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The Beautiful Experience is a 1994 tv special that features concert footage, music videos and segues that loosely tell the story of a girl called Jan (Nona Gaye) who sits home alone and questions her self confidence. After seeing an ad in a copy of 10,000 magazine (an ad that is not in the actual 10,000 magazine) she calls 1-800-NEW-FUNK hoping to find a guy at the other end of the line. Instead she is connected with the NPG Operator (Rain Ivana). After paying $19.99 her computer gets access to a series of videos through to boost her self confidence. After spending an hour watching these videos, she eventually realizes she is ‘The Most Beautiful Girl In The World’.
Most of the video footage Jan is watching (Interactive, Days Of Wild, The Jam, Shhh, and Now), the live footage of which was recorded at Paisley Park Studios on 13 February 1994. The footage for Loose! and Papa was shot somewhere in 1993. Snippets of footage from the Glam Slam Ulysses project are also used. Come is featured in a different version than the one that was eventually released on the Come album.
Between all songs, except between The Jam and Shhh there are shorter or longer segues, connecting the songs.
The TV-special first aired in the UK on 3 April 1994 on Sky One. Later it was also broadcast in Canada (MuchMusic, 11 April 1994), Spain (Canal+ España, 18 April 1994), Germany (18 April 1994), France (Canal+), Japan (WowWow) and again in the UK in December 1994, this time on Channel 4.
The latter two broadcasts omit the post credits video for Beautiful that was in the original broadcast and some scenes with Nona Gaye have a slightly different edit.
The Japanese broadcast of The Beautiful Experience (65:15 minutes) was released as a white label VHS in a plain white sleeve through Prince’s 1-800-NEW-FUNK website, along with a white label VHS of The Sacrifice Of Victor, which was also the Japanese version as broadcast by the WowWow channel.
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Track listing
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- Intro
- Interactive
- Days Of Wild
- Come
- Race
- Acknowledge Me
- Pheromone
- The Jam
- Shhh
- Loose!
- Papa
- The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
- Now
- Poem (during end credits)
- Beautiful (omitted on later broadcasts)
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Director
Prince (as  )
Producer
Paisley Park
Director Of Photography
Giorgio Scali
Supervising Editor
Mitchell Sinoway
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Production coordinator
Eric Mueller
Art Direction
Steve Parke
A.R. Crew
Lew Stricklen
Rag Design
Debbie McGuan
Heidi Presnail
Dresser
Leanne Doescher
Visage
Tonya Thompson
Stephanie Von Brunner
Sherry Hartung
Danielle Russell
Fatima Robinson
Choreography
Jamie King &
Editors
Mitchell Sinoway
Paris Patton
Kim Logan
Paisley Park Recording Engineers
Ray Hahnfelt
Dave Friedlander
Kimm James
Re-Recording/Sound Design
Ken Dahlinger
Framework Sound
Additional Music
Paul F. Antonelli
Ron C. Cates
David Novak
Additional Photography
Marc Reshovsky
Paris Patton
Assistant Camera
Ken Glassing
Andy palmer
Scott Banac
Slater Crosby
Afshin Shahidi
Gaffers
Pat Grosswendt
Shane Kelly
Dave Palm
Key Grips
Milo Durben
Dink Adams
Best Boys
Chris Malone
Geoff Shotz
Grip/Electric
John Fruin
Eric Nelson
John Levy
Jamie Franta
Crane
Victor Korte
Special Effects
Paul Murphy
Eric Howell
Video Assist
Harland Snodgrass
Judah Hannah
Cone Chamberlain
SFX Editors
Ave Farmers
Paul Menichini
Foley Recordist
Beau Maxwell
Foley Artists
Ginger Geary
Robert Friedman
Diane Parrino
Production Assistance
Bryan Wilmoth
Steve Kelly
Sean Healey
Lisa Van Huffel
Rag Construction
Helen Ammann
Christine Bur
Michele Kielsa
Kelly Homan
James Shearon
Karen Winkler
Associate Producer
Sharon Smith
Logo Design
Jeff Munson
Lizz Luce
Paisley Park Soundstage
Red White
Danny Soltys
Todd Rask
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