This is a thread about how Prince created a connection between his art which created a genre. Much like his segment of the Minneapolis sound he created by producing playing, backing vocals, and styling and even naming proteges Prince carried through the connections.

I give an example. In Around the World in the Day he mentions a subject named Electra, in "the Ladder" who loved with a passion not contested. The name connects with Come Elextra Tuesday an unreleased song at that point (Purple Rain era?). I know the spelling is different, but it is the same time. Fast forward to the 90's and we have a protogee named Carmen Electra a protogee given an album and a major video budget. Equally the Electra complex is the female version of the oedipus complex, which was hinted at in early scripts of Purple Rain (hinted at not). At this point you might suggest am I grasping for connectivity? I would say yes! And it is only due to the thought Prince put into his work the depth to imagine these possibilities. Just like what Beatles fans did with the Paul is dead and who was the Walrus, Billy Shears stuff.

One last thing, I admired his constant links to the vault and at that times unreleased stuff. Think about Violet the Organ Grinder and mentioning "in the middle of a crystal ball" of Joy in Repetition mentioning "a song called soul psychodelicde, the songs a year long and had been playing for months.." (it kind of was a year long). All of these song teases were cool. The most obvious connections were the colors - purple, and the princebonics. Also we have themes such as truth "The truth", "Do U Lie" and of course religion and the search for Spirituality and Love/sex and the search for the one ( a kind of secular spirituality). If you watch the underappreciaed Under the Cherry Moon motion picture, you will see how Prince drops in phrases that were songs into the narrative of the film. Mary Sharon's accusation "Do you lie?", Christopher Tracy's hustler talk about Mary stating "And that says what," and his exitentialist lite talk with Tricky about Life being a Parade.

And as I mentioned before, when I went to the first Prince concert in Auckland last year, he said before leaving "We had fun didn't we?" which tragically was his last words to Mary in Under the Cherry Moon. I would love to hear any contributions or thoughts from the org.

[Edited 2/22/17 19:17pm]

Yikes. I think Trump could build the wall from your block of text.

injuredpinky said:

Yikes. I think Trump could build the wall from your block of text.

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I'm rather fond of paragraphs and spacing, myself.

Sorry about that, I can never find how to put spaces into text in this site. If somebody could post how to I would appreciate it. . Now that we have out of our systems, why not try and post something interesting yourselves rather than mild criticisms and Trump jokes. "Hello."