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Thread started 07/05/08 4:42am

armybrat

Usher's 'Trading Places', anybody see the similarity ??

Usher's 'Trading Places',

Did anyone else notice the similarities :-

The Beat - 'The beautiful ones'

The Concept - 'If I was your girlfriend'
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Reply #1 posted 07/05/08 5:39am

Marrk

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i ignore Ughsher. so can't say i have. smile
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Reply #2 posted 07/05/08 8:32am

zucris

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Something like Alicia Keys "Like you´ll never seen me again" and Purple Rain...?
Usher hug Alicia ...both hug Prince
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Reply #3 posted 07/05/08 5:30pm

Flowerz

armybrat said:

Usher's 'Trading Places',

Did anyone else notice the similarities :-

The Beat - 'The beautiful ones'

The Concept - 'If I was your girlfriend'



k.. i just pulled this up just to hear it.. am listening now... percussion sounds slightly IIWYG'ish .... and there's a small keyboard chord in there sounding like TBO ..... but either way, i dont like the song lol
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Reply #4 posted 07/05/08 5:50pm

Flowerz

i do have one Usher CD.. that 'Confessions' .. cause brother has 2 songs on that CD that's happenin'....

'Truth Hurts' and 'Simple Things' - both songs by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

.. every lyric of that song 'Simple Things' .. is a girl's anthem.. Usher was talkin' in that song... guys need to hear that nod

and 'Truth Hurts' - he was able to be a realist and tell the truth about himself
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Reply #5 posted 07/05/08 5:53pm

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I see the piano similarity to The Beautiful Ones, but it sounds nothing like IIWYG ... and IMO the subject matter is really not the same either.

IIWYG is about Prince comparing himself to his woman's best female friend, and the additional personal intimacy that close girlfriends have.

Usher's song is more about role reversal ... as in the woman taking control, and the man being submissive.
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Reply #6 posted 07/05/08 5:56pm

Christopher

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iam always on the top tonight im on da bottom
cuz we trading places



haha

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Reply #7 posted 07/05/08 5:58pm

Christopher

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armybrat said:



The Beat - 'The beautiful ones'




look for ushers "do it to me" that one is beautiful ones all the way.
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Reply #8 posted 07/05/08 6:02pm

Flowerz

Se7en said:

I see the piano similarity to The Beautiful Ones, but it sounds nothing like IIWYG ... and IMO the subject matter is really not the same either.

IIWYG is about Prince comparing himself to his woman's best female friend, and the additional personal intimacy that close girlfriends have.

Usher's song is more about role reversal ... as in the woman taking control, and the man being submissive.


i think the author was referring to the percussion sound of IIWYG.. not the concept.. cause you're right... this has nothing to do with IIWYG..
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Reply #9 posted 07/05/08 9:49pm

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Flowerz said:

i do have one Usher CD.. that 'Confessions' .. cause brother has 2 songs on that CD that's happenin'....

'Truth Hurts' and 'Simple Things' - both songs by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

.. every lyric of that song 'Simple Things' .. is a girl's anthem.. Usher was talkin' in that song... guys need to hear that nod

and 'Truth Hurts' - he was able to be a realist and tell the truth about himself

I had no idea they did those tracks and I've had that CD forever.
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Reply #10 posted 07/05/08 11:02pm

Flowerz

ToraToraDreams said:

Flowerz said:

i do have one Usher CD.. that 'Confessions' .. cause brother has 2 songs on that CD that's happenin'....

'Truth Hurts' and 'Simple Things' - both songs by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

.. every lyric of that song 'Simple Things' .. is a girl's anthem.. Usher was talkin' in that song... guys need to hear that nod

and 'Truth Hurts' - he was able to be a realist and tell the truth about himself

I had no idea they did those tracks and I've had that CD forever.


yeah, i didnt know either.. i thought it was all BabyFace stuff.. but no...
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Reply #11 posted 07/06/08 9:56am

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U know what..as eye was reading this thread..eye was listening to Usher's "Do it to me" on Launchcast radio..and right after that song ended..Prince's "the beautiful ones" started rite after..coincedence rite?
..In her chills, I'll force a burst..Erotic thrills, so good, it hurts..My motions 2 her velvet, she'll strike it as love..Rain from her pelvis..ended with doves..
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Reply #12 posted 07/06/08 5:53pm

KidaDynamite

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dyami12 said:

U know what..as eye was reading this thread..eye was listening to Usher's "Do it to me" on Launchcast radio..and right after that song ended..Prince's "the beautiful ones" started rite after..coincedence rite?


Oh my god.... I thought I was the only one who thought this. I LOVE that song and I always {from the time the cd 1st came out} I thought it sounded like Prince "Beautiful Ones", I was wondering why I liked that song so much. lol
surviving on the thought of loving you, it's just like the water
I ain't felt this way in years...
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