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Thread started 06/23/04 12:32pm

meltwithu

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Question about Erotic City...

is Sheila saying "fuck" or "funk" until the dawn, making love til cherry's gone?
if it's funk, why do they always do that backspin thing on the word when it's played on the radio?
just wondering...
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Reply #1 posted 06/23/04 12:36pm

TheFrog

fuck

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Reply #2 posted 06/23/04 12:42pm

meltwithu

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TheFrog said:

fuck

nod


hmm..i thought so..but what does Prince... say fuck or funk...it sounds like he says funk and they never backspin his part..but why would one person say funk and the other say fuck?
just wondering...
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Reply #3 posted 06/23/04 12:54pm

LovesexyIsThe1

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According to what I've heard, Sheila is say funk and prince is saing fuck.

Some stations let it go claiming the word is "funk," while others don't. The station I hear it on mutes out the word entirely.
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Reply #4 posted 06/23/04 12:57pm

thekidsgirl

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Alicia Keys said it was funk?
I'll stick with her
If you will, so will I
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Reply #5 posted 06/23/04 1:04pm

TheFrog

meltwithu said:

TheFrog said:

fuck

nod


hmm..i thought so..but what does Prince... say fuck or funk...it sounds like he says funk and they never backspin his part..but why would one person say funk and the other say fuck?
just wondering...

i'm not sure who posted it, but i remember seeing on these boards a quote from an interview with Sheila E, i think, where she remembered balking at the fact she had to say fuck.

something like that. i'm sure boris or lange will put us straight. smile
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Reply #6 posted 06/23/04 1:08pm

queenbitch

It's Fuck, but the radio version sounds like Funk!?


"Sex is not all I think about... It's just all I think about u!"
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Reply #7 posted 06/23/04 1:16pm

otan

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Are you people insane?

This is from the guy who recorded, "I Sincerely Want To Fuck the Taste Out Of Your Mouth"

Hell YES he is saying Fuck. And so is Sheila E.
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Reply #8 posted 06/23/04 1:29pm

LovesexyIsThe1

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TheFrog said:

i'm not sure who posted it, but i remember seeing on these boards a quote from an interview with Sheila E, i think, where she remembered balking at the fact she had to say fuck.

I remember that quote as well, and right after it she said she used the word funk instead.
Lovesexy Funkateer
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Reply #9 posted 06/23/04 1:34pm

BorisFishpaw

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It's "Fuck" (Prince and Sheila both say it)
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Reply #10 posted 06/23/04 1:43pm

Spookymuffin

BorisFishpaw said:

It's "Fuck" (Prince and Sheila both say it)


Yes, otherwise it makes no sense:

We can fuck it till the dawn, making love to Cherry's gong (that'd be her pussy)

insert funk and it's goobledygook.
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Reply #11 posted 06/23/04 1:47pm

meltwithu

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Spookymuffin said:

BorisFishpaw said:

It's "Fuck" (Prince and Sheila both say it)


Yes, otherwise it makes no sense:

We can fuck it till the dawn, making love to Cherry's gong (that'd be her pussy)

insert funk and it's goobledygook.


this from a man who wrote a song about starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam..hmmm



BUT at the RRHOF induction, didn't Big Boi say something like "I don't care what anybody say, I think he said the F word?"...meaning the right response was funk?
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Reply #12 posted 06/23/04 2:08pm

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It's fuck! end of discussion. The UK 12" of Let's Go Crazy has a sticker on it warning listeners that Erotic City has sexually explicit lyrics.
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Reply #13 posted 06/23/04 2:10pm

Moonwalkbjrain

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they're sayin both funk and fuck..listen 2 it again u'll c.
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Reply #14 posted 06/23/04 2:17pm

Lovesexy2

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BorisFishpaw said:

It's "Fuck" (Prince and Sheila both say it)


It has to be FUCK! Besides that has a nice ring to it. boff
U want me to swivel in your love seat, don't
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Reply #15 posted 06/23/04 2:18pm

PurpleCharm

Moonwalkbjrain said:

they're sayin both funk and fuck..listen 2 it again u'll c.

nod
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Reply #16 posted 06/23/04 2:26pm

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Spookymuffin said:

BorisFishpaw said:

It's "Fuck" (Prince and Sheila both say it)


Yes, otherwise it makes no sense:

We can fuck it till the dawn, making love to Cherry's gong (that'd be her pussy)

insert funk and it's goobledygook.


