Prince: 3121
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Prince
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "It's a friendly, happy, concise album, clocking in under 54 minutes and just about always putting the funk in the foreground. But within the grooves, Prince enjoys some sly musical games. It's not what he says, but what he plays, that gives the songs their snap. … Working alone in the studio, Prince becomes the opposite of his onstage self. Instead of working in real time with live instruments, he goes for a dizzying mix of the handmade and the surreal. … [T]he murky P-Funk vamp of the song '3121' carries dissonant distorted guitars and voices that have been sped up and slowed down. … He's still a seducer, but one with boundaries. In 'Lolita,' he's tempted by a young girl, yet insists, 'you'll never make a cheater out of me"; then he starts a call and response, asking, 'What you wanna do?' She responds, teasingly, 'Whatever you want,' but when he says, 'Then come on, let's dance,' she says, with disdain and disbelief, 'Dance?' Still, Prince understands what made him a star, and he's not giving it up. 'I'm hot and I don't care who knows it,' he declares … then immediately gets pragmatic: 'I got a job to do.'"
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "It's a friendly, happy, concise album, clocking in under 54 minutes and just about always putting the funk in the foreground. But within the grooves, Prince enjoys some sly musical games. It's not what he says, but what he plays, that gives the songs their snap. … Working alone in the studio, Prince becomes the opposite of his onstage self. Instead of working in real time with live instruments, he goes for a dizzying mix of the handmade and the surreal. … [T]he murky P-Funk vamp of the song '3121' carries dissonant distorted guitars and voices that have been sped up and slowed down. … He's still a seducer, but one with boundaries. In 'Lolita,' he's tempted by a young girl, yet insists, 'you'll never make a cheater out of me"; then he starts a call and response, asking, 'What you wanna do?' She responds, teasingly, 'Whatever you want,' but when he says, 'Then come on, let's dance,' she says, with disdain and disbelief, 'Dance?' Still, Prince understands what made him a star, and he's not giving it up. 'I'm hot and I don't care who knows it,' he declares … then immediately gets pragmatic: 'I got a job to do.'"
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