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The Time were a pop-funk-rock ensemble that relied heavily on RuleOfFunny and [[EpicRocking very long jams]]. They were largely defined by frontman [[FaceOfTheBand Morris Day's]] hilarious lyrics and ChivalrousPervert-HandsomeLech persona, with Jerome Benton serving as his {{Foil}}. This dynamic was observed through their appearance in ''Film/PurpleRain'' as Prince's rival band, and Day's humorous persona lead to many even commenting that he upstaged Prince's acting (not much of a compliment, admittedly... [[DullSurprise Prince's acting]] makes Creator/KeanuReeves look like Creator/WilliamShatner).
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The Time were a pop-funk-rock ensemble that relied heavily on RuleOfFunny and [[EpicRocking very long jams]]. They were largely defined by frontman [[FaceOfTheBand Morris Day's]] Day's hilarious lyrics and ChivalrousPervert-HandsomeLech persona, with Jerome Benton serving as his {{Foil}}. This dynamic was observed through their appearance in ''Film/PurpleRain'' as Prince's rival band, and Day's humorous persona lead to many even commenting that he upstaged Prince's acting (not much of a compliment, admittedly... [[DullSurprise Prince's acting]] makes Creator/KeanuReeves look like Creator/WilliamShatner).
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Prince is a fan of Music/KateBush, and met her during the 1990 ''Nude Tour'', discussing a collaboration. Bush sent him the song "Why Should I Love You?", asking for backing vocals. When she received it back, Prince had not only sung but also added his own sizeable instrumental overdubs. This baffled Bush and her engineer Del Palmer, who then spent two years working on and off on it to try and "turn it back into a Kate Bush song". It eventually came out on 1993's ''The Red Shoes''.[[note]]The final version also features backing vocals from Bush's friend Creator/LennyHenry, a comedian known for his good Prince impersonation, as well as the obligatory Trio Bulgarka cameo.[[/note]]
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Prince is a fan of Music/KateBush, and met her during the 1990 ''Nude Tour'', discussing a collaboration. Bush sent him the song "Why Should I Love You?", asking for backing vocals. When she received it back, Prince had not only sung but also added his own sizeable instrumental overdubs. This baffled Bush and her engineer Del Palmer, who then spent two years working on and off on it to try and "turn it back into a Kate Bush song". It eventually came out on 1993's ''The ''Music/{{The Red Shoes''.Shoes|Album}}''.[[note]]The final version also features backing vocals from Bush's friend Creator/LennyHenry, a comedian known for his good Prince impersonation, as well as the obligatory Trio Bulgarka cameo.[[/note]]
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->''"I'm a sex shooter, shooting love in your direction.''\\
''I'm a sex shooter, come and play with my affection."''
-->--'''Apollonia 6''', "Sex Shooter"
[[TheBandMinusTheFace Vanity 6 except with Apollonia instead of Vanity]].
Really, that's pretty much it. After Vanity resigned from the band in 1983, Prince found actress Patricia Kotero after a frantic casting call. Re-christened "Apollonia", she was installed as the new frontwoman and the band was very appropriately renamed "Apollonia 6".
''I'm a sex shooter, come and play with my affection."''
-->--'''Apollonia 6''', "Sex Shooter"
[[TheBandMinusTheFace Vanity 6 except with Apollonia instead of Vanity]].
Really, that's pretty much it. After Vanity resigned from the band in 1983, Prince found actress Patricia Kotero after a frantic casting call. Re-christened "Apollonia", she was installed as the new frontwoman and the band was very appropriately renamed "Apollonia 6".
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''I'm a sex shooter, come and play with my affection."''
-->--'''Apollonia 6''', "Sex Shooter"
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!!Apollonia 6 provides examples of:
* GirlGroup
* GratuitousSpanish: Since Apollonia could speak it fluently, Prince used it to full effect on "In a Spanish Villa".
* HotForStudent: "Happy Birthday Mr. Christian".
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Brenda fires one off at the end of "Some Kind of Lover". She's whispers, "I'm embarrassed", directly afterward.
* IntercourseWithYou + BawdySong: 85% of their catalogue, easily.
* [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]
* PissTakeRap: "Ooh She She Wa Wa". Actually, ''Apollonia 6'' is pretty much a Piss Take ''Album''.
