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Thread started 05/31/09 9:26pm

pickle

Why do you think p skips the the letter G on Alphabet Street?

That is when he recites the the alphabet.oh yeah, someone told me a weird story as to why he used simpleton in MNIP.He was asked if he could ryhme a word with it and we all know what he came up with.
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Reply #1 posted 05/31/09 10:39pm

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Reply #2 posted 05/31/09 10:40pm

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lol lol lol lol
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Reply #3 posted 05/31/09 10:50pm

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Reply #4 posted 05/31/09 11:35pm

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Prince 'answered' this in an online questionnaire published on his official website on 30 April 1998 (Ask The Artist):

Question: On Lovesexy, on Alphabet Street, a woman's voice can be heard in the background reciting the alphabet. But she
skips the letter "G". What's up with that?

prince: She was being kissed at the time, and got flustered, Eye suppose.

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Reply #5 posted 06/01/09 12:07am

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langebleu said:

Prince 'answered' this in an online questionnaire published on his official website on 30 April 1998 (Ask The Artist):

Question: On Lovesexy, on Alphabet Street, a woman's voice can be heard in the background reciting the alphabet. But she
skips the letter "G". What's up with that?

prince: She was being kissed at the time, and got flustered, Eye suppose.

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lol Well, that clears this one up. Cryptic Prince at his best.
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Reply #6 posted 06/01/09 12:12am

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langebleu said:

Prince 'answered' this in an online questionnaire published on his official website on 30 April 1998 (Ask The Artist):

Question: On Lovesexy, on Alphabet Street, a woman's voice can be heard in the background reciting the alphabet. But she
skips the letter "G". What's up with that?

prince: She was being kissed at the time, and got flustered, Eye suppose.

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Kissed right there, on the G... razz
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Reply #7 posted 06/01/09 1:14am

BoySimon

cos he dum!
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Reply #8 posted 06/01/09 1:17am

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BoySimon said:

cos he dum!

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Reply #9 posted 06/01/09 1:22am

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the rhyme had to end with "I".... >>>>> like "I.... love U"

maybe there were 1 too many letters in that sentence and he then just dropped one letter.... the "G" -

or this is just a case of Prince humour ?

anyway, I love it... fantastic song, and this little "mistake" is funny, imo..

cool
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Reply #10 posted 06/01/09 1:57am

BoySimon

For an awful while, I genuinely believed it was because G ... God.... and that, what with the whole religiosity of Lovesexy, Prince was being... sad.
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Reply #11 posted 06/01/09 6:27am

BriaVelveeta

'...G-spot, G-spot, where oh where can U be?'
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Reply #12 posted 06/01/09 7:21am

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Maybe, just maybe... with Prince supposedly in full "drug-addled" swing by 1988, he just couldn't wait to get to the H...

eek sad lol
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Reply #13 posted 06/01/09 7:40am

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So that he could say "I love u", well actually it was Ingrid Chavez, not Prince.
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Reply #14 posted 06/01/09 11:46am

SCORPI09

BriaVelveeta said:

'...G-spot, G-spot, where oh where can U be?'


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Reply #15 posted 06/01/09 11:51am

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clbrooks said:

Maybe, just maybe... with Prince supposedly in full "drug-addled" swing by 1988, he just couldn't wait to get to the H...

eek sad lol


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Reply #16 posted 06/01/09 11:53am

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i always thought that after E, she goes F... It... I Love U.
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Reply #17 posted 06/01/09 11:20pm

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All I know is that this was one of the first clues that I had ocd, eventhough I didn't realize it at the time. It drove me crazy! I replayed it over and over and asked other people to listen to it. I couldn't figure out how that album made it to the presses without a damn "G"! lol
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Reply #18 posted 06/01/09 11:23pm

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Cuz he couldn't accept that he was G oing G rey at the time.
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Reply #19 posted 06/11/09 12:45am

pickle

best answer so far! w/ him, you know, P takin all those meds!
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Reply #20 posted 06/11/09 12:48am

pickle

that's cool, but how's it ggoingg!!
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Reply #21 posted 06/11/09 1:09am

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clbrooks said:

Maybe, just maybe... with Prince supposedly in full "drug-addled" swing by 1988, he just couldn't wait to get to the H...

eek sad lol



I thought he just did E lol
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Reply #22 posted 06/11/09 7:03am

emesem

I also figured G for God but the "kissing" explanation is way better.

One of the best moments of that album.
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Reply #23 posted 06/12/09 12:16pm

lipstick

To make Cat sound like a thick chick too dumb to know the letters of the Alphabet.
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Reply #24 posted 06/12/09 12:22pm

RodeoSchro

One of two reasons:

1. To end on "I", so the phrase can be "I...love you"; or
2. It's Prince's way of acknowledging the song is in the key of G.

As cool as #2 is, I think #1 is the reason.
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Reply #25 posted 06/12/09 12:23pm

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langebleu said:

Prince 'answered' this in an online questionnaire published on his official website on 30 April 1998 (Ask The Artist):

Question: On Lovesexy, on Alphabet Street, a woman's voice can be heard in the background reciting the alphabet. But she
skips the letter "G". What's up with that?

prince: She was being kissed at the time, and got flustered, Eye suppose.

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Yeah, but she said "H" where she should have said "G". She didn't miss a mark, so Prince was just pulling y'all's leg with that one, LOL.
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Reply #26 posted 06/12/09 3:56pm

emesem

lipstick said:

To make Cat sound like a thick chick too dumb to know the letters of the Alphabet.


I thought it was Ingrid
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