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Podcast: 41 Years of Controversy – A Conversation with Harold Pride and De Angela Duff
Friday, 16 September, 2022
Here we are again, my first podcast in more than a year, and I couldn’t have asked for better guests than Harold Pride and De Angela Duff to discuss Prince’s fourth and quite possibly most underrated album, 1981’s Controversy. If you’ve been listening to these deep-dive album retrospectives, Harold needs no introduction; and, since the Prince scholarly community is a pretty small one, De Angela may not need one either. Suffice to say that she’s the biggest advocate of Controversy I know, and she makes a convincing case that it’s not only a great album in its own right, but also the linchpin of Prince’s entire career. One quick note: you will likely notice that there was a significant drop in audio quality this episode; this was due to a perfect storm of technical issues that, unfortunately, left the low-quality Skype call recording as the only usable audio source from our conversation. I think you’ll get used to it, but my apologies anyway! 00:03:18 “The Second Coming” (“Live” at the Met Center, 1982) 00:07:20 De Angela on Prince’s Friend 00:19:58 Daphne A. Brooks’ review of Controversy in Pitchfork 00:21:08 Allen Beaulieu’s iconic cover art for Controversy © Warner Bros. 00:22:05 Allen Beaulieu’s iconic cover art for Dirty Mind © Warner Bros. 00:25:30 Controversy round table from the #1plus1plus1is3 symposium with Joan Morgan, Jason Orr, Tonya Pendleton, Scott Woods, and Arthur Turnbull 00:32:11 “Sexuality” (Live at the Warner Theatre, 1981) 00:32:51 Zach’s presentation from the #SexyMF30 symposium 00:33:20 Inklings of Prince as world builder: the back cover of Prince (1979) Photo by Chris Callis, © Warner Bros. 00:42:36 “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” (Live at the Warner Theatre, 1981) 00:46:57 Learn to play the “Let’s Work” bassline from Brown Mark himself! 00:54:25 “Controversy” (from Controversy, 1981) 01:03:40 Zach’s three-part post on “Controversy” (Parts 1, 2, and 3) 01:06:45 Morris Day’s 2019 memoir 01:10:50 Harold and KaNisa’s recent Twitter thread on Prince and electronic music/Detroit techno 01:11:34 Our podcast on The Time with more discussion on the Detroit/Minneapolis connection 01:15:25 Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko 01:23:28 Zach’s #1plus1plus1is3 presentation on the Controversy shower poster 01:30:00 Bruce Gowers’ “Controversy” music video © Warner Bros. 01:36:55 KaNisa’s #1plus1plus1is3 presentation made connections between the Prince of Controversy and the Prince of The Rainbow Children 01:37:17 “Sexuality” (from Controversy) 01:45:25 Bruce Gowers’ “Sexuality” music video © Warner Bros. 01:46:11 The very similar lighting in Michael Jackson’s “Rock with You” video (not incidentally, also directed by Gowers) © Epic Records 01:53:25 “The Rainbow Children” (from The Rainbow Children, 2001) 01:59:50 “ShoYoAss” by the Coup (from Pick a Bigger Weapon, 2006) 02:02:25 The 2015 Washington Post article about Prince’s “apolitical purple wormhole” 02:03:08 Crystal Wise’s “(A)Political Prince: An Analysis of Prince’s Political Consciousness” 02:07:08 C. Liegh McInnis’ The Lyrics of Prince Rogers Nelson 02:07:37 “Do Me, Baby” (from Controversy) 02:18:13 Grown Folks Music’s podcast on the “Prince Flood” of 1987 with De Angela, Harold, and Zaheer Ali 02:19:48 “Do Me, Baby” (1979 Demo) 02:30:00 “Private Joy” (from Controversy) 02:38:05 Zach’s ranking of the songs on Controversy 02:39:15 Alfonso Ribeiro demonstrates how to dance to “Private Joy” 02:41:52 “Private Joy” by the Revolution featuring Bilal (Live at First Avenue, 2016) 02:49:42 “Ronnie, Talk to Russia” (from Controversy) 02:57:17 “Let’s Work” (from Controversy) 03:02:00 “Let’s Work (Dance Remix)” (1982 single) 03:06:15 “Let’s Work” (Live on the VIBE show, 1998) 03:09:35 “Annie Christian” (from Controversy) 03:15:49 Zach’s post on “Annie Christian” 03:19:02 “Annie Christian” (Live at Saenger Performing Arts Center, 1982) 03:20:45 Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children 03:25:00 Allen Beaulieu captures “mad scientist” Prince for the 1999 inner sleeve © Warner Bros. 03:30:36 “Jack U Off” (from Controversy) 03:35:07 “Jack U Off” (Live at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1981) 03:39:41 If for some reason you want to hear more thoughts from Zach on “Jack U Off” and “Ronnie, Talk to Russia,” here you go 03:40:41 “I Can Make You Say” by Twista (from Freestyle Week, 2009)
