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International Lover -vs- Do Me Baby Two amazing balads from back to back albums before the Purple Rain frenzy. For reasons that I can't really explain they've always reminded me of each other. Kinda like companion pieces in my mind. Why does Do Me Baby get so much more attention? Which is your favorite of the two and why? | |
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Hmm, I find do me baby more classic like adore or something. Like a traditional ballad maybe even like insatiable too. But international lover is more...strange and abstract. Like a movie or like you're supposed to picture something. For some reason I put it with I hate u. No matter the ©️, Paisley Park "official can never ™️  . He gave that to us verbally on Oprah in 1996. You can't take away from us, corporate. I mean O ( + > | |
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I group "International Lover" with "If The Kid Can't Make You Come" for some reason. PRINCE: Always and Forever
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If I had to pick one favorite of the two, it would have to be Do Me, Baby. But both of these tunes are favorites of mine . They are similar in that they are both very powerful ballads about longing for love and sex. International lover is dirter, but Do me Bby is very sexual as well. The bass in both tracks are similar in style. Also, International Lover is in 6/8 while Do me baby is not, but I would argue Do me Baby's groove makes it feel almost like it could be in 6/8.
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"Do Me, Baby" is more of a begging song. . "International Lover" has a certain swagger and braggadocio to it that makes it more appealing in many regards. But it's all apples and oranges. Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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"...as a flotation device" just always sounded to me like he was so amused and pleased. it's just one of the many times you can HEAR HIM SMILING. | |
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Both are sexy, sensual, vulnurable and hilarious all at the same time. His over the top vocals is what makes it better as a listening experience, than as the soundtrack to actual love making. He demands too much attention with these songs. But that's also what I love about Prince. Most of his music doesn't work as background music, because it makes me phase out of everything else that I'm doing. My Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tundrah | |
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International Lover was intended for the Time:What Time Is It? | |
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Both excellent, from the days when you could listen to a Prince album the whole way through without skipping the ballads. "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"" ~ Isaac Asimov | |
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DEFINITELY International Lover. I listen to that song and wonder how in the world that dude recorded that song. Had to be a woman in the room with him lol It's pretty hot. Do Me Baby is okay, never cared to much for the song. Have U had your + today? | |
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I love both. But, I kinda lean towards "Do Me Baby", simply because Meli'sa Morgan did such an incredible job with the remake, it just kind of stands out for me a little more. But, honestly, I never paid much attention to Prince's original version until I heard Morgan's. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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International Lover without question. I travel frequently for business so I am on a plane at least once a week. Every time the flight crew goes over the safety precautions prior to take off I just smile and think of this song If a man is considered guilty
For what goes on in his mind Then give me the electric chair For all my future crimes" | |
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Do me baby was the first song I ever slowed danced too. I think was around 16 years old. It will always be a special song to me.
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Do me baby ftw! Ia Ia Cthulhu Fthagn! | |
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International Lover is too gimmicky (and a bit to 50s) for me. Do Me Baby is by far the better and a classic. | |
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Replica said: Both are sexy, sensual, vulnurable and hilarious all at the same time. His over the top vocals is what makes it better as a listening experience, than as the soundtrack to actual love making. He demands too much attention with these songs. But that's also what I love about Prince. Most of his music doesn't work as background music, because it makes me phase out of everything else that I'm doing. Wow...so true. Couldn't have said it better | |
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Grainraiser said: Do me baby was the first song I ever slowed danced too. I think was around 16 years old. It will always be a special song to me.
The first one for me was The Beautiful Ones at a basement party | |
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