To me a Crystall Ball is literal a crystal ball to see the future. as for Shockedelica in my mind is about loneliness and masturbation and how self pleasure could make a slave out of you, the loneliness and cold feeling that could bring to you.

jaawwnn said:

slyjackson said:

And what's Shockadelica anyways?

Shockadelica is a feeling, the lonely cold.



Ah I mean, who knows exactly, I wouldn't go too literal on any of this but if Shockadelica is bad sex then the Crystal Ball is good sex.

Nouveaudance had a good definition of Crystal Ball in the previous incarnation of this thread:

The climax of a metaphor that he had used for many years. Encompassing erotica, futurism, apocalyptic imagery and funk.

Is about masturbation, and he goes on to say:

Sleepin' alone will bore ya and.. and soon U grow old

In lust we will suffer, but in love we will grow

Shockadelica is a feeling nobody should know

slyjackson said:

To me a Crystall Ball is literal a crystal ball to see the future. as for Shockedelica in my mind is about loneliness and masturbation and how self pleasure could make a slave out of you, the loneliness and cold feeling that could bring to you.

It's not a literal Crystal Ball, it is a metaphor. Crystal Balls are used by fortune tellers to see the future. Expert lover, ever had a crystal ball - it's sex. Orgasm like a high to "transcend the physical" get an out of body and time experience, to see the true nature of reality. Sex as communion with the divine. Prince looks in to the crystal ball and sees future destruction, but also the second coming and everlasting life. This all the same stuff he's talking about on 1999, Purple Rain, Play In The Sunshine, Lovesexy etc, etc, etc.

NouveauDance said:

slyjackson said:

To me a Crystall Ball is literal a crystal ball to see the future. as for Shockedelica in my mind is about loneliness and masturbation and how self pleasure could make a slave out of you, the loneliness and cold feeling that could bring to you.

It's not a literal Crystal Ball, it is a metaphor. Crystal Balls are used by fortune tellers to see the future. Expert lover, ever had a crystal ball - it's sex. Orgasm like a high to "transcend the physical" get an out of body and time experience, to see the true nature of reality. Sex as communion with the divine. Prince looks in to the crystal ball and sees future destruction, but also the second coming and everlasting life. This all the same stuff he's talking about on 1999, Purple Rain, Play In The Sunshine, Lovesexy etc, etc, etc.

I know, but as I said, to me the meaning is literal.