...the bass line. I finnaly figured it out. I LOVE the bass in that song!

Hey.

Did U figure it out on Synth or Bass Guitar?

Peace.

G.

i love the rap where the woman's voice turns into his voice. it's freaking insane.

Giovanni777 said:

Oh I was just listening to it the other day...I was always really into this song in the past...so I just listened to the indivual instruments and the bass line was what really stuck out to me!

Anx said:

I know...I love the line "If I come back as a woman I want a body like your's"

The part where he's drippin' all over da floor..da floor!!!

i love how the drum part sounds like it's melting, and it sorta fuses with that messed up laughing baby sample. THIS IS WHY I LOVE PRINCE.

i love how the drum part sounds like it's melting, and it sorta fuses with that messed up laughing baby sample. THIS IS WHY I LOVE PRINCE.

i love how the drum part sounds like it's melting, and it sorta fuses with that messed up laughing baby sample. THIS IS WHY I LOVE PRINCE.

TS, right on spot, the bassline is the thing that holds that whole song together, in fact almost all tracks on the Lovesexy album are hold together by their bass tracks.

When i first heard this record, i had a bit of a hard time concentrating on the songlines, because of all the strange bridges, dissonant hornparts and meandering backgroundvocals, often combined with mixing several musical styles together in one song. At one time i noticed when i did concentrate on the bass lines the most, it was much easier to follow the songs.

In case of the title track: this song just goes 'everywhere', starting as a funksong with 1999-like synths, bringing in gospelelements, hardrockguitar,(fake) orchestral strings further on and experiments with slowing and speeding up vocal tapes. The base line stays almost constantly the same during the whole of the song, and yes, its a very cool bass line also.

Anx said:

You want me to swivel in your luuuuuv seat. Don't 'chu, baaaaaby?

I frickin' love it!

Krystal666 said:

'pretty little girl
u got me durippin.....
drippin all over the floorr.....
If I had the body of a woman
Id have a body like yours..... @


that sais it all for me.....

Giovanni777 said:

Neither probably. But uh, regarding this song, I mentioned this a long time ago and DavidEye agreed with me. I'll start it off the same way I did then; I'll probably get rocks thrown at me and shit for this but, this song, especially the bassline, ALWAYS reminded me of Jesse Johnson. Especially the part before P's verse comes in. Jesse was doing this kind of thing on his solo albums.

Anx said:

I totally agree!


Lynn

A track that is so multilayered you are constantly discovering new things in it. I actually really love the wacky electric guitar in the background, it rumbles on throughout the song making all sorts of crazy sounds, but you have to really listen to it because it is way down in the mix.

My favourite part has always been the bit where Cat starts talking and the voice slowly alters into Prince, that's just class.

metalorange said:

Same here!!
This is one of my all time fav,this is SO Prince...

I remember being at a party (when I was 19)with a bunch of heavy metal freaks - and being a P fan I decided it was time to expose a little Prince - and I did the rapping part - word for word - probably sounded dead shite - but it won everyone over and they loved it!!

Oh, pretty little whip, you got me drippin'
Drippin' all over the floor
If I come back as a woman
I want a body like yours, a body like yours.

That line turned me on!!!! Made me dress like hooker to go see Prince during the Lovesexy Tour. Now, those were the days of wild!

Anx said:

On the money!!

i love how the song keeps changing and growing and shifting and morphing
Prince had never released a song quite like that before
it's a ton of fun, lots of cool things happening all over the place

Snap said:

wow - I think that HAS to be THE best way to describe this song!!!

metalorange said:

Love that part!

Also, when it breaks down and you get that
slightly filtered layered vocal part...
"Huh... Looooovesexxy!"

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wendyrachel said:

CORRECT! This is the ultimate high

While 'we' are still talking about this brilliant song (one of my top 10 Prince-tracks off al time) i would like to mention thats this probably his penultimate song in the way that it combines all the major elements he has tried out before:

- It has the synths-replacing-the horns-trick that were so typical for the Minneapolis sound, bringing 1999 to mind.

- It shows his mastership of programming great electronic beats (this one is very 'dry' and works great in the context of the arrangement)

- The skeleton of the arrangement is funk-rock (1999, Purple Rain), but it also incorpotes psychedelic guitarlines (Around the world in a day), orchestral sounds: the fake swelling strings near the end of the song (reminding Parade and his collaborations with Clare Fisher), the jazzy hornriffs (Parade) and the experiments with sped up and distortant vocals (Sign of the Times).

- The lyrics combine the tension between the 'carnal' and the 'spiritual', something that has been a 'red line' in Princes lyrics from the release of For You in 1978. He combines both in the word 'Lovesexy', in short: God = Love, and sex is good when it as an expression of a deeper understanding of love and spirituality.

- The lyrical message is delivered both as a serious message as in a humorous way. The way he is fooling around with those vocals and the ironically cocksure lyrics at the end of the song, enlightens a message that would otherwise be to serious or preachy sounding.

- The whole song is full of contradictions: the hornriffs and background vocals are often in another musical key then the rest of the music, the seemingly serious message is relativated by the playfull lyrics and voice experiments at the end of the song, the music is 'hopping' from funkrock, to gospel, to psychedlic / hardrock, ending in a climax combining all of these elements, showing his mastership when it comes to composing and arranging songs (reminding masterarrangers like Frank Zappa and George Clinton), but it doesnt make him sound too pretentious, because of the humor and a sense for a catchy poppy melody scales that down.

To be short, i consider Lovesexy, his essential track, some kind of final musical and lyrical statement, that compresses all things Prince tried to express in his music and lyrics between 1978 and 1988.

Maybe chargating a bit here, but alltough he has delivered some great music after this record, he seemed to have made his central, most important 'point' here allready. In retrospect, he could have stopped making music after this record, and leave both his fans and the critics in awe, leaving them with a 10 year long career, probably only bettered by what the Beatles achieved in the sixties.

But of course, the reality is different....

incognito said:

I LOVE this too!!!!

He's weird, he's cool, he's Prince..!

Riverpoet31 said:

I couldn't agree more.

But for me it took me years to see Lovesexy as the masterpiece I see it now.

I saw it as confused and colourful but I didn't look for any deeper meanings.

Now I realise just how refreshingly free-spirited and honest it is.

It does sound like a man in his prime but still wrestling with his own conscience and spiriual place in the universe.

It's full of the complexities of being a human being. Of the questions we ask ourselves about love and sex etc.

And for me growing up Prince was my hero who just wrote great pop tunes.

Now I just see him as a regular human being who has the same problems as everybody else.

In truth these were probably ALL the reasons that I liked him for in the first place I just didn't know it.

It's only when you stop and think about things that you think "Oh, I get it now!"

Gee's I'm rambling again....!

Anx said:

Are you sure about that?

when it's over...the song is terrible!!!