This Could Be Us is the seventh track on Prince's 37th album Art Official Age. A remix of the track (titled This Could B Us) has been announced as the fifth track on Prince's forthcoming 38th album Hitnrun, and This Could B Us was released as the album's third single (though only its first following the album's release) ten days before the album's release.
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. The Hitnrun remix contains additional recording believed to have taken place in early 2015 at Paisley Park Studios.
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.
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