Song of the Week: “Nothing Compares 2 U” – Prince

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Andrés Bear, Staff Writer

Prince was an artist who carried himself with genre-pushing sound and nature. For his entire career, he managed to craft a plethora of emotive albums and songs. The songs he released had a lasting cultural impact within the industry and general public. Prince wrote “Nothing Compares 2 U” and handed it off to Sinéad O’Connor. That rendition reached massive acclaim, but Prince’s recent posthumously release of his original version is something else. He portrays the song in a manner that was uniquely his. To many, Prince’s original version is miles better than O’Connor’s.

 

-Andres Bear