Stevie Influenced by The Police?

[DeeGeMe]

I read a book on songwriting a few years ago by the great Jimmy Webb and he talked about how he'd go visit famous songwriting friends and they'd beg him not to play anything he was working on to them--too much temptation to rip off something, not overtly necessarily, but subconsciously. Some musicians won't even listen to music by others because of that.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by priestofnothing

I've posted this before, but Stevie also "fashioned" the music to Mirror Mirror after this track by Tangerine Dream called "Love on a Real Train"

after she heard it in the movie Risky Business.


The term "fashioned" sounds much more Stevie/Lindsey than "ripped off". LOL

Oh my goodness. Those two songs definitely sound alike. And we know she bought the Porsche from the movie.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

I found a page that talks about other songs, with sample clips to compare. I remembered Illume/New York, but had forgotten about Say You Will/C'Mon People. And I never even noticed Angel/Werewolves of London.

C'mon People is one of my favorite songs ever.

[David]

Okay, a lot of these songs rip off the chords or the grooves of other songs, but I don't think it's fair or accurate to blame Stevie for it in all cases. For example, the instrumental track of Mirror Mirror--there's no way Stevie put that together. It's way too complex--it's a job for a person programming a synthesizer. Someone else did, although it may have been Stevie's suggestion (Can you hear her say, "Can you make it sound like the music in Risky Business?"?)

And same with Illume. Someone else stole that Richard so-and-so song (cough Lindsey cough). What's funny is that Mirror Mirror sounds a lot more like the Risky Business music (it doesn't even attempt to cloak the style) than Stand Back sounds like Little Red Corvette -- & yet it was the latter that Stevie made a big deal about being "inspired by" & offering credit to Prince. Probably because Prince is ... well, Prince, so it makes a good interview sound bite.

Had Prince & not Tangerine Whozitz written the Risky Business music, we'd have heard all these years about it from Stevie & about how she offered him credit but he refused yadda-yadda.