#65 Valerie said “I remember me and my cousins would dress up and pretend to be Vanity 6, back in the day.. We actually still have the tape of my uncle recording us @ “The Bunk In Party”. lolololol Ahhhhhhh memories.. *sigh*”

Uncle and 11 year old girls dressed down and a video camera.. Umm. So when does your uncle get out?

lmaooo @ the throwback

*BEING A NASTY GIRL IN MY OFFICE*

LMAO @ # 58 name…ROFL

SMH @ 76…. MY uncle was recording his daughters birthday party for HER… Get your head out the gutter..lol..sheesh…sick…

You know…that thing where kids like to HAVE FUN on camera???? (sarcasim)…Back in the day when cam-corders used to look like big ass news cameras???… We were not “dressed down” in skimpy clothes..lolol WTH? We were 11, 12, and 13 year olds…. We put on wigs and tied towels n shit around our necks and sang in a fake mics… SMH @ thinkin’ nassy… Shame on you! lol

**sang in fake mics**^

thanks for the blast from the past. i am in my mid 30’s and this was my era. on that cut, if a girl answers, that’s morris day doing the female voice..LOL those were the days! loved me some susan (drive me wild)

classic.

OK DEM DANCE MOVES R HORRIBLE BU TI REMEMBA DIS SONG AND IM 15 DAMN DIS STILL COME ON THE RADIO

I have “Vanity 6.” It’s a great album only because of the Prince production. The only good songs on there are “Nasty Girl” and “3X2=6.” It doesn’t look like there’s gonna be a reunion anytime soon though.

I love Prince and I definitely love Vanity 6…so spunky and just…NASTY(lol)

I forgot who asked:
Prince opened for Rick James during February and April in 1980.

Don’t remember them much, about they were good.

Because of this post, went on a throwback daydream.
Started to dream about the 90s for some reason, but it was a good trip.

You know, Cassie is the modern day Vanity. Talk singing and all…but Vanity worked it.

It’s never a slow week for music! Just because Beyonce, A Amey, or someone who sung a song written by the clutch isn’t around, doesn’t mean it’s a slow day for music. You need to expand your horizons Brian. Browse myspace, I’m sure you can find some cool artists on there, I see em all the time! Post about Gym Class Heroes, they’re pretty cool.

Even though Vanity didn’t have much going on in the vocal department, she was a very charismatic and beautiful women. “If A Girl Answers, Don’t Hang Up” was the joint! I miss everybody who was down with the “Prince Camp” like, Jerome Benton, Morris Day, Jill Jones, Lisa & Wendy, Sheila E., Dez Dickerson, Andre Cymone, Mazarati, etc. The “Minneapolis Sound” is unlike no other. *Sigh*, those were the days. :0)

OMG, this is my song!!!! It’s still the ish in the clubs. I didn’t know what she was talking about when I was a child but I remember my brother watching this video over & over. Is it true Prince wanted to name her “Vagina” instead of Vanity? I think I heard that on VH1. The video is still sexy till this day! Thanks Brian some of us over 21 can apprecaite the classics (LOL)!!!!

I agree with you #91!!!!!! They were the baddest music clique ever Da Rock, who?

Brian, brush those haters off and keep the throwbacks coming! Just because some people don’t appreciate their musical history. I LOVED me some Vanity6! And yes, I remember the video for Pretty Mess. Straight eighties baby.

I seriously love Vanity and still listen to “Nasty Girl” on the regular. My cell phone wallpaper is actually an old pic of Prince and Vanity. No joke.

LOL at my man, Prince, doing the female voice on “If A Girl Hangs UP”. Priceless!!!!

Brian, you went back with this one. Nasty Girl is like on my mp3 player..you need to do these more often or every once in a while. A nice change of pace. Keep us on our toes..lol

@#91…Don’t forget Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The Prince clan was rocking it hard back in the day!! And the Revolution was my favorite band of his…I liked them better than the New Power Generation.

^^@#98. I missed the days of the SOS Band, The Time, and etc. Jimmy Jam and Terry Louis are one of the best producers and still consistent. I have SOS “Noone is Going to Love You (not sure if proper song title). Aww that was good music back then

I love this song. I was like four when it was most popular. I wasn’t supposed to know this song but I had a young momma so I knew it word for word.

That was all we listened to a one point. The Time. Fishnets, Black Pantyhoes. I was just listening to the Under the Cherrymoon soundtrack last night. I miss the 80s sometimes….Sometimes.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I luv them oleskool songs and videos Im over 25 so I can appreciate it:) for sure!

DreDre said:
WTF btw heres vanitys website shes all godly now and shit. From nasty girl to god???

