Stand Back & Little Red Corvette

LiquidBlue5000 · #1 10-04-2005, 04:59 PM

Ok... so me and my friend Matt went to this bar in NYC the other night... we were hanging out and we happened to bump into this guy who was a huge Stevie fan... so, we get to talking and he starts telling us this story about Prince's "Little Red Corvette" and the reason why Stevie wrote "Stand Back"...

He said that he heard from an inside source that Prince wrote "Little Red Corvette" about Stevie Nicks.. He said when Stevie heard about it, she listened to it and was inspired to write "Stand Back" as a response to Prince..

Basically Prince wanted to be with Stevie but she wasn't really interested in him...

I was fascinated while he was telling me all of this, because I had never heard anything like that before.. it may be true or it may not be... but i found it pretty interesting nonetheless..

The story about how Stevie was supposedly inspired to write "Stand Back" was that she was getting married that day, and was in a car and heard "Little Red Corvette" on the radio.. she liked it so much and developed this story line in her head about a ficticious relationship and arguement.. and then she called Prince and he just came over right away and played keyboards on it, then disappeared.. but like many things that comes out of Ms. Nicks' mouth, take that with a grain of salt...

Anyhoo... here are lyrics to both "Little Red Corvette" and "Stand Back"... you can all draw your own conclusions...

Little Red Corvette

I guess I should’ve known by the way you parked your car
sideways that it wouldn't last
See, You're the kinda person that believes in makin' out once
Love 'em and leave 'em fast
I guess I must be dumb cuz you had a pocket full of horses
Trojan and some of them used
But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right
And you say - "What have I got to lose?"

And honey, I say Little Red Corvette
Baby, you're much too fast (Oh)
Little Red Corvette
You need a love that's gonna last

I guess I should've closed my eyes when you drove
me to the place where your horses run free
Cuz I felt a little ill when I saw all the pictures
Of the jockeys that were there before me
Believe it or not, I started to worry
I wondered if I had enough class
But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right
And you say - "Baby, have you got enough gas?"
Oh yeah!

Little Red Corvette
Baby, you're much too fast (Yes you are)
Little Red Corvette
You need to find a love that's gonna last (Oh, oh)

A body like yours oughta be in jail
Cuz it's on the verge of bein' obscene
Move over, baby, gimme the keys
I'm gonna try to tame your little red love machine

Little Red Corvette
Baby, you're much too fast
Little Red Corvette
Need to find a love that's gonna last, hey hey

Little Red Corvette
Honey, you got to slow down (Got to slow down)
Little Red Corvette
Cuz if you don't, you’re gonna run your little red corvette
right in the ground
(Little Red Corvette)
Right down to the ground (Honey, you got to slow down)
you, you, you got to slow down
(Little Red Corvette)
You're movin' much too fast, too fast
Need to find a love that's gonna last!

Girl, you got an ass like I never seen, ow!
And the ride...
I say the ride is so smooth, you must be a limousine

Ow!
Baby, you're much too fast
Little Red Corvette
You need a love, you need a love that's, uh, that's gonna last
(Little Red Corvette)
Babe, you got to slow down (You got to slow down)
Little Red Corvette
Cuz if you don't, cuz if you don't
You’re gonna run your body right into the ground
(Right into the ground)
Right into the ground (Right into the ground)
Right into the ground (Right into the ground)

Little Red Corvette, oh

Stand Back

No one looked...as I walked by
Just an invitation would have been just fine
Said no to him...again and again
First he took my heart...then he ran

No one knows how I feel
What I say unless you read between my lines
One man walked away from me
First he took my hand...take me home

Stand back...stand back
In the middle of my room
I did not hear from you
It's alright...it's alright
To be standing in a line
(Standing in a line)
I would cry...

