Darling Nikki

I remember when Purple Rain came out. I was only a little kid, but I still laugh when I think about how a group of us hunkered down around the stereo in class while the teacher was out and someone pulled out the Purple Rain album, put on Darling Nikki on a very low volume. It was supposed to be a "dirty" song. Ooooh we said at the word "Grind" but "Masturbation", what hell did that mean? There was something about the way that Prince sang that song that was dripping with a raw sexuality. As a youngin I didn't know much about what he was talking about, but I did know that the conspiratory way that Prince crooned about Nikki was reason enough for us to keep that volume down at 3.