r/PRINCE

This is probably unpopular but I think 'Take Me With U' shouldn't have ended up on Purple Rain. It should have ended up on Apollonia 6.

He would famously spell "you" as "u". But it wasn't just for shortening, as he spelt "I" as "eye". So what was the reasoning behind it?

i just heard the song, now i'm a new prince fan so i don't know a lot of his songs except a few i heard when i was like 6 in my dad's car but yeah i have a huge hyperfixation now and i added his whole discography, y'all know the drill, and i just heard ''something in the water'' and the god damn instrumental keeps reminding me of something, and also, i'm french so idk if it's ''chair de poule'' (which is a horror boon series and i'm pretty sure also a series maybe on yt or smg, idk if there's an equivalent in english either and i'm legit too lazy to search right now) but it's clawing at my brain, i'm going crazy trying to find what this instrumental reminds me off of help

Edit: don't mind me writing ''something in the water they drink'' instead of ''something in the water'' i was tired okay, it was 2 am when i wrote this and i was listening to joy of repetition while trying to remember the song in my head, it didn't go well as you can see 😭

Don't get me wrong, there's a couple of OK songs on this album, but anyone else having a hard time getting into this?

Does anyone know how the tickets were sold? Ticket master? At the venues?

Just curious why certain albums get the deluxe treatment before others…

Anniversaries make sense, sales too (most popular albums get love first)

I’m just hungry for remastered deluxe editions of the first two albums!

I tend to get curious about the singers I listen to when it comes to the meaning behind their songs and what their personal life was like however I choose to place that boundary and not overstep my knowledge of that person's life bc it straight up feels like an invasion of privacy so I don't believe anything unless they themselves have said smth in an interview, I think it helps form a respect for that artist rather than smth parasocial which is what I see a lot of people have nowadays. I really wanted to discuss this with others but I admire prince in the way that he kept his life private. It seems like he always thought ahead, it's a reason why I don't think there will be a biopic on him, I feel like he made an autobiography (kinda) of his life already so that his story wouldn't be manipulated after his death. he knew how much to say for his own defense but didn't make himself a target. It kind of helped him balance fame and privacy although we learn that he was quite alone a lot. I think the boundaries he had limited his access to the world but I think it very much prevented the quantity of scrutiny he could have faced as a result of trying to be more involved. That sort of professionality I genuinely look up to. what do u guys think

I'm speechless that's all i can say

For me that song is Raspberry Beret.

It’s not even my favourite song of his, yet it’s so simple, so catchy, so timeless.