I Hate U
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| UK 12" single | ||
| Single by Prince | ||
| from the album The Gold Experience | ||
| B-side(s) | " Hate U" (Quiet Night Mix by Eric Leeds) (7") "Endorphinmachine" (Japan CD) |
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| Released | 12 September 1995 | |
| Format | 7" single 12" single Cassette single CD single CD maxi-single |
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| Recorded | Paisley Park Studios, September 1993–1994 | |
| Genre | Pop, Rock, Ballad | |
| Length | 7" edit: 4:27 Album: 5:58 Extended Remix: 6:17 |
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| Label | Warner Bros. Records/NPG Records | |
| Writer(s) | Prince | |
| Producer(s) | Prince, Ricky Peterson | |
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| Prince singles chronology | ||
| "Purple Medley" (1995) |
" Hate U" (1995) |
"Gold" (1995) |
" Hate U" is a song by Prince from his 1995 album The Gold Experience. The track was the lead single in support of the album, released on 12 September, 1995. " Hate U" was nearly a solo effort from Prince, although he created Minneapolis musician Ricky Peterson with co-production and arranging, as well as providing additional keyboards.
Beginning with crashing drums, the "NPG Operator" welcomes the listener to "The Hate Experience" (which Prince would later entitle the song's maxi-single), before leading into the first verse where Prince sings in delicate falsetto about a cheating woman, whom he hates "like a day without sunshine". A church-like organ moves the song along, while a musical segment borrowed from "Baby" (a track from his 1978 album For You) provides breaks throughout the track. After the second verse and chorus, the song enters a lengthy middle section which sung/spoken in Prince's normal voice. This section is a "courtroom drama" where Prince submits his evidence of his cheating lover to a judge. When he asks the woman to state her name for the court, he interrupts her with a sample from the album's previous track — "Billy Jack Bitch". Toward the end of the drama, he states that being without her is killing him emotionally and that he actually still loves her. After a final chorus, again using an impassioned falsetto, Prince launches into a brief but effective guitar solo which climaxes and ends the song.
[edit] B-sides/remixes
The single's B-side was a instrumental "Quiet Night Mix" of " Hate U" featuring long-time collaborator Eric Leeds on saxophone. A maxi-single on CD and vinyl included several remixes of the track. The most notable was an extended remix which omitted the "courtroom drama" and featured Prince delivering much more personal lyrics. A rumor at the time was that the lyrics of this version referred to Carmen Electra whom Prince had worked with and dated for a time. Other versions of the song were various edits. The Japanese CD single was unique in that it included the album version of "Endorphinmachine" as an extra track.
[edit] Miscellanea
" Hate U" is, to date, Prince's last original single to reach the U.S. Top 40. (His earlier hit, "1999" did sneak back into the Top 40 in the song's namesake year, peaking at #40, but this was a reissued single, not a new release.)
[edit] External link
- " Hate U" lyrics