People can’t change? You act like that’s strange. That’s what God does, forgives ALL of our sins.

i liked nasty girl, vanity 6 always went hand in hand with the mary jane girls

i’m glad she got off drugs in time to turn her life around

I LOVE VANITY 6. EVEN THOUGH THEIR ALBUM WAS RELASED WHEN I WAS BORN! NOW, FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW, THE PUSSY CAT DOLLS ARE AN IMITATION OF THEM. THEY ARE THE ORIGINAL! I LOVE DENISE MATHEWS. SHE WAS GORGEOUS. SHE REMINDS ME OF ME AND MY SISTERS……

Britney is not the only female artist to use a sample from nasty girl. Anyone familiar with Beyonce’s Naughty Girl. Its sounds more like Nasty Girl, and in her concerts she does that Naughty’ Girls its time to dance skit just like Vanity does in Nasty girls.

lmao @ Pitt Lawd…

@ #24 Sheila E. is a 3-hit wonder, hon… “Glamorous Life”, “The Belle of St. Mark” and “A Love Bizzare”.

Vanity was the shit, but “Jungle Love” by The Time was my damn jam! Oh-wee-oh-wee-oh!!!

*does the Bird*

Before somone rips me a new asshole, pardon the grammatical errors! I know I’m always barking about that.. But my weekend starts on Thursday and that Courvosier is kicking in right about now…

And who could forget about Alphabet Street???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQF1z5u6VeY

And who could forget about Alphabet Street??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQF1z5u6VeY

Vanity 6 have got some killer songs, Nasty Girl being the best of them. i’ve even got my 3 year-old sister loving the song He’s So Dull. it’s nice to see people appriciating the work of the purple one. Next week should be the time and try get either 777-9311 or get it up

http://www.freewebs.com/hot-liq

nasty girl is my isshhhh! i didn’t know the history behind them however! thanks cl

LMAO @ #14!!

@ #41 heres the chorus

I’m a sex shooter
shootin love in your direction
I’m a sex shooter
come on play with my affections
come on kiss the gun

Whoa Ooh Oh, Whoa Ooh Oh, Whoa Ooh Oh

and trust me that last line above sounds as bad as it looks on here….

vanity 6 is one of my all-time tunes….not bring back REEBIE JACKSON’S CENTIPEDE and ill paypal a donation to concrete loop just to post the song lol…talk about lost in the game…

and you cant forget morris day and the time with their classics

oak tree
777-9311 (2pacs whats your phone number sample)
the bird
and many more…

vanity 6 is the shizzle fa sho..!

i can hear britney remaking this tune… talk about a comeback!!! with farell on the beat…. and find a long lost 2pac track and merge all of that!

@#100 Yeah that Under The Cherry Moon soundtrack was good.
@#99 Yeah I LOVEEEE the SOS Band. I still rock their greatest hits CDs. I use to crush on Jam and Lewis back in the day!
@#114 777-9311….you made my day with that one. I have to go and listen to it now. The bassline and drums on their were tight.

Here’s a better version of “Nasty Girl”-HQ — watch until the end this is a extended version;check the ad-libs!(LMAO)gotta love it!

I’m a litle older so…….U have to excuse me!

I do love both version of the group(Vanity 6 and the Appolonia 6)but IMO the line-up with Vanity as the lead was more seductive.

PRINCE RULES

This just looks like the old school version of the Pussy Cat Dolls to me……only difference is those girls werent into breast implants yet. Now everybody is a blowed up barbie doll.

I CAN DIG THIS! NASTY GIRL WAS AND STILL IS MY JAM! “YOU NASTY GIRL, U NASTY”…….THEY WAS TALKIN BOUT ME!, LOL! I REMEMBER THAT BALL HEADED GIRL THAT USED TO BE WITH MANNIE FRESH AND BABY ALL THE TIME IN THEIR VIDEOS MADE A REMAKE OF THIS SONG TOO. IT WAS HOT! I THINK SHE WAS IN THE “EVERY BODY GET YA ROLL ON” VIDEO AND SHE WAS ALSO IN THAT DUDE FROM BLACKSTREET, THE ONE THAT SUNG THE FIRST VERSE ON BEFORE I LET U GO, IN HIS VIDEO TOO.

Man thanks CL for giving us that throw back…good look….
This definitely puts me in mind of THE LAST DRAGON as most of you all…..I STILL LOVE THAT MOVIE>>>>>>
here’s a little update on one of the finest men ever, Taimak……..

http://www.karatekidzonli...m/maincontent/taimak1.jpg

his body is still on point…

Although I was only nine years old at time, ‘Nasty Girl’ was my song!!! I wanted to be Vanity so bad! I even named my Cabbage Patch doll Vanity Princess.

She was a beautiful woman and still is. Her body was on point. One of the best in the music industry. Thats my favorite song “Nasty Girl” Damn that body! PRINCE WAS OFF THE CHAIN WITH THE NAMES! FIRST IT WAS VAGINA THEN IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE…BUT SHE DECIDED ON VANITY. WHERE ARE THE OTHER GIRLS? Everybody called them the devil. I think she was on drugs pretty bad. She almost went blind.

I was ten/eleven when Vanity came out. My parents were pretty cool about me listening to them on the radio, they were on quite alot. Plus My Auntie (then about 22/23) was a Prince Fanatic! This reminds me to tighten up my Prince collection. I loved the Under the Cherry moon Sountrack. I am loving the Throwback Thursdays!! Can’t wait to see who’s next.

