Prince
1999
1982 · 1999
Official music video. Official music video on the Prince channel.
Documented
Song by Prince, title track of the 1982 album 1999. Warner Bros. He wrote it. The link is the official music video on the Prince channel.
What can be seen or heard
The lyric says he was dreaming when he wrote it, and that morning felt like judgment day. The sky is purple. People run from destruction. The answer in the song is to dance, because the party was not meant to last. War is named. The purple is in the lyric, not only in his clothes.
What the artist said
The recording itself says the song began as a dream and might go astray. A separate interview that turns the purple sky into a doctrine was not filed here. Do not add one. The dream sentence is his, inside the song.
Living Realm comparison
An expected end, a purple sky, flight, and a celebration in the face of it. Set this beside The Purple People Eater only on the purple sky, and keep the joke and the dream apart. A Living Realm comparison can notice apocalypse answered by a party. It cannot claim he secretly taught a plasma cosmology. That claim is not on this record.
Related
A link is a place to compare. It does not move this recording onto that record.