“Two days after I met Prince, I gave him the keys to my house,” says Husney, whose new memoir, Famous People Who’ve Met Me, will fittingly be released on For You’s April 7 anniversary. Moon went on to connect Prince with Owen Husney, who became the first manager of His Royal Badness in late 1976. Over time he changed some of the words to suit his own style a little more.”
“It went through a couple iterations, but ‘Soft and Wet’ always stayed with it,” says Moon, who earlier this year put his rights to the song up for auction on eBay but didn’t sell in the end. “Soft and Wet” was conceived as a “marketing tool,” explains Moon, to set Prince up as the Sexy MF who would fully reveal himself on future albums like 1980’s Dirty Mind. The song is about a kiss, but it can be inferred that that song is about other things as well, which is where most people’s minds go to.”
It’s probably going to be girls-and it’s probably going to be younger girls who think he’s cute and sexy.’ But I decided that, because we’re dealing with younger people, the sexual component can’t be blatant, that what we need is a double entendre that infuses his music with some sexual energy. “I thought, ‘Guys are probably not going to be the primary audience for a 5-foot-2, falsetto-singing guy. “‘Soft and Wet’ wasn’t an arbitrary song that was arrived at,” recalls Moon. Moon, a lyricist, began writing songs with Prince, and they landed on “Soft and Wet” for his first demo. The tune was co-written by Chris Moon, who discovered a teenage Prince at his Moon Sound Studios in Minneapolis while the “painfully shy” future star was recording with his early band Champagne. For You’s first single - and thus, the debut single of Prince’s storied career - is the only one of the nine tracks for which the Purple One shares songwriting credit. Although the album begins with the a cappella title track - a cascade of vocals making for a virtual Prince choir - it quickly shifts gears into the soul-disco swoon “In Love” and then “Soft and Wet,” with its panting hook.
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