>and no oh Sheila was never mistaken for a single Prince song


lol...WTF???

Are u kidding me, dog?

Even Prince in the same year "Oh Sheila" came out jabbed RFTW with much side-eye for ripping off his "groove" and "sound"....And yet there was no lawsuit...

In fact, years later when Timbaland was going to the press and complaining about how all the producers were taking his sound and running with it Prince responded in an interview that Timbo should stop crying. Paraphrasing Prince in an interview: "That's just how music works. My sound was getting copied from everybody. But you didn't see me complain about Ready For The World. I just changed my sound..."

Of course people mistook "Oh Sheila" for the Prince sound/song. That's why it became a huge crossover record on the pop charts. Because everybody was jacking Prince's groove at that point. But RFTW was no. 1 in that department. They JACKED the hell out of Prince. More than what Thicke and P did with Marvin's "GTGIU".....