
While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in mid-late February 1989 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions that produced Lemon Crush and a revamped version of Anna Waiting, now known as Vicki Waiting). Eleven months after the album’s release, a remix of the track by William Orbit and Mark Moore was included on The Future, the album’s fifth and final commercially-released single (available in Europe only).

The Future is the first track on Prince’s eleventh album Batman (the motion picture soundtrack to the Tim Burton movie Batman).