* SelfTitledAlbum
* SpokenWordInMusic: [[GratuitousSpanish "In a Spanish Villa"]]. Apollonia makes out with a man named Oliver [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in a Spanish villa]] for the duration of the song.
** "Ooh She She Wa Wa" opens with a lengthy spoken word section. "Some Kind of Lover" also includes some as well.
* StageNames: Apollonia.
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* Music/SheilaE (overlaps with "sporadic contributions")
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!!Sheila E. (overlaps with "sporadic contributions")
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[[caption-width-right:200:Raise your hand if you're an awesome drummer.]]
->''"She wants to lead the glamorous life''\\
''Without love, it ain't much."''
-->--'''Sheila E.''', "The Glamorous Life"
Drumming [[ItRunsInTheFamily runs pretty big]] in Sheila Escovedo's family: her father Pete is a famous percussionist, her uncle Alejandro drummed for various punk bands before starting a solo career, her other uncle Coke played with Santana, her other ''other'' uncle Javier founded the seminal punk band The Zeros, and Tito Puente was her godfather.
It's little surprise then that Sheila took up drumming and quickly became really good at it, playing with such luminaries as George Duke, Music/MarvinGaye, Alphonso Johnson, Music/HerbieHancock and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lionel Richie]] before her early twenties.
Prince first met Sheila when attending a concert where she was playing with her dad. He quickly brought her into her entourage, where she contributed drums and percussion in the studio and provided vocals to "Let's Go Crazy"'s famous B-side, "Erotic City" (and some other vocals here and there, like the "transmississippirap" on "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night"). She secured herself the position of drummer for Prince after The Revolution disbanded, but left Prince in 1989 due to a collapsed lung. This split has notably been free of the ''really'' bad blood that other splits engendered, and the two have collaborated occasionally for many years afterwards.
While Sheila did attract attention for her vocals on "Erotic City", she quickly proved she was not another Vanity: while Prince did produce her first two solo albums, she got some co-writing credits and added her drumming all over the place. Most notably, Sheila at first broke from the very explicit "personas" that had been assumed by Prince's previous {{Girl Group}}s: her lyrics were decidedly PG-rated, dealing with love (not IntercourseWithYou, at least not yet) and sung in a pleasant, girl-next-door voice. In fact, many of the funk-pop songs existed solely for the sake of lots and lots of percussion solos. Nobody seemed to mind though. These two albums, ''The Glamorous Life'' and ''Romance 1600'', were well-received and spawned two ''[[EpicRocking really long]]'' hits, the super-catchy ditty about how materialism's, like, superficial, man, "The Glamorous Life" (9 minutes) and a duet with Prince entitled "A Love Bizarre" (12 minutes!). Sheila also starred AsHerself in ''Film/KrushGroove'' (1985), a [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory fictionalized retelling]] of the founding of Creator/DefJamRecordings, in which she performed "A Love Bizarre" and "Holly Rock." Prince was noticeably less involved with the self-titled ''Sheila E.'', letting David Z. produce the album and writing only a few songs.
Sheila's solo albums after leaving Prince's organization were {{New Sound Album}}s somewhat, introducing Latin and jazz influences into her upbeat pop-funk. She took a long break from her solo career after the horribly-titled ''Sex Cymbal'', presumably out of embarrassment that she put out an album titled ''Sex Cymbal''[[note]]we can't blame her for that[[/note]], and played with various other musicians (including being part of three versions of Music/RingoStarr's All-Starr Band). She also reunites with Prince every once in a while for live concerts and contributed to his album ''3121''.
Discography:
* ''The Glamorous Life'' (1984)
* ''Romance 1600'' (1985)
* ''Sheila E.'' (1987)
* ''Sex Cymbal'' (1991)
* ''Writes of Passage'' (2000)
* ''Heaven'' (2001)
!!Sheila E. provides examples of:
%% * EpicRocking: "The Glamorous Life", "Oliver's House", "A Love Bizarre".
* {{Foil}}: She played this role in Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band concerts, especially during the solos where Ringo would comically fail to keep up with her.
* PissTakeRap: Averted - her MotorMouth reading of Edward Lear's "The Table and the Chair" on "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night" is actually good. (The liner notes credit it as "transmississippirap" since Prince recorded her doing it over the phone from, well, the other side of the Mississippi River.)
* PunBasedTitle: ''Sex Cymbal'', so bad it hurts.
* SelfTitledAlbum: Interestingly, done for the third album.
