The Real Meaning Behind Prince's 'Little Red Corvette'

Speaking to BBC, Prince's keyboard player Lisa Coleman revealed the artist was doing more than simply "sleeping" in her car, in an incident that inspired his Hot 100 single, "Little Red Corvette."

"He was 'sleeping' with someone we knew called Denise Matthews [aka Vanity] and she was 'sleeping' in the back of the car, too," revealed Coleman. "I even found some of her hair wrapped around the handle that winds the window down." Can you say scandalous? Slate notes that "Little Red Corvette" isn't about "anything other than sex," with the lyrics to the song alluding to a woman with a powerful sex drive looking for a one-night stand. "See, you're the kinda person that believes in makin' out once / Love 'em and leave 'em fast" wrote Prince (via Genius). The chorus to the song goes, "Babe, you got to slow down / Little Red Corvette / 'Cause if you don't, 'cause if you don't / You're gonna run your body right into the ground."

Lisa Coleman elaborated on Prince's relationship with Matthews, telling BBC, "so I imagine they were making out, or doing whatever, in the back seat and they probably had a wonderful moment of afterglow, which is when he got the seed of the idea... But it's not a red Corvette, it's a pink Mercury!" Can you imagine singing "Little Pink Mercury"?

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