{"id":7219,"date":"2026-11-10T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2026-11-10T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:44:57","slug":"this-phil-collins-hit-resembles-a-prince-classic-from-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/this-phil-collins-hit-resembles-a-prince-classic-from-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"This Phil Collins Hit Resembles a Prince Classic From 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two artists helped define the sound of pop music in the 1980s with colossal hits: Phil Collins and Prince. For his part, Collins, who will be inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame this year as a solo artist, has sold 100 million albums on his own (and 100 million more with Genesis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s one song that ties the two together, proving how even one of the world\u2019s biggest-selling pop stars was finding influence in another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cSussudio\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phil Collins - Sussudio (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r0qBaBb1Y-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collins is smitten here with a girl. And she\u2019s got him so dizzy with want that he shouts gibberish instead of her name. \u201cSussudio\u201d features a nonsense word Collins uttered while programming the song\u2019s groove on a drum machine. Remember this drum machine; it\u2019ll be important soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>There\u2019s a girl that\u2019s been on my mind,<br>All the time, Su-ssusudio.<br>Now she don\u2019t even know my name,<br>But I think she likes me just the same.<br>Su-ssusudio<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a smash hit in 1985, reaching No. 1 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100. But Collins\u2019s funky track resembles another popular tune from three years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201c1999\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prince - 1999 (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rblt2EtFfC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Collins, the similarities between \u201cSussudio\u201d and Prince\u2019s \u201c1999\u201d were no accident. \u201cI loved that song. I bought it when it first came out, and I used to listen to it on the road. I just took the tempo \u2026 I locked it into the drum machine. That was the end of it,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateprince.com\/phil-collins-prince-1999-sussudio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The sky was all purple,<br>There were people running everywhere<\/em>.<br><em>Trying to run from the destruction,<br>You know I didn\u2019t even care<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title track of Prince\u2019s fifth studio album describes the anxiety many felt about the end of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. But instead of giving in to despair, Prince\u2019s hit offers optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Say, say two thousand, zero, zero,<br>Party over, oops, out of time.<br>So tonight I\u2019m gonna party like it\u2019s 1999.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Prince survival guide to a gloomy future: If we are facing the apocalypse, then let\u2019s go crazy. Collins felt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, both tracks share synthesizers and drum machines that were ubiquitous in the 1980s. And Collins is certainly no stranger to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/phil-collins\/in-the-air-tonight\">pioneering drum sounds<\/a> that inspired others too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo by Ross Marino\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Phil Collins and Prince helped define the sound of pop music in the 1980s. 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