It’s been slow for music this week… so I decided to do something a little different and do a little throwback piece. If some of you are Prince fans, you may be familiar with his then-edgy group, Vanity 6. Vanity 6 was formed during the “1999″ era of Prince’s career. Originally called “The Hookers,” Vanity 6 released their first and only album, “Nasty Girl” in 1983 with their manager, Jamie Starr, who, later, fans found out was really Prince. Although credited in their album as being written and produced by the group’s members, Vanity, Susan Moonsie and Brenda Bennett, fans found out that the music and whole group’s concept was really the brain child of Prince. Vanity was never known for her voice, but her stage presence and abbrassive personality. And it was clear to Prince’s peers that he was keeping her around for her looks and his attraction for her.
Vanity 6 – Nasty Girl (full) – download
Vanity 6 – If A Girl Answers (Don’t Hang Up) – download
Vanity was expelled from the group during the filming of Purple Rain for her concaine addiction and for her constant lateness and disorderly conduct during the filming process. and was replaced by the actress Apollonia Kotero, and the group was redubbed Apollonia 6. Vanity went on to have a mediocre solo and acting career, while still being addicted to cocaine.
Vanity, whose real name is Denise Matthews, is now a born-again Christian, after commenting her life to God on her death bed. Apollonia 6 released their one and only single, “Sex Shooter” in 1984, with the release of Purple Rain. Vanity, now Denise Matthews again, now has her own ministry and no longer even recognizes her former celebrity.
never like any of there songs
Funny how I never realized Biggie’s song derived from Vanity 6…I don’t know why i never noticed the link…guess it was b/c I was like 1 when they were popular lol~
I remember them!
I remember vanity in the last dragon… im 21 and i must say i busted like 8 nuts watching that as a baby. Pssh i heard she got caught up in some drugs
sucks because she was SMOKING on fire hot.
i remember this song from beverly hills cop when they were in the stip club and eddie murphy just jamming to it lol
WTF btw heres vanitys website shes all godly now and shit. From nasty girl to god??? http://www.denisematthews.com/homepage3.html
I remember her from Last Dragon too.
“What’s my name boy?” “Sho-Nuff” – LMAO @ The Last Dragon
anyway, NASTY GIRL is my shiiiiiiiiii. sex shooter was iight, after that I don’t know. i remember all them fake ass girl groups from the 80′s…….zzzzzz (boring)
Awsome THROWBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vanity was my favourite……..fine as hell,representing Niagara falls,ontario,canada( yes she was born and raised there)
Vanity was so sexy and fine. I loved all there songs. Remember the song ‘Pretty Mess”? (You made a mess on my dress.) She was before madonna. Happy vanity Denise Matthews got her life together.
Please believe me when I tell U a girl’s best friend’s her pride
A working girl don’t have 2 tolerate the mailman’s tricks (No she don’t)
Everybody gets 3 years of tribulation unless they lie
But with the female, well, 3 x 2 = 6
LOL! Vanity 6 was the joint!
Love them!!!!..that is a throwback..lol
This is a little b4 my time, but i know of dem. Prince always picks some pretty women. Vanity and Apollonia are both real fine.
I used to pick fine ass classy women, but i learned, they are usually no fun, and if u have money issues, you gotta breakup wit dem quick, i am not saying they’re golddiggers, but they feel u suppose to buy dem the world, because they too fine for anything less. And worse if u actually ballin and they know, shit u gonna end up buying dem a spaceship and u won’t even get a little appreciation head in return. I’m over dem, give me my slightly above average hoodrat wit a phat ass and good weed connect and im straight.
Didn’t Apollonia sing this in the movie purple rain?
Yeah, I remember them. Purple Rain was the ish back in the day. Nice throwback!
HEYYY Nasty Girl is my shit! I STILL listen to that!!!
WHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! I got NASTY GIRL on my Ipod and listen to it on the regular! That was my jam, CLASSIC!
@ #14 Datdude – I love your wit! Your comment made me laugh on a miserable morning.
I was really young when Vanity was hot but I remember liking the song. I saw her on some ministry show last summer, she looked very pretty and healthy and she was preaching the word. She looks very content and happy. Good for her because a lot of people couldn’t bounce back the way that she did.
GREAT throwback! I played this album until the grooves wore out!!!
I LOVE VANITY….I LOVE VANITY…I LOVE VANITY…THIS IS THE BEST THING CONCRETELOOP HAS EVER PUT ON THEIR SITE!!!!!!!
I was young when Vanity came out, my mom was all over Nasty Girl, LOL.Fun times.
Dang yall are taking me back for real. #5 I thought I was the only person who remembered that part in the movie that song was hot back in the day. Got it on the computer now for when I clean the house. Prince did some hot stuff with one hit wonders I know yall remember him and Shelia E..GLamorous Life was my joint!!! Thanks CL for that teip down memory lane =)
Yes!!! Love Vanity!!! I wish she and Prince had stayed together! They would have had some beautiful children!!!
The lead singer, Denise Matthews, is a born-again Christian now.
Here’s her website:
http://www.denisematthews.com/
Here’s a live performance of Vanity6:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=daUlJD8eV_o
As well as a higher def version of “Nasty Girl”. The quality is better than the one posted on CL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCESwEgaOQg
Nice post! Wow that seems like it was a long time ago.. Prince and his crew made the eighties. I remember the big debate then was who was better, P or MJ. When MJ dropped “Thriller”, P knew he had to come big, so he made Purple Rain. But P always kept some bad bitches. Funny thing is, Vanity six,Apollonia and Apollonia six; all their albums are very rare,expensive and collectable. And sex shooter was the bomb, so was nasty girl! We need more post like this!
