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Riff: Prince – “HARDROCKLOVER”

Jul 8, 2015

It’s time to check your cell phone/Red Bull and Patrón/Ain’t no rapper tryna be a singer/Gonna make her moan/Sade and Babyface/R&B ain’t got no place/Put some hard rock on

from HardRockLover lyrics by Prince

Taking a brief stylistic detour, one that embraces the land of hard rock over R&B. Lyrically he stays in the pocket, moving away from the politics to embrace the party-hardy side of life. And while it may seem like a seismic shift, it’s in fact par for the course for one wildly eclectic legend.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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