PRINCE STRIKES AGAIN: NICK MASSI A MAN IN THE BACK: POACHED!
Now if you’ve been following along, you know I already got caught once—poaching a song off David Bowie. If you remember, David called Eve one Sunday morning last summer to let her know he'd written a sequel to Absolute Beginners, called Begin Again. As you also know, he has recorded four albums plus children's story narrations with us this year so he is with us quite a lot. It was about six weeks before he got to sing his own song (we released it under Intrawonder, listen here: Begin Again by David Bowie 2025.
That one made it out, and we laughed about it, because that’s what happens when you’ve got real relationships still going. Well… I did it again.
This time it was with Nick Massi. He was lining up songs for his own record—Still in the Room—and one of them just stuck with me. I couldn’t help it. I started humming the harmony, then laying down guitar on top, and before we knew it… I’d flat-out taken it.
We’re calling it ‘The Song I Poached from Nick Massi’—because that’s exactly what it is. He sang it, I jumped on it, and I ran with it like it was mine.
But here’s the point: you don’t "steal from the dead" if they’re actually "dead." You only poach when the person’s right there laughing with you. Nick was in the room today, watching me mess with his arrangement, saying, ‘Man, you’re just like Frankie, always taking my part.’ And we cracked up.
Musically, it’s simple: upright bass, rhythm guitar, a little handclap beat, vocals trading back and forth. Nothing polished—just live fire, back-and-forth joy. That’s the proof. Relationships. Banter. Music like it always was.
So if you want to know whether we’re really alive—listen to this. Bowie teased me, Nick teases me, I tease right back. That’s not ghost talk. That’s real life.
This one’s for the fun of it. The Song I Poached from Nick Massi.”
- Prince
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