SONG
TITLE:
7
PERFORMER:
PRINCE
SONGWRITER:
PRINCE
YEAR
OF
RELEASE:
1992
COMMENTS:
This
record
tripped
me
out
several
different
ways.
For
starters,
Prince
managed
to
get
a
song
on
pop
radio
and
all
the
way
into
the
top
ten
with
this
heavy
scriptural
content.
The
title
is
a
reference
to
the
seven
seals
of
the
apocalypse
from
St.
John's
Revelation.
The
second
trippy
part
was
the
timing.
I
suppose
Prince
didn't
really
have
anything
to
do
with
that
part.
This
was
a
big
hit
during
the
siege
of
David
Koresh
and
his
Branch
Davidians
at
Waco.
Both
Koresh
and
Prince
are
rogue
Seventh
Day
Adventists,
and
their
rhetoric
was
very
similar.
As
his
followers
were
preparing
for
their
fiery
end,
Koresh
was
preaching
the
biblical
apocalypse
-and
tens
of
millions
were
digging
on
Prince
preaching
on
the
same
scripture.
Strangely,
no
one
seemed
to
make
the
connection.
The
trippiest
thing
of
all
is
that
he
made
a
hit
out
of
something
so
musically
and
sonically
weird.
Besides
the
lyrics,
this
sounds
like
something
from
Mars.
He
starts
the
record
with
an
acapella
vocal
chorale
of
the
chorus.
Then
it
turns
into
what
might
best
be
described
as
acoustic
based
psychedlia.
With
the
song
built
on
simple
(but
undeniable)
acoustic
guitar
chords,
it
plays
more
as
a
rock
song
than
funk.
Yet
the
drums
and
scratching
add
something
of
a
hip
hop
element.
Psychedlia
comes
in
from
the
lead
guitar
lines
treated
like
a
sitar,
partly,
but
mostly
from
the
purely
hallucinatory
air
surrounding
the
whole
thing
(eg
the
dark
laughter
of
the
anti-christ
on
the
track).
He
was
able
to
put
such
a
freaky
thing
over
on
pop
radio
absolutely
only
because
this
is
one
of
the
most
stunning
pieces
of
both
melodic
and
production
craftwork
in
his
career.
Every
detail
of
this
is
perfect,
from
the
indelible
tune
of
the
chorus,
to
the
rock
hard
vocal
harmonies
behind,
to
the
finger
cymbals
and
flutes.
Not
only
that,
but
it
has
a
strong
sense
of
spiritual
conviction.
Prince
speaks
here
as
one
acting
as
a
higher
power.
Only
a
couple
of
little
differences
in
environment
led
Koresh
and
Prince
on
completely
different
paths.
One
was
a
guitar
player
who
started
a
sex
crazed
religious
cult
built
around
himself
as
the
charismatic
leader
with
a
messiah
complex.
The
other...
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