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:

• Doves
• Dance/dancing
• Pimps
• Angels (usually crying)
• Ass
• Hair
• Rain
• Thunder
• Funk
• Sunshine
• Water/bathtub
• Domestic violence
• Gemini references

I know there are a lot more - what do you notice?

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• spending money
• cars

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...

Thundering Ass Hair Angel.

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...

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...

Kinda underselling it here, if they were nothing more than "themes" they mighta been out already.

"Am I qualified?"

jazzz said:

Revolution/changing the system Controversy Gender play Death Colors God Love [Edited 5/28/20 1:13am]

Yes indeed!

thedoorkeeper said:

Love. I have a Prince playlist named Love. All the songs have love in the title.

Nice! how many songs are on your list?

laytonian said:

"Am I qualified?"

Yes! but when he did see himself as qualified... Prince's confidence in those songs consume you - whew!

Phase3 said:

Baby

yessssss

WhisperingDandelions said:

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...

Kinda underselling it here, if they were nothing more than "themes" they mighta been out already.

wow...how did I miss this? Can you specify songs in particular that I can listen to?

ThirdStrike said:

7

17

dualboot said:

Thundering Ass Hair Angel.

Loved their last album

God and love.

LadyDivah said:

dualboot said:

Thundering Ass Hair Angel.

I think I rented that porno back in 1995.

TrivialPursuit said:

dualboot said:

Thundering Ass Hair Angel.

I think I rented that porno back in 1995.

OperatingThetan said:

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]

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

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LadyDivah said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Kinda underselling it here, if they were nothing more than "themes" they mighta been out already.

wow...how did I miss this? Can you specify songs in particular that I can listen to?

"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.

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OperatingThetan said:

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]

He still recorded them. He "decided not to release" a ton of stuff that is regularly discussed/name-dropped here on a routine basis.

Spider

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