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|song name = Vibrator | |song name = Vibrator | ||
|single image = [[File:Unreleasedsong.jpg| | |single image = [[File:Unreleasedsong.jpg|Link= Unreleased Songs]]</small> | ||
|performer = [[Vanity 6]] | |performer = [[Vanity 6]] | ||
|writer(s) = [[Prince]] (assumed) | |writer(s) = [[Prince]] <small>(assumed)</small> | ||
|producer(s) = [[Prince]] | |producer(s) = [[Prince]] <small>(assumed)</small> | ||
|previous song = [[Venus De Milo]] | |previous song = [[Venus De Milo (Instrumental)]] | ||
|next song = [[Vicki Waiting]] | |next song = [[Vicki Waiting]] | ||
|introduction = '''Vibrator''' is an unreleased song recorded in May 1983 at [[Prince]] | |introduction = '''Vibrator''' is an unreleased song recorded in May 1983 at [[Prince]]’s [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. It was intended for [[Vanity 6]]’s planned [[Album: Vanity 6 (1984)|second album]]. When [[Vanity]] left the group and decided not to participate in the [[Film: Purple Rain|Purple Rain]] movie, [[Prince]] instead began the group [[Apollonia 6]]. The song is not known to have been considered for the [[Album: Apollonia 6|Apollonia 6]] album. | ||
The track is an ode to the battery-operated sex toy. The narrator ([[Vanity]]) sings about her vibrator, before the song transforms when the batteries run out in her toy; she goes to a store where she meets a shocked store clerk, played by [[Jill Jones]], who offers to "take it downstairs" to install the new batteries. The narrator leaves, instead taking it to a different store, and meeting a different clerk (played by [[Prince]] in his [[Jamie Starr]] voice), who gives her the batteries and rushes her out of the store. She then takes her toy home, and the song ends with her moans and her eventual climax. | The track is an ode to the battery-operated sex toy. The narrator ([[Vanity]]) sings about her vibrator, before the song transforms when the batteries run out in her toy; she goes to a store where she meets a shocked store clerk, played by [[Jill Jones]], who offers to "take it downstairs" to install the new batteries. The narrator leaves, instead taking it to a different store, and meeting a different clerk (played by [[Prince]] in his [[Jamie Starr]] voice), who gives her the batteries and rushes her out of the store. She then takes her toy home, and the song ends with her moans and her eventual climax. | ||
[[Prince]] gave the song to [[Eric Leeds]] in July 1989 (along with [[ | [[Prince]] gave the song to [[Eric Leeds]] in July 1989 (along with [[Evolsidog]], [[You’re All I Want]], [[My Summertime Thang]], [[Pickle]], [[U Should Be Mine]], [[Wet Dream Cousin]], [[The Max-2|The Max]] and [[XYZ]]) when considering songs for a new [[Madhouse]] album (later called [[Album:_Times_Squared#Quotations_and_trivia|26]], which later evolved into [[Eric Leeds]]’ solo album [[Album: Times Squared|Times Squared]]), presumably to be used as an instrumental; it is not believed that [[Eric Leeds|Leeds]] worked on the track, however. | ||
[[Vanity]] | [[Vanity]]’s moans from the song have been sampled on a few different tracks. They were sampled at the beginning of [[Seven]] (as more of a segue between [[Six]] and [[Seven]]), before then also being sampled on [[The Dopamine Rush|24 (Orgasm)]], originally included as part of [[The Dopamine Rush|21-24 (The Dopamine Rush Suite)]] before the section it was a part of was edited out for the track’s release as [[The Dopamine Rush]]. The moans were included also on [[Orgasm]] (released in complete form as [[Orgasm|Poem]]). | ||
|recording info = | |recording info = | ||
{{RecordingLine| | {{RecordingLine| | ||
|date = May 1983 | |date = May 1983 | ||
|studio = [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | |studio = [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
|additional info = | |additional info = Tracking | ||
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|1= '''[[Four]] ''' | |||
|2= 2:24 | |||
|3= [[Album: 8|8]]<br> | |||
[[Single: 13|13]] single | |||
|4= Studio | |||
|5= | |||
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{{Songline| | {{Songline| | ||
|1= '''[[Seven]] ''' | |1= '''[[Seven]] ''' | ||
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|references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]]'' | |references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]]'' | ||
* ''[https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Purple-Rain-Studio-Sessions/dp/1538114623/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)]'' | * ''[https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Purple-Rain-Studio-Sessions/dp/1538114623/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)]'' | ||
|categories = [[Category:1983]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category: | |categories = [[Category:1983]][[Category:Recorded 1983]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Songs (Associated Artists)]][[Category:Unreleased Songs]] | ||
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