Do not turn away my friend
Like a willow I can bend
No man calls my name
No man came

So I walked on down away from you
Maybe your attention was more
Than you could do
One man did not call
He asked me for my love
And that was all

Stand back...stand back
In the middle of my room
I did not hear from you
It's alright...it's alright
To be standing in a line
(Standing in a line)
(Standing in a line)

So I walked on down the line
Away from you
Maybe your attention was more
Than I could do
One man...did not call
Well he asked me for my love
That was all

dissention · #2 10-04-2005, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

Little Red Corvette

I guess I should’ve known by the way U parked your car
sideways that it wouldn't last
See, U're the kinda person that believes in makin' out once
Love 'em and leave 'em fast
I guess I must be dumb cuz U had a pocket full of horses
Trojan and some of them used
But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right
And U say - "What have I got 2 lose?"

And honey, I say Little Red Corvette
Baby, U're much 2 fast (Oh)
Little Red Corvette
U need a love that's gonna last

I guess I should've closed my eyes when U drove
me 2 the place where your horses run free
Cuz I felt a little ill when I saw all the pictures
Of the jockeys that were there before me
Believe it or not, I started 2 worry
I wondered if I had enough class
But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right
And U say - "Baby, have U got enough gas?"
Oh yeah!

Little Red Corvette
Baby, U're much 2 fast (Yes U are)
Little Red Corvette
U need 2 find a love that's gonna last (Oh, oh)

A body like yours oughta be in jail
Cuz it's on the verge of bein' obscene
Move over, baby, gimme the keys
I'm gonna try 2 tame your little red love machine

Little Red Corvette
Baby, U're much 2 fast
Little Red Corvette
Need 2 find a love that's gonna last, hey hey

Little Red Corvette
Honey, U got 2 slow down (Got 2 slow down)
Little Red Corvette
Cuz if U don't, U’re gonna run your little red corvette
right in the ground
(Little Red Corvette)
Right down 2 the ground (Honey, U got 2 slow down)
U, U, U got 2 slow down
(Little Red Corvette)
U're movin' much 2 fast, 2 fast
Need 2 find a love that's gonna last!

Girl, U got an ass like I never seen, ow!
And the ride...
I say the ride is so smooth, U must be a limousine

Ow!
Baby, U're much 2 fast
Little Red Corvette
U need a love, U need a love that's, uh, that's gonna last
(Little Red Corvette)
Babe, U got 2 slow down (U got 2 slow down)
Little Red Corvette
Cuz if U don't, cuz if U don't
U’re gonna run your body right into the ground
(Right into the ground)
Right into the ground (Right into the ground)
Right into the ground (Right into the ground)

Little Red Corvette, oh

Every time some1 types like this on the internet, Prince's influence is apparent. He wrote like this be4 any1 else ever did.

LiquidBlue5000 · #3 10-04-2005, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dissention

Every time some1 types like this on the internet, Prince's influence is apparent. He wrote like this be4 any1 else ever did.

shush... that wasn't me who typed it.. I just copied and pasted it from a website.. i will fix it for you dear, mmk?

dissention · #4 10-04-2005, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

shush... that wasn't me who typed it.. I just copied and pasted it from a website.. i will fix it for you dear, mmk?

I know you didn't, I have the lyrics somewhere and they're typed like that, too.

It has always driven me BONKERS. That and "Sk8er Boi." Crikey.

SuzeQuze · #5 10-04-2005, 05:10 PM

I don't think Little Red Corvette is about Stevie. However, since I don't know anyone on the inside I could never say for sure. It just sounds too randy for Stevie!

Neal · #6 10-04-2005, 05:35 PM

I think they're both kick ass songs and no one (besides Prince and Stevie) will ever really know what they are about and what was going through their respective heads at the time.

#7 10-04-2005, 05:43 PM

that is fascinating. or course, whenever anyone has a new interpretation of a song it fits perfectly...but we'll never know...and about being too randy for stevie...i dunno, she was pretty...um...out there in those days so who knows...think of the legend behind 'sister honey'

DavidMn · #8 10-04-2005, 05:49 PM

Prince- Another great musician from Minnesota

Hey we may be flyover land here, but occasionally we put out something good.

