I do like this song...and I don't really get the hate for it. The only thing that bothers me about it (though very little) is the Woooo at the beginning. It's sort of like he's thinking..."I need to evoke the Revolution sound...Oh here I'll just add this Wooooo". I am also tired of the self Grandstanding Lyric that he seems to be stuck on.

It's been hard for me to Connect to his music completely lately as the Lyrics to his songs are either laden with religious innuendos I don't get or is about how good he is or how beautiful his home is or how great a party he threw is.

Yup. Back to the Emancipation/Rave/NPGMC/Musicology/3121 sound.

I love it especially the last couple of minutes, but I liked alot of NPGMC stuff like Judas Smile, Silicon, Sex Me Sex Me Not, Magnificent, Jukebox With A heartbeat and 2045 Radical man.

I would say I like this more than any of the NPGMC stuff.

I think I might be looking forward to MPLSound more than Lotus Flow3r.
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I like it but it does give me an odd familiarity of something I've heard before but having trouble trying to locate the exact origin.And in that the song keeps me interested...I keep saying where did I hear this b4....Quite eerie.

The chorus and the lyrics are basically what's "awful" about it to my ears. It is indeed rather NPGMC-ish and no song should ever contain the word "spinach" in it (just try to prove me otherwise).

NouveauDance said:

Some of us don't mind that so much

I know I don't. Just as long as I like it, that's all that matters.

....you don't get the lyrics? What the hell is there to get?

Prince is going to a party and there'll be an old flame there, he wants to make her jealous. She's apparently gone back and forth with their relationship, she's put on some weight, but he doesn't care. He wants her to know that they're the same, she even said so, so why are they wasting all this time? There's never going to be another like him - someone that fits her so well.

Seriously, what's there to get?

OH, and for those that don't like it - you can always hit NEXT on your stereo or music player. Pretty simple.
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Why would you need to "relate" to this song? I mean, I don't put Olive Oil in my hair but I still love the damn tune. I just don't get it.

bleutuna said:

Thank you bleutuna! It's not that deep and it's not supposed to be that deep! It's a friggin party song for Christ's sake! Why can't people accept that? Why would you need to "relate" to this song? I mean, I don't put Olive Oil in my hair but I still love the damn tune. I just don't get it.
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purplecam said:

exactly. i don't have a closet to walk into and pick something to wear
either. and like you, i don't rub my head with olive oil but it's just
great when he sings it in that bragging slightly auto tuned vocal, lol.

people need to chill and sit the fck down. three albums on the way and
still fools jumping up and down making threads about "i don't think we
will like this" or "i already hate that".

the hate in this place is being spread very thin indeed now that those
mf's already discard something before they even heard it.

anyway, do i care? nope. gonna listen to the song right now

wouldn't go quite as far as 'awful bilge', but, yes, 4 me personally it don't set the heart racing, especially when released 2 us at the same time as colonized mind & crimson and clover. its a C minus could do better, or "why make this when u could have spent your time finishing 'roadhouse garden' ?"

purplecam said:

exactly. i don't have a closet to walk into and pick something to wear
either. and like you, i don't rub my head with olive oil but it's just
great when he sings it in that bragging slightly auto tuned vocal, lol.

people need to chill and sit the fck down. three albums on the way and
still fools jumping up and down making threads about "i don't think we
will like this" or "i already hate that".

the hate in this place is being spread very thin indeed now that those
mf's already discard something before they even heard it.

anyway, do i care? nope. gonna listen to the song right now

Of course one could say "Y should he do that when he can do this?"

superspaceboy said:

Or rather 'Y is he doing this, when he can do that!'

NouveauDance said:

Some of us don't mind that so much

The chorus and the lyrics are basically what's "awful" about it to my ears. It is indeed rather NPGMC-ish and no song should ever contain the word "spinach" in it (just try to prove me otherwise). But yeah, I do have to say that a couple of times playing the new songs it was the one that I found myself humming alone afterwards. Yes, that awful chorus in fact.

I hear songs like this and the first thing that goes through my head is 'What prompted him to write it?'

The lyrics are descriptive. None of us knows what happens in this man's life on a daily basis. Where he goes, what he does, who he talks to, etc.

So when people come at a Prince song as if it's just nonsense, I just shake my head. I don't think there's a lick of nonsense to it at all. Maybe he met up with an old lover and this song popped into his head. Maybe someone in the band attended a party where an old girlfriend was hanging out and they told the story to Prince. Maybe it's how a married couple that's near and dear to him finally got together after years of cat and mouse.

Who knows. But thinking about it is lots of fun. Paints a world to build a story around.

You can listen to it as 'Oh, that Linn drum again. I don't like this sampled part. Ugh, the word spinach? What's he thinking?'

I'm not going to begin to tell Prince I know better than he does. The fact that so many people do like this song proves that it has merit. You can say that about all of his material - SOMEONE here loves the song you hate the most, and vice versa.

Usually he's not specific, like here, where he's ambiguous as to who he's talking about exactly, but no matter the song, he's giving us some sort of insight. That's the beauty of art - it's a piece of the artist themselves.
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Prince trying desperately to mask inadequate lyrics and insecurity on his part with Linn Drum and an audience's nostalgic empathy.

Awful, awful, awful, synthetic, NPS, bilge.