Fallinlove2nite / Hardrocklover Single: 2026

Prince's Rolling Stone Germany Covermount

Fallinlove2nite / Hardrocklover was released a a 7-inch vinyl single(covermount) with the 2026- 02 issue of Rolling Stone Germany.

Covermount Xclusive

The single only released as a covermount with the February 2026 edition of Rolling Stone magazine in Germany, on January 30, 2026, to promote the vinyl release of the Hitnrun Phase One album. Both the a-side and the b-side were released earlier as stand-alone digital singles promoting the cd-release of the Hitnrun Phase One album. The digital release for Hardrocklover was slightly different from the album version. It is not known if the 2026 vinyl release is the same version as the digital release from 2015.

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Track Listing

A: Fallinlove2nite

"Fallinlove2nite" was released as a digital single on March 17, 2014, and promoted as being a stand-alone single. It was made available on iTunes and Amazon. The song peaked at No. 40 in Belgium on April 5, 2014. On April 26, it peaked in the US on the Billboard Adult R&B Airplay chart at No. 29.

The single is credited to "Prince feat. Zooey Deschanel"; it is only the second commercially available single by Prince to contain a co-credit other than Prince's own band (following "U Make My Sun Shine" featuring Angie Stone; singles featuring Sheena Easton were credited only to Prince). The song had been broadcast (as an edited studio recording) during Prince's appearance on the TV series New Girl on February 2, 2014. It was premiered on radio station 102.3 KJLH, based in Los Angeles, California, before being available to stream in full the following week on iHeart Radio's website and on 3rdEyeGirl YouTube account.

"Fallinlove2nite" (without Deschanel's vocals) was included on Prince's 38th studio album Hit n Run Phase One when it was released in September 2015, but this project is believed to have come later.[by whom?] In retrospect, however, "Fallinlove2nite" can be considered the album's first single.

Background

(Prince's first on Epic Records)

"Fallinlove2nite" is the sixth track on Prince's 38th album Hitnrun Phase One. 18 months earlier, however, a slightly different version was released on the stand-alone digital single Fallinlove2nite (Prince's first on Epic Records) in March 2014. The song was first broadcast (as an edited studio recording) on February 2, 2014, during Prince's appearance on the TV series New Girl. The full studio version was premiered (along with Funknroll) in March 2014, on radio station 102.3 KJLH, based in Los Angeles, California, before being available to stream in full the following week on iHeart Radio's website.[citation needed]

The song was recorded specifically for the New Girl appearance, as vocals are shared between Prince and the show's lead actress Zooey Deschanel (who is also a professional singer, as one half of She & Him). Although the New Girl performance was intended to appear as though the track was being performed live, it was lip-synched over the studio recording. The song made a lengthier appearance when Prince spent a whole hour on the Arsenio Hall Show where he also performed "FunkNRoll" from his album Art Official Age, the Family's "Mutiny" and his B-side "She's Always in My Hair".

B: Hardrocklover

"Hardrocklover" is the eighth track on Prince's 38th album, "Hitnrun Phase One." It was released as the album's second single ten weeks before the album's launch. At the time of the single's release, no album had been announced. However, once the album was revealed, "Hardrocklover" was retroactively designated as the lead-off single, similar to how "Fallinlove2nite" had been labeled over a year earlier.

The song was first made available to stream on the Prince3EG Soundcloud account the week before, and was added to Tidal before the single release.

While specific recording dates are not known, a BBC interview with Joshua Welton seemed to confirm that Hardrocklover was recorded in late June 2015, very shortly before its release, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (on the same day as June). When discussing the track, Welton is quoted as saying:

Prince said to me: "I need something that starts off quiet, and then I just want it to erupt and then I want you to go back… like this roller coaster". And so I said, "ok, cool".

So Hardrocklover was done literally almost as soon as it came out. Actually, that and the last song on the album were made literally in the same hour.

The lyrics mention Chanté Moore (who did some recordings with Prince/ in 1995 and was also cited in Ripopgodazippa) and Babyface. The track title may have been inspired by the track Hard Rock Lover from the Mother’s Finest album Another Mother Further (the phrase "anotha motha furtha" was included on Funknroll, and the album also includes Baby Love, which was released as a live version by Prince on Indigo Nights).

Production and Context

Label: NPG Records / Legacy Recordings

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Sources

Information is drawn from personal knowledge and supplemented by web sources, including Prince Vault, Discogs, 45cat, AllMusic, Rate Your Music, Wikipedia and BBC Official Charts Company