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− | |introduction = '''Papa''' is the fifth track on [[Prince]] | + | |introduction = '''Papa''' is the fifth track on [[Prince]]’s fifteenth album [[Album: Come|Come]]. In 1994, four months before the album’s release, the promotional video of [[Papa]] was included in [[TV Film: The Beautiful Experience|The Beautiful Experience]] TV movie (credited, as was the whole project, to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]). |
− | While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in January 1993 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions that produced [[Pheromone]] and [[Dance Of Desperation]]). The track was originally included as the fourth track on a March 1993 configuration of [[Album: Come|Come]]. It was also planned as the first track on the [[Single: Papa EP|Papa EP]], planned for release on [[Prince]] | + | While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in January 1993 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions that produced [[Pheromone]] and [[Dance Of Desperation]]). The track was originally included as the fourth track on a March 1993 configuration of [[Album: Come|Come]]. It was also planned as the first track on the [[Single: Papa EP|Papa EP]], planned for release on [[Prince]]’s birthday, [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 7|7 June 1993]], but later abandoned. It was kept for inclusion on the [[Album: Come|Come]] album as the seventh track on a [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_11|11 March 1994]] configuration. |
− | [[Prince]] has hinted in shows that the song is semi-autobiographical (often finishing the performance by stating " | + | [[Prince]] has hinted in shows that the song is semi-autobiographical (often finishing the performance by stating "don’t abuse children - or else they turn out like me", a line from the song), but [[Prince]]’s mother has only said that she and [[Prince]]’s father had "normal disagreements", and it has been suggested that [[Prince]]’s childhood was more peaceful than the depictions in this song and in the movie [[Film: Purple Rain|Purple Rain]]. |
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|date = January 1993 | |date = January 1993 | ||
|studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | |studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
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