“Kiss” is one of those songs that almost didn’t exist in the form we know. It began as a small, bluesy acoustic demo Prince knocked out for Mazarati, one of the bands orbiting Paisley Park, when they asked him for a track for their debut. They, along with producer David Z, took it and flipped it into something else, they gave it a funk groove, they gave it the bite it was missing. Prince heard what they’d done and did the most Prince thing possible, he took it back