Rightly said:

I've been a big fan for decades
but his lyrics often weak

he had strengths, of course, sometimes good lines
Lyrics were for the most part poor.

just sayin'

I think his lyrics are amazing!! I am not saying all of his lyrics are deep but a whole heck of a lot of them are. I find it intriguing how something that we think has sex written all over it can be referenced to something totally different with potential tie-backs to the Bible ("a lion in my pocket"). Is he talking about God?

Rightly said:

• If I Was Your Girlfriend
• Computer Blue ("Hallway Speech" Version)
• Sometimes It Snows In April
'Nuff said.

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Adorecream said:

I agree with a lot of you. The groove always came first, Prince was all about laying down the music before the words. Words came later and sometimes did not always come well. That is why you have songs like Sexuality, Pheromone, Shy, Computer Blue, Glam Slam and others, which have perfect music backing and groovy sounds, but the lyrics are quirky (Not bad but just different).

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Plus the stories about the toothbrush vibrating a groove and Prince keeping a pad and a bass guitar by his bed in case he is dreaming some song in his sleep and needs to get it down. Possibly why by the 1990s, Prince was living at Paisley Park, so he was able to get in the studio straight away to act on any opportune groove or dream of funk.

What's wrong with Sexuality lyrics?

I agree. Sexual lyrics were part of his spiritual path/growth. I love the secual lyrics.

sfinky1 said:

Susan Rogers said he usually recorded in one of 2 ways: Sometimes he would come in with a fully finished song idea already in his head and with all the lyrics scribbled on a piece of paper. he would sit at the drums, tape the lyric sheet to one of the cymbal stands, and play the entire drum track of the song just staring at the lyric sheet for reference (!!!) then proceed to add keyboards, then bass, and so on until lastly vocals when he'd send her out to take a break... The other way was when he didn't have a preprepared song so would just play and improvise musical ideas on the spot, he'd come up with a riff or chord progression and record it, add a funky bass line and drums, etc and literally write and arrange the song as he was recording each instrument. Once music was done he would either write lyrics on the spot in the studio, Or, Susan says other times he would take a tape of the music and go for a drive in his car and come back with vocal/lyric ideas ready to record. Highly recommend reading any interviews with Susan she really knows her stuff

I've seen several interviews. Has she ever written a book about her experiences with Prince?