{"id":7321,"date":"2026-11-11T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2026-11-11T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:18:02","slug":"prince-delivered-one-of-his-best-songs-with-an-antidote-for-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/prince-delivered-one-of-his-best-songs-with-an-antidote-for-the-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Delivered One of His Best Songs With an Antidote for the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Prince released \u201c1999\u201d, the end of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century was still nearly two decades away. But even in 1982, many panicked about the year 2000, a strange number with three zeros that gives anxious sci-fi vibes to those susceptible to such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world has always felt chaotic, but technology helps fear spread wide and fast. (Just wait until those early 80s nervous Nellies get social media.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the title track of Prince\u2019s fifth studio LP offsets the doom and gloom with a funky optimism. \u201c1999\u201d became a Top 10 hit, and it foreshadowed a masterpiece by the artist born Prince Rogers Nelson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years before <em>Purple Rain<\/em>, Prince shows us a storm raging in the sky. Then he teaches us what to do about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prince - 1999 (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rblt2EtFfC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Judgement Day<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revolution bandmates Lisa Coleman and Dez Dickerson join Prince in a warning about a looming apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I was dreaming when I wrote this,<br>Forgive me if it goes astray.<br>But when I woke up this morning,<br>Could\u2019ve sworn it was Judgment Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A surreal scene of blue and red, perhaps the right conditions for both a sorrowful and cleansing purple rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The sky was all purple,<br>There were people running everywhere.<br>Trying to run from my destruction,<br>You know I didn\u2019t even care<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Party Over, Oops, Out of Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With ever-present war and bombs, and especially proliferating nukes, one doesn\u2019t need Y2K paranoia to feel scared. \u201cPut on your red shoes and dance the blues,\u201d as David Bowie once put it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Everybody\u2019s got a bomb,<br>We could all die any day, oh.<br>But before I\u2019ll let that happen,<br>I\u2019ll dance my life away, oh<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doomsayers (they) say we are running out of time. If that\u2019s really the case, Prince offers this antidote for the apocalypse: Let\u2019s go crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>They say, two thousand, zero, zero,<br>Party over, oops, out of time.<br>So tonight I\u2019m gonna party like it\u2019s 1999<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/prince\/lets-go-crazy\">\u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d<\/a>, Prince opens the <em>Purple Rain<\/em> track with a eulogy. Then, once again, he offers a way out of the despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Are we gonna let the elevator bring us down?<br>Oh no, let\u2019s go<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Prince released \u201c1999\u201d, the end of the 20th century was still nearly two decades away. 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