Whenever I hear the song, and I think about the time in which it was released, 1996, I wonder whether Delores represents Warner Brothers. She's insatiable, always wants more to "eat," and is impossible to please, despite Prince's best efforts (food, dirty movies, etc.). Prince as host constantly tries to "change the subject" . . . could that mean he was trying to take his music in new directions and they weren't having it?

These are random thoughts. Chime in.

Methinks you think too much...

Wasn't there some woman at the time who was in the news trying to censor music, whose name was Delores? I know P is pro-PMRC sticker warning, but I seem to remember this woman was just out to lunch, and I figured it was kind of a goof on her rampage.

Nyabinghi said:

Better than thinking too little, right, my fellow P/R junkie . . .

Anxiety said:

Delores Tucker, who (IMO, could be wrong) parlayed her grandstanding into some board positions, and (in my opinion, could be wrong) later tried to shake down Tupac Shakur and other hip-hop artists (contribute to my organization or I will keep squawking).

Anxiety and namepeace deserve some obligatory head for dropping the knowledge, yo.

Ya lost me at "allegory".

I heard it was about Madonna. Dunno if it's true, though. Supposedly, Prince was mad at her at the time for not helping him out against WB. Also, when the video initially aired during one of his TV-specials on, I think, VH1, he was laughing at one of her videos immediately before playing Dinner With Delores. Or something. I think.
[This message was edited Fri Mar 26 6:14:13 2004 by scififilmnerd]

squirrelgrease said:

I can't tell y'all nothin'. Durn. Can a bredren try to share his thoughts every once in a while?

Where's the love????

theblueangel said:

Well, see? There ya go! Vindication!

namepeace said:

I feel you Nampeace. Never thought about it that way, but I see where you're getting it. I always took it as a ficticious little story about a girl that was hard to please. Maybe I wasn't really "listenin'" But he was also talking about her personality too. How "nothin's left for guessin'", and "no one could be more made up than you". A greedy, superficial whore. Sounds like a hawt date!!
I dig the tune regardless.

namepeace said:

I agree with your post wholeheartedly. I've always thought this song was about Warner Bros. It makes sense, especially when you consider that was the only track he really played from the album on various TV shows. It was somewhat a slap in the face to them. There are many references to Warner, the reference about her bell being broken since 1984, and the line about "introduce the carpet to some other than your knees" which sounds like they will do any thing for money. I never thought this song was about any woman,, it always seemed to be about Warners.