{"id":25890,"date":"2016-04-28T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25890"},"modified":"2016-04-28T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:35:53","slug":"our-daily-prince-music-to-move-forward-with-and-tanya-olsens-poem-54-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-04\/our-daily-prince-music-to-move-forward-with-and-tanya-olsens-poem-54-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Daily Prince: Music to Move Forward With and Tanya Olsen&#8217;s Poem &#8220;54 Prince&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<p class=\"post__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Header-Prince-628x378.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Header-Prince-628x378.jpg\" alt=\"Header-Prince-628x378\" width=\"620\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Header-Prince-628x378.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Header-Prince-628x378-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Header-Prince-628x378-450x271.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"post__title\">Since it&#8217;s <strong>Throwback Thursday<\/strong>, we will continue to obsess the loss of <strong>Prince<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post__title\">There are various ways to make it through. On the music front, for those who love\u00a0<strong>Prince&#8217;s<\/strong> music, we encourage you to check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unknownmortalorchestra.com\/\">Unknown Mortal Orchestra<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-04\/review-unknown-mortal-orchestra-at-soho-in-santa-barbara\/\"><strong>Princed-up the Soho stage in Santa Barbara<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Their most recent album,<em><strong> Multi-Love<\/strong><\/em>, seems at times primarily an homage to<strong> Prince<\/strong> (though you will hear other influences), and their concerts repeatedly reminded of his <strong>Prince-ness<\/strong>. To get a feel check out below the song and <strong>Prince<\/strong>-influenced video for\u00a0<em><strong>Ur Life One Night<\/strong><\/em>. <strong>UMO<\/strong> are well worth your time, and particularly when grasping for ways to move forward.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/giwX3fbUbdQ\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For something completely different and to help take your mind off more morose matters, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/yesyesbooks.com\/authors-artists\/olson-tanya\/\"><strong>Tawnya Olsen&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0great poem <em><strong>54 Prince<\/strong><\/em> below. \u00a0Featured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/The-Best-American-Poetry-2015\/David-Lehman\/9781476708195\"><strong>Best American Poetry of 2015<\/strong> <\/a>collection, <strong>Olsen<\/strong>\u00a0writes therein about the poem: &#8220;&#8216;<em><strong>54 Prince<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; began as a high five to scientists for coming up with such an awesome term as &#8220;Goldilocks planet.&#8221; I thought the phrase gave us narrative-craving humans an immediate idea of what the planets were like but still kept them mysterious&#8230;. Why <strong>Prince<\/strong>? I wondered what else all these &#8216;good enough&#8217; planets would need to survive. Wouldn&#8217;t life be easier if each planet had its own<strong> Prince<\/strong>&#8211;brilliant, a little off, possibly extraterrestrial anyway?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post__title\">We imagine <strong>Prince<\/strong> inhabiting heaven and holding up at least 54 planets. &#8220;<em>There\u2019s worries now<\/em> the fish sing\u00a0<em>but there won\u2019t be worries long.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Amen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post__title\"><em><strong>54 Prince<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"interior-page__body\">\n<div class=\"post__body\">\n<div class=\"post__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post__wrapper-content\">\n<div>\n<p>There exist 54 Goldilocks planets<br \/>\n54 planets not too hot<br \/>\n54 planets not too cold<br \/>\n54 planets where the living<br \/>\nis juuuuuust right<br \/>\nin that particular planetary zone<\/p>\n<p>54 planets like Earth<br \/>\nbut not Earth Similar<br \/>\nnot the same 54 planets close<br \/>\nbut different Different<br \/>\nexcept for Prince<\/p>\n<p>Assless Pants Prince<br \/>\nHigh-Heel Boots Prince<br \/>\nPurple Rain Prince<br \/>\nPaisley Park Prince<br \/>\n<em>I Would Die For You <\/em>Prince<br \/>\nEjaculating Guitar Prince<br \/>\nJehovah\u2019s Witness Prince<br \/>\nNeeds A New Hip Prince<br \/>\nWrote <em>Slave<\/em> On His Face Prince<br \/>\nTook An Unpronounceable Symbol For His Name Prince<br \/>\n<em>Chka Chka Chka Ahh<\/em> Prince<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-rect-ad-wrapper\">\u00a054 planets each with a Prince<br \/>\nand every Prince<br \/>\nexactly the same<br \/>\nas the one we know on Earth<br \/>\n54 lace 54 canes<br \/>\n54 planets 54 Prince<span id=\"more-185607\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>These 54 Prince swallow 54 worries<br \/>\nThe 54 worries become 54 songs<br \/>\n54 songs made of 54 bars 54 bars<br \/>\nusing 54 chords 54 downbeats<br \/>\nwhere they pick up the worries<br \/>\n54 off-beats to lay the worries down again<br \/>\n54 worried skank-beat Prince<br \/>\nbirth 54 worrisome funk-drenched songs<\/p>\n<p>Once an Earth year the Prince<br \/>\ngather around Lake Minnetonka<br \/>\nWhen the cherry moon smiles<br \/>\nthey thrust under their heads<br \/>\nUnder the water the Prince sick up<br \/>\nthe old worries Under the water<br \/>\nworry sacks rise empty again<\/p>\n<p><em>It takes a worried man <\/em>the Prince say<br \/>\n<em>to sing a worried song<\/em><br \/>\nwhile beneath the surface of Lake Minnetonka<br \/>\nthe perch in the shoals<br \/>\nand the gobies in their holes<br \/>\nnibble at the worries<br \/>\nour skimmed from the top worries<br \/>\nscraped from the bottom worries<br \/>\nspooned from the middle good enough worries<br \/>\n<em>There\u2019s worries now<\/em> the fish sing<br \/>\n<em>but there won\u2019t be worries long&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tanya Olson<\/strong> lives in Silver Spring, MD. <em><strong>\u00a054 Prince<\/strong><\/em> was originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2014\/01\/54-prince\"><strong>The Awl<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0If you like <strong>Prince-themed poetry<\/strong>, support the author by buying <a title=\" href=\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">her first book,<\/span> <\/a><em><strong><a title=\"If you like Prince-themed poetry support the author by buying this book\" href=\"http:\/\/yesyesbooks.com\/store\/book\/0000017\/\">Boyishly<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, which was published by <strong>YesYes Books<\/strong> in 2013 and won an <strong>American Book Award<\/strong> in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Throwback Thursday, we will continue to obsess the loss of Prince. There are various ways to make it through. On the music front, for those who love\u00a0Prince&#8217;s music, we encourage you to check out Unknown Mortal Orchestra\u00a0who recently Princed-up the Soho stage in Santa Barbara. \u00a0Their most recent album, Multi-Love, seems at times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions\/25899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}