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2020 (the song), left me a bit sad🙁 I was searching through an old hard drive and came across the song '2020'. It's a great little trinket of a tune full of optimism and light. I felt profoundly sad when I thought about the way the world is in the actual 2020. It probably seemed like science fiction to Prince when he wrote it but now that we're here it's ironic that we seem to be further from the described utopia than ever! Plus, the fact that we will never know what he was thinking because he has gone. Let me know how you feel about it 😎✌❤ | |
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Love this surreal little song, remember first listening to it before Prince.org! Back in the alt.music.prince days. My art book: http://www.lulu.com/spotl...ecomicskid
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Yeah, it is (to me) a pretty sad song. Mayte's voice sounds so small and waif-like in the beginning. Kinda crazy how he wrote this about this particular year in the future, and now we have the pandemic going on. I know he was always ahead of the curve, but it is a little spooky...
Good morning children...take a look out your window, the world is falling... | |
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It's my morning alarm right now. I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore... |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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for this being one of my favorite outtakes, it still took me the best part of 20 years to finally and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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I was thinking about this yesterday and how the reality couldn’t be more opposite to this song. Definitely no dance floors with 3000 people and plenty of fear and Then I went on a day dream to late 2020 where this is all over and a side effect has been discovered where some who’ve recovered have developed synesthesia and then the whole damn song would be the an incredible premonition. [Spoken Intro: Mayte] The year is 2020 And in the club - Love4OneAnother Students dance to the heartbeat of the drum [Verse: Prince] Three thousand or more Dance on the dance floor Synesthetics every one Taste the color, smell the fun [Chorus] The force of nature is what brought us here The walls between us soon all disappear The year is 2020 and there's no more fear If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it! |
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Not sad at all if looked at from heaven’s point of view. | |
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Yeah, 2020 was pretty much sci-fi when we first heard that song over 20 years ago (I think it leaked in 97 or 98). I remember wondering how it'd be like in 2020 back then, and here we are!! I listened to it with my friends right after midnight on new year's eve, felt I owed Prince that much. . I think it was a terrible missed opportunity for the Estate to not release it on streaming platforms on January 1st. It would have been a nice gift to the fans, and it would certainly have attracted the media's attention (I can already see the headlines "How Prince saw 2020 in 1996! Prince Estate releases intriguing outtake to celebrate the new year"). But I guess Mr. Howe probably isn't even aware it exists [Edited 5/11/20 17:28pm] A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ |
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wow, thanks 4 the lyrics. the level of opposition to reality is eerie. i guess theres still time, the year is young flowing through the veins of the tree of life...purplemaplesyrup | |
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interesting that symptoms include loss of taste and smell. i wonder if mayte has shared any memories about this song recently.
i hope they listen 2 u and release it this year, fashionably late flowing through the veins of the tree of life...purplemaplesyrup | |
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i would like it on cd. it could be an interesting affirmation to change the course of the yearE319 said: Not sad at all if looked at from heaven’s point of view. Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. I agree with u. klick | |
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klick2me said: E319 said: Not sad at all if looked at from heaven’s point of view. Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. I agree with u.  “Anyone who interprets something subjective in a different way from me has NO idea what they’re talking about”I wonder if a future dominated by narcissism was Prince’s dream of Utopia! If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it! |
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Amazing song and avatar The greatest live performer of our times was is and always will be Prince.
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databank said: I remember wondering how it'd be like in 2020 back then, and here we are!! I remember working out how old I was going to be in 1999. It seemed like very, back then. "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"" ~ Isaac Asimov | |
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I first heard this song around the same time that I heard digital garden, before The Rainbow Children was released and I thought it sounded like it could have been on that project. Assumed it would be as I didn’t know that it was already a few years old and an outtake from Emancipation. If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it! |
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did they play this song at the paisley park new years party? flowing through the veins of the tree of life...purplemaplesyrup | |
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