I Mean Darling Nikki Is Pretty Obvious I Suppose!

We had a record player in our living room when I was a kid.

I also, at some point had a portable one (might have been Mickey mouse one actually!!!) in my room at some point, but the "good" one was in the living room and that's where our records lived.

If my math is correct I was probably around 9 or 10 when I found a copy of Purple Rain in the record collection and I remember looking at the cover and finding Prince to be quite.. unusual.

I don't remember the order of things happening but at some point I also watched the movie (it would NOT have been at home... I had a best friend across the street whose parents were a lot more lenient than mine) and so I remember either realizing or learning that the songs on the album were about..... sex.  Sex and sex stuff (like being someone who liked sex?  I don't know.)  I just know that I feel like Purple Rain was the first album where I remember sort of feeling "funny" about some of the songs.  And honestly, most songs that people seem to know are about sex I genuinely didn't, and still am a little bit confused/shocked when someone points it out.  Yes, yes, call me innocent, I don't mind too much!

I suppose what I'm saying is that Purple Rain and some of the songs on it was the first time as a little kid that I grappled with the idea that sex was a thing and some people talked about it on purpose!