So Prince has been popping up in my life lately, on my radio, in my playlists, over intercoms in stores, just about everywhere I need him to be. A few Jehovah's Witness came by the house last weekend and I almost expected him to pop by with some pamphlets. Prince is The Artist I Most Admire for his musical talent (vocally, song writing, lyric writing, as an instrumentalist, as a showman) but what gives him that extra extra in my mind is his unabashed idiosyncrasy. His courage to make up noises we have never heard and record them and play them for all of us. I know he is not being brave -- he is just doing what he does. Doing what he can't not do.
So in the spirit of Crybreak, here is a video of my favorite Prince song, If I Was Your Girlfriend. The recording off of Sign O' The Times has so many yodeling, grinding, crying sounds that are so literal you wonder if he needs a tourniquet -- but he has a really good I-Want-You-Baby-In-The-Worst-Way cry in this version as well, and hell, I can't resist the furry white coat and black monotard.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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