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Y'all ready 2 get this #PurpleParty started? @Prince entered @Sunset Sound early May '82 to record what would become his longest electro-jam #Automatic. At over 9 minutes sending the project dubbed 1999 he began in Jan into unintentional Double LP territory 
He arrived with clearly something on his mind as everything in #Automatic feels like a confession An urgent unsettling genuine desperation unfolding with lyrical themes of emotion as technology. Lockstep speak-singing in the same pattern of his drum machine.
Both principal themes at the time, spiritual & profane come into play, the latter on full display when he makes cavalier declaration of a sexual favor, the listener & backing singer @JillJones simultaneously snap to as she excitedly responds “You will?!”
@zaccrain has emerged as the most important journalist of his generation in #Dallas. While his entire body of work is stellar, his latest offering in this month's @DMagazine is a masterpiece and a masterclass in story-telling.
The story he tells is a story that Dallas has long worked hard to hide. As I wrote in my latest non-fiction book #SomethingInTheWater, Dallas is America's capital of functional white supremacy. Not was, but is. Among many horrors, Zac's work could be presented as Exhibit A.
I commend it to anyone seeking to understand how Dallas made its way to the very bottom of the @urbaninstitute 's list as the most racially segregated, racially inequitable city in America (2018).
