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Reply #90 posted 11/30/21 10:12pm

funkbabyandthe
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It is or was weird cos it was in the public eye but i see it like a businessman just going into work even after a bereavement. But I think some sort of inability to deal with it and preferring work to facing it prob also played a part. Death of a child can break most couples AFAIK.
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Reply #91 posted 12/01/21 4:28am

Poplife88

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TrivialPursuit said:

Poplife88 said:

I friggin love the tap dancing! J2J is one of my fave tracks on Emancipation BECAUSE its so sprawling! Another example of Emancipation being something else to everyone!


Then you're gonna love the 12" single. It includes sounds of the Canon copy machine, a fax machine mashup with a 9600 baud modem, Prince's heels click-clacking down the hallway, and a coffee maker in the kitchen. If you listen near the end fade, you can hear Mayte screaming "Hey, Hannigan!" from the parking lot when she was using Steve Parke's jeep to make a hummus & pita chip run to Rainbow Foods.

nuts

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Reply #92 posted 12/01/21 7:50am

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Joint to joint should have filled a full disc lol
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Reply #93 posted 12/01/21 7:38pm

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It hasn't dated well, which I could have predicted then.

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Reply #94 posted 12/26/21 12:19pm

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I finally dug out the magazine I was thinking of. Minnesota Monthly. Here is the relevant quote:

“Responding to an observation that his
current thinking seems reminiscent of
John Lennon's when he went into semi-
retirement with Yoko Ono to raise their
son and bake bread, he says: "Now lors
of people say, Oh yeah, Lennon lost his
edge when he came out of that whole
domestic scene and started to record
again. Man, what does that mean, lost
his edge? It usually means some kind of
dysfunction of some sort," he laughs, get-
ting amped up.

"The guy goes through
whatever it is that makes him angry or
alone or upset and comes out being able
to manage it at a personal level and what
happens to his music? They say it's
"become domesticated.' Hey, I hope
they'll say that about my music. I want
my music to become domesticated."

Rising to his feet to make a point, he
paces excitedly to the soundboard and
leans on it. "John Lennon would have
never written the beautiful music he
wrote at the end of his life if he hadn't
gone through what he did with Yoko and
himself. He would have never written
'Imagine.' And 'Imagine, thank God, is
going to be around in 2,000 years, but
a song like I Am The Walrus' isn't. You
know why? Because John wasn't the wal-
rus, he was John. Imagine' is a song
about truth and the truth will always win
out in the end. If John had never climbed
up that ladder in that art gallery to see
what Yoko had written there when he
first met her, his life would have been
completely different. What he found was
the word 'Yes,' and to me that defined
the beginning and the ending of their lives
together as people and artists. To me that
one little word says it all.”

https://www.minnesotamont...ver-story/

TrivialPursuit said:



SchlomoThaHomo said:


I remember being a little disappointed when it came out because it seemed very conventional for Prince. I always appreciated Prince's weirdness, and it seems he shied away from that on this record. I remember a magazine interview from around this time, and he was talking about John Lennon and Yoko, and talking about when John's music became more domesticated. I can't remember if that's the word he used, but something to that effect. And then he mentioned that he hoped people thought the same thing about his music on Emancipation, because marriage had changed him.




Very good points. The idea of his music becoming domesticated feels very correct for this. It certainly remained that way through the remainder of his career.

