Synopsis
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic turn "Erotic City" into a high-energy college-party performance. Clinton leads the band through Prince's sexually charged funk anthem while students dance, celebrate, and react to the music. The clip combines concert footage with scenes from the 1994 comedy PCU, giving the song a loose campus-party setting and connecting its psychedelic P-Funk energy to the film's unruly student culture.
Factoids & Trivia
- "Erotic City" is a cover of Prince's 1984 song, originally released as the B-side of "Let's Go Crazy."
- George Clinton's version was recorded for the soundtrack to the 1994 college comedy PCU and was released under the George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic billing.
- The video uses footage associated with PCU, including the band's performance at the film's climactic party. Clinton appears as himself, with Parliament-Funkadelic joining him onstage.
- Clinton and the P-Funk musicians also contributed "Stomp" to the PCU soundtrack.
- The choice of "Erotic City" had an extra layer of funk history: Prince later said the song was inspired by seeing Parliament-Funkadelic perform in Los Angeles in 1983.
- The cover helped connect two generations of funk innovators, with Clinton reinterpreting a Prince composition in the style of the P-Funk live show.