Just had this strange thought on the bus on the way home yesterday so thought I would share it with y'all. Computer Blue was about 1984 - ish obviously written around that time or earlier. now I could be wrong but doesn't computer blue - subject matter sound a bit like, dare I say it "porn" in the lyrics something about until the right one comes along, computer blue. Whether you think I am being rude or not just think about this - if that was a reference to porn and it might well be - the internet didn't really get started until the 90's so yet again he was so far ahead of the rest of us ??? no ?

And another random thought - was watching a DVD documentary sometime ago and Diamond and Pearl the dancers - one of them was saying how they were encouraged to pretend they were romantically linked with P and I remember the same thing was hinted at with Appollonia the actress from the film - could it be that our man is not that easy with women after all - I mean think about it he is well shy - which we know, and he doesn't trust easy - would it be logic to think that he doesn't fall into bed with every beauty he sees - could just be rumours to make him more rock and roll - its what i think anyways - it don't feel right him being so slutty just doesn't gell with me.

On the first idea..."Computer Blue," is a great song from the past...It could be that we are all wireless creatures under control by the Central Command Center...CCC...Until true love has been uploaded into anyones heart and mind...we are Blue.

On the second idea...Prince does not fall into bed with anyone...He seductively crawls.

LittleNicci said:

It's actually "Till I find the righteous One, Computer Blue"

I don't think it sound like Porn, I think a better term to go along with you thought is Internet Dating... Which I like your thought in the terms of I.D. not porn.

I don't think Prince has ever put out that every woman he worked with he had sex with. That's peoples speculations into Prince's life, that anyone who sings openly the way he does must be having sex 24/7

I don't think Prince has had sex with 99% of the women he worked with prior to 1988: Ingred Chavez, Cat(Glover), Boni Boyer, Sheena Easton, Taj Sevelle, Kristen Scott Thomas, Apollonia, Wendy Melvoin, Brenda Benntt, Sue Ann Carwell, Lisa Coleman, Gayle Chapman

of course he started dating Vanity/Denise Matthews before she became Vanity 6, Susan Moonsie was a girlfriend, I'm still iffy on Sheila E. I think they may have, Jill Jones I believe was "friends with benefits" Susannah Melvoin cohabitting girlfriend
the Madhouse cover model, the 1988 muse: Anna Fantastic supposedly he just laid in the bed with her and talked.


Wendy?

Yes Lisa

Is the water warm enough?

Yes Lisa

Shall we begin?

Yes Lisa

Ow!

Where is my love life?
Where can it be?
There must be something wrong with the machinery
Where is my love life?
Tell me, where has it gone?
Somebody please, please tell me what the hell is wrong

CHORUS:
Till I find the righteous one
Computer blue
Till I find the righteous one
Computer blue

Oh

Where is my baby?
Where can she be?
Somebody please, please tell me what is wrong with me

Where is my baby?
Where has she gone?
Somebody please, please tell me what the hell is wrong

CHORUS

Yeah

The computer's on the verge of breakdown!

Come on
Oh baby, don't make me

Poor lonely computer
It's time someone programmed U
It's time U learned love and lust
They both have 4 letters
But they're entirely different words
Poor lonely computer
Poor, poor lonely computer
Do U really know what love is?

(Na, na, na, na, na)
Wave your hands in the air!
Now everybody sing it! (Na, na, na, na, na)
Everybody work out
Work out, work out (Na, na, na, na, na)
Everybody work out
Work out, work out (Na, na, na, na, na)
Everybody work out

He didn't like living alone
The house where he lived had many hallways
It was a long walk 2 his bedroom
Because 2 him each hallway represented an emotion
Every one vastly different from the next
One day while she was with him
He decided 2 name each one
She walked by his side, one hand on his thigh
No - she was sort of half a step behind him
Yeah, the grip on his thigh intensified
As they walked slowly through the corridor
He named the hallway "Lust"
And as they passed through the next one
He named it "Fear"
The grip she now loosened
So he walked faster
Her hands now trembling
She let dropped 2 her side as he wrote the word "Insecurity"
He looked into her eyes and smiled a demon smile
And quickly walked onto the next
Corridor after corridor
He named almost all when suddenly… he stopped
He picked up the word "Hate"
She was gone
So he picked up another – "Pain"

On the verge of a breakdown
What is life without love?
It's hell, Computer Blue!

Father, Father, the sun is gone
(Father, Father) The Dawn, the Dawn
Father, Father, where is the Dawn?
(Where is the Dawn, Father?)
(Na, na, na, na, na) {x2}
Na, na, na, na, na

Shall I go 2 church on Sundays?
Shall I stay home and pray?
Shall I try 2 make her happy?
Shall I try 2 make her stay?

Where is my love life?
Tell me, where can it be?

Narrow-minded computer
(Somebody please, please tell me…)
It's time someone programmed U
(Somebody please, please tell me what's wrong with me)
It's time U learned women are not butterflies
They're computers 2
Just like U Computer Blue
(Where is my baby?)
Chauvinistic computer
It's time someone programmed U (Na, na, na, na, na)
U fall in love 2 fast and hate 2 soon
And take 4 granted the feeling's mutual
(The feeling's mutual!)
We're computers 2
Just like U, Computer Blue
[Edited 5/22/09 7:11am]

Apollonia was married at the time. THAT was the big secret, not that she was allegedly fucking Prince.