{"id":6217,"date":"2010-04-14T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2010-04-14T09:08:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T13:08:50","slug":"prince-week-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/6217","title":{"rendered":"Prince Week: Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another cover, this time of “Thieves in the Temple”<\/p>\n

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Again, for Jim <\/a>& Jeri<\/a>, Prince isn’t singing, so you shouldn’t mind listening.<\/p>\n

In contrast to yesterday’s post about sex, the other thing Prince is known for is songs about G-d. <\/p>\n

Probably the biggest juxtaposition of sex and G-d comes on the album Around the World in a Day<\/em>. Temptation goes from an almost graphic description of sexual temptation, to someone (presumably G-d of the Torah) putting the smack-down on Prince, and after lots of tortured screaming (which I admittedly do NOT like) ends thus:<\/p>\n

\nI’m sorry
\nI’ll be good
\nThis time I promise
\nLove is more important than sex
\nNow I understand
\nI have 2 go now
\nI don’t know when I’ll return
\nGoodbye <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Way too Old Testament and Leviticus for me.<\/p>\n

The other song on that album dealing with the issue of G-d is The Ladder. <\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s looking 4 that ladder
\nEverybody wants salvation of the soul
\nThe steps U take are no easy road
\nBut the reward is great
\n4 those who want 2 go<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is done as a parable, and I’m not sure it’s the most coherent of his songs, but it’s very singable and one I enjoy listening to.<\/p>\n

The one song I don’t particularly like and almost always skip is The Cross<\/em> on Sign O’ the Times<\/em>. I know some people who like it, but the lyrics are entirely too heavy-handed for my tastes.<\/p>\n

The last song I want to mention however, is one of my favorites, and one I think that gets the tone just right.<\/p>\n

I’m not a woman
\nI’m not a man
\nI am something that you’ll never understand<\/p>\n

I’ll never beat u
\nI’ll never lie
\nAnd if you’re evil I’ll forgive u by and by<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, it’s got the best beat of any song on the album, and Purple Rain<\/em> has a lot of strong songs.<\/p>\n

Second, although it’s implicitly about G-d, it’s not explicitly about Christianity they way the song The Cross<\/em> is. More importantly, the song is about living what is important. Unlike the lecturing tone of Temptation<\/em> and The Cross<\/em>, this is saying that G-d is love. That G-d is forgiveness.<\/p>\n

Plus, like I said, it’s got a fabulous beat.<\/p>\n

Today, Eric is talking about Prince’s musical talents, specifically his skill on the guitar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another cover, this time of “Thieves in the Temple” Again, for Jim & Jeri, Prince isn’t singing, so you shouldn’t mind listening. In contrast to yesterday’s post about sex, the other thing Prince is known for is songs about G-d. Probably the biggest juxtaposition of sex and G-d comes on the album Around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[288,24],"tags":[978,982],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-ucf","tag-prince-week","tag-thieves-in-the-temple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-1Ch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}