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Thread started 04/08/04 10:48am

tritoncin

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social or political issues in P's songs

Many people here have stated that Prince don't like/care/write...etc about these issues. I think it's important for any serious musician to get "political" sometime. You can't continue being light or merely spiritual.
Janet dis her part with "NEW AGENDA", but what about Prince?

What song(s) do you think (if any) show this side in Prince?

I think RACE (and I love this Jam) goes around a topic but finally you know that he doesn't take any stand...
Any other?

PEACE
"America is a continent..."
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Reply #1 posted 04/08/04 11:16am

HiinEnkelte

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'Race' is a radical take on HISTORY in the same way that Nietzsche's essay "On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life" was.

Prince goes for the jugular on the abuses of monumental history and antiquarian history,
interrogating their ability to provide any health or benefit for life today.

it's political as all hell.
just like avalanche, and 1+1+1=3

what about 'sexuality?'

do you think he needs to discuss specific governemtal policies to be political?

cuz like elephants and flowers, the cross, i will, play in the sunshine,
there ain't nothing more political (or should i say revolutionary?) than the spiritual.
Welcome to the New World Odor and
the Mythmaking Moonbattery of Obamanation.

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