Prince sang about that metaphor before too
As reported by
ET, Reid spoke of
Prince’s dislike for elevators. Prince thought elevators were the devil. Prince’s thoughts on elevators were made clear in Prince’s song from 1984, titled “Let’s Go Crazy.” The lyrics from Prince likened an elevator to something evil that could try to bring a person down. Prince sang of battling against the elevator by pressing a higher floor instead of allowing the elevator to bring a person down.
And if the elevator tries to bring you down
Go crazy, punch a higher floor
If you don’t like the world you’re living in
Take a look around you
At least you got friends
You see I called my old lady
For a friendly word
She picked up the phone
Dropped it on the floor
(Ah, ah) is all I heard
Are we gonna let the elevator
Bring us down
Oh, no let’s go!
Reid directly spoke of the time that Prince talked about his thoughts on elevators. It was an elevator conversation that Reid found off-putting, since he didn’t like the talk of the devil. Hearing that Prince had been found dead on an elevator on the first floor of Paisley Park – Prince’s home and studio – was especially troubling for Reid.
“One time when I was with him privately, he said, ‘You know what the elevator is, right?’ I said, ‘No, what’s the elevator?’ He said, ‘Well, the elevator is the devil.’ It scared me. I don’t like to talk like that, but he said that. So, for me, it was like really haunting when I read that he was found in an elevator.”
With talk of the devil and such evil, one wonders if Prince’s faith was Christianity. Prince has spoken about his Jehovah’s Witness faith, as seen in the below video. Plenty of controversy exists over whether that means Prince was a Christian or not; therefore, looking to Prince’s lyrics about faith help further determine Prince’s real beliefs.
Prince On Elevators Before Death: ‘The Elevator Is The Devil’ — Was Prince A Christian? [Video]