Vanity Perform Under The Influence live on RAI TV

[pussytracy]

i love her now and then

[MrUCme64]

Lip sync is not live...

[Venareality247]

Uhmmm Beyonce is sampling Vanity's music (i.e. Naught Girl)! Hello! Beyonce can't fuck wit Vanity on any level!

[npgfunk]

@Venareality247 Beyonce could not carry Vanity's jock

[inaj27]

the 4 letter word she was under the influence was being "V A I N"

[inaj27]

MY MOM USED TO LOOK LIKE HER! WHEN SHE ROCKED A SIMILAR DRESS! I WISH PEOPLE DIDNT AGE AND JUST STAYED FINE THEIR WHOLE LIFE : )

[CelsoCelso88]

That outfit is EVERYTHING! So Legendary!!

[JSornon]

the video imagery is blurry but the song is good. : )

[2FOLLOW]

Vanity is the most sensual beautiful woman EVER ! Beautiful soul even more! Love you Denise !

[inaj27]

GOD DAMN SHE IS FIINE! and still is good looking to this day! A TRUE Legend! not because she is good looking but for everyhting she has accomplished and conquered in this challeging world!

[bduhe219]

u know she didnt HAVE to be a singer...she didnt HAVE to do drugs...she didnt HAVE to have sex with many men to get where she was...well on that one i may be wrong...but free will is a gift from GOD..it is up 2 u 2 do the right thing and choose wisely. i hope she is happy now...but dont blame others for ur choices in life.i wish her well in her life...and i am happy for her now.

[utubegirl]

@bduhe219 Denise never blamed anybody for her choices. She took full responsibility for the choices she made regardless of how poor some of them were.

[philippematthews]

Praise God for Denise Matthews' spiritual turnaround!

[philippematthews]

No test, no testimony! Denise Matthews aka Vanity is the poster child of what faith and spiritual healing can do!

[cloverfield00]

when i was in highschool &college guys told me i look like Denise Katrina Matthews,so i went to 1hr moto photo and took a color 5x7 pic and i attached it to a resume,i then attended a music video audition,and i got selected for "BABY BE MINE" the REMIX with TEDDY RILEY&BLACKSTREET,i'm the lite skin chick with long black curly hair rubbin on channsey hannibal walkin thru the alley&sitting on the fire escape,i was casted for MTV THE GRIND IN 1993 with Host ERIC NIES,see lil louie vega live on MTV.

[utrechter999]

haha great how she has to run to the mike, for she was almost not in time.

[greywolfone1]

25 years later and people are still searching Vanity.........yep I would have to say she is a Legend!

[phoenixrising1031sek]

She is so sexy. She knows herself very well. 

[LegrandnjClassicSoul]

So what she couldn't sing a note....she was just great to watch. 

[JoyInAFunkyPLace]

IOMG I live in ITALY

[lepkey66]

sweet

[TheTheologianExpert]

I never understood her as a singer or performer. An actress yes, but NOT a singer.

[BlackDiamond1967]

Read about when she was involved with Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue....whew

[OOOLDSKOOOOOL]

@BlackDiamond1967 / thats him in the pretty mess video..

[SuperLaw11]

Vanity had a lot of charisma and a great face. What a beauty. She had a ton of talent . Now, she's involved heavily in religion. I hope she's at peace...

[TheHoliday555]

nicole whatever her last name is from the pussycat dolls wants to be like vanity so bad - but vanity is the first :)

[dreamznfantasyz]

Ahhh the lip synching days!! Hot outfit girlfriend

[inaj27]

i wish i had her beauty! she makes me feel sexy just by looking at her! lol

Mayte may have been beautiful but Vanity has a Sexiness that infects people!

[DetroitLives313]

This was a bad, bad girl here......VANITY!

[inaj27]

vanity herself was a habit too hard to breeak

[ccdeville2020]

she looks so fuckin awesome dude

[cllamont]

Love how she has to run to the mic to catch the lip synch

[BIGBROSIE1]

she was hot.....i wish i was a lesbian

[KatVanity]

so stunning!

[jasmineg007]

Vanity is banging Beyonce! Now B has a banging body, but Vanity was totally beautiful, something that Beyonce will never be!

[inaj27]

type "v29 "its Vanity on Soul TRain! she turns the crowd out! I love it! cuz u even see rosie perez dancin in the background as a GoGo Dancer lol

[palomassong]

Sexy, sexy, sexy!!!! I love you Vanity!!! This girl was one of the sexiest there ever was!! No she wasn't the best singer, but nowadays you don't even need talent, just good looks. As much as I love Beyonce, and I am a true fan of B, but she's not a good singer either, just delicious to look at, and I'm not mad at that at all!! I still think Vanity had more natural sex appeal than B has. But they are both two beautiful black women!

