Wich recent songs are very Prince alike in ur opinion?

4 me: "How does it feel" by D'angelo and some Andre 3000 stuff

it's not all that recent, but most of boy george's "martyr mantras" album sounds WAY like prince, and duran duran's "wedding album" (the one with "ordinary world") has a lot of prince-inspired stuff on it too.

There's a song by female singer Cherokee, that is pure Prince, jazzysoul style
but i can't remember the track title

'I Try' by Macy Gray, especially the chorus.....don't ask me why, I just think so!

gotta say it - beck's "midnite vultures" album.

Anx said:

Yep!

hangin tough

fonkee said:

I am so tired of being alone - Al Green

- Most of Maxwell's debut album
- How Does It Feel - D'
- Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine - D'
- Fortunate - R Kelly
- One of Us - Joan Osbourne
- When Will You Call - Bilal
- Down Here in Hell - Van Hunt
- Seconds of Pleasure - Van Hunt
- Oh Sheila - RFTW
- Be Here - Raphael Saadiq
- Taxi - Tonex
- Dreamin' - Amp Fiddler
- Heaven Sent - Donnie
- Miss Me Blind - Culture Club
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Hold My Hand - Van Hunt
Undeniably - Terence Trent D'arby
Waterfalls - TLC
Just a Little While - Janet Jackson
Love Song #3 - Meshell Ndgeocello

Case-Touch Me

"Don't Cha"

dewalliz said:

Ya think? Naw, not even. Not a Prince vibe anywhere on that song.

DJ506 said:

Janet :: Just A Little While (2004)

Has that whole funkabilly vibe and even the lyrics are suggestive and borderline blasphemous like "Dirty Mind"-era Prince.

Karl Wallinger could sound very much like ATWIAD/Parade era Prince sometimes, especially when he slid into a falsetto during a slower number. He always mentioned that he was a Prince fan in his interviews, and I think that really shows up in his music.

Maybe it's just my imagination, but I think I can hear elements of Prince in some of Todd Rundgren's seventies albums, especially on Hermit of Mink Hollow and Something/Anything. That might be a bit of a stretch, I guess...

Without a doubt:

Basement Jaxx - Breakaway

yeah basement jaxx' breakaway and van hunt! tru

-pharrel "angel"
-jamie lidell "when i come back around"
-romanthony "bring u up"

endorphin74 said:

That's my favorite song by them. Didn't really think of it as Prince-y.

because of you - Kelly clarskon

Check on it - beyonce and somebody

ChristopherTracyParade said:

It probably because of the voice. When I heard the song in spring 1996, I thought it was a Prince until my little sister told me it was Case.

Macy Gray's Caliguila and Sex-0-matic.

dewalliz said:

Wow. Really? I can't see how anyone can confuse P's voice with Case's voice.

CinisterCee said:

it's mine too!

Interesting that you don't think of it as Princey. I was forcing a good friend of mine to listen to it back in the day as I went on and on and on about how much I loved it. His response was "Of course you do, it sounds like a Prince song"

ChristopherTracyParade said:

I dunno man why I thought Tease Me was sung by Prince. Maybe because I was thinking of the way how Prince sung Dinner With Delores which irontically my station also played around that same time.
Still, I think Prince can also wrote a song like Tease me. That is really what is the title of the thread is of songs that Prince could have written.

Not vocally, but lyrically Musiq's Whoknows song is straight Prince.

dewalliz said:

Yeah, but even the lyrics don't scream out "Prince lyrics" ya know? They're pretty basic.

I once read this album review for Michael Jackson's "Blood On The Dance Floor" album that mentioned how the reviewer thought "Superfly Sister" sounded like a Prince song. I think that answers this question.

Beyond that, I think the Wendy and Lisa song "Waterfalls" sounds like something Prince could have written.

I love both the above songs
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Speakerboxx/The love below album by OutKast if u didnt know better you would think it was a prince album.
the track 'shes lives in my lap' sounds exactly like Dorothy Parker a complete rip off of it!
Basement Jaxx r very princey also. they r both good artists tho

Almost anything André 3000 writes or produces.