This track is dripping Prince, yet in the liner notes there is no mention of him touching this track. I dont buy it, it makes me think he pretty much wrote the entire album while graciously giving her credit for most of it. Don't get me wrong, Andy has a great voice and is quite an amazing musician, but I think Prince has more input than is listed.

However, if those liner notes are indeed correct, then much props to Andy for the work she did on the 6 non Prince tracks.

-leadline

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Of course he wrote it. Come on.

That is what I originally thought, and still think, but was just working off the info on this site below stating he only co-wrote 3 songs, People Pleaser not being one of them.

http://www.princevault.co...rconductor

Peace

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leadline said:

That is what I originally thought, and still think, but was just working off the info on this site below stating he only co-wrote 3 songs, People Pleaser not being one of them.

http://www.princevault.co...rconductor

Peace

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'Prince Vault' is likely only to publish whatever credits were published on the release, unless further information is provided.

Prince has done this for his entire career, beginning with The Time. Simarlarly to Prince's involvement with Sheila E, there's NO credit to himself, but rather band members that didn't write (nor record) the parts on the albums.

I think it's very safe to say Prince wrote the entire album.

I disagree i think andy allo wrote the lyrics and i think the song sounded the way it did before prince and i think prince had somebody add the horn arrangments. Think about it Prince didn't write those solos he probably arranged the song. Andy wrote lyrics and prince would be like insert sax solo here and trumpet solo there.

The song is pretty simple. I wouldn't put it past Andy to have written this. The arrangement is all Prince & his horn section, though, and that is what makes the song what it is.

Andy sings his songs well.

I wrote it.

Spinlight said:

Of course he wrote it. Come on.

word.

Andy Allo's album is a Prince album, but instead of Prince singing we get yet another Protege singing over his music--this time the signer sounds a bit like Nora Jones after dental surgery.

Is it just me or does people pleaser sound like a rework of Red Heade Step Child sung by Tamar?

dont know if Prince wrote it or not but they should give Jeff Lorber some credits.

His song Raindance has the same groove.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...NqfnZ24pSg

This song musically sounds like a cover tune. I just can't put my finger on it.

Opps.......never mind, see post above.

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HonestMan13 said:

I wrote it.

Thanks for that.

Prince probably wrote and produced most of the album. However while most of his other proteges were just emulating his way of singing, Andy Allo does seem to add a bunch more personality imo.

popgodazipa said:

This album is hot. Nothing More is as good a ballad as I've heard in years. Am I drinking the purple kook aid?

Not only drinking.......u drowned in it.

Ya think?

Prince wrote, produced everything on this CD!

It's excellent!

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SpookyElektrix said:

dont know if Prince wrote it or not but they should give Jeff Lorber some credits.

His song Raindance has the same groove.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...NqfnZ24pSg

Sure, he might as well give some of the cash to Billy Joe from Green Day too since he ripped "Brain Stew" off.

so, apparently there IS a way Prince didn't write this!

I wouldn't count on it.

Right from the start, the very first time he played People Pleaser on tv (I think it was the Canal+ show back when he promoted the MPLSound disc as the "Lotusflow3r" set in France), I had the genuine feeling that she did write it and he simply loved the track. In an interview, a couple of weeks later, I recall him calling People Pleaser "the best song ever", or something to that lines. I don't think he would call one of his own songs "the best song ever". It much more sounds like building a hype around a song someone else wrote that he simply liked, even though it might not be the best song ever.

Andy might not be a guitar virtuoso, but she is an above-average songwriter. She showed this on her first album already.

Also, notice how the arrangement for People Pleaser changed over the past two years (with horns and tight, pockety grooves and shit - THOSE scream Prince; but not the song itself, necessarily). Back on the Canal+ show it sounded nothing like a Prince song.

He produced it, but Andy wrote most of these songs. Either way its a great album. Very enjoyable from beginning to end.

Poplife88 said:

He produced it, but Andy wrote most of these songs. Either way its a great album. Very enjoyable from beginning to end.

It's cute that you think that.

Poplife88 said:

He produced it, but Andy wrote most of these songs. Either way its a great album. Very enjoyable from beginning to end.

This project is as WEAK as H2O.

Didn't prince say that he would have loved to have written this song - but it is written by Andy?

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The possibility is strong considering his history. You all know the story of him making a song with Stevie Nicks and turning down (or more accurately, never replying) to her request to share her songwriting credits with him. For that matter how long in the early 80s did he not publicly own up to being the author behind The Time and Vanity 6?

RRA said:

leadline said:

This track is dripping Prince, yet in the liner notes there is no mention of him touching this track. I dont buy it, it makes me think he pretty much wrote the entire album while graciously giving her credit for most of it.

Just like he Did With Vanity 6, Apollonia 6, Sheila E., Jill Jones and the list goes on... He writes and produces the entire album but he gives All the credit to the singer, specially if the singer is a 22years old caramel piece of ass he can bang

Of course he wrote the song, Probably the Whole SuperConductor album, c'mon

People Pleaser doesn't sound like Prince at all to me. I'm sure this is Andy Allo's song. The melody and main riff have a quality to them that I can't really describe accurately, but 'amateur' feels close. Maybe also 'uninspired.' Sounds like something a young singer-songwriter might write. It definitely does not sound like purple music.

I dunno, I don't want to hate on Andy, but to me Prince's writing style is so distinctive I'm a little surprised that so many people think he wrote People Pleaser.

Prince produced the album. I would count that as a pretty big mention in the liner notes.