Prince

Released: November 19, 1996

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
New world
New world
New world
New world

[Verse 1]
When the sharpest vibration
Saves you from obliteration
The intelligence of your bed reacts
Covering you head to toe with an air-filled sack

[Chorus]
When the lines blur every boy and girl
How we gonna make it in this brave new world?
Love for one another - New world
Love for one another - New world

[Verse 2]
When you wanna find some isolation
But the tracker you got from vaccination (Keeps playing)
Keeps playing - "you'll never walk alone" (Over and over)
They're always listening, especially on the phone

[Chorus]
When the lines blur every boy and girl
How we gonna make it in this brave new world?
Love for one another - New world
Love for one another - New world

[Verse 3]
Wait a minute
New world
Did you hear about the new pill? It feels like sex!
Guaranteed to thrill with no ill side-effects
A pill that will stop the wrinkles, a pill that will stop the pain
A pill that will make a baby never seek political gain
What's it all for when you can alter biology?
Who or what, then my friend, will you and I be?
Who or what, then my friend, will you and I be?

[Bridge]
When the sharpest vibration
Saves you from obliteration
When the melting pot stirs, how you going to take it?
When you can't tell him from her, how you going to fake it?

[Chorus]
When the lines blur every boy and girl
How we gonna make it in this brave new world?
Love for one another - New world
Love for one another - New world

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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