Songoftheday 5/12/14 - Is the mailman jerking U 'round? Did he put your million dollar check In someone else's box?

Prince and the Revolution - "Pop Life"
from the album Around The World In A Day (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-10: 10

Today's Song of the Day comes from Prince, who's post-Purple Rain psychedelic album Around The World In A Day had already sent its first single "Raspberry Beret" to #2 on the pop chart in 1985. For its second release the "Purple One" went even more direct to his involvement with the music medium he is now working in. With lyrics that recount everyday nastiness that not only pop music takes you away from, but never addresses, it's a love/hate relationship with the mainstream that Prince is wrestling with...


Pop Life from PRINCE on Myspace.


"Pop Life" became the second top-40 "pop" hit in America in September of 1985, while peaking one notch under that on the R&B chart, and it climbed to #5 on Billboard's dance club play list. Internationally, the single never really took off, missing the top-40 in England, Australia, Germany, and New Zealand, though it did manage to make it to #29 in Ireland.

Now maybe that Prince and Warner Brothers are all made up, perhaps they can get his videos on VEVO?

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...and here's the dance remix of the song, done by Sheila E., who does the drums on both the single and the 12"...


Pop Life [Fresh Dance Mix] from PRINCE on Myspace.


Rapper Big Daddy Kane sampling "Pop Life" on his single "The Lover In You", which went to #26 on the R&B singles chart in 1991...

Up tomorrow: British boys go-go to China.