This morning I was somewhere where a random playlist of 1980s pop songs was playing. At one point The Bangles’ hit Manic Monday<\/i> came on.<\/p>\n
“Did you know,” I said to the person I was with, “that this song was written by Prince?”<\/p>\n
“I can definitely hear that,” she said.<\/p>\n
A few minutes later the next random pop song started. It was “1999” sung by the Purple One himself.<\/p>\n
We just looked at each other. There was no reason even to say anything.<\/p>\n
It was like we were hearing the same song again. Only with different lyrics and a more Princely arrangement.<\/p>\n
I wonder what were the odds of those two songs coming up back to back? It felt like a good cosmic joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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