Does anybody, perhaps a musician, know if there is a term for the chorus-before-verse thing on Forever in my life.

Has it ever been done on other songs by him or other artists? It seems to beg for a try at repeating it, but I can't think of a single song using that trick.

Are you talking about the way he sings 2 different parts throughout the verses?

daPrettyman said:

or the backing vocal is singing the line before the lead vocal?
If so I agree.....so simple its astounding.

It's not a canon really, but I don't think it has any special term.





Personally, I think he, again, recorded everything else, except for the main vocal part, first and then told everyone to leave the studio, so that he could record the vocals by himself, only to discover that he had made a mistake by one bar when recording the backing vocals.

irreverence said:

It's called a Boo Boo. It was a flat out technical error on Susan Roger's part, but Prince liked the result and ergo....that's the version we know.

ernestsewell said:

See!

ernestsewell said:

Thank you for making me lol

ernestsewell said:

I wouldn't say that it was Susan Roger's fault. It was Prince who asked for
the BV's to be muted while he layed down the lead vocal, and he's just as much
to blame for miscounting the intro bars before singing (probably more so).

However, they both loved the result of this error. Good job too, because it
created such a unique and interesting quality to the song.

This thread inspired me to play the song...and it's always as nice as the first time...

The term I believe is preversatile.

That was JFK Jr's song at wedding right?

realm said:

It was the first, or one of the first songs he danced to, yes.

Tame said:

Now I've got the song playing in my brain

luv4u said:

Sounds echoey.

ernestsewell said:

realm said:

Mine too