Nasty girl was my shit, I got her book Blame It On Vanity it was very good.

just caught “Vanity 6″ on a re run of Soul Train 2 wks ago doing ‘Nasty Girl’ & “He’s So Dull”. Prince originally wanted to call them “Vagina 6″ & Warner Bros. refused saying that it would bury them with no chance of radio play.
Vanity’s best work as an actress was with Clarence Williams III in the ‘86 thriller “52 PickUP” very underrated action film with Roy Scheider & Ann -Margret, check on it.
Her big Motown follow up post Prince uber flop “Pretty Mess” is one of the dumbest laugh out loud songs of the 80’s .
last interview I read in Rolling Stone with her, she only wanted to discuss her Christianity & quote Bible verses & she said she has removed “that Vanity person & wants nothing to do with her.”
Like Rick James said “Cocaine is a Hellauva of Drug”

Vanity 6 was one of the great girl groups , PussyCat Dolls dont even come close.

thanx for this great throwback post, keep it up , young folks need to be schooled.

Ive been in love with this groups since I was 5, thx for posting these,can never find anything on them

Vanity is a preacher now.

Hey number #54 , your info is incorrect babydoll. My boss is a network exec and states that Vanity was not “stolen” from Rick James. You are thinking of Corvette, the hotness from the Mary Jane girls who sued or tried to sue Paul Abdul back in the day because she said she was singing most of Paula’s tracks not Paula, the record company then paid her off to shut her up and nobody’s heard from her since. Now back to the hotness that is Vanity, she was brought to Prince by the darker skinned pretty young lady in the group, Susan, who was already a “close” aquaintance to Prince, read inbetween the lines on that one. And Vanity was NEVER was fired from Purple Rain, she NEVER set foot on set, she and Prince were having personal issues, and she moved on to Motley Crue’s Nikki 6 who was famous back then and a druggie as well whom while together they did hardcore drugs which almost cost her her life. Vanity 2nd of all, she didn’t want to take her top off for the partial nude scene, I have no idea why considering the revealing outfits she wore on stage, 3rd of all, she decieded to shoot THE LAST DRAGON and work on a solo album instead. Her having a drug problem was kept hush hush in the industry, just like the fact that Appolina was a happily MARRIED woman when she did Purple Rain. The studio wanted people to think she and Prince were an item, even in interviews today she’ll tell you they never were, it was all PR.

Vanity 6 are the orginal “Nasty Girls”! The album is still in heavy rotation. Those girls were getting they sexy on ha. I love Vanity 6’s version of “Sex Shooter” more than Apollonia’s version.

Theres a track called “Vibrator” by Vanity 6,which I was told that is unreleased. Great song, but I heard that Prince made her masterbate on the song. Sounds like she really is lol.

#127- That’s the way I heard it, too!! Vanity and Nikki 6 were also engaged at one time. And yes, Susan, the other Black girl in the group was Prince’s high school sweetheart. The white chick, Brenda, was married to Prince’s set designer at the time. She also was Prince’s wardrobe mistress. Guess she picked out and managed his clothes.

Old skool to the fullest, my don’t the dresses look familiar nowadays? lol

vexxed said-This was popular because people could really dance to it. Unlike music today.

I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv The Last Dragon. That’s my movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vge51QY1tkM

Just found this clip of MJ, Prince and James Brown

Just watched Purple Rain last night.
Lovin the trip down memory lane. I was only 9 but loved Prince and Vanity 6. Didnt understand what they were talking about though LOL
Brian please post regular old school joints, like this timeless one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HHHdug0Ek

Damn I luv youtube. Prince was hilarious in this interview

^^^ That was hilarious!!!

I love this group!

I found out about em thru my fat mom, Janet Buttimer, because get this, she says she got knocked up, pregs with me here in Dallas, while listening to some song of Apollonia6 about making “A Mess on my Dress”–

Not sure if that’s the name or not, but she swears that it’s the song she “did it” by - and out I came 9 months later. Unfortunately. My life sux!

Now if she’d only remember the guy’s name that she did it with…jeez…she has no clue…for REAL!
Laterz~!

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Just a little correction to #60…Vanity 6 as a group was originally supposed to be named “The Hookers”. Before both Prince & Vanity settled on the stage name “Vanity” he wanted her to be named “Vagina”. The “6″ is derived from the group’s breast count LOL! 2X3=6 …Vanity 6 was born.

Tonight i’m livin’ in a fantasy. My own little nasty world. Tonight don’t you wanna come with me? Do you think i’m a nasty girl?
I may be 15 but that’s my SONG. I have the Soul Train performance on my phone and the video, and the song. I love Vanity. She’s sooo pretty. Still is.
That song is actually on my Myspace page..
She’s Rev. Denise Matthews now. Brenda[blonde] is on tour with some band. Ken something. I don’t know about Susan.
I guess i’m just use to sailors. I think they got water on the brain. I think they got more water upstairs then they got sugar on the candy cane.
“If a girl answers don’t hang up just talk about her!”

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