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Free Music Review: It Tastes Like Caviar: The "She Did NOT Say That" Album Of 1982
Hit: 4 Stars
Denise Matthews, Susan Moonsie, and Brenda Bennett were fringe figures on the music scene until singer/songwriter/producer Prince had a brainwave and launched them as Vanity 6--a trio of lingerie-wearing, stylishly vulgar women who delighted in lyrics so obscene that many record shops and radio stations refused their recordings. Ultimately, none of the three singers could be considered gifted vocalists, and Prince's music was extremely limited by this fact. Even so, the trio's only recording, the self-titled VANITY 6, remains just as jaw-dropping today as it was twenty years ago, a mixture of funky beats, bubble-gum lace, and hilarious vulgarity.
There are eight cuts on the recording. My own favorite has always been the wickedly funny and tremendously vulgar "If A Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)," which finds Vanity engaged in a war of words over the telephone. But several of the cuts are equally bizarre, equally trashy, and equally fun. The punk-edged "Bite The Beat," with Brenda Bennett performing the lead, makes no pretense of being about anything other than oral sex, with the notorious line "It tastes like caviar;" "Wet Dream" finds Vanity literally gushing over a high school heart throb; and "Drive Me Wild," with Susan Moonsie is essentially a musical orgasm that would make Donna Summer's "Love To Love You" blush for shame.
The trio broke up almost as quickly as they formed. An exceptionally beautiful woman, Matthews used the name Vanity and parlayed her brush with fame into a drug-fueled celebrity that ended in a major crash and burn; she has since recanted the Vanity persona and become a Christian evangelist. Moonsie and Bennett simply returned to their fringe status, albeit with considerably more cache than they had previously enjoyed. The HIV epidemic spelled an end to super-sexy, anything with anybody music of the era, and Vanity 6 was quickly forgotten. Even so, this one has so much of a "DO WHAT?" quality that it still resonates today. Certainly more for hardcore Prince collecters than any one else, but if you come across this presently out-of-print CD at a reasonable price, snap it up.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
Free Music Review: For Serious Fans & Collectors of Prince
Hit: 4 Stars
Yes, the Vanity 6 CD is a great collectable for Prince fans, no doubt, but I also find it essential because The Time (along with Prince) provided the music. NO, you won't get great vocals here, but Vanity remains one of Prince's greatest proteges even to this day. As for 'Vanity 6', the measly 8 tracks don't justify the cost of the CD ($50.00 and UP!), so I expanded it with 9 RARE bonus tracks! Vanity 6 fans should try adding the following songs:
9. Drive Me Wild (Extended Mix 1983)
10. Pretty Mess (Extended Mix 1984)
11. Mechanical Emotion (Extended Mix ft.Morris Day '84)
12. Samuelle (1984)
13. Strap On Robbie Baby (1984)
14. 7th Heaven (fr.'The Last Dragon' SDTK 1985)
15. Under The Influence (Extended Mix 1986)
16. Faraway Eyes (fr.'Action Jackson' SDTK 1987)
17. Undress (fr.'Action Jackson' SDTK, Extended Mix 1987)
If you're gonna pay a ton of money for the Vanity 6 CD, you should at least have fun with it! In closing Vanity 6 is a great blast from the past! Enjoy!
P.S. If you have the ultra rare 'Apollonia 6', combine it with 'Vanity 6' for a SPECIAL 2 on 1 CD!! There's also enough room on the CD for Extended Remixes of 'Drive Me Wild' (V-6) & 'Sex Shooter' (A-6)!! Since Warner Brothers won't release this rare music on CD, fans & collectors can do it themselves!!
Free Music Review: The Beats in Clubland
Hit: 4 Stars
Vanity 6 was a project by Prince which featured Denise "Vanity" Matthews, Brenda Bennett and Susan Moonsie on the only album for the group, that was released in 1982.
They remain pop culture darlings due to the clubland classic - and second single - Nasty Girl, that will continue drawing in new fans as long as DJ's are spinning the beats. The initial single, He's So Dull, drew little interest, while the third one, Drive Me Wild, was lost in the shadow of the big hit. Music videos were made for the trio of tracks.
Vanity 6 was the opening act for Prince's Triple Threat Tour, but Matthews soon had a falling out with Prince and the group - minus Matthews - regrouped with Patricia Kotero as Apollonia 6. And all the drama took place with Prince having a new number - The Glamorous Life - ready to be recorded; which was eventually given to Sheila E. and became a huge hit.
Prince was tweaking the noses of a growing conservative movement that was taking aim at the entertainment industry and Matthews could strike the pose to make things work. That Vanity 6 had a very brief career does not diminish their cultural impact in the early-1980s.
Free Music Review: Flashbacks to Freshman Year
Hit: 4 Stars
Oh my god. This album -- unbelievably hilarious. My friends and I used to listen to this in 9th grade, reciting in staccato bravado "If A Girl Answers, Don't Hang Up" -- and I just downloaded this song, honestly haven't heard it in probably 20 years, and it is even BETTER and more HYSTERICAL than it was in 9th grade...And -- I can't believe I never noticed this, but I think it is Prince acting as the other woman when the girls call "Jimmy's" house to get a ride to the WTF?????? and THAT makes it SCREAMINGLY funny. 20 years later, close to my 40s, and I still get a kick out of this. That is why they call them "classics" - timeless in their appeal. Can anyone confirm if it is Prince?Free Music Review: THE ORIGINAL NASTY GIRLS!!!
Hit: 4 Stars
Vanity 6's debut and only album--Apollonia assumed the reigns after Vanity went on to a mediocre solo/acting career--can be added to the list of classic LPs from the Prince cadre along with The Times' "What Time is It?" and Sheila E.'s "Glamourous Life". Back then, the tawdry trio of below-average singing sex kittens was singing about sexuality and men's phalluses long before Lil Kim and those of her ilk came on the scene! This is an overall fun album, not to be taken seriously for its obvious lack of vocal skills and lyrical brilliance...but if you love Prince and that old Minneapolis sound of yesterday, you'll dig this one fa-sho!