Pulled from a random, non-Prince specific website:

The strangest things occur to you as you're walking to work. This morning, I was thinking about the lyrics to Prince's "U Got the Look", and realised what they reminded me of: Shakespeare's sonnets! This bit in particular:

Look here
U got the look
U must'a took
A whole hour just 2 make up your face, baby
Closin' time, ugly lights, everybody's inspected
But U are a natural beauty unaffected
Did I say an hour?
My face is red, I stand corrected

Ambivalence caused by a clash of aesthetic paradigms! Artifice vs nature! Is that, or is it not, Elizabethan as fuck?

and a response to that was this:

Cheers Scott!

Actually the more I think about it the more brilliant this lyric appears to me. Look at the way the "face" imagery carries through to the closing couplet, and not only that but the natural/artificial antithesis is also echoed there: the singer's face is red because he is blushing, ie an effect often achieved artificially occurs naturally. Genius!

(Matos, if you're reading this, feel free to quote me in your book on Sign O' the Times! Probably too late though…)

Ooooh, thanks for sharing!!! I fucking love it, being the bookworm that I am. Prince used to write some damn amazing lyrics, didn't he?