Around the time of its release, Prince held bashes at his Los Angeles home, where his celebrity friends would dance until dawn to his band. Prince’s 31st studio album - released on Maearned this numeric title and a song of the same name. It was all very strange, and very Prince. His label, Warner Bros., sent out floppy disks to the press at the time in order to incorporate the symbol into their media coverage. While it was unpronounceable, he referred to it as “the Love Symbol,” and it was a combination of the traditional male and female symbols. Prince adopted a symbol (right) as his name in the early 1990s. But I know love is the only way.”Īccording to Urban Dictionary, “The funky version of hallelujah.” That fits. “‘No!’ Is what Spooky Electric say,” Prince sings in the Lovesexy opener. Similarly, Spooky Electric is a surrogate for Prince’s dark side, a minion to the Devil who lures the wicked to the world of drugs and freaky one-night stands. None was more intriguing than Camille, who debuted on Sign o’ the Times in sexually charged songs like “Housequake” and “U Got the Look.” No gender is ever assigned the character - Camille is even sometimes referred to as “he” - but there’s no question that Camille, with her synthesized higher voice, exists to explore Prince’s feminine side. Prince developed several alter egos over the years. The gospel-inflected 1988 album reflected Prince’s newfound spirituality, love, joy and optimism, a feeling encapsulated by its title: Lovesexy. Prince’s 10th studio album, whose cover depicts him perching naked on a bed of giant orchids, was a direct artistic response to his previous effort, The Black Album, which was withdrawn at the last minute after being deemed too dark. She is depicted in the “U Got the Look” music video as a jealous she-devil who snatches Prince away from Sheena Easton.Ī term coined for Prince’s never-released (but much-bootlegged) The Black Album, it’s meant to conjure a heightened state of funky-lusty consciousness, likely achieved through the imbibing of … squirrel blood? That’s how the lyrics go, at least: “The blood is real good if u drink it real fast.” Shockadelica is a mythical female witch figure who appears in Sign o’ the Times, embodied onstage by onetime Prince protege Cat. “D.M.S.R.” encourages the world to party it up before the bombs rain down. The title of the fifth song off his his 1982 album 1999 stands for the holy quartet of “Dance, Music, Sex, Romance.” The song’s place in the apocalyptic concept album, which played on Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation, is to lighten things up a little.
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