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Toy Box". It sounds like a normal funk song at first, and then right at the end Sheila blind-sides you with a long, shouty rant that makes you wonder who spiked her coffee and with what.
* WordSaladLyrics: "Dear Michaelangelo", "Toy Box", "Romance 1600" and "Bedtime Story" have a special ability to make you scratch your head and go "huh?".
* WordSaladTitle: "Merci for the Speed of a [[MonsterClown Mad Clown]] in the Summer"... what?
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!!Sheila E. (overlaps with "sporadic contributions")
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[[caption-width-right:200:Raise your hand if you're an awesome drummer.]]
->''"She wants to lead the glamorous life''\\
''Without love, it ain't much."''
-->--'''Sheila E.''', "The Glamorous Life"
Drumming [[ItRunsInTheFamily runs pretty big]] in Sheila Escovedo's family: her father Pete is a famous percussionist, her uncle Alejandro drummed for various punk bands before starting a solo career, her other uncle Coke played with Santana, her other ''other'' uncle Javier founded the seminal punk band The Zeros, and Tito Puente was her godfather.
It's little surprise then that Sheila took up drumming and quickly became really good at it, playing with such luminaries as George Duke, Music/MarvinGaye, Alphonso Johnson, Music/HerbieHancock and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lionel Richie]] before her early twenties.
Prince first met Sheila when attending a concert where she was playing with her dad. He quickly brought her into her entourage, where she contributed drums and percussion in the studio and provided vocals to "Let's Go Crazy"'s famous B-side, "Erotic City" (and some other vocals here and there, like the "transmississippirap" on "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night"). She secured herself the position of drummer for Prince after The Revolution disbanded, but left Prince in 1989 due to a collapsed lung. This split has notably been free of the ''really'' bad blood that other splits engendered, and the two have collaborated occasionally for many years afterwards.
While Sheila did attract attention for her vocals on "Erotic City", she quickly proved she was not another Vanity: while Prince did produce her first two solo albums, she got some co-writing credits and added her drumming all over the place. Most notably, Sheila at first broke from the very explicit "personas" that had been assumed by Prince's previous {{Girl Group}}s: her lyrics were decidedly PG-rated, dealing with love (not IntercourseWithYou, at least not yet) and sung in a pleasant, girl-next-door voice. In fact, many of the funk-pop songs existed solely for the sake of lots and lots of percussion solos. Nobody seemed to mind though. These two albums, ''The Glamorous Life'' and ''Romance 1600'', were well-received and spawned two ''[[EpicRocking really long]]'' hits, the super-catchy ditty about how materialism's, like, superficial, man, "The Glamorous Life" (9 minutes) and a duet with Prince entitled "A Love Bizarre" (12 minutes!). Sheila also starred AsHerself in ''Film/KrushGroove'' (1985), a [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory fictionalized retelling]] of the founding of Creator/DefJamRecordings, in which she performed "A Love Bizarre" and "Holly Rock." Prince was noticeably less involved with the self-titled ''Sheila E.'', letting David Z. produce the album and writing only a few songs.
Sheila's solo albums after leaving Prince's organization were {{New Sound Album}}s somewhat, introducing Latin and jazz influences into her upbeat pop-funk. She took a long break from her solo career after the horribly-titled ''Sex Cymbal'', presumably out of embarrassment that she put out an album titled ''Sex Cymbal''[[note]]we can't blame her for that[[/note]], and played with various other musicians (including being part of three versions of Music/RingoStarr's All-Starr Band). She also reunites with Prince every once in a while for live concerts and contributed to his album ''3121''.
Discography:
* ''The Glamorous Life'' (1984)
* ''Romance 1600'' (1985)
* ''Sheila E.'' (1987)
* ''Sex Cymbal'' (1991)
* ''Writes of Passage'' (2000)
* ''Heaven'' (2001)
!!Sheila E. provides examples of:
%% * EpicRocking: "The Glamorous Life", "Oliver's House", "A Love Bizarre".
* {{Foil}}: She played this role in Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band concerts, especially during the solos where Ringo would comically fail to keep up with her.
* PissTakeRap: Averted - her MotorMouth reading of Edward Lear's "The Table and the Chair" on "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night" is actually good. (The liner notes credit it as "transmississippirap" since Prince recorded her doing it over the phone from, well, the other side of the Mississippi River.)
