Fair dinkum cobber, theres nothing orstrailian about their accents, its not British its just fudge packer accents if you get what I mean.
I live in New Zealand, so I know what an Australian sounds like, and they do not sound like Melvin Riley junior

tane1976 said:

Haw daaaaeeeer ya speak of the Aussies in that way, ya kiwi basturd! I've na'er heard tale of a kiwi who could tell his ear from his arsehole, much less an accent!
(Just kidding, I'm just a yank givin'you shite, mate!)
and leave the nancy boy Brits at the flats with the Frenchies!
Sorry, couldn't resist that one. The temptation was great, no arm done, I meant they sound like a group of gays rather than Aussies, poms, kiwis, kiwi basturds, Prince whateva

didn't this group have fake ass british accents too?

Dayton and butterscotch; it's good to see some grown folk up in here who actually knows some thangs. Anyway, and I know SoulAlive and Vain remembers this, this song was HUGE! The timing of it could not have been better. It came out when the radio was "all things Prince". And even the title of the song was timing perfect. Sheila E. was hittin' with The Glam Life and being on Erotic City so she was popular on her own. Many folks thought at the very least, this song was about Sheila E. The cosmos was so thick around P during this period that even shit he had NOTHING to do with were becoming hits just from evoking him.

I never picked up on the Lady Cab driver similairty until someone pointed it out.... it's jus that the chorus cadence of the words is similar. The rest of the songs is nothing like LCD.

In terms of "ripping off prince", they not only used the LInn, they used similar detuning effect of the sidestick that was one of Prince's signature things back then (like in let's go crazy, beautiful ones etc.)