NaPriLiMo Report

unseasonable clothing

I am noticing a trend in Prince songs wherein the female described wears clothes unseasonable for the weather.  I think I’ve heard three or four songs where he mentions this.  Of course Raspberry Beret is the most obvious—when it was warm she would basically only wear a beret?  Huh?

The Glamorous Life begins with a description of the main character, “who wears a long fur coat of mink even in the summertime.”

Sure, fashion is a big thing for Prince, but at this point, he’s reminding me more of the Ramones.  What’s so attractive about unseasonable clothing?

prince & the women

Though a lot of Prince songs celebrate slutiness and wanton sex between strangers (Darling Nikki, Cream, Gett Off) they seem to only celebrate Prince’s slutiness.  There’s also another group of songs I am noticing which are all about how slutty ladies really just want to settle down.

The Little Red Corvette is told by Prince to slow down. She’s much too fast!  She’s going to run her body right to the ground.  The girl in The Glamorous Life seems like she has an awesome slutty life where she has sex with rich, high powered men, but Prince thinks she really wants to be in love with a man.  And to be fair, the only reason she seems to be in love with this man in the song is because of the number of times he made her orgasm.  While I can think of a whole host of reasons that are worse to date someone, that’s still not a reason most people would equate with love.  What gives Prince?

Prince is obviously really into serial monogamy, or at least commitment, which I respect, but it’s irritating that so many of his songs about having fast sexy times are only for men.  Darling Nikki escapes this, but I think Darling Nikki is Satan, so probably not a great counterexample.  The women who Prince seems to hold as good examples are married women, or Pussy Control.  He loves Pussy Control because she won’t put out and she gets Master’s Degrees.

It’s painful to me that Prince has no concept of successful slutty women (as he seems surrounded by them), only slutty ladies who sleep their way into money.  Not cool Prince.  Some of us have a Master’s Degree & our own money, thankyouverymuch.