New topic
Printable| Author | Message |
SOTT - "Peach and Black" meaning? Was Peach & Black Prince's way of addressing issues of race or describing interracial love i.e. white and black? There's technically no such thing as "white" flesh in the same way there's no such thing as a "flesh" color crayon. In 1962, Crayola voluntarily changed Flesh to Peach in an attempt to avoid any legal issues and encourage people to embrace seeing the world in black and peach. Perhaps a riff on the song "Ebony and Ivory", too?
[Edited 8/6/17 5:49am] | |
- E-mail - orgNote -  Report post to moderator |
FUNKNROLL said: Was Peach & Black Prince's way of addressing issues of race or describing interracial love i.e. white and black? There's technically no such thing as "white" flesh in the same way there's no such thing as a "flesh" color crayon. In 1962, Crayola voluntarily changed Flesh to Peach in an attempt to avoid any legal issues and encourage people to embrace seeing the world in black and peach. Perhaps a riff on the song "Ebony and Ivory", too?
[Edited 8/6/17 5:49am] Sorry to take the deep meaning out of this but I heard in an interview somewhere that he adopted these colors because they were the favorite colors of Susanna Melvoin with whom he was involved at the time. I am sure however there may have been other considerations but that was one of the driving factors according to people close to him | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Yeah, I think it was just the color scheme he was going with for SOTT. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I thought peach refers to tan, not to a default skin colour of white people's. In fact, lots of whites are really pale and peaches are darker than their skins. full lips, freckles, and upturned nose | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
black and white...on each other. "Climb in my fur." | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I always thought it was a jungle love sort of thing. Like in You've Got The Look with Sheena Easton. A nice sexy innuendo game he plays. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Classic example of overthinking things. In this case it's simply the color scheme for SOTT and a lyrical reference to Sheen's outfit and his reaction to it (taken aback) | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
"Time is space spent with U" | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
|
keep in mind, that the guitar and Prince's shirt on the cover of SOTT is really BLUE not Peach "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
OnlyNDaUsa said: keep in mind, that the guitar and Prince's shirt on the cover of SOTT is really BLUE not Peach His shirt and the drumkit were blue, not the guitar... Neversin. O(+>NIИ<+)O
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
|
oh yeah i guess i half remembered it... thank you "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I always assumed (I was 14 when it came out) that he was referring to peach, as in the color of Sheena Easton's skin, and black, the color I imagined her pubic hair to be. I thought that until I just read this thread. I think I still do. I'm just saying... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
[Edited 8/9/17 16:10pm] U fall in love 2 fast and hate 2 soon
And take 4 granted the feeling’s mutual | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I was 14. That was 30 years ago. Yeah, a Prince fan with a dirty mind at age 14, how bizarre. I'm just saying... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Peach and Black were most likely the colors that were be more pronounced during the 'Dream Factory' era Those colors were already being worn by 1985 Cat also said the peach outfit she wore was originally Susannah's.
| |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |