The song is about sexual abuse. It even has an explanation by Prince as to why he had such an extreme relationship with sex ("she's the reason for my, uh, sexuality"). It's a shame he never spoke publicly about it, apart from one time:
“All the stuff on the record [Dirty Mind] is true experiences and things that have occurred around me and the way I feel about things. I wasn’t laughing when I did it, so I don’t suppose it was intended that way.
“That’s why I stopped doing interviews. I started and I stopped abruptly because of that. People weren’t taking me seriously and I was being misunderstood. Everything I said they didn’t believe anyway. They didn’t believe my name. They didn’t believe anything.”
When Prince was 16 his step-sister, Norrine, was 32.
The song is about sexual abuse. It even has an explanation by Prince as to why he had such an extreme relationship with sex ("she's the reason for my, uh, sexuality"). It's a shame he never spoke publicly about it, apart from one time:
“All the stuff on the record [Dirty Mind] is true experiences and things that have occurred around me and the way I feel about things. I wasn’t laughing when I did it, so I don’t suppose it was intended that way.
“That’s why I stopped doing interviews. I started and I stopped abruptly because of that. People weren’t taking me seriously and I was being misunderstood. Everything I said they didn’t believe anyway. They didn’t believe my name. They didn’t believe anything.”
When Prince was 16 his step-sister, Norrine, was 32.
@johnnywa To be clear, Prince's comments were about SISTER specifically:
@johnnywa To be clear, Prince's comments were about SISTER specifically:
In the same interview he said: “Sister” is serious. “Head” could be taken as a satire.
In the same interview he said: “Sister” is serious. “Head” could be taken as a satire.