dodger07 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Crucial is ear piercingly bad. Periodt! It's more hype than content.

I thought I was the only P fan with this opinion. I like most his ballads but never got this

We're def on the same page then, because once I finally heard it, I thought - this is it? It's squawky, tinny, aurally garish, and sounds like it was recorded in an empty Folger's can.

TrivialPursuit said:

Boy you are smoking something potent. Crucial is operatic and lush and full and scintillating just like Adonis & Bathsheba. He was on point with all of his sexy ballads at the time.

LoveGalore said:

Boy you are smoking something potent. Crucial is operatic and lush and full and scintillating just like Adonis & Bathsheba. He was on point with all of his sexy ballads at the time.

Agree for you to be wrong to disagree.

TrivialPursuit said:

Yes, all that. And I’ve never liked the ‘opposite gender…army surrender’ line so it was interesting to get alternate lyrics on the SDE.
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Some of you must have alerts on your phone to let you know when “Insatiable” is mentioned so you can get on here and say “Scandalous” is a better song. It’s like some sort of requirement for some people to compare these two songs, always with the same party-line “Scandalous is better” lockstep, goose-stepping, groupthink, conformist “opinion.”
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Give it a rest. Like one more than the other. Hate both. Love both. But it’s time to acknowledge that THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT SONGS.
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They both fit under the broad categorization of “seduction ballad,” like many other Prince songs.
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They are in different keys, different time signatures, similar tempo but perhaps most importantly the tone/mood of these two songs are entirely different.
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“Scandalous” is not lyrically playful in the way that “Insatiable” is, what with all the videotaping instructions etc.
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Prince’s falsetto delivery is strikingly-different between the two songs. Much more of his natural lower range is utilized in “Insatiable.” “Scandalous” finds him employing a ‘scratchier’ (for lack of a better word) sound to his falsetto and he stays in it for most of the song.
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Even more could be said to distinguish these two songs. It’s fine to compare/contrast, but why OH WHY do people insist on linking these two as if “Insatiable” is specifically a literal rewrite of “Scandalous?”

CAL3 said:

Just got a phone alert, which must mean people are talking about the song Insatiable. I feel it is my duty to say, while it is an enjoyable song existing in the same seduction ballad wheelhouse, it pales to the dreamy majesty of Scandalous.