[sonyaunna]

Yeah...Vanity was like a naughty dream come true...she had the kind of tempting sexiness that mad you feel like at every any moment she could set yo azz on fire...I mean freak you to death just because the sky was blue or something.....But it would be tough to pick between beyonce and her. Vanity would fulfill my dream and beyonce would fulfill my wishes.. every last dirty one....

[strawcream]

@palomassong I agree with you not sure why people disagree the truth is the truth...Vanity has found God now she has no Kidneys due to her long life of Drugs,Sex etc.........

[EGYPTIANROYALT]

1:56 is the move

[EGYPTIANROYALT]

When she was on Soul Train she actually got the audience to respond, which is rare. Her performances where very strong and interactive. She went right up to the crowd and gave them kisses. That is also rare with an artist. Vanity still has a cult following to this day! I totally get her.

[310725thst]

love the soul ahe could move

[Mr0101Mike]

Amazon has a newer version of this song for $0,89

[xanahu]

it will be cool if she was catwomen

[EGYPTIANROYALT]

This song was a number one hit on the charts and she wrote it herself. Great song and even greater performance.

[Hunkola]

Vanity was shooting heroin like it was going out of style in the 80's.........read Nikki Sixx's book for proof.

[samhain6677]

This is almost as bad as watching the white chick sing in The Last Dragon.

[angelabrandy]

She wasn't bad at all on Soul Train.  She had 2 very gd performances and songs on there and rocked the house. Its on youtube.

[DA90027]

"True dat"?? Is that English? She was pretty but couldn't sing. If she wasn't so weak minded as most religious people are she never would have turned to drugs. There was some good music in the 80's but this wasn't it.

[depletable]

I had a dream with Vanity in it the other night. Ahh, it was nice. Vanity 6 Vanity, not the new wreck bible toutin' Vanity.

[EGYPTIANROYALT]

She is a very sensual person and she built the image of a femme fatal/Dominitrix..

She knew how to perform and she gave it her all. Every video she l has ever done has a lot of elements in it that speaks high performance.  I love her.

[inaj27]

THIS woman is a REAL SEXY LEGEND!

i was born when this woman was just making videos and movies! and i never been hypnotized like how she can pull you into her. and Im a Gay Male....shes Fkin HAWWT!

[EricFarr71370]

I just don't like the fact she lipsynched. She's not the greatest singer, but she could have sung it a little bit.

[luvtube40]

Every move she makes is like ...you don't even care if she made a mistake at all. In this case ...i don't think she did. I think they did.

[hairyreddick]

I like the miss calculation of the mike to her strut at the beginning, and the last few seconds were pretty hillarious.

no wonder shes a minister, shes got alot of public humiliation trauma, under alot of religious dogma.

[samuelle]

Yea yea...but she worked it out. Not many could pull it off the way she did. Jo Lo fell on her ass the other day and was a mess. I just love th eway she moves...such a fuckin lady...

[DAHC71]

Prince is a drag queen. H ecreated and vicariously lived through Appalonia, Vanity just to name a couple.

[inaj27]

DAAANG!!!  DAHC71 i love how you just read prince! i never saw the truth until you said it just now! whew i truly belive this has some relavance to it! Good Job!

[samuelle]

They admited it years ago. They said when they met at the AMA's Prince asked if he could try on her coat! Then they went on about how much the look and act alike. No closet story. Hell Prince wears high heels and a bunch of make up and has for years...

[samuelle]

WHAT??? Don't start talkin crap about Prince. He just happens to like women who are as sexy as he is...because let's face it MOST women aren't...

[DAHC71]

Hmmm...you've got a point but my theory about his real life barbie doll creations remains the same. I wasn't talking crap. I was "reading" him! All that aside I love his great music and all the work he created with his "girls".

[IAmVanityFierce]

true dat

[LegrandnjClassicSoul]

For the record, she is not the singer on this track. I knew the girl that did the vocals for this song. She was a session singer who did studio work, jingles and travelled with other people doing backup. She's retired now, and tells me that whenever she hears this track or happens to catch a vid of Vanity performing or lypsynching over her track, she giggles.

[16Lauralie]

Lie'sss. That was Rude!. THIS IS VANITY'S SONG!

