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Oct 6, 2015 · The original song wasn’t merely about a love triangle but an ambiguously bisexual one, the interpretation of which focuses on the line, “When he was there sleeping in between the two...
- Michaelangelo Matos
Sep 20, 2021 · According to legend, the greatest New Wave song ever written about a bisexual love triangle came to Prince at a Florida hotel room after he’d declined a band Disney World excursion. Or,...
Jun 7, 2016 · There is of course some irony to this claim about Prince's queer legacy; Prince was actually a staunch Jehovah's Witness and did not endorse same-sex marriage.
Apr 22, 2016 · Prince’s ’80s evasion of conventional gender definitions speaks to us now in this trans-aware moment. But it also harks backwards in time to the origins of rock’n’roll in racial mixture ...
- Simon Reynolds
Sep 2, 2016 · But in this song, perhaps mirroring the upside-down geography of Prince’s own Minneapolis, uptown is where liberation and sexual license occur. In “Uptown,” when the woman asks “are you gay,” it’s accusatory. But trapped in her shortsightedness, she becomes the “victim.”.
Apr 21, 2020 · After becoming a Jehovah’s Witness around the turn of the millennium, he dropped songs he deemed too sexualised from his repertoire and even stopped swearing. Many found his new-found faith at odds with his inclusive image – the Jehovah’s Witness faith considers same-sex relations a sin.
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Apr 21, 2021 · According to legend, the greatest New Wave song ever written about a bisexual love triangle came to Prince at a Florida hotel room after he’d declined a band Disney World excursion. Or,...
