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YMMV: Prince
  • Anvilicious: Prince started off with Dirty Mind and just grew less and less subtle from there, to the point that he actually went into Author Tract territory by his late career (hi, Rainbow Children).
  • Archive Panic: Just look at all of the albums Prince released! Not to mention that some are double and triple albums! That's not even counting all of the B-sides Prince released, or the music made by his proteges or people otherwise associated with him. Or the stuff he put out on the web. Or the stuff he never released but got bootlegged.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Purple Rain is the consensus choice, but 1999 and Sign '☮' the Times ain't too shabby either.
  • Ear Worm: OF COURSE!
    • "Partyman" from Batman being a great example.
    • Also... er, lots of his songs. One could even say most of them.
  • Epic Riff: Most of his songs.
  • Fetish Retardant + Erection Rejection - Your Mileage May Vary, but it can happen. See the covers above in particular.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Here's a fun activity for all. Go on the Internet and read as much as you can about how The Revolution broke up - pay attention to the role Wendy & Lisa played in it. Then go watch Purple Rain, and pay particular attention to what Wendy & Lisa do in the movie.
  • Memetic Mutation: The Trope Formerly Known as X
  • Narm: The dialogue between Prince and God in "Temptation", but there's more than just that. Like that time he compares love to surgery in "I Love You in Me", the entirety of "Scarlet Pussy", or the amount of times he crosses from Intercourse with You territory to ball-kneeing idiocy.
    • Or to double the fun, for The Rainbow Children Prince re-uses the slowed-down, slurred monologue voice from "Bob George", the one previously responsible for gems of wisdom like "I'll slap yo ass 'till the middle of next week", and most definitely not meant to be taken seriously, to deliver long rambling incoherent quasi-religious monologues.
    • "Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife" off of Emancipation.
    • To critics, and even many fans, his flirtations with rap fall here.
  • Protection From Editors: Once he gained this after splitting from Warner Bros., he barreled straight towards Seasonal Rot territory.
  • Seasonal Rot: Critics and fans don't love his nineties work as much as his eighties. Protection From Editors will do that to a guy...

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