[BadAssssssChix]

nah that makes sense why the vocals started playing before she even got up to the mic and she almost tripped gettn to it... she workd it tho and played it off like a tru Diva... plus u can tell shes lip synching the whole song she didnt even mouth one word right in the last 15 secs

[samuelle]

She was lip synching but this recording is off a little bit. I don't think she tripped either she just misjudged how far away she was from the mic. I thought the way she tipped upto the mic was HOTT! I love her stuff. At least she didn't fall on her butt like J Lo

[gummiesaresoyummy]

get life and stop hating on vanity

[samuelle]

REALLY!!!

[BadAssssssChix]

lol fool pull up any other vanity vid on here and listen to the difference or watch the last dragon... she pretty much talks through songs drags out the words like shes singing... pretty faced singers with no voices are the norm... can probably name more that are than arent... duh j lo's just one of em and she doesnt even have the face anymore.. everybdy who believes she isnt lypsynchn i got a flying donkey i wanna sell ya... lol cuz uall are gullible as hell

[einenetteFrau]

Remember Milli Vinilli??? Their career was doomed when the tape got stuck at on concert. I believe that Denise Matthews had the talent....its just when you look that damed good who needs to sing at their own concert...she can sell a million records saying absolutely nothing on the albums wearing lace lingerie and high heel shoes.

[luvtube40]

She's still a minister.

[gjay700]

what is vanity doing now??? wow, how time moves on i guess. from vanity 6 to ???

[GeorgeJansen]

love how she had to run to the mike because the vocals were ready to start with out her non-singing ass

[16Lauralie]

How Many Time's Do I Have 2 put u rude behind ppl n check this is her song. she ran 2 the mic bcuz she wanted tu thanks:)

[GeorgeJansen]

oh...thas a bunch of b-loan-nee

[ThatGuyTooHigh]

damn her budget must have been low...she has the same dream in every interview and video

[Phantomplayz]

Wow she makes Britney Spears sound like a real singer.

[LaCriollaRoja]

Only Vanity could pull off that off- key intro! Gotta love her

[MrsKJackson1]

im glad she found jesus too but she is and will always be beautiful, by the way i wish everyone would stop comparing beyonce to every other female performer everyone has thier own unique style...

[EGYPTIANVOICEZ]

She was into that whole vampire witch thing. She wanted to seem as though she was a vampire that arose from her tomb at night. She talked about it in an interview how she wanted to be like morticia from the adams family.

[IconVanity]

Ever noticed how often she wore that outfit? Gary Shangler Show, this performance and Friday the 3th the series are the ones I have seen her wore this. I am also trying to remember if she wore this for Action Jackson too.

[AzzedineAliaFan]

LOL that's odd for a singer, they don't wear the same dress that often these days . . .

[IconVanity]

lol Oh and I found out where she wore that same dress. It was her Pretty Mess video.

[AzzedineAliaFan]

LOL she certainly got good use out of that dress, bless her heart.

[IconVanity]

lol I also have a picture of her, Brenda and Apollonia together, and "Vanity" is wearing that dress. I am so odd noticing these things. lol

Side note: Boy do I wish she was still "Vanity". But hey, she's happy now.

[thejumpoff1]

That thang rough!!! She got it any kinda way u wanna slice it!!!! I luv Vanity!!!!! Ain' nobody like her!

[ColonizedMind]

she's a doll, but she IS a little off..And for the record, Beyonce is great

[freakyafronaut]

> but she IS a little off

It was all the cocaine . . .

[VANITYBONET]

naw it was crack....lol i remember her on joan rivers and how she was making a big deal how she was hitting the glass dick instad of snorting it...as if its a different between the two

[IconVanity]

Vanity's interview with Joan Rivers was nothing compared to how she acted when she was on the Arsenio Hall Show. I am still hoping someone would upload it onto YouTube.

[lmcpherson1]

witchy poo

[envymeforgood]

if vanity look like this today i would go gay for her no lie!

[alvindalvin]

She got a DUI in this one. Dancing under the influence. LOL!! ...And i still think she sexy.

