LETTERS
IF SHF KNEW WHAT SHE WANTS While listening to the Bangles’ Different Light LP, my mind tripped on an interesting connection only CREEM readers would be proud of. We all know that Prince wrote “Manic Monday,” right? Well, you know that line—“I was kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream”? Well, this Valentino character struck me as oddly familiar when thinking of Prince’s earlier material.
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IF SHF KNEW WHAT SHE WANTS
While listening to the Bangles’ Different Light LP, my mind tripped on an interesting connection only CREEM readers would be proud of. We all know that Prince wrote “Manic Monday,” right? Well, you know that line—“I was kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream”? Well, this Valentino character struck me as oddly familiar when thinking of Prince’s earlier material. Then it clicked! Controversy; “Private Joy”: “I strangled Valentino, been mine ever since. If anybody asks you, you belong to Prince.”
For the more dunderheaded readers, “Valentino” is Prince’s pet name for his thingy-bob! This means he deliberately set up Susannah “Hubba-Hubba” Hoffs, alongside said stream, kissing his thingyjig. And who could blame him? But this is a dirty scandal! More perceptive media hounds will remember how Prince chased Ms. Hoffs doggedly a year-and-a-half or so ago. Aieeeeeeel The mind reels!