Adam
And The Ants –
Prince
Charming b/w Christian D'Or
Vinyl
45 rpm 7”
Columbia
If I had one theme song when I
enter a room I want it to be “Prince Charming.” In 3 minutes and
16 seconds, Adam conveys a very important issue of knowing when one's
a dandy and to live up to that promise. And of course I love the
Prince Charming dance. I love the whole spectacle of “Prince
Charming” and its a perfect single, because it say a lot more than
a song in that it conveys a world where one has to make a perfect
presentation of that world. And Adam is nothing else but an
aesthetic man re-building the world to his liking. And the single
allows nothing to get in the way of such a world. The b-side
“Christian D'Or” is another side of the obsession of perfection.
“Christian D'Or” is a name of high-standard life, yet Adam seems
to be a prisoner of his own aesthetic or dandy ways. So the single
is a one-two punch on the same theme. The lighter side of it all is
on the first side, and the b-side is darkness of that world.
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