Is the implication that Prince has gone 45 years into the future from now, or that the last 45 years of his life have been a dream up to this point?

I really hope it's the latter. I love the idea of that. All that music he did, everything.

I believe it's just a disguised celebration of getting his masters back, nothing more than that. He's awake now and everything is 'you'. He's the only one with his music now. He doesn't have to say me or mine any more. Before he was saying I want my masters back, they're mine. Now he doesn't have to.

MrSquiggle said:

Is the implication that Prince has gone 45 years into the future from now, or that the last 45 years of his life have been a dream up to this point?

I really hope it's the latter. I love the idea of that. All that music he did, everything.

Same old pseudo-spiritual claptrap as usual. You just go with it and don't analyze it too much.

Askani said:

mynameisnotsusan said:

Askani said:

Same old pseudo-spiritual claptrap as usual. You just go with it and don't analyze it too much.

This

I remember first listening to clouds and feeling it. And then that part in question came up. I was like Prince smh,he always knows how to fck up a song now a days with that kind of stuff lol. He didnt need it, the song is fine without it.

MrSquiggle said:

Is the implication that Prince has gone 45 years into the future from now, or that the last 45 years of his life have been a dream up to this point?

I really hope it's the latter. I love the idea of that. All that music he did, everything.

I was thinking about it too. I don't agree with people who say leave it alone because wandering around in the playground of Prince's mind is half the fun.

He has been in suspended animation for 45 years and is now becoming re-animated. That would mean that whatever medication induced stasis he was in was administered when he was around 10. I'm gonna go with 45 years in a dream state.

Now, in keeping with the album's theme of the artificial-ness of the current age, i.e. cloud storage/computing, I was asking myself if for some reason Prince were to be placed back in suspended animation, would he agree to have a back-up copy of his consciousness stored in the cloud? I'm thinking no since he appears to view the "artificial age" as a impediment to being in a higher state of consciousness. Hmmm.

Which is kind of contradictory because if his suspended animation was induced by medication, that would be an artificial inducement that I doubt would lead to the ability to communicate telepathically.

All I know is I played this song (Clouds) in the car to my girlfriend (who only likes 1982-1985 era prince). She thought the song was "just okay" until the spoken part and then she said "what the hell is this nonsense?!" "why is that in the song?"

It doesn't bother me, but I feel like the non-hardcore fans/ casual listeners will probably have mostly the same reaction.

The spoken bridge goes on for a few sentences too long for me. Its a great idea - reminiscent of the layering of some of his finest work. But its over-complicated. And should have been more subtle. She's a sexy voice and Prince will have loved that, but still... The word "HOT!" for no reason is annoying. Clouds had the potential for being a great single. Its one of the more relaxed, modest, extremely well-produced tracks on the album - second best after WBH for me. Should be getting airplay, should have a video, should be playing played live on talk shows etc, etc, etc but enough has been said about that.

Clouds could be a VERY good song if it wern't for that jibberish!

Sounds like someone talking to him after he awakes from anesthesia.

WHO CARES!

If she was talking sexy about her man then it would work.

Sexy not slutty.

Can't relate to it.

And thats the issue with the whole CD. its hard to relate to.

The only good full sounding song is Way Back home.

Its the only song to me that he has something to say.

He has not had anything to say since 2000.

it works in the context of the albums theme, but when you take just that song... it is very distracting, and/or confusing (for the casual listener). This might have been better as a segue at the end of the song or between this song and the next. The single song would be unaffected and the album would still have it's narrative.