Stevie to me is overrated. I think cause he blind he got the extra attention and i respect him no doubt. But by far Prince is better. I think Lionel Richie is better than Stevie Wonder. Prince is no doubt the second best male artist in my book to come out after Michael jackson with elton john and lionel Richie a close 3rd and 4th respectfully.[/quote


Did U just say that Stevie Wonder was overrated and Lionel RIchie was better?

WTF -

saintsation said:

Yes I did. Lionel Richie is a good singer and his songs had class and a style to them like no other male artists. I was only 6 yrs old when i saw him suffer in defeat 8 times to michael jackson's thriller but came back the next year and beat Purple Rain. The man is good and i think people on here still hold resentment to that.

Stevie to me is overrated. I think cause he blind he got the extra attention and i respect him no doubt. But by far Prince is better. I think Lionel Richie is better than Stevie Wonder. Prince is no doubt the second best male artist in my book to come out after Michael jackson with elton john and lionel Richie a close 3rd and 4th respectfully.

Man I respect evryone opion but I cant sit back and here someone say Lionel Richie is better than Stevie WOnder!!

As far as sexual lyrics I'm not going to say Prince has more sexual lyrics then Prince

I'm not going to say Prince has more sexual lyrics then Prince

VisionEnt2004 said:

Neither am I.

FunkMistress said:

Beat me to it.

I love Stevie and I agree with Cloudy that his 70's work is fantastic, but for me it's always been Prince!

kisscamille said:

I think it's the warmth in Stevie's work that wins me over. But there's no denying Prince his genius, either.

I know this is a Prince forum, but it seems Stevie gets alot of love on this forum also. I'll be the first to admit that I hate comparing artist to each other, cause no true great artist thinks the same, and it will be unfair to say one had better thought than the other. However theres a great thread on here asking if Stevie Wonder had the best run ever for a solo act during the 70's. Many people are arguing that Prince should be in the running also! So just for the hell of it I wanted to ask who do you guys think are better Stevie Wonder or Prince!

Let the bells ring!!!!!

There was a thread a while back not too shortly after I came to prince.org debating who was more talented. That became quite heated to say the least.

Personally I think a good case could be made that Stevie is the greatest individual musician in history, or at least 20th century pop music when you take all factors into consideration (singing, songwriting, producing, musicianship, social activism, cultural/historical importance). Prince is definitely up there too, and prince can do certain things better than stevie (guitar, sexuality, dancing) but stevie's prime is one of the most rich bodies of work next to the Beatles and Duke Ellington, and while Prince often rocked harder than stevie I don't think he was any more funky, and his music was never quite as classy as Stevie's and even a lot of his best stuff hasn't aged as well (chalk it up to the fact that the production style of the 80s just hasn't aged as well in general). Plus prince had more creative partners than stevie, many of whom didn't get all the credit they deserved. One thing Prince does do better, or at least more often than stevie, is be dark or dirty (though see Maybe Your Baby and They won't go when I go for the dark side of stevie). Otherwise I think Stevie's a better singer, songwriter and producer, and at least as good and perhaps an even better multi-instrumentalist than prince.

Let's put it this way, among currently living and/or active musicians stevie and prince are numbers one and two respectively in my list of favorites
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