I remember going to a shop to buy Musicology on CD on its day of release back in 2004. Now itās available on vinyl for the first time I had to pick it up again. On its initial release it was seen as a comeback album but Prince hadnāt really gone anywhere. His previous album (N.E.W.S) contained four 14 minute instrumental tracks named after the points of a compass and before that music club exclusive releases, live albums and back in 2001 the heavily religious and jazz sound of The Rainbow Childrenā¦ Prince never stopped creating, this wasnāt so much of a comeback then, just a return to the mainstream and a return to the funk ādonāt you hear this old-school jointā.
Musicology is definitely Princeās most political record in some time with songs like the controversial (in the US at least) Cinnamon Girl dealing with the rise of racism after the September 11th attacks, American foreign policy and radicalisation: āSo began the mass illusion, war on terror alibi. Whatāss the use when the god of confusion keeps on telling the same lie?ā, government surveillance in Call My Name: āWhatās the matter with the world today? Land of the free? Somebody lied. They can bug my phone and peep around my home. Theyāll only see you and me making love insideā, with Dear Mr. Man being the most political of all and one of my favourite songs on the album: āWho said that to kill is a sin then started every single war that your people been in?āā¦ Iāve always loved this album. https://www.instagram.com/cosmicscale/p/BtqsVlAgJb1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nwawdex5tw77
