After that opening salvo, all the rules get thrown out the window. "1999" parties to the apocalypse with a P-Funk groove much tighter than anything George Clinton ever did, "Little Red Corvette" is pure pop, and "Delirious" takes rockabilly riffs into the computer age. The first side of the record contained all of the hit singles, and, unsurprisingly, they were the ones that contained the least amount of electronics. Prince had also constructed an album dominated by computer funk, but he didn't simply rely on the extended instrumental grooves to carry the album: he didn't have to when his songwriting was improving by leaps and bounds. Naturally, the effect was slightly more mechanical and robotic than his previous work and strongly recalled the electro-funk experiments of several underground funk and hip-hop artists at the time. Where his earlier albums had been a fusion of organic and electronic sounds, 1999 was constructed almost entirely of synthesizers by Prince himself. After delivering the soundalike album Controversy, Prince revamped his style and delivered the double album 1999. With Dirty Mind, Prince had established a wild fusion of funk, rock, new wave, and soul that signaled he was an original, maverick talent, but it failed to win him a large audience.
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