Girl 6 (Soundtrack) (1996)
1. She Spoke 2 Me
2. Pink Cashmere
3. Count the Days
4. Girls & Boys
5. The Screams of Passion
6. Nasty Girl
7. Erotic City
8. Hot Thing
9. Adore
10.The Cross
11.How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
12.Don't Talk 2 Strangers
13.Girl 6
A soundtrack to a Spike Lee movie I never bothered to watch. The plot? Something about a phone sex operator. With a premise like that, you can bet Prince’s music was a perfect fit. The album’s a mix: a handful of new Prince tracks, a few songs by other artists, and a bunch of older Prince cuts—some of which were only released as B-sides.
Now, about those older tunes. None were big hits, so casual fans might not recognize them. But here’s the thing—they’re all solid. You get three tracks from the masterpiece Sign ‘O’ The Times and a couple of strong songs that never made it onto a full album. Take Erotic City, for example—one of Prince’s finest, mysteriously left off Purple Rain. Lucky for us, it’s here, in case you can’t track it down anywhere else these days.
Of the three new Prince songs, two are pleasant enough—nothing groundbreaking, but radio-friendly and catchy. She Spoke 2 Me and Don’t Talk 2 Strangers are both smooth, and thankfully, contain zero phone-sex vibes. The closer, however, the title track Girl 6, is a different story. It’s a jumbled mess—samples from earlier Prince songs stitched together with an obnoxious, shrieking phone ring every few seconds. It’s easily the low point of the album.
Like much of Prince’s ’90s output, this one flew under the radar. Not surprising, given he dropped three albums in 1996 alone—including a sprawling triple-disc set of new material.
Though it feels a bit forgettable thanks to the forgettable movie it backed, the soundtrack itself is surprisingly good. It deserved more attention than it got. Though to be honest, I have no idea what kind of attention it actually received at the time. I don’t recall ever hearing much about it when it came out.
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