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25307, Another Prince style bite
Posted by guest, Mon Apr-10-00 06:00 AM
Okay, Send it On is a very good song, and the best next single. It's the second best song on the album after "Untitled". But this is also the other song that sounds the most like a Prince song. D'Angelo has already been criticized for sounding too much like Prince.

When is he going to let everyone hear his own style without taking so much from Prince's sound? He's gonna get pigeonholed as the cat who tries hard as hell to be and sound like Prince. If he keeps this up, he should seriously think about paying Prince royalties for his album sales. Or he may simply have to become original and work on developing his own style which he established on Brown Sugar.

I mean, I understand Prince was an influence on him, but damn, don't make every single a "Prince-sounding" song. D'Angelo is very much talented enough to put out some dope stuff of his own, using his own style. So why doesn't he do it and stop biting so much. He's gonna chip a tooth one day.