[3] It was made available on iTunes and Spotify just before midnight in Minneapolis, several hours after a press release announcing a major deal between Prince and Warner Bros. Records.
As part of the new partnership, Warner Bros. will release previously unheard material and a digitally remastered, deluxe 30th anniversary edition to the 1984 soundtrack album Purple Rain.
While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking is believed to have taken place between Fall 2011 and early 2012 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, in the same sessions that produced "Time", "When Stars Collide" and "What It Feels Like".
[5] Mirian Coleman wrote in Rolling Stone "the power ballad begins with a few stark, echoing keyboard chords before Prince's sweet falsetto enters, promising listeners that This could be the saddest story ever been told.
What unfolds is a tale of excess and regret, with a lush, string-orchestrated chorus punctuated by laser sound effects.