prince
06/01/2007
Prince, "Guitar"
Well, this is what happens when you find religion and won't sing about sex anymore. There's no denying Prince can still play; the guitar riff in this song is insanely hot. But somehow this commercial for Verizon V-Cast still feels like a pale imitation of Rock's Tiniest Sex God's better years. Now, watered-down Prince is still a lot better than most artists' best stuff. But for my taste, the dancing girls are a little too santitized, the choreography a bit too literal -- it just makes me yearn for raunchier days. The girls are crawling between his legs, sure. But he just doesn't seem to care like he used to.
So enjoy the new song, 'cause new Prince is hard to come by -- but if you've got a moment, hop in the time machine and revisit Cream, a song from the days when the objectification was enthusiastic, the double entendres were nearly single, and The Purple One still knew how to hump a scantily-clad girl and look like he meant it.
