Soft and Wet

Prince was born and raised in Minneapolis, the son in a musical family, with a jazz singer mother and a father who played piano and wrote songs.

The more successful of the two singles from the debut album from Prince was the first one, "Soft and Wet." This is a song which features some of the early hints of the synth-funk style that Prince would become known for.

While the less successful second single from this album showed that Prince was very much paying attention to the popular styles that were succeeding in 1978.

"Just as Long as We're Together" is one of the most explicitly disco-sounding songs of Prince's career.

Yeah, but most of the time people don't believe me, but everybody knows I am a diehard Prince fan.

I'm a, I'm a, I was a Prince fan from Soft and Wet, so-

Yeah

... everybody knows that I'm a Prince fan, and-