Prince

Released: July 10, 2010

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Tonight I love everybody
Everybody loves me
The beat you're giving is the rhythm of life
Everybody get happy
If you really come to party
This is the place to be
Tonight I love everybody
Everybody loves me

[Chorus]
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me

[Verse 2]
Tonight the stars are out
There's music in the air
The sounds of joy and celebration
Are drowning out despair
If you're the king of hate
Or if you're the queen of misery
Tonight I love everybody
Everybody loves me

[Chorus]
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me

[Verse 3]
This party's sick
We're gonna rock this whole town
Get the police quick
Don't let them shut us down

[Ad lib]
Don't do it
No
Rock it

[Verse 4]
Tonight I love everybody
That's right, everyone
I don't care what you came here for
As long as you have fun

[Chorus]
Everybody get free
Everybody get free
Everybody get free
Everybody love me

[Verse 5]
There ain't no shame
In having a good time
There's only us to blame
If we make it up right
Oh, I ain't lying

[Refrain]
There ain't nothing to it
But to do it
There ain't nothing to it
But to do it

[Bridge]
Shake it like you don't know better
Woop de woop
Shake it like you don't know better
Woop de woop

[Refrain]
There ain't nothing to it
But to do it

[Chorus]
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me
Everybody loves me

[Refrain]
There ain't nothing to it
But to do it
There ain't nothing to it
But to do it
There ain't nothing to it
But to do it

[Outro]
Tonight I love everybody
Everybody loves me
Tonight I love everybody
Everybody loves me
Tonight I love everybody
Everybody loves me
Tonight I love everybody
Everybody loves me

An American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and actor that produced 22 RIAA-platinum albums during his 40-year career, Prince may be known for one of many different things – his turn as “The Kid” in the iconic film/album/8 ½ minute ballad “Purple Rain”, being the writer behind the acclaimed anthem “Kiss,” rivaling Michael Jackson at the pinnacle of his career, being the inspiration behind censorship laws, or being the artist addressed as an unpronounceable symbol throughout the 1990s—but while many know of Prince, most don’t fully understand the impact his legacy left on this world.

Going by many aliases throughout his life, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958 with his father’s (John L. Nelson) stage name as his own given one. Growing up, Prince suffered from serious epileptic seizures at a very young age, but he had wrote his first composition of many by age seven, and outside of his love for basketball, he wanted music to be his purpose in life. His tumultuous childhood, witnessing alcoholism and abuse, caused him to find refuge in neighbor André Cymone’s home in his teens, where the two competed in local band competitions, leading to Prince’s introduction to Morris Day alongside music with his cousin’s band 94 East, leading him to be courted by record labels and ultimately signed to Warner Bros. Records with complete creative control; at 19, his debut album, For You (1978) was released – Prince played all 19 instruments on the record.

Influenced by the likes of Miles Davis, Rick James, and James Brown, Prince desired to form a music dynasty and after the success of his next albums – the platinum-selling Prince (1979), the sexually-charged Dirty Mind (1980), and politically-motivated Controversy (1981) – he negotiated for the ability to form his own label and manage artists of his own. Prince’s trademark sexual/religious rhetoric within pop-and-dance, funk-rock sound gained him a following, but his opening slates for Rick James and The Rolling Stones were both negatively received and facing bankruptcy, the young artist began to reach for mainstream popularity. Cashing on the drug-influenced doomsday mania of the times, 1982’s 1999 easily achieved that mainstream appeal, landing him on MTV, music charts, and radio stations across the world.

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