* PunBasedTitle: ''Sex Cymbal'', so bad it hurts.
* SelfTitledAlbum: Interestingly, done for the third album.
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Toy Box". It sounds like a normal funk song at first, and then right at the end Sheila blind-sides you with a long, shouty rant that makes you wonder who spiked her coffee and with what.
* WordSaladLyrics: "Dear Michaelangelo", "Toy Box", "Romance 1600" and "Bedtime Story" have a special ability to make you scratch your head and go "huh?".
* WordSaladTitle: "Merci for the Speed of a [[MonsterClown Mad Clown]] in the Summer"... what?
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[[caption-width-right:200:Raise your hand if you're an awesome drummer.]]
->''"She wants to lead the glamorous life''\\
''Without love, it ain't much."''
-->--'''Sheila E.''', "The Glamorous Life"
Drumming [[ItRunsInTheFamily runs pretty big]] in Sheila Escovedo's family: her father Pete is a famous percussionist, her uncle Alejandro drummed for various punk bands before starting a solo career, her other uncle Coke played with Santana, her other ''other'' uncle Javier founded the seminal punk band The Zeros, and Tito Puente was her godfather.
It's little surprise then that Sheila took up drumming and quickly became really good at it, playing with such luminaries as George Duke, Music/MarvinGaye, Alphonso Johnson, Music/HerbieHancock and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lionel Richie]] before her early twenties.
Prince first met Sheila when attending a concert where she was playing with her dad. He quickly brought her into her entourage, where she contributed drums and percussion in the studio and provided vocals to "Let's Go Crazy"'s famous B-side, "Erotic City" (and some other vocals here and there, like the "transmississippirap" on "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night"). She secured herself the position of drummer for Prince after The Revolution disbanded, but left Prince in 1989 due to a collapsed lung. This split has notably been free of the ''really'' bad blood that other splits engendered, and the two have collaborated occasionally for many years afterwards.
While Sheila did attract attention for her vocals on "Erotic City", she quickly proved she was not another Vanity: while Prince did produce her first two solo albums, she got some co-writing credits and added her drumming all over the place. Most notably, Sheila at first broke from the very explicit "personas" that had been assumed by Prince's previous {{Girl Group}}s: her lyrics were decidedly PG-rated, dealing with love (not IntercourseWithYou, at least not yet) and sung in a pleasant, girl-next-door voice. In fact, many of the funk-pop songs existed solely for the sake of lots and lots of percussion solos. Nobody seemed to mind though. These two albums, ''The Glamorous Life'' and ''Romance 1600'', were well-received and spawned two ''[[EpicRocking really long]]'' hits, the super-catchy ditty about how materialism's, like, superficial, man, "The Glamorous Life" (9 minutes) and a duet with Prince entitled "A Love Bizarre" (12 minutes!). Sheila also starred AsHerself in ''Film/KrushGroove'' (1985), a [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory fictionalized retelling]] of the founding of Creator/DefJamRecordings, in which she performed "A Love Bizarre" and "Holly Rock." Prince was noticeably less involved with the self-titled ''Sheila E.'', letting David Z. produce the album and writing only a few songs.
Sheila's solo albums after leaving Prince's organization were {{New Sound Album}}s somewhat, introducing Latin and jazz influences into her upbeat pop-funk. She took a long break from her solo career after the horribly-titled ''Sex Cymbal'', presumably out of embarrassment that she put out an album titled ''Sex Cymbal''[[note]]we can't blame her for that[[/note]], and played with various other musicians (including being part of three versions of Music/RingoStarr's All-Starr Band). She also reunites with Prince every once in a while for live concerts and contributed to his album ''3121''.
Discography:
* ''The Glamorous Life'' (1984)
* ''Romance 1600'' (1985)
* ''Sheila E.'' (1987)
* ''Sex Cymbal'' (1991)
* ''Writes of Passage'' (2000)
* ''Heaven'' (2001)
!!Sheila E. provides examples of:
%% * EpicRocking: "The Glamorous Life", "Oliver's House", "A Love Bizarre".
* {{Foil}}: She played this role in Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band concerts, especially during the solos where Ringo would comically fail to keep up with her.
* PissTakeRap: Averted - her MotorMouth reading of Edward Lear's "The Table and the Chair" on "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night" is actually good. (The liner notes credit it as "transmississippirap" since Prince recorded her doing it over the phone from, well, the other side of the Mississippi River.)
