Yes.

A thread from over two years ago:

http://prince.org/msg/7/382418

very very bad song.

Auch........ is this really from Prince... not worthy....

I like it--but one of my favorites from the NPGMC years was My Medallion, so I seem to be a bit strange in my tastes. It's fun.

i didn't much like it on first listen, but i really dig it now having listened to it a good few times, i really like the synthy bass/rhythm thingy (?)

Dandroppedadime said:

i didn't much like it on first listen, but i really dig it now having listened to it a good few times, i really like the synthy bass/rhythm thingy (?)

If only I had a dime for every time I heard this, from fans and non fans alike

I also thought I'd love it based on just the title alone and the lyrics. It seemed like such a unique and cool song for Prince to record and I was really looking forward to hearing it. When I did... it's 'good'. I liked it a lot upon first listen, catchy, but then it became a little meh. The background voices get annoying after a few listens, P's delivery of the lines sound kind of unfinished, and the music isn't TOO spectacular. Nice to have though! Keep it on an outtake collection.

It's so non-descript that I had already forgotten it leaked. I was just checking out my outtakes folder and went "huh, there was this thing as well?".

thedance said:

very very bad song.

Auch........ is this really from Prince... not worthy....

Obviously unfinished

I like when he says "smile..." It sounds like he just wanted to tell a story with this one rather than make a great song, but it's not a complete fail. I can dig it .

It is a great song. I think it was actually finished the way it was. 1989 Prince knew when to stop overproducing a song. If 1991-1995 Prince got into it...it would've had multiple sound effects, and possibly a rapper rapping about Manure or worse. It doesn't really sound like anything else he was into at the time. The synth sound is a bit different, and the vocal arrangement recalls "Atomic Dog," and it almost has a bit of a Prince 1986 funky vibe like it would've fit right after Love Or Money on a Parade Deluxe edition...if not actually from 1989.

just a side note on over-producing in the 90s: randomly listened to Latino Barbie Doll today and that starts with a snippet of that 1988-9 drum machine sound (Me Touch Myself i think?) but then it just layers on the 90s samples/breaks and drum machines and it's just a wall of hard hip-hop, for such a feminine song I felt it was well over done and would of been better suited as an instrumental for a rap record. this really was a change in production at the time, although he would return to a simple programming style later on (emancipation and after).