Like the song? Love the song?
Share your thoughts and memories on this classic.

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Great thread! Maybe the most underrated song he officially released. People were so hyped for this pairing of Prince & Madonna as both were still in their 80's heyday. Prince had slipped a little in popularity post Under the Cherry Moon and with the Lovesexy cover, but he was still talked about and Alphabet St was pumpin out of peoples cars that summer of '88.

Then Madonna returns to her natural coloured hair, grows it long, and sings "Like a Prayer" with a burning cross! Awesome! Then the album drops with a duet with Prince on it! Amazing they didn't make a video and release a single, but the song IS kinda odd.

But the more you listen the more it grows and I find it to be a gem. I turn people on to it all the time, who have NO idea they ever recorded together. As was usual back then, all production by Prince, but this was no instant Pop classic, this is a darkly funny, slow-burn number. One of my all time favorites and I'm SURE not what Warner Bros was expecting/hoping for AT ALL!!! LOL!

ditto, its a discovery song, i was on it when it dropped and your right people did not know then. i rediscover it every 2 years. now it's on my ipod and it still gets lost LOL, but when i hear it i think this shit is hot. had it come as a purple rain B side with synths instead of horns it would have been judged as a classic.

OMG ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!

Always have since the day of the release of Madonnas album.

Prince had so much more to do with the Like a prayer album than just this duet as well!

One of my favourite Prince duet/collabarations there is!

my favorite part is the last line,when Madonna sounds pissed off as she sings..

Don't try to tell me what your enemies taught you
I'm gone! But I just want you to know...

SoulAlive said:

Me too!

I also like the bit that sounds like "don't fu@k my mind!" when the lyric is actually "don't fog my mind!"

mentalist said:

Immense track. Apparently neither of them were in the studio together to record this. They just sent tapes back and forth between Paisley and wherever Madonna was...
I seem to remember Madonna saying the reason it sounds so weird and disjointed is because she's playing keys on it.

i've always loved it. don't understand why so many people dislike it
since it's pure prince.

IstenSzek said:

it is pure prince indeed but kinda bland and it lacks
a really memorable melody or chorus, imo.

Love it!!! I like when Madonna says something in a different language and Prince says "What?" LOL. I listen to it a lot!!

1DirXtion said:

they are both credited as songwriters on it....and some was used in 'hung up', unaccredited to P

peppeken said:

maybe Madonna wrote the lyrics and Prince wrote the music?

i got this on CD

The only reason I bought that Madonna album.Love it!

I don't like this song, and never have.

peppeken said:

Why would Madonna credit Prince with something she wrote?
(she writes most of her own lyrics, and usually co-writes the music)

1DirXtion said:

Highschool, madly in awe with Prince, friend had bought that particular Madonna album, I taped the song, listened to it and was like









And it never changed.
Can it be called a song?

CJanssen said:

I love how Prince looks in this clip. Where is it from?

djdaffy1227 said:

I love this song too. the part you mention:

"embrasse moi. what? pour la derniere fois."
means, kiss me. (what?) for the last time

psychodelicide said:

I think it's from an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, circa 2004 - 2005

aubergine said:

Thanks!

garganta said:

That's exactly how I'd describe it.

And unfortunately it's the weakest song on an otherwise perfect album!