Five albums deep, Prince finally found the throbbing arrangements that properly correlate with his sex drive in the form of indefatigable drum machine malleation -- rigid repetitions are gleefully prolonged and teased out and before U know it exorbitant sagas are suddenly borne from mechanized mania-pop, squeak-toy/cheeky-synth melodies and corybantic funk keep the party alive and weird, an acronymic title is unveiled as a cardinal Prince motto while the non-acronymic title that follows gets hypnotically half-spelled out. And given the pairing of our character at hand with more than ever room to get down and let loose, it's inevitable that ambition and whimsicality reach new heights: car-n-horse-metaphor-laden night-cruise cock-rock, ad-libs only a chosen few could get away with ("I'm not saying this just to be nasty / I sincerely wanna fuck the taste out of your mouth"), girls weeping beneath wailing guitar solos, a goddamn freedom ballad, finale-promulgation of his very own come-hither aircraft ("The Seduction 747") with sly double-entendres aplenty slithering out the cockpit ("This plane is fully equipped with anything your body desires", "We are now making our final approach to satisfaction"). And really, what better way to vent political+personal frustrations than some aggressive mattress-squeaker fuck-thrusts?
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