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Laydown, the song with which Prince opened last night\u2019s concert at the closing of the North Sea Jazz Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

This, it seems, is his latest hit (which I absolutely love, by the way; especially the \u201cFrom the heart of Minnesota here comes the Purple Yoda<\/em>\u201d line). When he came on stage and started playing it, I felt I was knocked down. It was like nothing I had experienced before.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I\u2019ve been listening to Prince since I was what, 13, maybe? Which is to say he has been a significant contributor to the soundtrack of my life for 25+ years. I am reluctant to say he is my favorite popular artist because yeah, I do not have one favorite artist. My musical tastes change and move around and I listen to a lot of different stuff, so saying I have one single preferred artist would be reductionist. Still, I\u2019d say he has, from the beginning, been in my top 3 or 5 all time favorites.<\/p>\n

I have been to more concerts and festivals than I can even remember. I used to have a job that allowed me to see almost every international act touring South America for free (I had to work for it, so the \u201cfor free\u201d is debatable, but still). When I moved to Europe, I could no longer attend without paying but, whenever means allowed it, I continued my habit of going to concerts and festivals. And yet, I wasn\u2019t prepared for what Prince delivered last night. I just never, ever, realized what a force he is on stage. I had always perceived his music as a band effort, with him as the charismatic frontman doing the Prince \u201cthing\u201d. Oh was I wrong. So many moments evoked the videos I\u2019ve seen of Jimmy Hendrix or the James Brown concerts I\u2019ve been to. I was amazed at how much from those two artists he drew from (at least last night, which was a concert where he played a lot of jazzy and blues influenced tunes). He also did many of his old hits. And I must confess, when he played 1999<\/em>, I teared up. Because yeah, popular music is not just popular music, it\u2019s also the way we evoke our own lives and who we were when we first heard those songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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