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After his millennium pay-per-view, the former Prince had vowed he would never perform his party-anthem "1999" again, but at his website (www.love4oneanother.com) he has posted a new song titled "One Song," accompanied by an animated video and stirring sermon.
The track, which is available in the streamed RealPlayer format is a piano/keyboard/drum machine gospel number with inspirational verse given a muscular delivery by The Artist: "I am the universe, the universe is me/I am that One Song, and that song is free."
The visual accompaniment imaginatively animates the songs lyrics, and the entire affair is introduced by the heavily-echoed singer's spoken voice, delivering a dense sermon that denounces artists who create negative, violent work and seems to lament the power-to-the-people primacy of democracy over his preference, power-to-God.
"God being centrifugal in nature, freedom was the cause and choice was the effect," he declares.