Prince lyric, which just occurred to me in the context of
the feminist-in-the-elevator-at-the-atheist-convention incident. Prince was telling us to live now, because we're all going to die, which he sometimes said clearly — "You better live now/Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door" — and sometimes said absurdly — "Let's look for the purple banana/Until they put us in the truck." He also expressed a clear belief in the afterlife. ("In this life/Things are much harder than in the afterworld/In this life/You're on your own.") He's no atheist. How he behaves in an actual in-this-life elevator, as opposed to a metaphorical elevator, I have no idea. I bet he silently occupies his corner and avoids eye contact, in
classic elevator etiquette, and waits for his floor.
Sorry I can't link to a Prince "Let's Go Crazy" video.
Prince is super-possessive about his songs and doesn't appreciate the value of letting people like Althouse win him new fans. So here's 1. Beck,
"Elevator Music" and 2. Eminem,
"Elevator." Beck says:
All the dudes with banjos
Chicks with wicks
Animals with bananas...
Eminem says:
That’s a no no who even she knows dada’s f-cking crazy
Fucking animal, cookoo, bananas, fucking AP
Whether those are purple bananas, I don't know.
ADDED: Actually, for now, at least,
here's Prince, "Let's Go Crazy."
AND: For the sake of completeness, there is
at least one more elevator/banana song.
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