![]() “The lights go off, the smell of doom / is creeping into your lonely room. ![]() Sometimes he was lonely sometimes he was sad but most times he just took 4 granted all the nice things that he had - (Excerpt from Camille’s Poem - Lovesexy Tour Book) Time Upon A Once There was a boy named Camille Now this boy named Camille didn’t know how 2 feel. ![]() Prince would use this persona as a vehicle to explore the concept of dual personalities and the internal struggles between vice and virtue, curating complex and rich mythology often overlooked when assessing the purpose of the Camille character. Camille is more than a quirky alter-ego represented by pitched vocals, but a character conjured during an exciting yet turbulent period in the artist’s life. The artist’s use of pitch alteration, which at times created an androgynous-like vocal has led many to believe the persona is without an apparent gender or defined primarily as an expression of Prince’s exploration of the feminine. Much of the literature written about Prince’s “Camille” alter-ego focuses on the character’s attributed gender or lack thereof.
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