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All right, here we go! My name is Zachary Hoskins, and it’s my pleasure to bring you tonight's #PrinceTwitterThread on the penultimate track from Prince’s 1999, “All the Critics Love U in New York” #1999THREAD 
First of all, thanks to @PrinceThread curators @deejayumb and @EdgarKruize for inviting me back. And thanks to my fellow Purple Avengers for setting the bar so high–I’m biased, because 1999 is perennially in my Top 5 Prince LPs, but I think #1999THREAD may be the best crop yet!
@PrinceThread @deejayumb @EdgarKruize If you know who I am, it’s probably because you’ve read my blog, Dance / Music / Sex / Romance: a quixotic attempt to write in chronological order about every extant song recorded, written, and/or performed by Prince. princesongs.org
Y'all ready 2 get this #PurpleParty started? @Prince entered @Sunset Sound early May '82 to record what would become his longest electro-jam #Automatic. At over 9 minutes sending the project dubbed 1999 he began in Jan into unintentional Double LP territory
He arrived with clearly something on his mind as everything in #Automatic feels like a confession An urgent unsettling genuine desperation unfolding with lyrical themes of emotion as technology. Lockstep speak-singing in the same pattern of his drum machine.
Both principal themes at the time, spiritual & profane come into play, the latter on full display when he makes cavalier declaration of a sexual favor, the listener & backing singer @JillJones simultaneously snap to as she excitedly responds “You will?!”
#PurpleAvengers, "come out and plaaaaaaay!"
So what does this soundbite from the 1979 film "The Warriors" have to do with #Prince and ##DMSR? You'll see...
Let's play "7 Degrees of Separation: The Prince D.M.S.R. Edition!
#PrinceTwitterThread #1999THREAD
So what does this soundbite from the 1979 film "The Warriors" have to do with #Prince and ##DMSR? You'll see...
Let's play "7 Degrees of Separation: The Prince D.M.S.R. Edition!
#PrinceTwitterThread #1999THREAD
The fifth song from Prince’s 1999 album, D.M.S.R., is as much about content as it is about connections and branches on the R&B/ Hip-Hop music family tree. It can be explained in a game I play when I listen to my playlists.
It’s called 7 Degrees of Separation: The Prince Edition. It’s like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with more context, and tons of music history. And it’s about Prince - what else do you need, right?
