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Is My Little Pill.... really just a lame rip-off the the Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper?
Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper What a drag it is getting old "Kids are different today," I hear ev'ry mother say Mother needs something today to calm her down And though she's not really ill There's a little yellow pill She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day "Things are different today," I hear ev'ry mother say Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day Doctor please, some more of these Outside the door, she took four more What a drag it is getting old "Men just aren't the same today" I hear ev'ry mother say They just don't appreciate that you get tired They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight Doctor please, some more of these Outside the door, she took four more What a drag it is getting old "Life's just much too hard today," I hear ev'ry mother say The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day Prince -My Little Pill What's a single woman with no real man 2 do? Tryin' 2 raise your kid when he couldn't give a damn about U All my cares and troubles dive right off my window sill Everytime I pop my little pill A pixie does my laundry and the universe my will All my cares and troubles dive right off my window sill All my cares and troubles dive right off my window sill Everytime I pop my little pill "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Same topic? Clearly. Ripoff? Hardly. Maybe the subject of "My Little Pill" was (consciously or not) inspired by the Stones'. Why not developping its own skills on a topic already approached by another artist? I see no problem in that.
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Uhm, it was recorded for the movie "I'll Do Anything"
so it's probably inspired by that? I don't know, I've never seen the movie since Prince tunes were all left out of it. But I suppose Prince would not write a song about a topic like that (well "song" is a big word it is a segue at best) for a movie unless it had a subject similar to it in the script. Otherwise it would have been like submitting a song like "Sex Shooter" for a movie like "Brother Bear". and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: I don't know, I've never seen the movie since Prince tunes were all left out of it. That's perfectly good reasoning. You're a true fan-a-na-noid. | |
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IstenSzek said: Uhm, it was recorded for the movie "I'll Do Anything"
so it's probably inspired by that? I don't know, I've never seen the movie since Prince tunes were all left out of it. But I suppose Prince would not write a song about a topic like that (well "song" is a big word it is a segue at best) for a movie unless it had a subject similar to it in the script. I didn't know it was written for a movie? (that I've never heard of) but it figures since most of his music isn't so dreary Otherwise it would have been like submitting a song
like "Sex Shooter" for a movie like "Brother Bear". If you will, so will I | |
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I didn't know MLP was written for a movie.
Still sounds like a ripoff to me. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Novabreaker said: IstenSzek said: I don't know, I've never seen the movie since Prince tunes were all left out of it. That's perfectly good reasoning. You're a true fan-a-na-noid. | |
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