The Morning Papers

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"The Morning Papers"
Love Symbol Album
B-side
  • "Live 4 Love"
  • "Love 2 the 9's"
ReleasedMarch 1, 1993 (1993-03-01)[1]
RecordedEarly December 1991[2]
StudioPaisley Park (Chanhassen, Minnesota)
GenrePop rock
Length3:57
Label
the New Power Generation
singles chronology
"Damn U"
(1992) 		"The Morning Papers"
(1993) 		"Pink Cashmere"
(1993)
Music video
"The Morning Papers" on
YouTube

"The Morning Papers" is a song by American musician

Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100
.

The lyrics of the song concern Prince falling in love with Mayte Garcia, and sticks to the theme of the movie 3 Chains o' Gold, where Mayte (a princess in Egypt) and Prince meet after her father is assassinated by seven mysterious men. Prince sings about the things they do together and how other people do not value/understand the bond they share. Musically, the song is a pop-rock ballad with an emphasis on guitar. The video is notable for featuring Prince embracing "the grunge look".

Chart performance

"The Morning Papers" was a moderate success on all the charts on which it appeared. It peaked at number 44 on the US

R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, number 35 on the Cash Box Top 100, and number 52 in the UK. The song became the first song by Prince released in proper form in the United Kingdom to miss the top 40 since "Mountains
" in 1986, seven years earlier (this means that 23 of Prince's songs in a row had made the top 40 before "The Morning Papers"). The song, despite missing the Billboard top 40, made the Top 40 mainstream chart, meaning it received significant radio airplay in America.

Critical reception

In an 2017 retrospective review, Andy Healy from Albumism stated that the

pop radio."[4] Randy Clark from Cash Box commented, "All hail the latest release from his Royal Badness' platinum album. This soulful, mid-tempo blues ballad has all the teasing, playful spirit we have grown to expect from the punk with the funk."[5]

Alan Jones from

NME viewed it as "tired balladesque fillers" and "the kind of inconsequential piece of bland funk you'd expect to hear as the credit rolled at the end of Graffiti Bridge."[7] Parry Gettelman from Orlando Sentinel felt the slow track have a strong melody, complimenting it as "a pretty ballad spiced with R&B horns and pop-blues guitar."[8] Charles Aaron from Spin wrote, "Another bewitching bit of gush from the past year's screwiest album. "If he poured his heart into a glass / And offered it like wine", etc., is pure pop poetry."[9]

Personnel

Personnel are taken from Benoît Clerc and Guitarcloud.[10][11]

  • Prince – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar, percussion
  • Levi Seacer Jr. – electric guitar
  • Tommy Barbarella – synthesizers
  • Sonny T. – bass guitar
  • Michael B. – drums
  • Michael B. Nelson – trombone
  • Kathy Jensen – baritone saxophone
  • Brian Gallagher – tenor saxophone
  • Dave Jensen – trumpet
  • Steve Strand – trumpet

Charts

Weekly chart performance for "The Morning Papers"
Chart (1993) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[12] 87
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[13] 42
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[14] 24
Europe (European Hit Radio)[15] 7
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[16] 37
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[17] 24
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[18] 39
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[19] 31
UK Singles (OCC)[20]
 52
US Billboard Hot 100[21] 44
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[22] 68
US
Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[23]
 18
US Cash Box Top 100[24] 35

References

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. February 27, 1993. p. 19.
  2. ^ "The Morning Papers". Prince Vault.
  3. ^ Healy, Andy (October 12, 2017). "Prince's 'Love Symbol' Album Turns 25: Anniversary Retrospective". Albumism. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  4. ^ Flick, Larry (March 27, 1993). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. p. 82. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  5. ^ Clark, Randy (March 27, 1993). "Music Reviews: Singles" (PDF). Cash Box. p. 5. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  6. ^ Jones, Alan (March 6, 1993). "Market Preview: Mainstream – Singles – Pick of the Week" (PDF). Music Week. p. 19. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  7. NME
    . p. 18. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  8. ^ Gettelman, Parry (October 23, 1992). "Prince and the New Power Generation". Orlando Sentinel.
  9. ^ Aaron, Charles (July 1993). "Singles". Spin. p. 84. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  10. ISBN 9781784728816
    .
  11. ^ "The Love Symbol Album". guitarcloud.org. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  12. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 225.
  13. ^ "Prince & The New Power Generation – The Morning Papers" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  14. ^ "RPM 100 Hit Tracks". RPM. Vol. 57, no. 18. May 15, 1993. p. 6.
  15. ^ "EHR Top 40". Music & Media. Vol. 10, no. 17. April 24, 1993. p. 26. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  16. ^ "Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (2.–8. Apríl)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). April 1, 1993. p. 29. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  17. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 14, 1993" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  18. ^ "Prince & The New Power Generation – The Morning Papers" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  19. ^ "Prince & The New Power Generation – The Morning Papers". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  20. ^ "Prince: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  21. ^ "Prince Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  22. ^ "Prince Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  23. ^ "Prince Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  24. ^ "Top 100 Pop Singles" (PDF). Cash Box. Vol. LVI, no. 37. May 22, 1993. p. 12. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
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