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Another Lonely Christmas about a guy? Read it listen to the lyrics. A lot of his early songs and some later were intentionally ambiguous about whether the lover was male or female, but here the song has so much more meaning if it's to a guy (fictional or real). "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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I don't think so.It's a great song though.im waiting until the day after Christmas to listen to it | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
I was gonna say that too...I know Prince isn't talking about swimming naked with a guy and having sex with a guy with the lights on | |
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huh... what? "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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What in the lyrics makes you ask? The "Boy, he was upset that night, but, boy, was that ever cool?" I'm pretty sure those are just interjections. The word is often used this way, the same as man, as just an indication of some sort of intense feeling, like "man, that's terrible" or "man, that was great!" Without anything else in the song, there is no reason that I see to take it as a reference to the "you" of the song. | |
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the lack of a gender-specific pronoun for the subject is not evidence or even an indication that it could be male. Now maybe he wrote it so it could be sung by a male or female...but then again some of his songs were sung by both with a change to a lyric here or there. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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I'm sure he was bicurious
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I am not sure what songs you are listen to. He made himself very clear. | |
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The lyrics are obviously intentionally ambiguous. I'm sure it's fictional but it seems to at least raise the possibility that it is a story about two guys. Why else would he say "of all your father's children" and not "daughters"?
The main thing though is that in the context of '84, the verse about how the person died seems to imply AIDS. At the time the epidemic was at its height but most people who died from AIDS were said to have died of other things, often pneumonia but usually it wasn't completely clear. This song seems to me to be clearly a response to the AIDS epidemic, and a really sensitive one. I think that's why the gender is left ambiguous and even hinted that it's a guy. [Edited 12/23/17 7:58am] "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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"all your fathers children"....maybe God the father | |
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luvsexy4all said:
"all your fathers children"....maybe God the father Definitely that too "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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Not at all, not even a bit | |
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Prince wrote and sang for all people. His songs, with a few exceptions, were all encompassing. | |
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I thought it was about syphilis | |
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robertgeorge said: The line about her "being so tall, that you scare the boys at school" There's no line like that. It's: "She swoons the boy skaters, she is so tall" Talking about the sister. Kinda strengthens my point in a way. Doesn't weaken it anyway. Never thought of the scream as a feminine thing. "Remember the night we played pokeno for money And you robbed me blind Remember how you used to scream so loud 'Cause you hated the number nine" Could be, though. Anyway, all just food for thought. He doesn't need to have been gay to write a song from a gay perspective or that could be read that way. I think the AIDS reference is clear and a major part of the song's topic. It could still be a girl but in '84 there was less awareness of straight people dying of AIDS except from needles (as in SOTT). "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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the AIDS thing in interesting but it would be a death of 1976 and that is pretty early for AIDS.... "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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What if the song was about a guy. So what? Sometimes it snows in April is about a guy that died of AIDS..Have you ever wanted to play with someone so much Are you a bunch of Homophobes? [Edited 12/23/17 15:34pm] [Edited 12/23/17 15:40pm] | |
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I also doubt the OP's theory, but I'm pretty sure Prince never cared much if his lyrics suited the people he was giving the song.
Data Bank had an entire verse about Prince's height and ended with a roll call of his band members and sound engineer. Despite these very Prince-specific lyrics - the song was given to The Time. In a more extreme case, Prince offered Lust U Always to someone, they turned it down. This was not surprising, given the lyrics referenced rape of all things. _ So, I don't think he wrote it so it could be sung by a male or female, it's probably more down to his writing habits of the time or coincidence. Prince doesn't seem to consider this aspect much. [Edited 12/23/17 16:16pm] What was that?
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ufoclub said: “Glasscutter” is about a guy’s pointy nipples. Yep And "Sister" was actually really about a transgender paedophillic Nun that took Prince in when he was homeless back in the 70s What's the use in half a story, half a dream | |
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people tend to hear what they wanna hear. so if u "hear" him singing about a boy in that song it says much more about u than about prince ... that's what great lyrics are about ... u can interpret them as u like and others do as they like. it's as simple as that. the only love there is is the love we make ![]() | |
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Revolution81 said: ufoclub said: “Glasscutter” is about a guy’s pointy nipples. Yep And "Sister" was actually really about a transgender paedophillic Nun that took Prince in when he was homeless back in the 70s Don't forget, in "When You Were Mine", he slept next to the guy. | |
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What about the lyric when he was telling the lover that she use to get so horny,she would ask him to leave the lights on? That's on the extended version.He doesn't say she but this right here should tell you he's not talking about a guy | |
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who cares? | |
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