lurker316 said:

lurker316 said:

Are any Prince sings about Manuela?

"Love" from 3121 was about their fights and probably the most insightful song into their relationship past the honeymoon phase.

paisleyparkgirl said:

lurker316 said:

Are any Prince sings about Manuela?

"Love" from 3121 was about their fights and probably the most insightful song into their relationship past the honeymoon phase.

"Let's Skate!"

lurker316 said:

Are any Prince sings about Manuela?

The two versions of The Dance bookend their relationship.

Besides "she loves me for me", most of the Manuela songs describe her as a difficult woman. She might have been one of the women who stressed him out the most.

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lurker316 said:

dodger07 said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

LoveGalore said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

Besides "she loves me for me", most of the Manuela songs describe her as a difficult woman. She might have been one of the women who stressed him out the most.

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You're verging into Lipstick Alley territory with these comments. We really don't know his second marriage like that at all.

The thread derailed don't blame me. I was looking for Prince songs about Bria.

paisleyparkgirl said:

LoveGalore said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

The thread derailed don't blame me. I was looking for Prince songs about Bria.

I'd rather him write any of the songs above about me than so few songs I was barely in the narrative at all (aka Bria).

Or maybe it was just a healthy mature relationship with nothing to write about. He was 50 after all, he was past the stage of getting butterflies for a woman or playing toxic games.

paisleyparkgirl said:

LoveGalore said:

dodger07 said:

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MrSharon said:

I like Andy Allo's show Upload on Amazon.

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MrSharon said:

dodger07 said:

Speaking of Bria; her highlights for me are Elixer, which I think is a great underrated track, and Here I Come. It’s a decent sultry song but the fact Prince got her to sing about the ‘the dirty blonde in 9 and half weeks’ was pure cheeky genius [Edited 1/18/23 13:45pm] [Edited 1/18/23 13:46pm]

"All this love"is really good too and I might be the only one who loves the song "everytime"

No way. "Everytime" is absolutely in my Top 5 Prince songs ever. Perfect, breezy bossa nova, something he had never done before. One of his most marvelous and underated ballads.

The whole Elixer album is fire. Majority of Prince fans have such disdain for any time he didn't sing on the track. Sometimes it's like man he wasted so much energy on instruments and production when 80% of the fanbase would've rode with him just as hard if he was a singer-for-hire singing Babyface & L.A. Reid songs. He could've saved so much time just phoning up Teddy Riley, showing up to a 4-hour vocal session and calling it a career as far as some are concerned.

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WhisperingDandelions said:

MrSharon said:

dodger07 said: "All this love"is really good too and I might be the only one who loves the song "everytime"

No way. "Everytime" is absolutely in my Top 5 Prince songs ever. Perfect, breezy bossa nova, something he had never done before. One of his most marvelous and underated ballads.

The whole Elixer album is fire. Majority of Prince fans have such disdain for any time he didn't sing on the track. Sometimes it's like man he wasted so much energy on instruments and production when 80% of the fanbase would've rode with him just as hard if he was a singer-for-hire singing Babyface & L.A. Reid songs. He could've saved so much time just phoning up Teddy Riley, showing up to a 4-hour vocal session and calling it a career as far as some are concerned.

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I feel the same way about "Everybody get on up" sung by Carmen Electra.

WhisperingDandelions said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

LoveGalore said:

LoveGalore said:

Btw he basically was doing LA Reid bops on the majority of his later records.

...which was the point of the post.

WhisperingDandelions said:

RJOrion said:

LoveGalore said:

Top 5 ever? Good lord. What a joke! Btw he basically was doing LA Reid bops on the majority of his later records.

Top 5 is definitely hyperbole, but its a sweet little song...i thought it would be Carmen Electra type awful...thats why i never even bothered checking it out until today

It's s0 perdy. Pairs nice with the official Bria video visuals. Top 5 may be hyperbole, but to discard every/all Bria material as trash or phoned-in is just as over-the-top.

Fact is, Prince doesn't have many (any?) other songs like "Everytime".

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