Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It has been a period of musical loss and celebration. On the same week we lost Prince, the world was gifted Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Both artists contain multitudes of musical traditions, collaborators and themes that weave throughout their song. In the first half of the show, we break down Beyoncé's “Hold Up,” an exemplary piece about Lemonade's main theme of marital distress. But the song is not as simple as it may seem. Its compositional restraint suggests more complex ideas about love. Speaking of love, Prince may have published more songs on the subject than any other recording musician. In the second half of the show, we speak with scholar and Musiqology contributor Matthew Valnes about Prince’s musical legacy. Featuring - Beyoncé - Pray You Catch Me - Beyoncé - Freedom - Beyoncé - Formation - Beyoncé - Love Drought - Beyoncé - Sorry - Beyoncé - All Night - Beyoncé - Daddy Lessons - Beyoncé - Hold Up - Major Lazer & DJ Snake - Lean On - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps - Vampire Weekend - Obvious Bicycle - Beyoncé - Don’t Hurt Yourself - Prince - Musicology - Joshua Redman - How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore - Prince - How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore - Prince - When Doves Cry - Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You - Prince - Super Bowl Press Conference Performance - Marcus Miller - Jean Pierre (live at North Sea Jazz Festival) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Q8Ual3coM You can read Matthew Valnes' article "When Doves Cry" over at Musiqology: http://musiqology.com/blog/2016/04/25/when-doves-cry-prince-and-black-popular-music-history/ Also check out Behind The Linear Notes’s latest episode on the history of the Castrati featuring a clip from our episode on One Direction: http://www.betweenthelinernotes.com/episodes-1/castrato Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're done.
0:09.3	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:10.4	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:12.0	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:14.4	I don't know about you Nate, but I feel like we've had a relentless beat of major releases
0:19.8	and tributes so far in just the beginning of this year.
0:24.0	And I am finding it hard to keep up.
0:25.9	It is an embarrassment of riches truly.
0:28.6	I feel like I do best if I take time to let things sink in a little bit.
0:33.8	Oh, yeah, you're like a sponge, a sexy sponge.
0:37.0	Thanks.
0:38.4	So for the past two weeks, I've been really thoroughly absorbing Beyonce's lemonade,
0:43.4	which we'll talk about in the first half of the show.
0:45.8	And I have been steeping myself in Prince's seemingly infinite back catalog, which we will
0:53.3	be listening to in the second half of the episode with the help of someone who literally
0:58.0	wrote their dissertation on funk, scholar and writer Matthew Vaughnis.
1:02.3	Beautiful.
1:03.3	All right, well, let's just kick things off.
1:04.8	I am so excited to get into Beyonce's new album, Lemonade.
1:09.8	Yes.
1:10.8	It's one of those albums where I just wish that we lived in the same city because I would
1:21.1	want to sit down and listen to this thing track by track and dissect every piece of it
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