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In this period, Prince also got in trouble due to his explicit style. Then-Senator [[Al Gore]]'s wife, Tipper, was outraged by hearing her 12-year-old daughter listening to the explicit lyrics of "Darling Nikki" and founded the much-hated [[Moral Guardians|Parents Music Resource Center]] (yes, the inventors of the "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" sticker), instead of, oh we don't know, being more careful about buying albums in the future or something like that.
Following a successful tour marred by occasional tension within the band, Prince & the Revolution released another successful album, ''Around the World in a Day'', this time amplifying the psychedelic elements hinted at with ''Purple Rain'' to a vaguely [[The Beatles (band)|Beatlesque]] sound. The resulting tour worsened intra-band tension due to Prince's recruitment of additional members (Susannah Melvoin, Eric Leeds, Atlanta Bliss, Jerome Benton, Wally Salford, Greg Brooks). He also began a new film project named ''Under the Cherry Moon''. While ''Purple Rain'' had a lukewarm-but-positive reception, ''Cherry Moon'' was savaged by critics due to bad plot and acting, but the film's soundtrack album ''Parade'' did just as well on the charts.
Since the intra-band tension had grown to severe levels by now, Prince disbanded The Revolution in 1986, firing almost everyone (Brown Mark quit by himself) besides Doctor Fink. A new lineup was assembled, including guitarist Miko Weaver, drummer Sheila E., Bliss and Leeds on horns, bassist Levi Seacer, Jr. and keyboardist Boni Boyer. Some of them appeared on ''Sign the Times'', Prince's first solo effort after the disintegration of The Revolution. While this earned a much better reception critically and commercially, it marked the beginning of Prince's feud with Warner Bros. Records, after they scrapped his plan to originally release a triple album and forced him to reduce it to a double album -- possibly a rare case of positive [[Executive Meddling]]. He then was tapped to create the soundtrack for the 1989 [[Tim Burton]] ''[[Batman]]'' film ([[Michael Jackson]] had been in talks to do it, but it never panned out).
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