"Raspberry Beret" by Prince
Woke Up with it in My Head Song for Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020: “Raspberry Beret” by Prince.
When it was #2 in 1985, Raspberry Beret wasn’t one of my favorite Prince songs. Since then, I’ve grown to like it. I think one of the reasons is Raspberry Beret contains one of my favorite lyrics ever:
“Seems to me I was dong something close to nothing, but different than the day before.”
It cracks me up there could be many forms of doing nothing, indistinguishable to the untrained eye, but to a person that is a pro at doing nothing, there are many shades of nothing.
Another favorite lyric:
“She walked in through the out door”
The lyrical picture Prince paints of the woman who came into the five and dime that day is very colorful.
Random thoughts about the video
The cool dancing and the funky finger cymbal introduction.
Prince coughs. Why? To be sick and do something no one else would do, according to a Rolling Stone interview.
The woman in the yellow that gets a brief dance solo is Kimberly B. Delfin.
Pat Smear from the Foo Fighters was in the video just hanging out.