Pop Life: Desiring Prince

by Charles MudedeThe vaporous body of a pop star.
To this day, the structure of a standard hiphop video is not at all like the structure of a Prince video or album cover. The former is all about the production of envy. It's about the rapper not being the object of desire, but rather the one who has access to things an uncomplicated heterosexual male mind desires, namely the company of thickish, young, bubbly women. With Prince, the object of desire was always himself. And this confused things fo