His whole career is the weirdest moment in music history

KingSausage said:

awesomeav said:

What was weird about Love Symbol? I thought it was some of his best work?

Who says weird isn't good? Symbol is one of my favorites, and its weirdness is a major reason why.

Really? Personally, I've always found the album one of his most... normal sounding It jumps from genre to genre and is pretty diverse, but everything from the rhythms to the vocals seem less wacky than an album like "Parade" or "Come". One of my top ten favorites, btw

214 said:

His whole career is the weirdest moment in music history

This I have to agree with. How a weird-ass guy who makes such weird-ass music and questionable commercial decisions ended up becoming one of the biggest-selling artists of all time is pretty fascinating

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just the lyrics they are very weird and sexual explicit

Maybe its me reading too much into stuff, or maybe its just my own medical history projecting some of the sentiments, but I feel some traces of manic depression in his music. That dark haunting quality mixed with euphoria.

For example, in "Dream Factory" he goes from a very upbeat mood in "Can't Stop The Feeling I Got" and segued it right away with a very dark atmospheric "We Can Funk". And it worked as well.

That extreme mix of moods is one of the main reasons why his music grabbed my attention.

Hamad said:

Maybe its me reading too much into stuff, or maybe its just my own medical history projecting some of the sentiments, but I feel some traces of manic depression in his music. That dark haunting quality mixed with euphoria.

For example, in "Dream Factory" he goes from a very upbeat mood in "Can't Stop The Feeling I Got" and segued it right away with a very dark atmospheric "We Can Funk". And it worked as well.

That extreme mix of moods is one of the main reasons why his music grabbed my attention.

There is Lonely probably his most dark and depressin

214 said:

Hamad said:

Maybe its me reading too much into stuff, or maybe its just my own medical history projecting some of the sentiments, but I feel some traces of manic depression in his music. That dark haunting quality mixed with euphoria.

For example, in "Dream Factory" he goes from a very upbeat mood in "Can't Stop The Feeling I Got" and segued it right away with a very dark atmospheric "We Can Funk". And it worked as well.

That extreme mix of moods is one of the main reasons why his music grabbed my attention.

There is Lonely probably his most dark and depressin

To me its "Empty Room".

Hamad said:

214 said:

There is Lonely probably his most dark and depressin

To me its "Empty Room".

Sorry have not listened that song i am a newbie in this purple world

214 said:

Hamad said:

To me its "Empty Room".

Sorry have not listened that song i am a newbie in this purple world

Don't worry, you will

CharismaDove said:

paisleypark4 said:

Hamad said:

214 said:

There is Lonely probably his most dark and depressin

To me its "Empty Room".

I think empty room is a metaphor for 'empty womb' - when I listen to it like that I cry so so hard -- its a heart breaking record.

Hmmm,,,,

Definitly a different perspective. It would be difficult for me to listen to it from that standpoint though.

Oh yeah the banana daiquiri drinking Another Lonely Christmas. What guy gets wasted on those?

nyse said:

One of the things that make me really loves prince's music, is that it can be really weird at times. He keeps me expecting the unexpected. Here is a list of some of my favorite weird moments in purple music. I would love for everyone to add to this list because I know you probably caught somethimg that I didn't. Or even chime in with your own opinions about these moments. This is only for moments on track. Which includes lyrics and music. Not live performances or interviews. 1. Computer blue (EXTD VERSION) - What is up with the hallway speech. Something along the lines of "stupid chauvinistic computer. About time someone programs you. Girls are computers to computer blue". I have no clue how thiscame all about. Very interesting. 2. Annie Christian - this is a weird song in itself but at the end where it fades out for the last couple of moments it sounds like a computer going haywire uncontrollably. What made prince say "hey let me throw a robot on malfunction at the end of the mix...yeah that sounds good" 3. Lust u always. - he raps " my body wreaks with lust/ I will RAPE you if I must/" . WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT! how he says it sounds super violent as well. I can see how a passion for someone can get heavy, but rape? Wow prince lol 4. Resolution- off the planet earth album. At the end of the song a synth note rings in and out for sometime. I mean the song could have ended 30sec ago. 5. Sister - we all know this is his weirdest song. 6. Pearls before the swine- the random lyric about a begal with creme cheese. Come to think about it. P has alot of lyrics about food. Weird for someone so skinny lol. 7. Lady cab driver - isn't that a toilet flushing. Yea I think it is. Strange. [Edited 7/12/15 7:57am]

He got really carried away with the sexually explicit lines around that time I guess, but that line is pretty extreme. Remember he was bonking Vanity, Jill, Susan Moonsie and a few others at the time and at 23/24 he was probably very virile. At the end of the day he was a pretty sick dude back then. Remember the lyrics of Xtralovable at the time "I'm going to have 2 Rape u now, are u going to get in the bath or am I going to have to drag u?" That to me is the darkest line about sexual violence he ever wrote. Needless to say why both songs did not make the cut for the album set.

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Plus if you do look at all the explicit music on that album (1999) it is not unsimilar and rape consciousness was not really common until the late 80s. In the early 80s heaps of bands were getting away with degrading lyrics towards sexually avaialble young women. And a lot of shit hop and R and B still gets off with filthy songs and lyrics full of rapine thoughts and calling women names like ho and bitch.

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Annie Christian as you know was short for Antichrist and Prince's outrage at some of the nasty shit going down at the time (1980/81) Shooting Reagan, the Pope, John Lennon, arresting of Wayne Williams the Atlanta Child Murderer and the like. I think he threw in the keyboard shoots and distortion as part of the rage he felt.

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Computer Blue is a dig at sexism to I guess, the part about Chauvenistic computer, women are not butterlies, we are computers too, just like u computer blue. It was actaully saying women have brains and can think too and marked the shift from the degrading sexuality on 1999 and earlier love songs towards the realisation that there is love as well as sex. As you know Prince had to cut the song down to fit on the album, 15 minutes down to 4.

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Hope this helps a bit.

iZsaZsa said: