If I Was Prince – Review

If I Was Prince

(Rex)
By Lex Marburger

It’s a buncha Brits covering Prince songs. Some are better than others, but the whole thing’s a goof. I mean Op:l Bastards do an interesting strip down of “If I was Your Girlfriend,” putting a bunch of video-game sound effects into the groove, and Hefner‘s trip-hop/r’n’b “Controversy,” but on the whole, it’s a funny disc that don’t really go nowhere. Artists that were formally unknown to anyone but their closest friends before this album: 7 Hurtz aith Peaches and Bitch Lap Lap, Fort Lauderdale, Capitol K, Simian, Broadway Project with Jeb Loy Nichols, Blue States, Bronze Age Fox, and Misty Dixon.
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