"That's when stars collide. When there's space for what u want, and ur heart is open wide."
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Reply #95 posted 12/26/21 12:32pm

LoveGalore

Fuck, that quote is brilliant. Prince at his best, in a philosophical context.
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Reply #96 posted 12/28/21 8:32am

leecaldon

SchlomoThaHomo said:

I finally dug out the magazine I was thinking of. Minnesota Monthly. Here is the relevant quote: “Responding to an observation that his current thinking seems reminiscent of John Lennon's when he went into semi- retirement with Yoko Ono to raise their son and bake bread, he says: "Now lors of people say, Oh yeah, Lennon lost his edge when he came out of that whole domestic scene and started to record again. Man, what does that mean, lost his edge? It usually means some kind of dysfunction of some sort," he laughs, get- ting amped up. "The guy goes through whatever it is that makes him angry or alone or upset and comes out being able to manage it at a personal level and what happens to his music? They say it's "become domesticated.' Hey, I hope they'll say that about my music. I want my music to become domesticated." Rising to his feet to make a point, he paces excitedly to the soundboard and leans on it. "John Lennon would have never written the beautiful music he wrote at the end of his life if he hadn't gone through what he did with Yoko and himself. He would have never written 'Imagine.' And 'Imagine, thank God, is going to be around in 2,000 years, but a song like I Am The Walrus' isn't. You know why? Because John wasn't the wal- rus, he was John. Imagine' is a song about truth and the truth will always win out in the end. If John had never climbed up that ladder in that art gallery to see what Yoko had written there when he first met her, his life would have been completely different. What he found was the word 'Yes,' and to me that defined the beginning and the ending of their lives together as people and artists. To me that one little word says it all.” https://www.minnesotamont...ver-story/ TrivialPursuit said:


Very good points. The idea of his music becoming domesticated feels very correct for this. It certainly remained that way through the remainder of his career.

I wasn't even aware Prince knew the Beatles story so well. Fascinating.

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Reply #97 posted 12/28/21 12:32pm

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I wish he would have kept on talking like that, instead of going all weird and cryptic again
more than half the time in the years after that.

May U Live 2 See The Release of Parade SDE
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Reply #98 posted 12/30/21 6:42pm

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i am a fan, not a hater. this record... it's a good record. i'll sit and listen to all three discs at once i don't care.

didn't someone here say electric intercourse was going to originally be in the spot let's have a baby is in? picture that why don't you.

the run of sex in the summer to holy river is the strongest imo, BUT the opening tracks of disc 3 are the best songs on the record, slave and new world in particular

slave 2 the system should've made the cut

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Reply #99 posted 12/30/21 6:48pm

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if maroon 5 had put out "van gogh" in the mid 2000s it would've been a massive, massive, massive hit

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Reply #100 posted 12/30/21 6:49pm

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leecaldon said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

I finally dug out the magazine I was thinking of. Minnesota Monthly. Here is the relevant quote: “Responding to an observation that his current thinking seems reminiscent of John Lennon's when he went into semi- retirement with Yoko Ono to raise their son and bake bread, he says: "Now lors of people say, Oh yeah, Lennon lost his edge when he came out of that whole domestic scene and started to record again. Man, what does that mean, lost his edge? It usually means some kind of dysfunction of some sort," he laughs, get- ting amped up. "The guy goes through whatever it is that makes him angry or alone or upset and comes out being able to manage it at a personal level and what happens to his music? They say it's "become domesticated.' Hey, I hope they'll say that about my music. I want my music to become domesticated." Rising to his feet to make a point, he paces excitedly to the soundboard and leans on it. "John Lennon would have never written the beautiful music he wrote at the end of his life if he hadn't gone through what he did with Yoko and himself. He would have never written 'Imagine.' And 'Imagine, thank God, is going to be around in 2,000 years, but a song like I Am The Walrus' isn't. You know why? Because John wasn't the wal- rus, he was John. Imagine' is a song about truth and the truth will always win out in the end. If John had never climbed up that ladder in that art gallery to see what Yoko had written there when he first met her, his life would have been completely different. What he found was the word 'Yes,' and to me that defined the beginning and the ending of their lives together as people and artists. To me that one little word says it all.” https://www.minnesotamont...ver-story/ TrivialPursuit said:

I wasn't even aware Prince knew the Beatles story so well. Fascinating.

Interesting...Lovesexy's "Yes" maybe inspired by Yoko's performance art?

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