SapphireSister · #9 10-04-2005, 05:52 PM

I find it highly unlikely that Prince wrote Little Red Corvette about Stevie...no way.
I didn't even think they had met prior to her calling him to play on SB. The story about her writing Stand Back after hearing LTC however is true, or at least that's how she's told it. I've heard her tell that story many times of driving up PCH with Kim and hearing it and writing SB . What's funny is that when she tells the story (i.e. Storytellers) she says how he walked out of her life and never came back in yet we've all heard the story of how she was sick and he brought cough medicine to her room (I think that's the story but correct me if I'm wrong) and there's also the story of her being on drugs and falling down stairs and him being there and being really mad or something?
Also, when did they get together and record All Over You?

Enough of my rant. Interesting thing though I've always considered SB and LRC to be 2 of my favorite songs of all time so when I found out one was inspired by the other it blew my mind!! How cool is that?

LiquidBlue5000 · #10 10-04-2005, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I find it highly unlikely that Prince wrote Little Red Corvette about Stevie...no way.
I didn't even think they had met prior to her calling him to play on SB. The story about her writing Stand Back after hearing LTC however is true, or at least that's how she's told it. I've heard her tell that story many times of driving up PCH with Kim and hearing it and writing SB . What's funny is that when she tells the story (i.e. Storytellers) she says how he walked out of her life and never came back in yet we've all heard the story of how she was sick and he brought cough medicine to her room (I think that's the story but correct me if I'm wrong) and there's also the story of her being on drugs and falling down stairs and him being there and being really mad or something?
Also, when did they get together and record All Over You?

Exactly... the timeframe on all of this is foggy, much like Stevie's memory

Like I said, it may not be true at all... but doesn't it seem odd that Stevie would just call prince on the phone and be like "hey i wrote this song, come over and play keyboards for me"... It's not as if they knew each other already.. or did they?

and where did "All Over You" come from and when?

Ghost_Tracker · #11 10-04-2005, 06:11 PM

For some reason this has never occurred to me before but -
is it possible that Stevie wrote "Stand Back" out of anger?
She tells a story of being on her honeymoon and
hearing a song on the radio and saying, "I have GOT to have a
COPY of this!

" but it's suddenly very easy to
picture Stevie yelling, "PULL OFF THE HIGHWAY! NOW!
Take me to a RECORD STORE!" - Going into the store, buying the
cassette, getting in the car - SLAMMING it in to the cassette
player - hearing it again - and just FUMING about it in the back
of her mind. . . . After comparing the two songs it really does
seem to me to be a "return shot" fired back at him.

B T W you don't need an "inside source" to learn this -
it's ALL over the place!
( inherownwords.com , I believe, just for example - not sure though )
Anyway it was nice of him to write the keyboard part for her.
I've actually wondered if he did that as a return favor for all the
dove imagery he used.

BTFLCHLD · #12 10-04-2005, 06:13 PM

the thought of prince thinking of stevie
in a sexual way is nauseating
stand back indeed!

Ghost_Tracker · #13 10-04-2005, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I don't think Little Red Corvette is about Stevie. However, since I don't know anyone on the inside I could never say for sure. It just sounds too randy for Stevie!

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Ghost_Tracker · #14 10-04-2005, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

the thought of prince thinking of stevie
in a sexual way is nauseating
stand back indeed!

Prince was considered to be "The Bomb" back then. . . .
Like Stephen King said, "Places CHANGE. LIKE PEOPLE."
He also was one of the very best dancers in the world -
check out the actual video for L.R.C.
So it wouldn't surprise me if she was at least vaguely interested
in him. I have the impression they ended up becoming friends.

BTFLCHLD · #15 10-04-2005, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Prince was considered to be "The Bomb" back then. . . .
Like Stephen King said, "Places CHANGE. LIKE PEOPLE."
He also was one of the very best dancers in the world -
check out the actual video for L.R.C.
So it wouldn't surprise me if she was at least vaguely interested
in him. I have the impression they ended up becoming friends.

and check out what i wrote: "the thought of him thinking about her.."

anyways...this is listed in songfacts:

Prince got the idea for this when he dozed off in backup singer Lisa Coleman's pink Edsel after an exhausting all night recording session. The lyrics came to him in bits and pieces during this and other catnaps. Eventually he was able to finish it without sleeping.

Stevie Nicks got the idea for "Stand Back" from this. She heard it in her car, drove to recording studio, and put down some tracks. Prince came in and added the keyboard bit.