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Reissue of this 1988 album from the R&B, funk, soul, and rock icon. Lovesexy was not the album that the music industry was expecting Prince to in 1988. In what Jon Pareles of The New York Times described as Inchone of the most enjoyable and peculiar moves of the 1980s,Inch Prince announced that he would follow up the critically revered Sign o' the Times with The Black Album, a raw collection of hard-rocking, funky dance music. But then, a mere week before it's scheduled , he scrapped his plans and demanded that Warner Bros. Destroy all copies of the album. Only one of the songs from that album, InchWhen 2 R in Love,Inch would be saved from the cutting room floor, and within seven weeks Prince had recorded an all new collection of songs to join it on the album Lovesexy. Lovesexy was a brighter, lighter, and more melodic , inspired by the more spiritual direction that Prince's music had started to take in the second half of the decade. InchWe need love and honesty, peace and harmony, positivity,Inch he sings in the album's closing track, echoing the sentiment that courses throughout the album after confronting society's deepest troubles in his earlier political work, Lovesexy sought the unite and uplift. In Prince's words, Lovesexy was his gospel album. Album Tracks 1. Eye No 2. Alphabet St 3. Glam Slam 4. Anna Stesia 5. Dance on 6. Lovesexy 7. When 2 R in Love 8. I Wish U Heaven 9. Positivity