Oct 21, 2021
Prince was such an astonishing musician and here’s yet another example: A European 7” of Martika’s early 90s hit, “Love Thy Will Be Done” that I found over the weekend. Prince wrote and produced it for her (his voice is buried in the backing vocals as well) and you know, for what amounts to a mellow four-minute vamp, it’s fantastic. Basically he must have decided to write a Wilson-Philips-style song, because this uses all their trademarks—the three-part harmonies, the deep reverbs, the low-key spirituality—and turns them up 1,000 percent. It’s as if he said, “Sure, I can do my rock and pop and funk and R&B, but I can do that too, because I can do anything.”