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Vanity was the bomb! Everytime I hear that song I jams it our loud!
#14 you are a mess! LMAO!! But truer words were never spoken. #4 you killing me too. Bussin nuts in diapers? That’s like Whoa! lol. Yeah them chicks were some freaks. And Prince wasn’t the only one. Rick James had the Mary Jane girls on the corners too. Now they’re off somewhere flipping burgers. lol I wonder what ever happened to the other two chicks from Vanity 6. Lawdy, I bet they about a hot messes right now.
Shelia E.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3jiTfMzSyM
I always wondered why Vanity didn’t play Appolonia in Purple Rain. Whatever happened to Appolonia anyway? And Morris and Jerome?
Vanity hit a rough patch, She OD a few times, then got clean. After she got clean she had a stroke, kidney failure & a host of other health problems.
I saw her on TV she found God and was preaching. She said that she had found the inner peace she had always been looking for. I remember I had this poster of her and my mom filpped out when she saw it and said “That girl needs JESUS !” Well Mom looks like she found him.
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Loves it! Nasty Girl was my ringtone for half of 2006!
Actually in the movie it is Applonia, or however you spell it, it is also her in the group. I met Vanity at a church in Georgia she actually inspired me to get baptized at 16. She even performed the ceremony. She is in to God now, she spoke about how she was strung out on drugs that she was scared to leave her apartment, and how at one point she was so hooked she had limo for her and a limo for the person with her drugs. S he did say once she went down hill all the people her were around her while she was doing drugs left her alone and were not there for her. She found out she was sick from all the drug use(liver issues) and thats when she decided to get her life together, married a football player and became sort of like an evangilist. Say what you want, but she’s really nice and anyone who heard her story would be affected, it was horrible to hear someone speak like that, and at church; But it let you know all the fame and money can come and go just as fast as it came and you could be left worse off than before it came.
How could you forget one of their hottest songs ever… “Sex Shooter”. It was one of their main hits.
I’m singin that song right now.
I love the song “Nasty Girl” and I wanted so bad to be her in Last Dragon! LOL
39. caff said:
How could you forget one of their hottest songs ever… “Sex Shooter”. It was one of their main hits.
THAT SONG WAS THE SHIT “I’M A SEX SHOOTER, SHOOTIN IN YOUR DIRECTION, COME KISS THE GIRL”
IM ALL WHININ IN MY CHAIR…
P.S. I MISS YOU CAFF
That ex-lead singer Nicole from Pussy Cat Dolls thought she was the new Vanity. She needs to take notes from Vanity 6.
i love vanity 6!
i love vanity 6!
My mom pointed this out to me…
The beat to ‘Nasty Girl’ sounds like the beat to Britney Spears’ ‘Slave’ song. Listen to the two and compare. I smell a rip off.
Vanity 6, absolutely a classic and always gets the dance floor poppin where I’m from. Ive been praying 4 years that no one remakes/ trys to touch nasty girl so far so good.
Nasty Girl used to be the shit
*sings*
tonight living in a fantasy our own little nasty world tonight dont you wanna come with me do yo uthink i’m a nasty girl
Nasty Girl is my shit!!!! It’s in my ipod now and I STILL listen to that joint! Step it up Concreteloop!!!!!!!!
damn yall brought me back!
lol @ that cheesy 80′s video! Videos have come a long way, I can’t believe I used to sit and watch that.
hahha that whole joint was SO prince, im surprised no one even thought about it before then. but then again, that’s definitely the sound of the 80s.
Vanity 6 is a throwback for real #36 what is that foolishness and whoever forget Sex Shooter is out of this world and Prince is the man, past, present and future
Another tidbit. Prince stole Vanity from Rick James. Prince was on tour with Rick back in the day. (he was Ricks opening act) Vanity was with Rick and Prince dropped game on her and bomb she’s in the Prince camp. One of the reason they had a feud.
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me and a friend of mine were talking about “nasty girl” at work…
i never realized how flat vanity was…
she got serious chest bone going on…
still that was a nice song…
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why was this ever hot? Just like Paris Hilton and the rest of today’s skanks.
this is so crazy… i was just on youtube yesterday looking at old vanity and apollonia videos. glad you decided to post this. also, i heard the reason she wasn’t in Purple Rain was b/c she decided to sign with a diff company- I wanna say MCA but i dunno.
i love 80s music! (btw Oh Sheila by RFTW should be your next throwback lol)
Wow, talk about a throw back!! You took this way back. I am a huge fan of Prince and Vanity 6 ( as well as The Time, The Family, and Apollonia 6) were my favorites. Thanks for the memories but the links you gave do not work.
#54, That’s very interesting, never knew that. Are you sure that’s correct? Prince and Rick James both released they’re solo debut albums in 1978, prior to his solo career, Rick James was in a rock band in the late sixties called The Mynah Birds, Neil Young was also a member of this band. Neither of the two artist “Prince or Rick” reached mainstream success untill the mid-eighties, so why would Prince be opening for Rick who was not yet a superstar either? The MaryJane girls did not hit the scene untill 1983, Vanity Six signed with Prince in 1980, their album went into studio production in 1982 and was released in 1983.
A little info about Vanity6:
Vanity 6 was orginally gonna be called “Vagina” to go with their racey lyrics, and sexual image. But the group thought that was too provacative. The “6″ was used because it sounds like the word sex. Prince named the group. Their racey lyrics are tsame compared to today’s standards.
The song “Slave 4 U” sung by Britney Spears was refrenced from the track “Nasty Girl” done by the Neptunes. The melodic knocking and sexual overtone is a staple to the song.