G3000 said:

Did anyone post this one? This sounds like Adore.

Laurneá - Infatuation

Yeah, I posted it at the top of the thread.

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Musicslave said:

I think Diddy bit hard from Prince's apple on this one. Just as he did with "Last Night" w/Keyshia Cole....

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' Last Night' for me is more evocative of The Eurythmics than Prince.

Not sure if this was posted in part 1, but...

Kwick - Too Lonley To Be Alone

Sorry Alex, but...

missfee said:

So I'm going to guess that Ready For the World's "Oh Sheila" was on the part I thread? Because I know some out of touch folks who could had sworn that was Prince and the song was about Shiela E.

Guilty here! I used to think that was a Prince song, and the guys in that band, emulated the Prince hairstyle and clothes. I really thought it was about Sheila E too, until I found out they had nothing to do with Prince and that song wasn't about Sheila E, but it really sounds like a Prince-penned track. I just watched their vid a few posts above, and I could see that song being song by Morris Day & The Time, back then.

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Paris9748430 said:

johnart said:

Also, what is the criteria? I'm not familiar with Pt 1 of this thread.

Is it just Prince-ly music? Or does "fake" mean it's a poor attempt at a Prince-ly sound?

Probably both. For example.

I don't quite get a Prince connection with this tune.

You obviously get a Cameo vibe with the other hit single

from this album Games.

2elijah said:

missfee said:

So I'm going to guess that Ready For the World's "Oh Sheila" was on the part I thread? Because I know some out of touch folks who could had sworn that was Prince and the song was about Shiela E.

Guilty here! I used to think that was a Prince song, and the guys in that band, emulated the Prince hairstyle and clothes. I really thought it was about Sheila E too, until I found out they had nothing to do with Prince and that song wasn't about Sheila E, but it really sounds like a Prince-penned track. I just watched their vid a few posts above, and I could see that song being song by Morris Day & The Time, back then.

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Well RFTW are from Flint, Michigan so the Minneapolis influence was right

there in their backyard.

phunkdaddy said:

2elijah said:

Guilty here! I used to think that was a Prince song, and the guys in that band, emulated the Prince hairstyle and clothes. I really thought it was about Sheila E too, until I found out they had nothing to do with Prince and that song wasn't about Sheila E, but it really sounds like a Prince-penned track. I just watched their vid a few posts above, and I could see that song being song by Morris Day & The Time, back then.

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Well RFTW are from Flint, Michigan so the Minneapolis influence was right

there in their backyard.

I wonder if RFTW made as much money during the course of their career as Prince's most profitable protege? They had six albums, two greatest hits and Melvin's solo projects. How would they stack up next to The Time?

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My favorite from back in the day...

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These two bit a little too hard.

Terius Nash (aka The Dream)

studies the "Minneapolis sound" immensely!

the whole girl group (Electrik Red)

thing was inspired by Vanity/Apollonia 6

and Andre Cymone's The Girls

most of this album:

bit off of this album:

which bit off of this album:

this straight up jacked 1983

been some good ones. My personal fave is Do Anything, people actually were dumb enough to think it was Prince under a pseudonym. To this day people still think that. But if you're ears are good, you can tell that the production is pretty cheap and that it's way too poppy for Prince to have written at that stage in his career and he never really did write pop music without his little twists to them. The vocalist obviously studied alot of Prince's post-falsetto dominated singing from ATWIAD and SOTT for the performance. Great pop song.

Andre Cymone's Jody Watley tracks have to be up there too.

More recent examples.

Marsha Ambrosius "Late Night & Early Mornings"

Miguel "Teach Me"

The-Dream "Yamaha"

Alicia Keys "This Bed"

Ciara & Justin Timberlake "Love, Sex, Magic"

Chris Brown "Take You Down"

Ciara "Promise"

P. Diddy & Keyshia Cole "Last Night"

Justin Timberlake "Until The End Of Time"

Usher "Do It To Me"

The album version sounds more like Prince with it's "International Lover" like adlibs but the live version is too dope not to post up.