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I always like it, I love also the piano Prince & band accapella @ the 1984 Birthday show | |
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Now that's how a true poet gets scatalogical. | |
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Free is loose enough a song to make war a metaphor for what prevents self-determination, there are barriers of all kinds not just ideological. If you read it as meaning "be glad you are free here in America", there's certainly some truth to that if you travel the world and see the restrictions in other countries.
No matter what: be glad you are free, there's many a man who's not.
I'm glad some fans took solace in this song. | |
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Aerogram said:
Free is loose enough a song to make war a metaphor for what prevents self-determination, there are barriers of all kinds not just ideological. If you read it as meaning "be glad you are free here in America", there's certainly some truth to that if you travel the world and see the restrictions in other countries.
No matter what: be glad you are free, there's many a man who's not.
I'm glad some fans took solace in this song. It's weird to me that some people are so anti-American that they get all bent out of shape over this sentiment. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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I really don't see what's so wrong with the lyrics and the message
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I disagree totally. How can you listen to Prince's music from that time and get that concept. Listen 2 Pary Up, listen to other songs that talk about the liberation/freedom he is talking about
Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive | |
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Seriously?
We don't give a damn, we just want to jam | |
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"How Come U Don't Call Me" is a nice song,but it would have sounded out of place on the 1999 album.It's too 'quiet' and demo-ish. | |
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I understand that, but what does the line mean? I know your heart is beating, my heart tells me so. | |
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"Free" is more fleshed out,with background vocals and guitar.It fits perfectly on the album.
I like "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore" but I can see why it was a B-side. | |
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It's a very simple,direct song.The message is positive. | |
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It probably is the most dislike song on 1999 by fans on the Org. I have always enjoyed it. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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Me too | |
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We could always add the b-sides to the album, especially IB. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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Some fans think that "Purple Music" should have replaced "All The Critics Love U In New York".....lol....so many possibilities,but this is the one album that I love exactly the way it is | |
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For me the album is perfect until the last few songs pop up, Free and International Lover are not my cup of tea at all. I would have loved HCUDCMA, Purple Music or Irresistable Bitch to replace them. RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... | |
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Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it. The verses I think are absolutely beautiful. Even the lyrics there are great. It's only on the chorus and middle-eight section that the trite patriotism kicks in. Still, I can enjoy it. I love the instrumental part at the end too.
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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For me "Free" is the only ordinary song on the entire "1999" double album. This album changed my life but I always skipped that song! | |
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midnightmover said:
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it. The verses I think are absolutely beautiful. Even the lyrics there are great. It's only on the chorus and middle-eight section that the trite patriotism kicks in. Still, I can enjoy it. I love the instrumental part at the end too.
The song is very naive like almost all of Prince's lyrics, which is exactly why I don't get my panties in a bunch whining about foreign wars, jingoism, blah blah blah. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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Stop the Prince Apologists ™ | |
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I don't think there are many other examples where Prince is regurgitating propaganda in such an unironic way. One thing a lot of people liked about Prince was that he was a bit subversive. A rebel even. But if you just heard this song you'd think the opposite. "America" is another example I guess. I can imagine Reagan bobbing his head to that one. (I like it though). “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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Prince has been through some interesting phases throughout his career as far as nationalism and patriotism are concerned. On the one hand he´s been very much a staunch advocate of liberal ideas and has embraced utopian concepts but on the other hand he has written songs like Free and America or has expressed tongue in cheek support for Ronald Reagan (and his big balls) during the early 80s, and there was also an incident where he disliked the lack of patriotism of another rock group at some awards show ( I think that other group did something with the American flag that Prince disapproved of). Later he used an alternate (gold colored) version of the flag during the Gold Experience phase, only to question patriotism and nationalism during later phases, such as the TRC phase and the ONA tour and all the conspiracy theories that followed. I still wonder if the line about changing the colors of the flag in the song Everlasting Now refers to himself or Sly Stone. I´d say it´s about himself changing the red white and blue to gold during the 90s. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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Must be something in the water we drink, because this place is full of nutbags. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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I think the 1999 album needed another "political" song as a bookend, even though it's not a proper end-of-record bookend. | |
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"I can hear your heart beat in time with the drum" | |
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