Prince - 1999 (iTunes Version)
Almost from the start, Prince’s rock credentials were as strong as his funk ones. But it wasn’t until 1999, his fifth album, that the real commercial crossover began. The masterfully building “Little Red Corvette,” with its New Wave beat and hard-rock guitar solo, was the track that did it. Elsewhere, Prince mixed and matched as he pleased. “D.M.S.R.” (“Dance, music, sex, romance”) is a club banger that brings together a repetitive synth vamp and a classic soul guitar riff. “Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)” is one of his many experiments in minimalism. The back-to-back “Free” and “Lady Cab Driver” are a dizzying display of shifting moods; the former is as content as can be, while the latter is one of Prince’s most existentially angry moments. Finally, “International Lover” signals that the artist isn’t afraid to lampoon either himself or R&B’s love-man conventions. “Screw the masses,” he declares on “D.M.S.R.,” but he was moving ever closer to them while doing it all his way.
Genres: R&B/Soul, Music
Released: 01.01.1984
℗ 1984 Warner Bros. Records
Tracklist:
01 1999
02 Little Red Corvette
03 Delirious
04 Let's Pretend We're Married
05 D.M.S.R.
06 Automatic
07 Something In the Water (Does Not Compute)
08 Free
09 Lady Cab Driver
10 All the Critics Love U In New York
11 International Lover
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