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Podcast: Press Rewind: A Prince Lyrics Podcast
Episode: Soft and Wet: Press Rewind – Prince Lyrics Podcast
Description: On Episode 3 of the Press Rewind – Prince Lyrics Podcast, I dive into For You’s third track and the most well-known song from Prince’s debut album, “Soft & Wet.” Prince pushes the envelope, for 1978 at least, by including such a blatant sexual metaphor throughout the song. Also, I totally get the lyrics wrong (no thanks to the internet). Prince clears things up for us after I recorded, after the release of The Beautiful Ones memoir, & I correct my mistakes with some listener help on a future episode.
The goal of each episode of Press Rewind is to:
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