Now That's What I Call Club Hits 2/Taylor Swift

Listening to Blow Your Head again, this time at window-rattling volume. If some club kid somewhere can figure out a way to combine this kind of techno ice with r&b fire, rock guitar, and lyrics that are about something besides just blowing your head, the result could well be Twenty-First Century Punk Rock, Man.

OK, was searching for the quote, and discovered a bit more than that.  This first is from the source of the controversy, a 2008 New Yorker article:

"Recently, Prince hosted an executive who works for Philip Anschutz, the Christian businessman whose company owns the Staples Center. “We started talking red and blue,” Prince said. “People with money—money like that—are not affected by the stock market, and they’re not freaking out over anything. They’re just watching. So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this.” He pointed to a Bible. “But there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.”

When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ” "

Next, Claire Hoffman, the author of the article:

"I just interviewed Prince and he wouldn’t let me use a tape recorder or my notepad.  I walked out and sat in my car and wrote for an hour.  I don’t have long chunks of dialogue, but I was able to remember stuff. 

Do you normally tape?
For the magazine stuff I normally try to tape.  You can have longer dialogue, but for newspapers I don’t, just because you don’t have enough time.  I’m a pretty fast writer, just from doing newspapers."

Finally, Ann Powers, from her interview with him:

He did not vote for Proposition 8. In fact, he didn't vote at all. "I didn't vote for Obama either," he explained. "Jehovah's Witnesses haven't voted for their whole inception." The controversy over a recent New Yorker "Talk of the Town" item, which Prince feels implied he supported the gay-marriage ban, has upset him. It's the first thing he wanted to discuss when the Web geeks had gone and we were alone. "I have friends that are gay and we study the Bible together," he said. He added that two sides fighting "only benefit the third person" who instigated the fight."