Remarks:
My favourite Vanity 6 song by far, even though it was not a hit like “Nasty Girl”. Like all their songs, it is from 1982. Vanity, the lead singer, left before they made their next album. Apollonia took her place, making it Apollonia 6.
Vanity nearly died in 1994 from a crack overdose. She turned her life around, becoming a born-again Christian, but her kidneys were shot. She passed away this past week at 57.
RIP.
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Lyrics:
Let me tell U a story
My favorite band in life is playing town on Wednesday’s night
I wish 2 God I had the nerve 2 go
The singer in the band is my type, not 2 big or small
But I hate 2 let my inner feelings show
My made-up name is Vanity cuz a girl’s best friend’s her pride
And a working girl don’t have 2 tolerate the mailman’s tricks
Everybody gets 3 years of tribulation unless they lie
But with the female, 3 x 2 = 6
When I’m older, I wanna be a movie star just like Greta Garbo
Well, then I could tell everybody what 2 do
Well, she was so cool, it was plain 2 see that she was in control
I bet she never played the part of anyone’s fool
So, my made-up name is Vanity cuz a girl’s best friend’s her pride
And a working girl don’t have 2 tolerate the mailman’s tricks
(Oh no, oh no)
Everybody gets 3 years of tribulation unless they lie
But with the female, 3 x 2 = 6
Play your song one time baby girl
I don’t think they heard U now, baby
That’s all I need 2 say because I think U understand
Unless, of course, in another life U were a man
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
Won’t somebody help me?
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
Sister, can U hear me?
(Everybody gets 3 years of tribulation unless they lie)
But with the female, (3 x 2 = 6) 3 x 2 = 6
(Sister, can U hear me talkin’ 2 ya?)
(Please believe me when I tell U a girl’s best friend’s her pride)
When I tell ya a girl’s best friend’s her pride
(A working girl don’t have 2 tolerate the mailman’s tricks)
(Sister, can U hear me?)
(Everybody gets 3 years of tribulation unless they lie)
But with the female, 3 x 2 = 6
She was a beautiful woman but not much of a singer. I think people mostly men were mesmerized by her physicality and didn’t care that she wasn’t much of a singer. I heard one guy say she was so fine she didn’t have to sing. I think Morris Day said that about Apollonia in Purple Rain. Man, the years are moving rapidly and the death of so many music celebrities is jarring and makes one cognizant of their own mortality. May she rest in peace.
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Rest in peace Vanity.
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I always preferred Susan. Vanity was pretty but a bit too thin. ‘Drive Me Wild’ is my favorite from the group.
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@ Uglyblackjohn
Same here.
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