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Dorothy Parker: inspiration behind the Ballad? This may sound like a dumb question, but was the critic/poet Dorothy Parker the inspiration for The Ballad of Dorothy Parker?
She wasn't "dishwater blonde", and I don't know if Prince had heard of her. She was quite a witty writer: "You know, that woman speaks 18 languages, and she can't say "no" in any of them." "His body has gone to his head." Her epitaph:"Excuse my dust." Literature lesson over!  U been bamboozled, hoodwinked, took. | |
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According to one of the books written on him, I can't recall which one at this time...Prince "dreamt" the song. Later he was telling Susanah Melvoin about it and she told him about the poet Dorothy Parker. So no, it wasn't written about the poet becuase he supposedly didn't know that she existed before he wrote it. **************************************************
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illimack said: According to one of the books written on him, I can't recall which one at this time...Prince "dreamt" the song. Later he was telling Susanah Melvoin about it and she told him about the poet Dorothy Parker. So no, it wasn't written about the poet becuase he supposedly didn't know that she existed before he wrote it.
Source: DMSR by Per Nilsen. There are no kings on this Earth, only Princes
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Dorothy Parker was a journalist... quick witted, sharp tongue.
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illimack said: According to one of the books written on him, I can't recall which one at this time...Prince "dreamt" the song. Later he was telling Susanah Melvoin about it and she told him about the poet Dorothy Parker. So no, it wasn't written about the poet becuase he supposedly didn't know that she existed before he wrote it.
Yeah, I heard that. I think that he'd probably heard of her, at least a brief mention, and perhaps subconciously used her name. Too much of a coinceydinc otherwise. | |
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JudasSmile said: This may sound like a dumb question, but was the critic/poet Dorothy Parker the inspiration for The Ballad of Dorothy Parker?
She wasn't "dishwater blonde", and I don't know if Prince had heard of her. She was quite a witty writer: "You know, that woman speaks 18 languages, and she can't say "no" in any of them." "His body has gone to his head." Her epitaph:"Excuse my dust." Literature lesson over! :FranicsL"dontikeeptheheatonslap":  | |
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the song is a metaphor for a relationship he was in. i don't beleive for a second that prince didn't know who dorothy parker was. the song is obviously written by someone who knew her position at the algonquin round table and her relationship to the men in the 'club'. the woman in the song wants a relationship with prince but, instead, all she gets are the troubles on his mind. his heart belongs to the woman he was fighting with. this can be said of dorothy and the men in her life as well. | |
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Christopher said: JudasSmile said: This may sound like a dumb question, but was the critic/poet Dorothy Parker the inspiration for The Ballad of Dorothy Parker?
She wasn't "dishwater blonde", and I don't know if Prince had heard of her. She was quite a witty writer: "You know, that woman speaks 18 languages, and she can't say "no" in any of them." "His body has gone to his head." Her epitaph:"Excuse my dust." Literature lesson over! :FranicsL"dontikeeptheheatonslap": LOL 
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r1ghteousone said: LOL
:Prince"i'mgonnajoinmorris'groupslap": lol... :Princedadshesheardyouslap!: | |
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Christopher said: r1ghteousone said: LOL
:Prince"i'mgonnajoinmorris'groupslap": lol... :Princedadshesheardyouslap!: 
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There's some good info on the inspiration behind this song in DMSR...I think he saw Susannah or someone with a copy of a DP reader or somesuch, and that registered in a dream he had, and of course it wound up in a song that he said was inspired by the dream, but was most likely another loose analogy of his relationship with the Melvoin twin. | |
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DaFunkFreak said: Source: DMSR by Per Nilsen. A must have book IMHO!!! "The voter is less important than the man who provides money to the candidate," - Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
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rudedog said: DaFunkFreak said: Source: DMSR by Per Nilsen. A must have book IMHO!!!  love is god, god is love, girls and boys love god above | |
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