nonames said:

At 1.15, the line 'now I'll be painting your name in the sky' is the same melody as 'could you be the most beautiful girl in the world'. I am 100% sure it's coincidence, but it sounds very similar.

+1

Bighead said:

Marrk said:

I'm trying to come up with a scenario where, when and how would Prince have heard this obscurity?

He might have heard it in one of those rare occasions when Prince left the US to travel. I know it seems far fetched that a successful american recording artist would dare tour Europe, of which Italy is a part of, since it is so far away and Prince probably didn't have any fans in that part of the world, so why would he have any business experiencing the world and the different culture of any country other than the US. I can see why it would be hard to imagine someone so restricted being able to see and hear anything that is out of the immediate vicinity of his television room.

Are you an Italian lawyer or something!?

I have a fair share of knowledge when it comes to 80's Eurotrash as I grew up listening to it (shhhh), and that song is not only shite, but it's obscure as they come!

I can guarantee you 99.999999% that P would never have heard that song, let alone remember such a pile of tripe, during his travels in Europe.

Not similar enough, I feel like I've seen people post a song that sounds exactly like "Colonized Mind" before, so, it happens. Would love to hear that again.

[edit] Found an old thread, and figured it out. http://prince.org/msg/7/3...?&pg=1 hope it's okay to post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSoVQ3WwzaI

[Edited 7/21/16 2:06am]

You can sure hear the similarities in that chorus, melody wise. Not sure what to make of it. Could be a coincidence, of course.

[Edited 7/21/16 3:44am]

Just listened to Quit It as well. Er... The guitar chords are the same.

Did Prince ever acknowledge "sampling" it?

[Edited 7/21/16 2:17am]

It's ridiculous.

The melody on TMBGITW is so simple that it doesn't surprise me one bit it can be found on other songs too. Just put your fingers on on the F#, G#, A# and B keys on a keyboard and play them one after another back and forth. That's it.

It's just phrased in interesting ways during the song itself, which keeps the song interesting. Again, you're bound to find something that's phrased similar on other songs, because he does it so many ways on the recording.

I remember in Psychology class the professor talking about that on average, at any given time, if a person someone is coming up with an idea - story, design, invention, song, etc etc etc, that 12 other people are having that same idea/or super similar at that same time. Coincidence can happen in this regard too. Most of them no one hears about, but when one thinks they have a leg to stand on, that is when we get these ridiculous claims.

There are parts in the chorus that sound like this other song, but lets do the math, the dude wrights 1000's of songs at the drop of a hat and suddenly he needs to rip off some italian dudes because the well was running dry? Don't think so, this is simply a coincidence, nothing more.

bluegangsta said:

laytonian said:

Of course, Prince didn't sue Jimmy Jam for copying "Controversy" when Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" was written....but he got pesky in concert. LOL that guy.

Janet totally knows they ripped of Controversy, look at that pic, it is all over her face, she looks guilty as hell!!

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oceancrayon said:

TonyVanDam said:

i aplwys thought it was a direct rip-off of that song called "U"..i cant remember the artist at this moment

luvsexy4all said:

i aplwys thought it was a direct rip-off of that song called "U"..i cant remember the artist at this moment

Ten Sharp.

steakfinger said:

this is ridiculous.The two songs sound nothibg alike.I bet that Prince had never even heard that terrible,terrible song!

I'm not hearing it. No way he was even 'inspired' by that. So if an Italian court rules, what does that really mean. They have no jurisdiction over his music, other than perhaps what is sold in Italy.

databank said:

luvsexy4all said:

i aplwys thought it was a direct rip-off of that song called "U"..i cant remember the artist at this moment

Ten Sharp.

no...briain mcknight