if not ripped off, at least HEAVILY influenced by:



I've never heard this song before. First reaction was: gee, has this person listened to prince much? I was way off the mark!

I can't hear that, 2 different songs imo...

she's great Grace Jones, Pull Up... is a classic.

if that keyboard bit doesn't scream "stolen property" you may be in denial.

Ummmmm....NOOOOO! Time to fix your clock!
Why do people get so excited when they claim they found a song from another artist that Price "ripped off"? Very telling.
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this is nothing like lady cab driver

and you should learn how 2 read

at the beginning of the video it clearly states

"produced by Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin. 1985"

1999 was released in 82.

close thread.

nevermind

i did some further research and found that this was released in 81.

regardless.

this is nothing like lady cab driver

all musicians inspire each other 2 a certain extent

minneapolisFunq said:

Ha! I love how you were totally snide and rude. Then you were totally wrong...yet still okay with the fact that you were rude. God bless the internet.

skywalker said:

No class

stooopid

Not even close. "Pull Up To The Bumper" is a classic song and doesn't sound a bit like "Lady Cab Driver".

Naaa....not even close. Style is one thing, but chord progressions are totally different. Grace's has an island feel.

The only similarity is the honking car horns.

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If anyone ripped Grace off it's Lady Gaga. She definitely had to be inspired by Grace in a fashion sense.

Man... it's in the freaking beginning of the video! 1985 people don't do 'research' anymore...

Look!

This sounds like 1999!!! Prince ripped off Britney Spears 400 years later!


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lotusflower said:

I think this was an intentional nod to Prince, it's similar to Nasty Girl and uses the trademark numbers instead of letters, produced by the Neptunes right?


Grace rocks BTW.

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Start at about :26. Imagine Prince removed Grace's vocal in his head, which I'm sure he did.
I think this song is a pretty damn close approximation.

abigail05 said:

They are nothing alike. Nothing.

abigail05 said:

its pretty extreme to say he ripped her off. grace jones has heavily influenced a lot of musicians.

skywalker said:

I enjoyed it.

dealodelandron said:

Exactly, but I wonder how much exposure he really had to her music. When Prince wrote "Lady Cab Driver", he was in the midst of a writing frenzy at his home studio, and Sunset Sound. He was literally pushing out a song a day. Some of those were:

July 6, 1982 - Moonbeam Levels
July 7, 1982 - Lady Cab Driver
July 8, 1982 - Baby You're A Trip

I just don't think, as Prince was putting the final touches on the 1999 album, to be released October 27, 1982, that he was channeling his inner Grace Jones to produce "Lady Cab Driver". The songs are totally different, and the very brannigan that they are similar is more than a minor misnomer.

Love both songs.
But ripped off?
Not even close.

If you wanna talk about rippin off.
Compare Kesha to Uffie

Thats what we call RIP OFF:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...EmMOkDMNX0

Sounds nothing like Lady Cab Driver to me.

NouveauDance said:

This Britney song was a nod to Prince. Mayte even instructed Britney how to belly dance.

Hell, Lady Cab Driver is unmistakably straight up James Brown.

abigail05 said:

you are kidding right ?? great song but nothing like LCD ???

I won't keep arguing the point. The car horns, the funky guitar, the basic chord structure, the synth thing that is EXACTLY THE SAME, and the timing of hers to his is just to similar for me to dismiss.

I'd say Prince took the concept and made it 100x better, and it's one of his best songs ever, but I like hers too. Heard it on some streaming disco station yesterday.

skywalker said:

And minneapolisFunq could have typed those same words without the "you should learn how 2 read" part (especially without doing his own research), and he would not have been rude at all. People love posting insults about other members around here.