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Article: `NIKKI' FINDS HOME IN A VULGAR WORLD.(ARTS-EVENTS)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2003
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Byline: HANK STEUVER Washington Post
In another epoch, kids listened to ``Darling Nikki'' because they knew they weren't supposed to, because it was too naughty. The song never appeared on any hit chart, and you never heard it on the radio or at a school dance, but almost any adolescent of the 1980s can still sing about a mysterious and lascivious woman named Nikki: ``I guess U could say she was a sex fiend,'' the song goes, just before introducing her doing something rather unmentionable in a hotel lobby.
The song was a soulful limerick from the ``Purple Rain'' days of Prince, whose voraciously fey Jheri-Curl Lothario act worked on even the most ...
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