I
have loved Prince for so many years, but I have started paying
attention to what he says only recently. Maybe I spent those decades
distracted by his Purple Rain-era pompa-curl (Jheri curl/pompadour hybrid, i.e., the Morris-Soul Glo, if Morrissey used Soul Glo), or his phallic shadow puppet show at the Super Bowl,
or how witnessing Jehovah came into the picture. Either way, when I
started paying attention to his lyrics, they didn’t just sound bananas,
but strangely familiar. Was Prince the precursor to TV’s Dowager
Countess? Is the real Crowley estate actually paisley and a park? Were Prince’s lyrics actually lines from Downton Abbey? You be the judge.
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