| "Sex Shooter" | ||||
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| Single by Apollonia 6 | ||||
| from the album Apollonia 6 | ||||
| B-side | "In a Spanish Villa" | |||
| Released | August 31, 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
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| Length | 3:39 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Prince (uncredited) | |||
| Producer(s) | Prince (as The Starr ★ Company) | |||
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| "Sex Shooter" (TopPop,1984) on YouTube | ||||
"Sex Shooter" is the debut single by Apollonia 6,released as a single in 1984. It appears on the group's only album. [1] The song reached the top 20 of the US R&B Chart and was written and produced by Prince. [2] A version performed by Prince appears on the 2019 posthumous demo album Originals .
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The song was performed by Apollonia 6 in the 1984 film Purple Rain . It reached No. 19 on the US R&B Chart and No. 32 on the US Dance Chart and has since become a favorite of Prince protégé' fans,while also being received more positively by a wider audience in retrospect. Billboard magazine ranked the song at No. 93 on their list of the 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. [3]
To promote the song,a music video was made which features the girls rehearsing the song in a dance studio and group members Apollonia and Brenda Bennett liking the same guy who joined them at rehearsal. The group also performed the song on music programs like TopPop . The full music video is available on the 20th anniversary DVD and Blu-ray editions of Purple Rain.
