Prince the Immortal
The rock star, dead at 57, lived such a blazingly distinctive life as preparation for the day that has now arrived.
“I don’t wanna die / I’d rather dance my life away,” Prince sang on “1999,” a line that can’t help but be considered in light of the shocking . There were a few big themes in Prince’s songs, but his ongoing reckoning with mortality might explain everything else he did in his four-decade career. His work—his music, at a young age, he labored to build his own reality, one that disregarded most commonly recognized limits except for the most inescapable of them.