* PunBasedTitle: ''Sex Cymbal'', so bad it hurts.
* SelfTitledAlbum: Interestingly, done for the third album.
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Toy Box". It sounds like a normal funk song at first, and then right at the end Sheila blind-sides you with a long, shouty rant that makes you wonder who spiked her coffee and with what.
* WordSaladLyrics: "Dear Michaelangelo", "Toy Box", "Romance 1600" and "Bedtime Story" have a special ability to make you scratch your head and go "huh?".
* WordSaladTitle: "Merci for the Speed of a [[MonsterClown Mad Clown]] in the Summer"... what?
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The Time were a [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly pop-funk-rock]] ensemble that relied heavily on RuleOfFunny and [[EpicRocking very long jams]]. They were largely defined by frontman [[FaceOfTheBand Morris Day's]] hilarious lyrics and ChivalrousPervert-HandsomeLech persona, with Jerome Benton serving as his {{Foil}}. This dynamic was observed through their appearance in ''Film/PurpleRain'' as Prince's rival band, and Day's humorous persona lead to many even commenting that he upstaged Prince's acting (not much of a compliment, admittedly... [[DullSurprise Prince's acting]] makes Creator/KeanuReeves look like Creator/WilliamShatner).
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The Time were a [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly pop-funk-rock]] pop-funk-rock ensemble that relied heavily on RuleOfFunny and [[EpicRocking very long jams]]. They were largely defined by frontman [[FaceOfTheBand Morris Day's]] hilarious lyrics and ChivalrousPervert-HandsomeLech persona, with Jerome Benton serving as his {{Foil}}. This dynamic was observed through their appearance in ''Film/PurpleRain'' as Prince's rival band, and Day's humorous persona lead to many even commenting that he upstaged Prince's acting (not much of a compliment, admittedly... [[DullSurprise Prince's acting]] makes Creator/KeanuReeves look like Creator/WilliamShatner).
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* ArtistAndTheBand: The Time occasionally referred to themselves as Morris Day and The Time.
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->''"So please, don't step to the mic. In fact, please step away from it. Far, far away from it."''
-->--'''Website/IMockery''''s review of ''Carmen Electra''
Yes, Carmen Electra used to be a back-up dancer for Prince (in fact, he gave her the {{Stage Name|s}} "Carmen Electra") in the early nineties. She then became a rapper, contributing a rap to 'The Continental' on Prince's Love Symbol Album in 1992 and had a self-titled album produced by him in 1993 which was mostly written by Prince and the New power generation, though Carmen is credited with co-writing 7 of the 12 tracks. The album's famous for being... less than well received. A really funny skewering of it, complete with some audio samples, is available on [[http://www.i-mockery.com/bad-albums/carmen/default.php I-Mockery.]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZggt6Bjr_E Prince podcast Peach and Black also examined it]] as did [in a slightly more positive way] [[https://ultimateprince.com/carmen-electra-album-prince/ Ultimate Prince.com]]
-->--'''Website/IMockery''''s review of ''Carmen Electra''
Yes, Carmen Electra used to be a back-up dancer for Prince (in fact, he gave her the {{Stage Name|s}} "Carmen Electra") in the early nineties. She then became a rapper, contributing a rap to 'The Continental' on Prince's Love Symbol Album in 1992 and had a self-titled album produced by him in 1993 which was mostly written by Prince and the New power generation, though Carmen is credited with co-writing 7 of the 12 tracks. The album's famous for being... less than well received. A really funny skewering of it, complete with some audio samples, is available on [[http://www.i-mockery.com/bad-albums/carmen/default.php I-Mockery.]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZggt6Bjr_E Prince podcast Peach and Black also examined it]] as did [in a slightly more positive way] [[https://ultimateprince.com/carmen-electra-album-prince/ Ultimate Prince.com]]
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-->--'''Website/IMockery''''s review of ''Carmen Electra''
Yes,
Carmen Electra used to be a back-up dancer for Prince (in fact, he gave her the {{Stage Name|s}} "Carmen Electra") in the early nineties. She then became a rapper, contributing a rap to 'The Continental' on Prince's Love Symbol Album in 1992 and had a self-titled album produced by him in 1993 which was mostly written by Prince and the New power generation, though Carmen is credited with co-writing 7 of the 12
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* MoodWhiplash: The entire album focuses on Carmen's hot body and [[InformedAbility "impressive" rhyming skills]], until a news report on the Exxon Valdez oil spill is heard. The last song suddenly turns into an Earth awareness campaign.
