| Prostitute | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Alphaville |
| Cover: | Alphaville prostitute1994.jpg |
| Released: | 26 August 1994 |
| Studio: | Lunapark Studios, Berlin |
| Genre: | Synth-pop |
| Length: | 70:46 |
| Label: | Warner Music |
| Producer: | Alphaville |
| Prev Title: | History |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | Salvation |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Prostitute is the fourth studio album by German synth-pop band Alphaville, released in 1994.[1] The album was reissued in a remastered and expanded edition in November 2023.[2]
Following the "science-fiction-themed" Afternoons in Utopia and the "lushly orchestrated" The Breathtaking Blue albums,[3] this was Alphaville's first release in five years. Having "a great variety of styles",[4] this "jazzy and EDM-influenced",[3] "dark, theatrical album"[3] proved "too abstract to achieve" much success.[5] The lack of commercial appeal led the band to return to its synth/dance roots with the following album, Salvation.[6]
In 2019 Marian Gold recommended Prostitute, along with the 2017 Strange Attractor, to anyone who only knew Alphaville from Big In Japan.[4]
It is the last Alphaville album with Ricky Echolette.