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Perhaps the archetypal Prince track, it’s got the lot – sex, funkyness and a great sense of humour. Okay, so the last comment is not one you often hear about the Purple Imp but I think he has a wicked sense of humour, it’s just not easy to display in the music world. Watch him being interviewed, or in videos or on stage, in fact anywhere and you’ll often see a sly grin on his face. Whereas the press often take him very seriously I believe he knows his behaviour is out of the ordinary and he finds it funny that the press just accept that in order to get an interview. I remember during the “Slave” period he asked interviewers to write the word on their cheek or around the “Symbol” album time he conducted the few interviews he gave wearing a hat with a metal curtain that totally obscured his face or the time he answered questions in interviews by whispering to Mayte. Where am i going with this interpretation of him and how does it relate to “Kiss”? Simple. The most quoted Prince lyric also proves my thesis. “Act you age, not your shoe size”. We shall revisit his sense of humour again before we reach the end of the Top 10.