Pebbles - Giving You The Benefit
http://www.youtube.com/wa...V-l9rpI0g0

BObby Brown - On Our own
http://www.youtube.com/wa...dFUkIrZgBg

wow

I've always thought those two songs sounded exactly alike. It never bothered me, but then again I never thought LaFace's sound was all that original. Distinct, yes, but not original.

TommyRoss said:

NEWSFLASH Tommy & Krazy:

Those two tracks are THE same song! Typical production skills of Antonio "LA" Reid & Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds within life after The Deele.

BTW, I love On Our Own way better.

Try pairing on our own with after 7's only mistake heat of the moment
Same song with different lyrics. Face was okay as a solo artist but he
lost his funkiness after the deele.

I love all of those songs, but "Giving You the Benefit" would have to be my favorite. It made my top 5 Babyface Songs. "On Our Own" was in the top 20 and "Heat of the Moment" also fared pretty well. BTW, there are enough differences for me. For starters, I like the baseline in the Pebbles song better.

6 Degrees of Separation: After 7 sings the "work" backing vocals in "Giving You the Benefit" and Bobby's hit "Every Little Step" is about Pebbles.

BTW, the possessive "its" doesn't have an apostrophe.
[Edited 12/30/06 4:03am]

Speaking of LaFace, WHY did I have Babyface's "Saturday" in my player the other day

CalhounSq said:

I actually liked Staurday even though the lyrics seem a bit corny...

ABeautifulOne said:

It is pretty corny, but I still dig it

I love me some Pebbles "Giving You The Benefit"...

hey, lets not forget Karyn White's soundalike.

sosgemini said:

I especially liked it when they started the video version with the "I could be a trip but I choose not to" part. That's hot!

Speaking of hot... mmm, Pebbles...

sosgemini said:

I love Karyn White (even if she is another Janet-clone!).

TonyVanDam said:

But it's the same song!

TonyVanDam said:

Wasn't she supposed to release an album this year...That's one I'm looking forward to.

That's not fair. Same production techniques and instruments (ok, orchestra hit synth patch) but you could say the same about any "signature sound".

Why are we hating on Laface?

CinisterCee said:

I wanna retire the word "hating" from this forum. I like LaFace, but the fact is that those two songs sound exactly alike. I love Jam & Lewis, too and some of their songs also suffer from the same problem.

TommyRoss said:

No, it's not a fact. The songs are strikingly similar, but there are quite a few differences.

AlexdeParis said:

Oh, good Lord. They sound too much alike is what I'm saying.

TommyRoss said:

TommyRoss said:

beeee-eeeeiiiitch

CinisterCee said:

VinnyM27 said:

I know! But no one could bring the energy to those tracks like Bobby Brown did in those late 80's, not even Pebbies.

CinisterCee said:

Remember the thread starter KingKrazy? That little boy HATES black artists that make people dance too fast.

THIS is the same dude that hated Oaktown's 357 for the same reason.

TonyVanDam said:

LOL How could he?

CinisterCee said:

It's one thing for Krazy to diss Kid'N Play. But 357 too? F*** that. I say let's make hip-hop danceable again!

TonyVanDam said:

Oh no he di'int!

KingKrazy is just a huge Bobby Brown fan.

As far as the songs being too similar, I think it helps that the vocalists are different genders. FWIW, the songs hit #1 on the R&B chart a little more than a year apart.

AlexdeParis said:

He also loves to make excuses for 50 Cent too.

Other songs that sound like those 2:


Jermaine Jackson- you said you said (friggin' love that song)
Laface cartel- reversal of a dog (off the "boomerang" OST)



"you said you said (i'll be alright)....."

I wonder if LaFace's "cookie cutter style" is a reflection of their (namely BabyFace's) musical limitations on keyboard - for instance, maybe only being able to play in certain keys. That would certainly breed too much familarity. One of the last bands I played in "featured" a keyboard player who could only play in a few keys, mainly F#. Whenever we played the songs he wrote back to back, it sounded like one looonnnnggg song in F#...

JesseDezz said:

? But once babyface ditched LA Reid, his albums got boring quickly. I think Babyface and Reid stopped working as partners around 1993. Laface never did do any newjack songs, but I guess you could call then newjack lite LOL. The stuff they did with Jermaine Jackson was pretty good.