I used to prefer non-sexy music over sexy music, but honestly, some of his best work ever came out of being inspired by spirituality and sexuality, and sometimes intertwined. Temptation is a great example, and so relatable. There's nothing wrong with slipping it in time to time and being clever with it, that's what being an artist is about. | |
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alphastreet said: I used to prefer non-sexy music over sexy music, but honestly, some of his best work ever came out of being inspired by spirituality and sexuality, and sometimes intertwined. Temptation is a great example, and so relatable. There's nothing wrong with slipping it in time to time and being clever with it, that's what being an artist is about. Yes, and princes need to bind sexuality and spirituality, in songs such as anna stesia.... Well that's a whole other thread isn't it? [Edited 11/8/11 20:24pm] We are all so full of ![]() | |
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I don't think P has to write down right sexually explicit lyrics to showcase 'good music' or lyrics. The music is always good and the lyrics should be thought provoking and something you can discuss with like-minded fam / fans / enthusiast. I like suggestively sexual lyrics Peace ... & Stay Funky ...
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I think he just grew up and life experiences changed his views and what he wanted to write about. | |
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PurpleLove7 said:
I don't think P has to write down right sexually explicit lyrics to showcase 'good music' or lyrics. The music is always good and the lyrics should be thought provoking and something you can discuss with like-minded fam / fans / enthusiast. I like suggestively sexual lyrics Well of course I think everything hyou said is true. I feel, to take it one step passed what you have said, that without funky flow in his bones, then the funky flow into the music is quenched as well. There are exceptions. 3121 is terribly funky, and yet not A dirty song at all. We are all so full of ![]() | |
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AnaisKarim said: I think he just grew up and life experiences changed his views and what he wanted to write about. And I am glad he has matured this way. Though a different subject that would tie into this is how his sings have gotten clean, but he is out there dating women half his age. It always looks as though his morality has limits. And so yes, I believe he is snagging those girls. Like I said, that's another subject though. We are all so full of ![]() | |
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alphastreet said: I used to prefer non-sexy music over sexy music, but honestly, some of his best work ever came out of being inspired by spirituality and sexuality, and sometimes intertwined. Temptation is a great example, and so relatable. There's nothing wrong with slipping it in time to time and being clever with it, that's what being an artist is about. Extremely valid points. We are all so full of ![]() | |
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Music or lyrics? | |
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No, but he does if he wants to be popular. He's not the first celebrity to get born again and fall off. | |
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Graycap23 said: Music or lyrics? Self censorship if the lyrics causing the music itself to be less free and artistic. The question is, does it? We are all so full of ![]() | |
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No, I don't think he has to be dirty at all. Although, I do believe he has to stop censoring himself and stop with all the religious undertones. It gets stale rather quickly. | |
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I see it when I'm at the live shows. If he's a little provocative then everyone goes crazy! When he performed 'Gingerbread Man' at MSG the crowd couldn't get enough. The innuendo was what they wanted. When ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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I think you're proving my point. He's singing about the exact same things today. He isn't as *wild* with it, but it's the exact same topic. So, how is it less of an influence?
If he were singing about other topics to a greater degree or at a more mature level, you might have something - but he's not. | |
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Well, to me at least, the fact that he isn't exactly wild with it, tells me that he's not as passionate as he used to be with the subject. The songs I mentioned from recent years are more like "let's have fun" silly songs that all the other singers do. It's not very easy to explain but I feel as if we don't get songs like Scandalous Come Power Fantastic Darling Nikki - those very sensual, wild, controversial, let-it-all-happen-songs that can only be made and sung by Prince anymore.
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This is a duplicate do to software issues!!!!!! [Edited 11/13/11 23:13pm] 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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I like his music dirty his lyrics can go either way. Although sometimes I think sensuality and spirituality are his best muse. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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No.....just free of religious SHACKLES. | |
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or, embrace a religious dogma which promotes the concept of sacred sex. tantric buddhism, for example. | |
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The majority of Prince's music is of the "let's have fun" variety. That's more or less all that anyone remembers him for at this point (1999, Delerious, Let's Go Crazy, etc...). One could argue that his "filthiest" album, Dirty Mind, is also a "Let's have fun" record. Heck, "Jack U Off" encompasses silly, sexy and a "let's have fun" attitude all in a single song.
The fact that he's less explicit doesn't mean he's less passionate - it only means he's less explicit.... and it is Prince himself who has made it clear that he's intentionally chosen to refrain from saying or singing certain things.
He's stil the same person, he's just not letting it flow as freely as he used to do.
That seems like a mixed bag of songs. I feel like we've gotten almost nothing but variations of Scandalous for the last 20 years... Even his, supposedly, most religious album (TRC) couldn't refrain from talking about things like female masturbation:
"anything to get you wet...
Can I sing 2 u while u bring urself 2 joy? While u bring urself 2 joy"
It may not be as explicit but it's just as filthy as ever...
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I have read many of the post that affirm that Prince has a certain muse in sexuality. I think this is stating the obvious that we all know already, as we are all Prince followers. And I think that most of the post agree that Prince is well capable of good music, no matter his inspiration. I feel that some of the post do tend to sway that Prince, even though he is still writing about sexual encounters and desires, has certainly watered down his expression of those ideas through a new found system of values and beliefs that restrict the freedom of those expressions, or maybe have freed them in a new direction.
I think one has noted that the removal of the dirty words in these expressions may have altered our perception of the music as a whole.
For your consideration, Tiger Woods. Since his sex scandal, and since he has cleaned up his act afterwards, his games have been terrible. Does anyone here think that this sort of applies to Prince too?
In others words, when you start placing restrictions on a man's muse, even when the man does it himself, has he lost his swing? Prince's swing, being his music, of course. We are all so full of ![]() | |
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Aphrodite/Venus was always a good muse, she co-wrote with him some of his best 80s/early 90s songs
it's so sad he betrayed her in 2001...
and the music suffered, at least until 3121, where he partially worked with Aphrodite again (Black Sweat, I&C, Satisfied) ![]() | |
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He built his career off dirty innuendo, why stop now?
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His spiritual lyrics interest me more than his sexual ones. However, as alphastreet has said, spirituality and sexuality go frequently together in his lyrics.
It saddens me that many people, even critics, consider Prince only as a sex-obsessed musician. His lyrics are richer than that. | |
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^That is true. Prince's lyrics have always been about combining the sexual and the spiritual. That's what makes us human, right? Dirty Mind wasn't just about sex, it was about freedom. Like, everybody's afraid of talking about giving head, well, I'm not! These days, it seems that when Prince writes what he really thinks, it is about religion. When he writes what he thinks we want to hear, it's about partying with the dirty words tuned out. Life experience? I wish he had some. Just giving my ![]() | |
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Nah, it was just about sex. The freedom etc. vibe is just a myth. "Climb in my fur." | |
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a lie "Climb in my fur." | |
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I always thought When You Were mine was about having a sleepover and no clean linens for your guests! When ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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I don't think so. Some of his best song writing did have 'dirty' subjects. But then again, some of his 90s songs (e.g. Hot Wit U I just feel that his earlier song writing had more passion in it than it does now, there are exceptions, but I feel that now, he's just writing for the sake of writing a song, and before, he wrote because he had that urge, the drive, to write. You could say that he expressed himself through his lyrics. Just my opinion. | |
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