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Tag Archives: Prince

Songs in Conversation: Prince & Peter Gabriel Making It Big

Putting two songs on aspirational success released a decade apart into conversation 26 years later.

1 March 2022 in Music, Songs in Conversation.

“I Didn’t Mean to Turn You Kong” – Seeking out #MeToo in Pop Music

Listening to Cherrelle’s “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On” in the #MeToo moment.

6 February 2018 in Music.

The (re)Collection Agency #4: A Conversation with Brian Cremins

The latest in our conversations with comics scholars: this time Dr. Brian Cremins talks comics and nostalgia as pitfall and strategy in (re)constructing personal and historical narratives.

6 June 2017 in Comic Studies, Interview.

Imagining What Silence Looks Like: Prince & Queering the Popular Love Song

The dark sound and minimalist instrumentation on “If I Was Your Girlfriend” demonstrates Prince’s willingness to bend and distort expectations with a lyrical and sonic playfulness that challenges the listener to think beyond the obvious gender stereotypes inherent in most popular love songs.

2 May 2017 in Gender, Music, Queer.

1999: Radical Possibilities of Apocalypse

1999’s appeal emerges from a sense of danger, from the scandalous possibilities of a morality unbound by the coming apocalypse, disguised as synth-heavy dance pop

28 April 2015 in Albums, Music, Review.

Cracking the Prototype: Serial Monogamy and the Pop Love Song

Songs that explore the more complex reality inherent in the tension between the intensity of romantic feelings and the experience of serialized monogamy.

24 June 2014 in Music, Songs in Conversation.

2013: Reviewing The Year It Wasn’t

An overview of all the posts I planned to write or started writing but that never quite came together.

24 December 2013 in Meta.

Weepin’ and Wailin’: Prince Schools ‘Em

I get a special thrill from watching Prince show them how a guitar can weep like a mourner.

2 April 2013 in Music, Performance.
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