Dirty Mind

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Released in 1980, <i>Dirty Mind</i> finds Prince kicking off the most prolific period of his career—a revolutionary run in which he’d not only steer the careers of such Minneapolis acts as The Time, The Family, and Vanity/Apollonia 6, but also become a chart-topping, globe-conquering pop icon. <i>Dirty Mind</i> was his third album in as many year, and it found the barely-twentysomething singer declaring his musical (and sexual) maturity: If the bare-chested, feather-haired young artist on the cover of 1979’s <i>Prince</i> looked like a playful innocent, the bikini-briefed “Head”-master staring back from the cover of <i>Dirty Mind</i> seemed prime to pull off listener’s pantie. No doubt: After teasing us with the frisky funk-pop of “Soft and Wet”—from his 1978 debut album, <i>For You</i>—and then turning up the temptation with hot <i>Prince</i> bops like “Sexy Dancer,” the foreplay was officially over with <i>Dirty Mind</i>. Kicking off with the slinky synth seduction of the title track—co-written by keyboardist Dr. Fink—Prince made his carnal intentions clear from the jump: “It doesn’t matter where we are/It doesn’t matter who’s around/It doesn’t matter, I just wanna lay ya down.” Don’t misunderstand him. .

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