Prince, “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” | After Dark 🕛 🌃

In the 87^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” by Prince. 

Innuendo? More like full-on sexual vibes! Welcome to After Dark 🕛 🌃, a column featuring songs that are best suited for nighttime, specifically, the bedroom.  Many of the records featured here raise eyebrows, as well as the temperature! These After Dark tunes focus on the universal three-letter word:  SEX. The dark records gracing After Dark are old and new alike, with all genres of music welcome.  In the 87^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, 🎵 “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” by 🎙 Prince. 

Theme & Lyrics ✍

“Excuse me, but I need a mouth like yours / To help me forget the girl that just walked out the door.”  Oh, really? Ooh-la-la, 🎙 Prince! Perhaps the Purple One is merely suggesting kissing on 🎵 “Let’s Pretend We’re Married”, a single from his 1982 album, 💿 1999.  Let’s not kid ourselves.  We all know that in his heyday, Prince’s music was quite risqué – sexed-up to the n^th degree. “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” isn’t the least bit innocent.  The title was scandalous for back in the day, though fewer folks cry foul regarding premarital sex.

Even if Prince were indeed showing innocence in the excerpted lyrics, it’s hard not to read into them.  Two years earlier, he was singing about 🎵 “Head” after all, not to mention the masturbatory  🎵 “Jack U Off”. Basically, “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” focuses on fun in the bedroom. “There’s ain’t nothin’ wrong if it feels all right,” he sings in the chorus, adding, “I won’t stop until the morning light / Let’s pretend we’re married and go all night, tonight.” All night, huh? I see you, Prince! It gets dirtier, of course, including, dropping those bombs!

“I wanna fuck you so bad it hurts, it hurts, it hurts

I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna fuck you

… Look here Marsha, I’m not sayin’ this just to be nasty

I sincerely wanna fuck the taste out of your mouth

Can you relate?”

Final Thoughts 💭

Prince was never shy when it came to sex, and 🎵 “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” is a prime example.  Interestingly, towards the end, the Purple One references God: “I’m in love with God, he’s the only way / ‘Cause you and I know we gotta die someday.” Well, that’s not very After Dark 🕛 🌃 like. No worries as Prince proceeds to contradict himself, asserting, “But if you think I’m crazy, you’re probably right / But I’m gonna have fun every motherfuckin’ night.” Jesus!

Appears in 🔻:

• In Remembrance: 13 Provocative Songs from Prince

🎙 Prince • 💿 1999 • 🏷 Warner • 🗓 1982 

Prince, “Let’s Pretend We’re Married”: After Dark 🕛 🌃 No. 87 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, Foundry Co, John lucas, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Tazz Vaughn, Warner]