the first time leading into the wacky horn part... I think its fascinating that some people cringe at the line, why? Is the metaphor to blatant?

jtfolden said:

I don't understand, he's not writing a report, sending people to the moon never made me think of NASA's specific moon exploration at all, it just meant money given to space exploration....

...we are planning to send people again really soon by the way.

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It's going down, like Alphabet Street!

how about....

It's goin down ya'll, u best get yo ticket and come in....

"it's going down ya'll, like a low pressure eye of a tropical depression in the pacific..."

or

"like the pennies in trickle down economics in our post 911 climate"

"like water when you mix it with oil and put in food coloring in a bottle and then trade it for something at the middle school fair..."

ufoclub said:

Yeah, I know what I mean. Right away, the first cat that I thought of was Bowie and the song "Heroes".

I love that line.

In a Rolling Stones song, there's a line: "I was a picther, down in a slump." LOL!

"It's going down, y'all...like the Org's IQ."

Krystal666 said:

well prince can say that since a certain president of the united states once made a public speech in germany and said "ich bin ein berliner" which means " i am a jam donut". It's true! the speech i think is from Kennedy, not sure who exactly.

thepope2the9s said:

He should hire you, for some help. He seems to need it a little bit lately. Not that it would ever happen
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It's going down y'all, like a vitamin pill

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It's not that bad. I think he wanted "Berlin" to repeat at the end, so he said Wall of Berlin instead of Berlin Wall. And the Berlin Wall going down is and will remain a symbol for change, like "he had his Waterloo when (fill in event that ended someone's career".

Of all the things that could irritate someone on a Prince record, that doesn't rank very high.

Aerogram said:

But it's the only thing I've heard on ANY Prince record (that I can think of now) that physically makes me cringe every time I hear it.

Aerogram said:

doesnt rank high to you...but that doesnt make it any less annoying for thus of us who are..

rstokey2 said: