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Thread started 04/12/05 8:44am

Lovejazz

Brian McKnight Sings Prince

U guys heard the new Brian McKnight cd "Gemini"? It has a track called "Everything I Do" that is just like Prince!And it wink sounds good,too.It's 1 of the 1st songs I've heard N a long time where somebody is using Prince's influnce to write and sing a song(Just like when some artist use the "influnces" of Stevie, Hendrix,James Brown,Luther,R Kelly ,etc..).The last songs I heard like that was TLC's "Waterfalls", and Laurnea's "Infatuation",both of them off the hook.Check it all out!!!!!
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Reply #1 posted 04/12/05 9:21am

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Okay!!!!!
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Reply #2 posted 04/12/05 1:53pm

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Lovejazz said:

U guys heard the new Brian McKnight cd "Gemini"? It has a track called "Everything I Do" that is just like Prince!And it wink sounds good,too.It's 1 of the 1st songs I've heard N a long time where somebody is using Prince's influnce to write and sing a song(Just like when some artist use the "influnces" of Stevie, Hendrix,James Brown,Luther,R Kelly ,etc..).The last songs I heard like that was TLC's "Waterfalls", and Laurnea's "Infatuation",both of them off the hook.Check it all out!!!!!

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Reply #3 posted 04/12/05 3:10pm

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Thank you for this thread!

I swear Brian ripped off purple rain for that damned track!!!! He was on the Soul Train awards playing it and you could tell! He even does a guitar solo on the outro!!! It even has the same chords!

Brian you should know better!

And the worst part is that they are playing it a lot here now!

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Reply #4 posted 04/12/05 11:07pm

JesseDezz

How did he rip off Purple Rain? Just because Mr. McKnight puts a guitar solo in a song does not make it a Prince ripoff...
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Reply #5 posted 04/13/05 6:23am

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Lovejazz said:

U guys heard the new Brian McKnight cd "Gemini"? It has a track called "Everything I Do" that is just like Prince!And it wink sounds good,too.It's 1 of the 1st songs I've heard N a long time where somebody is using Prince's influnce to write and sing a song(Just like when some artist use the "influnces" of Stevie, Hendrix,James Brown,Luther,R Kelly ,etc..).The last songs I heard like that was TLC's "Waterfalls", and Laurnea's "Infatuation",both of them off the hook.Check it all out!!!!!


Yeah, he tries to sing like Prince on this song, it reminds me Call My Name a lot...

But of course, I prefer ten times Prince because, he has a better falsetto and sings better...
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Reply #6 posted 04/13/05 6:27am

DavidEye

This isn't the first time he has ripped off Prince.Several years ago,he released a song (can't remember the title) that sounds like "Adore" mixed with "Scandalous".He even tried to sing in that Princely falsetto...lol...the results were humorous.
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Reply #7 posted 04/13/05 6:31am

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MCKNIGHT...

Has blatantly ripped off Me'shell TOO. neutral
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Reply #8 posted 04/13/05 10:01am

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He also has some song that sounds exaclty like jagged edge neutral jagged edge, brian? disbelief
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Reply #9 posted 04/13/05 10:30am

love2thenines

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MCKNIGHT...

Has blatantly ripped off Me'shell TOO. neutral



THANK YOU !!!!!
Rpped off MeShell for probably his biggest hit ever....Anytime.....(outside your door) Stop the mad madness brian.....
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Reply #10 posted 04/13/05 11:01am

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FUCK Brian McKnight... in his ass... with something long & rusty... flip u
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #11 posted 04/13/05 12:07pm

beret1022

A couple of years he had a song out that sounded like a Prince song. I forgot the name of it, but it kind of sounds like Scandalous. I actually thought Prince did the song for him.
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Reply #12 posted 04/13/05 12:59pm

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CalhounSq said:

FUCK Brian McKnight... in his ass... with something long & rusty... flip u


mushy

You're so romantic.
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Reply #13 posted 04/13/05 2:09pm

JesseDezz

Why can't an artist sing in falsetto without being deemed a Prince ripoff? Prince is not the only artist that has sung in falsetto or played a guitar solo...
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Reply #14 posted 04/13/05 2:55pm

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beret1022 said:

A couple of years he had a song out that sounded like a Prince song. I forgot the name of it, but it kind of sounds like Scandalous. I actually thought Prince did the song for him.


Not sure if it's the same one but "If It Was Cool" was a straight up Prince rip off record. This cat has been down this road before.
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Reply #15 posted 04/13/05 11:54pm

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FunkMistress said:

CalhounSq said:

FUCK Brian McKnight... in his ass... with something long & rusty... flip u


mushy

You're so romantic.


touched I try kiss2
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #16 posted 04/14/05 6:39am

DavidEye

beret1022 said:

A couple of years he had a song out that sounded like a Prince song. I forgot the name of it, but it kind of sounds like Scandalous. I actually thought Prince did the song for him.



Yep,that's the song I'm talking about! I forgot the title,but it sounds like "Adore" mixed with "Scandalous".My girlfriend used to play it all the time.
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Reply #17 posted 04/22/05 7:47am

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DavidEye said:


... it sounds like "Adore" mixed with "Scandalous"


The song is "Love Of My Life", and this is the chorus:
You're more than wonderful
More than amazing
Irreplaceable, love, love, in my life
You're so incredible, here in these arms tonight
The irreplaceable, love, love, of my life


I wish an interviewer would ask him about this song and "Everything I Do". But lets also admit that Prince has borrowed from songs of others, like the bass line of "Baba O'Riley" for "The Beautiful Ones", and I believe he took a lot from the J. Geils Band's "Freeze Frame" to make "Let's Go Crazy".
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