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− | |introduction = '''Rainbow Children''' is the first track on [[Prince]] | + | |introduction = '''Rainbow Children''' is the first track on [[Prince]]’s 24th album [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]], his first album after reverting to the name [[Prince]]. In late 2001, it was also included as the third track on the [[Single: She Loves Me 4 Me|She Loves Me 4 Me]] "Jazz Sampler" promo CD available only in the USA. The track was heavily played as the opening song on the [[One Nite Alone... Tour]] and in 2002 a live version from the tour was released as the first track on the [[Album: One Nite Alone... Live!|One Nite Alone... Live!]] album (with no other tracks included from the same show). |
Specific recording dates are unknown, but it is likely that basic tracking took place in late 2000 or early 2001 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. | Specific recording dates are unknown, but it is likely that basic tracking took place in late 2000 or early 2001 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. | ||
The song contains a quotation from the track [[Sexuality]], released 20 years earlier - "Reproduction of the New Breed, Leaders, stand up! Organize!"<br> | The song contains a quotation from the track [[Sexuality]], released 20 years earlier - "Reproduction of the New Breed, Leaders, stand up! Organize!"<br> | ||
− | The track opens with narrative in a distorted low voice by [[Prince]] that continues through many of the | + | The track opens with narrative in a distorted low voice by [[Prince]] that continues through many of the album’s tracks. It introduces the story of the "Rainbow Children", who "go about the work of building a new nation" with "accurate understanding of God and his laws". "The Wise One" and his woman are tempted by "The Resistor" "as prophesied". The woman succumbed, and was banished from the land along with five others, who became "The Banished Ones" (this was long thought to be as being written about [[Prince]]’s separation from his first wife [[Mayte]], which she confirmed in her 2017 biography "The Most Beautiful"). The Wise One trusted in God to bring him another woman (read: [[Prince]]’s soon-to-be second wife, [[Manuela Testolini]]). Although the term "Rainbow Children" is used during the narrative and some lyrics throughout the album, these uses are not considered a reference to this particular song, but instead to the same idea referred to in the lyric of this song - a group of people who have obtained some kind of spiritual enlightenment, "flying on the wings of the New Translation" (likely referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Translation_of_the_Holy_Scriptures New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures] used by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah’s_Witnesses Jehovah’s Witnesses], the religious group [[Prince]] belonged to at the time of recording). |
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|date = Late 2000 - early 2001 | |date = Late 2000 - early 2001 | ||
|studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | |studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
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