Prince's recorded sexual moans of Kim Basinger
A lot of people weren't a fan of Prince because they thought he was too overtly sexual, while some of this was overreacting, they might have had a point.
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Wed 29 January 2025 19:30, UK
When discussing artists, we often focus on one specific aspect of their sound. With Jimmy Page, it’s his guitar playing. Joni Mitchell’s lyricism could be dissected for hours, and Freddie Mercury’s incredible vocals are always a hot topic. However, things become more complicated when it comes to Prince, as his sound is so multifaceted that it’s impossible to limit the discussion to just one element.
It can be difficult to dissect Prince’s power. Shortly after his death, one of his biggest fans, Questlove, wrote an ode to the musician. In it, he discussed not only the revolutionary impact Prince had on him but also the taboo nature of some of his music.
“Prince was in my ears and he was in my head. Starting then, I patterned everything in my life after Prince. I had older half-brothers, but Prince — unknown to me then, but not unseen or unheard, thanks to magazines, TV, radio, and my secret stash — was a guide to me in every way,” he said, “I studied his fashion, I studied his effect. I studied his taste in women — carefully. And he began to mentor me in musical matters, too. I wouldn’t have started listening to Joni Mitchell without him. And that led me to Jaco Pastorius, who led me to Wayne Shorter, who led me to Miles Davis. I had a simple rule: if Prince listened to it, I listened to it.”
Not everyone was on the same page as Questlove, though, as while he is celebrated as a musical genius now, when he was first making music, his image, music and overtly sexual nature were too much for a lot of people. Many believed his music was too explicit and shouldn’t be consumed on any level. Questlove’s parents were included within that demographic.
“They were born-again Christians at that point, and Prince — with his overt sexuality and profanity — was a bridge too far. Plus, when you turned the album cover upside down, the 999 went to 666, the mark of the beast,” he said, “My mom found the record and threw it away. Winter came. I shovelled snow until I had enough money to buy it a second time. That one went into the garbage, too. There was a third record that just vanished without a trace, and a fourth that got broken over my father’s knee.”
While a lot of the time, people read into songs too much when labelling an artist as devilish and outlandish, the drummer’s parents probably had a point. Prince was a very sexual creature, and that came across in his music quite blatantly. Prince didn’t only write about sex, but used the noises which form a part of it in his songs.
Prince took the phrase “making sweet music” to another level on his 1989 track ‘The Scandalous Sex Suite’. On the song, you can hear the unadulterated moans of someone on the other end of the track, and while this may be shocking on its own, it becomes even more so when you find out the moans could well belong to Kim Basinger.
Basinger was enlisted to contribute some vocals to the track, but she apparently gave a lot more as the two hit it off and ended up in bed together. It seems Prince was the kind of artist who kept a recording device close by at all times, as the story goes, he asked Basinger if he could record her moans while making love and put them on the song.
This remains a rumour, but it could be true, given Basinger and Prince had a professional and personal relationship that burned fast and bright when they worked on the Batman film together. Basinger even admitted later that the two of them had shared a connection, and she looked back fondly on her time with someone she described as a “brilliant talent”.
This wasn’t the only time that Prince used sex sounds in his music, either. For instance, in his song ‘Lady Cab Driver’, the second half of the song is spent with the sexual moans of who we assume is the song’s muse and Prince dedicating the act to various people.
He was a multifaceted musician, so it’s not unreasonable to assume that he used his surroundings to add to his sound, and as such a sexual person, those surroundings were often the people he was having sex with. Who those moans belong to is another question entirely…
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