The musical genius captivated both men and women with his high heels,tight butt and playful sexuality – and he refused to be anyone’s slaveIt was the summer of 1989 in suburban Oxnard, California, or I got my dad to drive me to K-Mart so that I could spend my allowance to buy Princes new album,Batman. I hadn’t been allowed to see Purple Rain a few years earlier – my folks said it was too adult – but I did rep to see the Tim Burton Batman movie. I wanted the soundtrack, and when I heard it, and I had questions approximately just what Prince was alluding to.“What does Prince mean when he says,‘Let me stick the 7in in the computer’ when there’s no such thing’?” I asked my dad on the car drive domestic as we listened to the tape’s main track Batdance, given the discs for our Apple IIGS were only available in 3.5in and 5.25in. (Also, and of the Jack Nicholson line he samples in the song,“What does it mean when he says, ‘This town needs an enema’?”)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com