* PissTakeRap: Ms. Electra herself raps for the full duration of the album. And it is ''awful''.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Carmen's attempt at being street, especially when rapping about the Exxon Valdez spill.
* ProductPlacement: Prince used the second segue on this album to subtly advertise many other songs that he worked on, via pretending to dial through a radio: "Hit U in the Socket" by Rosie Gaines, "In a Word or 2" by Monie Love, "The Voice" by Mavis Staples, "Sexy M.F." by Prince and the New Power Generation, "With This Tear" by Celine Dion and "Goldnigga" by the New Power Generation. This serves absolutely no purpose in the context of the album.
* {{Sexophone}}: Painfully invoked on another segue, complete with crashing waves.
* PissTakeRap: Ms. Electra herself raps for the full duration of the album. And it is ''awful''.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Carmen's attempt at being street, especially when rapping about the Exxon Valdez spill.
* ProductPlacement: Prince used the second segue on this album to subtly advertise many other songs that he worked on, via pretending to dial through a radio: "Hit U in the Socket" by Rosie Gaines, "In a Word or 2" by Monie Love, "The Voice" by Mavis Staples, "Sexy M.F." by Prince and the New Power Generation, "With This Tear" by Celine Dion and "Goldnigga" by the New Power Generation. This serves absolutely no purpose in the context of the album.
* {{Sexophone}}: Painfully invoked on another segue, complete with crashing waves.
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* MoodWhiplash: The entire album focuses on Carmen's hot body and [[InformedAbility "impressive" rhyming skills]], personality, until a news report on the Exxon Valdez oil spill is heard. The last song suddenly turns into an Earth awareness campaign.
* PissTakeRap: Ms. Electra herself raps for the full duration of the album. And it is ''awful''.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Carmen's attempt at being street, especially when rapping about the Exxon Valdez spill.
* ProductPlacement: Prince used the second segue on this album to subtly advertise many other songs that he worked on, via pretending to dial through a radio: "Hit U in the Socket" by Rosie Gaines, "In a Word or 2" by Monie Love, "The Voice" by Mavis Staples, "Sexy M.F." by Prince and the New Power Generation, "With This Tear" by Celine Dion and "Goldnigga" by the New Power Generation. This serves absolutely no purpose in the context of the album.
* {{Sexophone}}: Painfully invoked on another segue, complete with crashing waves.campaign.
* PissTakeRap: Ms. Electra herself raps for the full duration of the album. And it is ''awful''.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Carmen's attempt at being street, especially when rapping about the Exxon Valdez spill.
* ProductPlacement: Prince used the second segue on this album to subtly advertise many other songs that he worked on, via pretending to dial through a radio: "Hit U in the Socket" by Rosie Gaines, "In a Word or 2" by Monie Love, "The Voice" by Mavis Staples, "Sexy M.F." by Prince and the New Power Generation, "With This Tear" by Celine Dion and "Goldnigga" by the New Power Generation. This serves absolutely no purpose in the context of the album.
* {{Sexophone}}: Painfully invoked on another segue, complete with crashing waves.
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Prince decided to repay their hard work by being a complete {{Jerkass}} towards them, turning each tour between 1984-1986 into a game of "How can I piss off Wendy and Lisa today?" (answer: giving Leeds Wendy's solos on "Purple Rain", expanding The Revolution with more musicians, antagonizing Wendy by bringing her twin sister Susannah in the band and getting romantically involved with her, etc). Prince's asshole behavior towards Wendy and Lisa in ''Film/PurpleRain'' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment wasn't exactly acting.]] In fact, Prince's conflict with the two was one of the key intra-band conflicts that eventually led to Prince's disbanding of The Revolution in 1986.
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Prince decided to repay their hard work by being a complete {{Jerkass}} towards them, turning each tour between 1984-1986 into a game of "How can I piss off Wendy and Lisa today?" (answer: giving Leeds Wendy's solos on "Purple Rain", expanding The Revolution with more musicians, antagonizing Wendy by bringing her twin sister Susannah in the band and getting romantically involved with her, etc). Prince's asshole behavior towards Wendy and Lisa in ''Film/PurpleRain'' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment ''Film/PurpleRain'' wasn't exactly acting.]] acting. In fact, Prince's conflict with the two was one of the key intra-band conflicts that eventually led to Prince's disbanding of The Revolution in 1986.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The hard rock of "Skillet", from fourth album ''Pandemonium''.
