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Consistent Words/Themes Often Used by Prince in His Songs Of course I am enjoying the Sirius XM Prince channel for the month of May! I've always noticed his affinity towards different words/concepts/themes tht are mentioned throughout a lot of his songs, but this time I started to compile a list:
I know there are a lot more - what do you notice?
[Edited 5/28/20 15:06pm] [Edited 5/29/20 15:33pm] "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
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"Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
~LadyDivah | |
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Has anyone ran his lyrics through those word cloud generators? I'd bet there are some less obvious ones. I mean, the biggest one might be "love" or something generic like that but it would be interesting... | |
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Thundering Ass Hair Angel. | |
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Baby | |
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Well, based on the exclusion of a few tracks on the recent "1999" set, he used the theme of "Rape" at least two times too much... | |
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Kinda underselling it here, if they were nothing more than "themes" they mighta been out already. | |
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Love. I have a Prince playlist named Love. All the songs have love in the title. | |
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He included references to God in quite a bit of his music, and how to treat others. Good morning children...take a look out your window, the world is falling... | |
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Rivers | |
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"Am I qualified?" Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. | |
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Revolution/changing the system
Controversy Gender play Death Colors God Love [Edited 5/28/20 1:13am] | |
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Yes indeed! "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
~LadyDivah | |
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Nice! how many songs are on your list? "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
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Yes! but when he did see himself as qualified... Prince's confidence in those songs consume you - whew! "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
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yessssss "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
~LadyDivah | |
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wow...how did I miss this? Can you specify songs in particular that I can listen to? "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
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ThirdStrike said: Well, based on the exclusion of a few tracks on the recent "1999" set, he used the theme of "Rape" at least two times too much... Except he didn't because those were two songs Prince decided not to release. The only reason we even know about the existence of those songs is due to unauthorised leaks. Hardly qualifies as a 'consistent' word or theme then, does it? Moreover, when Prince actually released the only official version of 'Extraloveable' he removed the lyric in question. * [Edited 5/28/20 7:46am] | |
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7 17 | |
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Eyes Thighs Ass Damn Dead Dance Phone Come Wild Prince | |
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Loved their last album | |
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God and love. | |
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LadyDivah said:
Nice! how many songs are on your list? 20 songs. It lasts around 90 minutes. I call it the Love Collection. | |
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" don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r." | |
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"Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
~LadyDivah | |
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Thanks. I was more worried as much as I have listened to his music all these years these that i missed that in his lyrics lol [Edited 5/28/20 15:05pm] "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
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"Extraloveable" original version 1982 and "Lust U Always" both use the word "rape" in the lyrics. Both are pretty great songs (at the very least musically) that you should probably be familiar with if you haven't heard already. [Edited 5/28/20 18:38pm] | |
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He still recorded them. He "decided not to release" a ton of stuff that is regularly discussed/name-dropped here on a routine basis. | |
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Spider " don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r." | |
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duplicate comment deleted [Edited 5/28/20 20:13pm] [Edited 5/28/20 20:14pm] "Don't play me...I'm over 30 & I don't smoke weed...."
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