Prince and Ian Curtis, peace be with them, understood that the body and its appetites were the most political subject available to a musician. But they eventually reached opposite conclusions about what to do with that understanding.
On Dirty Mind, Prince made the body a site of absolute joy where desire equated freedom, intimacy was a spiritual practice, and the bedroom became the only church worth attending.
Ian Curtis, on the other hand, made the body a site of absolute dread. In Joy Division’s world, desire was torment and the bedroom was the place where your worst thoughts found you.
One record wants to get you out of your clothes. The other makes you want to stay fully dressed with the lights on. Somehow they’re from same year, and co-exist on the same planet.
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