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|first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/February 9|9 February 1993]] - [[Album: Carmen Electra|Carmen Electra]] album | |first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/February 9|9 February 1993]] - [[Album: Carmen Electra|Carmen Electra]] album | ||
|album(s) = [[Album: Carmen Electra|Carmen Electra]]<br> | |album(s) = [[Album: Carmen Electra|Carmen Electra]]<br> | ||
− | |writer(s) = [[Prince]] and [[Anna Fantastic]] (credited to [[Prince]] (music) | + | |writer(s) = [[Prince]] and [[Anna Fantastic]] (credited to [[Prince]] (music), [[Carmen Electra]] (lyrics) and Karen "K-Dean" Cover (rap)) |
|producer(s) = [[Prince]] | |producer(s) = [[Prince]] | ||
|previous song = [[Famous]] | |previous song = [[Famous]] | ||
|next song = [[Fantasy]] | |next song = [[Fantasy]] | ||
− | |introduction = '''Fantasia Erotica''' is the sixth track on [[Carmen Electra]]’s only album [[Album: Carmen Electra|Carmen Electra]], and, six months after the album’s release [[Single: Fantasia Erotica|Fantasia Erotica]] was released as the album’s third single, containing several remixes of the track. Although official writing credit is split between [[Prince]] (music) | + | |introduction = '''Fantasia Erotica''' is the sixth track on [[Carmen Electra]]’s only album [[Album: Carmen Electra|Carmen Electra]], and, six months after the album’s release [[Single: Fantasia Erotica|Fantasia Erotica]] was released as the album’s third single, containing several remixes of the track. Although official writing credit is split between [[Prince]] (music), [[Carmen Electra]] (lyrics) and Karen "K-Dean" Cover (rap), the track was originally recorded by [[Prince]] in 1989, before he began working with [[Carmen Electra|Electra]]. |
− | Basic tracking took place in January 1989 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], and the song was initially intended for [[Anna Fantastic]]. In 2014, [[Anna Fantastic]] posted a [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=574793095945212&set=vb.130313623726497&type=2&theater video] on her Facebook page of a rehearsal for a performance video of the song, dated [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/February 14|14 February 1989]], and in 2018 a more complete version on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=OEc5rtkMnf4 YouTube], including two phone calls from [[Prince]] at the beginning and end, with him asking her to do a dance routine to it and him saying he called Warner Bros. Netherlands and they were okay to release it. | + | Basic tracking took place in January 1989 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], and the song was initially intended for an ultimately abandonned [[Album: Anna Fantastic (1990)|project]] with [[Anna Fantastic]]. In 2014, [[Anna Fantastic]] posted a [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=574793095945212&set=vb.130313623726497&type=2&theater video] on her Facebook page of a rehearsal for a performance video of the song, dated [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/February 14|14 February 1989]], and in 2018 a more complete version on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=OEc5rtkMnf4 YouTube], including two phone calls from [[Prince]] at the beginning and end, with him asking her to do a dance routine to it and him saying he called Warner Bros. Netherlands and they were okay to release it. |
− | The girls that appear with [[Anna Fantastic]] in the video are her friends Tamara Chloé and | + | The girls that appear with [[Anna Fantastic]] in the video are her friends Tamara Chloé and Eliza Esther. It is assumed that nothing more came off it after this 'routine' video. |
When work on [[Carmen Electra]]’s album began, this track was pulled from the vault as the starting point for the album. Further work was done on the track in March 1991, at [http://www.larrabeestudios.com/ Larrabee Sound Studios] in North Hollywood, California when [[Carmen Electra]]’s vocals were added (during the same set of sessions as updated versions of [[Elephant Box]], [[Slappy Dappy]], [[Jadestone]], [[Whispering Dandelions]] and [[Crystal City Cry]], and recording [[Fun]], [[Carmen On Top]] and [[Uh Huh]]). | When work on [[Carmen Electra]]’s album began, this track was pulled from the vault as the starting point for the album. Further work was done on the track in March 1991, at [http://www.larrabeestudios.com/ Larrabee Sound Studios] in North Hollywood, California when [[Carmen Electra]]’s vocals were added (during the same set of sessions as updated versions of [[Elephant Box]], [[Slappy Dappy]], [[Jadestone]], [[Whispering Dandelions]] and [[Crystal City Cry]], and recording [[Fun]], [[Carmen On Top]] and [[Uh Huh]]). | ||
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|date = January 1989 | |date = January 1989 | ||
|studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | |studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
− | |additional info = | + | |additional info = Tracking ([[Anna Fantastic]] version) |
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