Prince is the master of exploring sexual territory. A solid 90 percent of his discography is an homage to sex and sexuality, and the man has lived his life as a walking performance piece devoted to the aura and iconography of the extremely sensual. To choose just one Prince song for this homage to love is a difficult, but ultimately necessary task. And in that aim, the choice of “Insatiable,” a piece that poetically explores ravenous sexuality and soul emptying pleasure of orgasmic bliss, is most apropos.
From 1991’s fantastic Diamonds and Pearls LP, Prince’s direct nature in the insistence of the tracking and lyricism of the song creates a full sexual experience. There isn’t the normal evocative poetry of his musical dominance here. It’s straightforward, direct, honest and bare, XXX nudity and performance in sonic form. Describing his need for love like being “a wildcat in a celibate rage,” and wanting to invite his lover to be with his wildcat form in his “dirty little cage,” leaves so perilously little to the imagination that you can easily visualize the what, where, why and how of the encounter, with you and your mate as the who, likely with explosive success.
This song celebrates the visceral and depraved hauntings and trappings of romantic entanglement like none other. There’s videotapes, oral entangling, and explicit sexuality here, made into beautiful expression. This is par for the course for Prince, but here, there’s something in the orchestration of the track that enlightens brighter than anything else the man ever did. The instrumentation here is perfect, as if Prince was replaying a prior coupling in his mind at every turn. It is rare when a man can make the physical into the ephemeral, but Prince does it, over, and over and over again here, until, well, when he screams at the final chorus, it’s patently obvious exactly what you’ve heard, and where his mind is at that moment.
This track is the very definition of the sex you have once that defines the chase a man entertains in his sexual misadventures for the rest of his years. The perfection in executing that moment on record is mind shattering and toe curling lust. Prince personified.
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