Prince co-write on Stand Back?

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

He didn't just add a synth to a song she wrote.

She was listening to Little Red Corvette (in the car driving to her honeymoon, btw) and she basically just wrote lyrics over his music.

So he in fact wrote the music; she just put her melody and lyrics on top of it-- just like she does when say Mike Campbell or Sandy Stewart or whoever gives her a musical track. In those cases those people get half credit--they wrote the music (the chord progression, often the arrangement) and she wrote the lyrics. The Prince situation was no different. Except he'd already put his own melody and lyrics on it and had a hit song with it!

The previous poster is right-- he could have sued her a$$ over that.

Stevie already discussed this a long time ago. She didn't steal anything. He did not want credit.