1999
It's from 1982, before you were born.
- Artist
- Prince
- Genre
- Funk / pop
- Released
- 1982
- Note
- breakthrough double album
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1999 was Prince's breakthrough into the mainstream, a sprawling double album of funk, new wave, and pure futuristic groove whose title track became an inescapable anthem — and then, in a delightful bit of cosmic timing, exploded all over again as the actual year 1999 approached and everyone wanted to 'party like it's' exactly that. Prince got to release the perfect New Year's song seventeen years early.
'Little Red Corvette' and the title track made it a landmark, setting up the superstardom that Purple Rain would soon cement.
Funky, futuristic, and perfectly timed (twice), 1999 is the album that made Prince a star and handed the world its definitive end-of-millennium anthem.
