Prince — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 338 songs across 32 albums by Prince. They use 5,486 unique words out of 45,232 (lexical richness MATTR 0.70), with an average of 134 content words per song. Emotional tone: 82% of songs positive, 1% neutral, 17% negative.
Most used words by Prince
- baby (822)
- love (738)
- come (666)
- know (503)
- want (429)
- say (383)
- one (381)
- time (354)
- make (344)
- right (336)
- see (326)
- tell (273)
- everybody (244)
- night (224)
- back (214)
- need (211)
- girl (210)
- let (209)
- take (204)
- man (199)
Signature phrases
- “come baby” (45)
- “love baby” (42)
- “baby knows” (42)
- “make love” (39)
- “dig better dead” (34)
- “night long” (33)
- “freaks bob” (31)
- “billy jack bitch” (29)
- “one day” (29)
- “hot thing” (29)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (79)
- white (41)
- gold (40)
- red (37)
- blue (34)
- purple (24)
- brown (9)
- rose (9)
Albums analyzed
- Prince (1979)
- Dirty Mind (1980)
- Controversy (1981)
- 1999 (1982)
- Around the World in a Day (1985)
- Sign “☮︎” the Times (1987)
- Lovesexy (1988)
- Diamonds and Pearls (1991)
- [Love Symbol] (1992)
- Come (1994)
- Symbolic Beginning (1995)
- The Gold Experience (1995)
- Chaos and Disorder (1996)
- Emancipation (1996)
- The Truth (1997)
- Crystal Ball (1998)
- The Vault… Old Friends 4 Sale (1999)
- Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic (1999)
- The Rainbow Children (2001)
- One Nite Alone… (2002)
- Xpectation (2003)
- N.E.W.S. (2003)
- The Slaughterhouse: Trax From the NPG Music Club, Volume 2 (2004)
- Musicology (2004)
- 3121 (2006)
- Planet Earth (2007)
- 20Ten (2010)
- The Cookhouse Five (2011)
- PLECTRUMELECTRUM (2014)
- Art Official Age (2014)
- HITnRUN Phase One (2015)
- HITnRUN Phase Two (2015)