Bambi

Album: Prince (1979)
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Songfacts®:

  • Prince usually gets the girl in his songs, but here he has met his match: he's trying to get a woman to love him even though she is a lesbian. >>
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    Josh - St. Paul, MN
  • "Bambi" is a track from the second Prince album, titled Prince and released when he was 21. He had an unusual record deal with Warner Bros. giving him complete control of his creative output, so he was free to write songs on any subject and know they'd get released.

    Prince got solid airplay with the first single from the album, "I Wanna Be Your Lover," but his commercial breakthrough didn't come until 1982 when he issued his fifth album, 1999.
  • T.C. Ellis recorded a rap version of this song on his first (and only) album, True Confessions, in 1991. It was released through Prince's Paisley Park Records label.

Comments: 4

  • Marylandmenace from New ZealandThe man shreds... On all the instruments... A true GOAT
  • Dan from ChicagoI wonder if this song was about, or in some way inspired by, Lisa.
  • Leo from Westminster 1, MdFor the metal piece about a two-timer named Bambi, this is a tune from the second self-titled Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes Warner album, Prince Rogers Nelson made a loud entrance in Rock and crashed the party with a loud Fender! The man can play guitar! Forget the celebrity, weirdness and his somewhat questionable lifestyle, Prince is a genius and a modern day Beethoven when it comes to music! I rest my case.
  • Jessie from Saldotna, AkTHis song is amazing.
    I love Prince, and I myself and a Lezgirl.
    SO this song is realy great.
    It makes me laugh and smile.
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