I skipped Take Me With U. It's supposed to be a duet (like Wham was supposed to be a band) between Prince and Apollonia. In the chorus Prince sounds bored; Apollonia sounds imploring. It's a simple song behind all the effects: finger cymbals and a tambourine make the drum beat interesting.
The Beautiful Ones. Back behind the lazering synthesizer stabs is the piano ballad; the playing more insistent in the verses than in the choruses. The synthesizers are the only thing really creating the Prince flavour, but the song is soon to move off into unexpected directions. We come to the spoken bit - “Paint a perfect picture” - again, I don’t think this song is about much: beautiful people are mean? Prince seems upset. Just how upset we are going to find out. The song begins to come apart. The synthesizer starts to sound a little sea sick, and then comes the really unexpected screaming-on-the-floor ending featuring great deliveries of lines such as: “Baby, baby, baby, listen to me… I may not know where I’m going babe (wo-oh)”.
There’s no way to write the “wo-oh” sound that even suggests its effect.
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