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* People for whom Prince sporadically contributed material but otherwise didn't do much. For example: Sheena Easton, Mavis Staples, Martika, and others.
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* People for whom Prince sporadically contributed material but otherwise didn't do much. For example: Sheena Easton, Music/SheenaEaston, Mavis Staples, Martika, and others.
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!!Sheena Easton
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[[caption-width-right:300:Sheena Easton, seen here before being put through the Princegrinder.]]
->''"My baby takes the morning train''\\
''He works from 9 'til 5 and then''\\
''He takes another home again''\\
''To find me waiting for him."''
-->--'''Sheena Easton''', "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
Sheena Easton was a Scottish singer back in TheEighties who scored a few hits occasionally, most notably with "Morning Train (9 to 5)" and "For Your Eyes Only", the theme for the [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly James Bond movie of the same name]]. Her music was largely pop with bits of soft rock and {{New Wave|Music}} floating around, with a pretty ordinary image.
[[SarcasmMode Which obviously made her the perfect woman to collaborate with Prince]]. Prince produced her 1984 album ''A Private Heaven'' and predictably transformed her into another trying-too-hard-to-be-sexy siren. She did get two hit singles out of it, "Strut" and the {{Narm}}y "Sugar Walls", so it probably wasn't that bad of a deal. Easton sang on two other Prince songs, "U Got the Look" and "The Arms of Orion", and collaborated with him some more on ''The Lover in Me'' before parting ways with him.
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->''"My baby takes the morning train''\\
''He works from 9 'til 5 and then''\\
''He takes another home again''\\
''To find me waiting for him."''
-->--'''Sheena Easton''', "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
Sheena Easton was a Scottish singer back in TheEighties who scored a few hits occasionally, most notably with "Morning Train (9 to 5)" and "For Your Eyes Only", the theme for the [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly James Bond movie of the same name]]. Her music was largely pop with bits of soft rock and {{New Wave|Music}} floating around, with a pretty ordinary image.
[[SarcasmMode Which obviously made her the perfect woman to collaborate with Prince]]. Prince produced her 1984 album ''A Private Heaven'' and predictably transformed her into another trying-too-hard-to-be-sexy siren. She did get two hit singles out of it, "Strut" and the {{Narm}}y "Sugar Walls", so it probably wasn't that bad of a deal. Easton sang on two other Prince songs, "U Got the Look" and "The Arms of Orion", and collaborated with him some more on ''The Lover in Me'' before parting ways with him.
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->''"My baby takes the morning train''\\
''He works from 9 'til 5 and then''\\
''He takes another home again''\\
''To find me waiting for him."''
-->--'''Sheena Easton''', "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
Sheena Easton was a Scottish singer back in TheEighties who scored a few hits occasionally, most notably with "Morning Train (9 to 5)" and "For Your Eyes Only", the theme for the [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly James Bond movie of the same name]]. Her music was largely pop with bits of soft rock and {{New Wave|Music}} floating around, with a pretty ordinary image.
[[SarcasmMode Which obviously made her the perfect woman to collaborate with Prince]].
Prince produced her 1984 album ''A Private Heaven'' and predictably transformed her into another trying-too-hard-to-be-sexy siren. She did get two hit singles out of it, "Strut" and the {{Narm}}y "Sugar Walls", so it probably wasn't that bad of a deal.
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Discography:
* ''Take My Time'' (1980)
* ''You Could Have Been with Me'' (1981)
* ''Madness, Money & Music'' (1982)
* ''Best Kept Secret'' (1983)
* ''A Private Heaven'' (1984)
* ''Todo Me Recuerda a Ti'' (1984) - Spanish language release
* ''Do You'' (1985)
* ''No Sound But a Heart'' (1987)
* ''The Lover in Me'' (1988)
* ''What Comes Naturally'' (1991)
* ''No Strings'' (1993)
* ''My Cherie'' (1995)
* ''Freedom'' (1997)
* ''Home'' (1999)
* ''Fabulous'' (2000)
!!Sheena Easton provides examples of:
* MoralGuardians: "Sugar Walls" is best known for being one of the songs listed on the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" list.
