This Could Be Us (a.k.a. This Could B Us) is the seventh track on Prince's 37th album Art Official Age.
The track was first mentioned in a 23 June, 2014 article by Jon Bream in the Minneapolis Star Tribune (along with The Gold Standard, a remix of Funknroll and an unnamed duet with Rita Ora). In the article, Bream mentions that Prince explained the track as "inspired by a meme of him and Apollonia riding on a motorcycle, clearly a scene taken from the 1984 movie Purple Rain. It’s a joyful ballad with some ecstatic Prince vocalizing."
On 26 June, 2014, a 35-second snippet of This Could Be Us was made available on 3rdEyeGirl Twitter account via a dropbox link.
A remix of the track has been announced late august 2015 for inclusion on his 38th album Hitnrun due 7 September, 2015 on Tidal; it was made available on the streaming service Tidal (as This Could B Us) two weeks before the album's availability on the platform.
On 28 August, 2015, This Could B Us was released as a digital single on iTunes, JunoDownload and Quobuz.
Recording process
While specific recording dates are not known, it is assumed to have been recorded in Spring 2014 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. It is believed that the Hitnrun remix contains additional recording from early 2015 at Paisley Park Studios.
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