That's got to be one of the weirder interpretations of the lyrics that I've heard.
Cherry's gong?

And remember there is a song that goes "let's just go somewhere we can funk," so i do think funk makes sense. Funk is a versatile word, much like fuck is.

Not that I know what he says in erotic city. Sounds like either word to me.
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Reply #17 posted 06/23/04 2:29pm

Anxiety

Spookymuffin said:

BorisFishpaw said:

It's "Fuck" (Prince and Sheila both say it)


Yes, otherwise it makes no sense:

We can fuck it till the dawn, making love to Cherry's gong (that'd be her pussy)

insert funk and it's goobledygook.


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Reply #18 posted 06/23/04 2:31pm

madartista

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then there is also the debate of:

fuck so pretty u and me v. thoughts of pretty u and me.

might as well cover it all at once.
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Reply #19 posted 06/23/04 2:39pm

meltwithu

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madartista said:

then there is also the debate of:

fuck so pretty u and me v. thoughts of pretty u and me.

might as well cover it all at once.


i always thought it was fuck so pretty..never heard it any other way...of course i thought he was talking bout giant spiders in "7", so what the hell do i know? cool
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Reply #20 posted 06/23/04 2:51pm

madartista

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meltwithu said:

madartista said:

then there is also the debate of:

fuck so pretty u and me v. thoughts of pretty u and me.

might as well cover it all at once.


i always thought it was fuck so pretty..never heard it any other way...of course i thought he was talking bout giant spiders in "7", so what the hell do i know? cool


lol
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Reply #21 posted 06/23/04 3:11pm

LovesexyIsThe1

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Spookymuffin said:

BorisFishpaw said:

It's "Fuck" (Prince and Sheila both say it)


Yes, otherwise it makes no sense:

We can fuck it till the dawn, making love to Cherry's gong (that'd be her pussy)

It's: making love 'til Cherry's gone.

I just listened to it and my stance is the same. Sheila says funk, Prince says fuck.
Lovesexy Funkateer
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Reply #22 posted 06/23/04 4:08pm

mrdespues

You've heard this on the radio?!

eek

Lucky you.
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Reply #23 posted 06/23/04 4:12pm

Goldilocks88

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I've heard that song like hundreds of times and it always sounds like fuck to me
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Reply #24 posted 06/23/04 4:16pm

chinua

FUNK FUNK FUNK!!!!!
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Reply #25 posted 06/23/04 4:20pm

AsianBomb777

Yall ain't listening to it good enough.

IT's : We can CRUNK until the Dong.

And : Hunk's er so pretty, but U and me,
Our ugly faces need a aliby,
We can CRUNK until the Dong.
Makin Love with our Mauhaung


Go listen to it again.
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Reply #26 posted 06/23/04 4:22pm

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AsianBomb777 said:

Yall ain't listening to it good enough.

IT's : We can CRUNK until the Dong.

And : Hunk's er so pretty, but U and me,
Our ugly faces need a aliby,
We can CRUNK until the Dong.
Makin Love with our Mauhaung


Go listen to it again.

lol
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Reply #27 posted 06/23/04 5:58pm

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AsianBomb777 said:

Yall ain't listening to it good enough.

IT's : We can CRUNK until the Dong.

And : Hunk's er so pretty, but U and me,
Our ugly faces need a aliby,
We can CRUNK until the Dong.
Makin Love with our Mauhaung


Go listen to it again.



lol
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Reply #28 posted 06/23/04 6:01pm

Handclapsfinga
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why did i have the feelin that this thread was about the "fuck/funk" bit before i even clicked on it? i'm better-rer than miss cleo or the great kreskin.
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Reply #29 posted 06/23/04 6:04pm

BlueAgave

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It's not "duck"?
All 7 and we'll watch them fall.
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