This is a post most should skip because of the sheer volume of conjecture on the OP's part.

ThisOne said:

I'm not sure how many actually like this song, but personally I feel sad that Prince had an experience in his childhood which resulted in the need for such dark lyrics - it makes me feel sick, just the thought.... It's a song I feel the need to skip - every time

Pull yourself together. it's just a song.

Papa.

sonshine said:

I'm not crazy about the song either. Too much ish so i pass it by when it pops up in the rotation. I try not to think about it too much tho and hope he was being truthful when he stated in the past it is not auto-biographical. It still makes one wonder though.

You people are weird (both you and the OP). Scarier than anyone who'd write a song like Sister if you ask me

Maybe this can help:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fiction

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_value

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databank said:

sonshine said:

I'm not crazy about the song either. Too much ish so i pass it by when it pops up in the rotation. I try not to think about it too much tho and hope he was being truthful when he stated in the past it is not auto-biographical. It still makes one wonder though.

You people are weird (both you and the OP). Scarier than anyone who'd write a song like Sister if you ask me

Maybe this can help:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fiction

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_value

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It didn't happen....case closed His family didn't mind so why should you

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This song is brilliant, his mind was a piece of Art....very edgy and provocative, I like all the songs on the Dirty Mind Album!

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TrivialPursuit said:

This is a post most should skip because of the sheer volume of conjecture on the OP's part.

You should skip this topic if it disturbs you.

Its 1 and half minutes of pure friggin' genius. Think about how much has been thought about, discussed, disected, fantasized about from it.

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Shock and Awe, nothing more. I love this song.

Not every song written is based on personal experience.

I dig this track because it's cool musically and it's COMPLETELY open to any interpetation as to what is really happening in it....some hear pain in it, others hear an absence of it. As to whether any of this REALLY happened, you would hope not. There are so many levels in it's minute and a half that it raises way more questions than it answers. But it is AWESOME...

It did what it was supposed to do.

love the disturbance the song brings

listen to Tick Tick Bang '81 right after this one

laurarichardson said:

TrivialPursuit said:

This is a post most should skip because of the sheer volume of conjecture on the OP's part.

You should skip this topic if it disturbs you.

Did you read the OP? I'm not the one disturbed by "Sister".

TrivialPursuit said:

Linda1974 said:

purplethunder3121 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

ThisOne said:

I'm not sure how many actually like this song, but personally I feel sad that Prince had an experience in his childhood which resulted in the need for such dark lyrics - it makes me feel sick, just the thought.... It's a song I feel the need to skip - every time

You ever heard of fiction? Not every song is a true story. Just like books. Some might even be fantasy that came from Prince's brain. Then what?

Marrk said:

mcmk785new said:

Zach Hoskins just had a nice writeup about the song. It was definitely a song to get him noticed (by critics if noone else), and it worked...

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For me, it's a good song for the album. It really fits and has one of the greatest segues to the next song Prince ever had.

OldFriends4Sale said:

love the disturbance the song brings

listen to Tick Tick Bang '81 right after this one