[VANITYBONET]

what is wrong with her dancing ?she is way more on rhythm than say a fat azz beyawnce that is for damn sure

[alvindalvin]

Nothin's wrong. You are showing you don't know anything about performing or rhythm if you think she brings more than beyonce on the stage, and to call Beyonce fat? what are you a middle age white man? I'm not even a Beyonce fan and know that Beyonce is one of the greatest female performers ever. I understand that your a vanity fanatic, but please don't let it blind you to the point of ridiculous statements. It's crazy that as hate as Beyonce gets online, that she stays on top every year.LOL1

[ColonizedMind]

exactly. well said

[VANITYBONET]

Naw dear i am a black bytch as my profile depicts u dumb azz nygga or cracka

[alvindalvin]

Man, you proved my point. You are a hater. grow up. I'm not a "nygga" or a"cracka" I am black though. You couldn't hold Beyonce or Vanity Maxi pads. You shouldn't claim being a black woman cause you r one of the sisters that keep those black woman stereotypes alive. You need to meet my wife so she can show you how a real sister should carry herself. Again, grow up. Who want to bet that she'll reply with even more ignorance.

[ColonizedMind]

I got 5 on it

[nothinghumanlovesfor]

well said

[samuelle]

I have to agree with alvin. Although I am and always will be a Vanity Fanatic I wouldn't put the two in the same catagory. Beyonce is the Best Female Performer ever! Vanity was a package. She could act her way out of a paperbag unlike Beyonce. I enjoyed watching Vanity stumble through her interviews she was so sexy. A real lady in many ways. I

[AzzedineAliaFan]

Tell it boo, i'm so sick of that plastic haired whinch i could SCREAM!!!!!!!

[DetroitD60]

Vanity was .....le Bomb Sensual!!!!

[nightowl0101]

I wonder what she ever did with that dress? That was a bad dress. I would wear it. Not in public though. lol

[Doughnuts009]

i love vanity

[Glitterthesky]

She is really beautiful and I like the fact that she doesnt have to be naked in her performances to be beautiful, but now that she has found Jesus her heart is beautiful - true beauty is the Holy Spirit living in your heart.

[jc4269410000]

thats true!she was hott!

[jc4269410000]

she ran fats becuse she woldof be like the first to get cot lip singing!

[desertflow3r]

I must admit there was something intoxicating about Vanity. That's why she's ascended to GODDESS status. disbelievers will be lightning struck!

[hansthenurse]

yes, RAI it's the official Italian tv network...back in the days when Vanity got underd Prince's influence and back then influenced modern female pop stars..listen to the style/choruses in this tune and u'll get the point...

[AzzedineAliaFan]

didn't she wear that in the "pretty mess" video? LOL.!!!

[inaj27]

id wear that dress everywhere! lookin as good as she did in it

[VANITYBONET]

she looked thinner in the pretty mess video...She look chunky here a lil.she her body look better slimmer than this ....And she looked like a cow on that Gary shandlin show body look sloppy and saggy in this dress

[alvindalvin]

Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong.

[VANITYBONET]

But hey alvin Vanity was sorta plump round this time that is why the dress is so ill fitting on vanity here ...The dress fit her better when she was in the pretty mess video when she was obviously slimmer ...She should have hit a rock b4 she did this performance

[DetroitD60]

"She should have hit a rock b4 she did this performance" LOL!

You need to quit Vanitybonet! LOL!!!!

[AzzedineAliaFan]

True, she did fill it out nicely and of course looked lovely in it.

[dovespin1]

What are you saying? Beyonce should takes notes from Vanity? In what way? Beyonce is the bomb, a superdiva. Vanity was cute with a decent voice but nowhere near Beyonce.

[sonyaa2]

Vanity was a goddess with an undigitized voice...Beyonce is cute with an overproduced sound and a packaged look....

[inaj27]

beyonce has many things but not the EXOTICa that Vanity obtains. They are truly beautiful in their own ways!

[inaj27]

True Beyonce has accomplished alot! but vanity has something special and unique that doesnt need to be measured by what other people think! vanity was an original DIVA before Beyonce was even born!

[mutsuzawa]

Sweet!

[EGYPTIANGODZ]

Listen to the creepy intro to this song it is a song from a horror flick I think. She is going through her Gothic phase here. Using the fur and the lace harkens back to the 20s.

[EGYPTIANGODZ]

Vanity is a strong Character. A Dominitrix.

[EGYPTIANGODZ]

She was at the height of her power here.

[21sttnmemphis]

I am happy for Denise now that she's saved and what she is doing. She was the bomb back then with her singing and she had sex appeal. Beyonce should take notes from her. She kept it real until her career ended. Great performance

[DjTragic06]

lol btw what is the Four letter word that she is talking about. I always thought it was F U C K lol i dunno >.>

[rohampto]

COKE as in caine

[rp2979]

LMAO!!

[inaj27]

lol i was thinking FUCK or LOVE

[VANITYBONET]

when i was lil i thought it was love

[thasswassreal]

DjTragic06

...it couldda been D*CK

[rjhodge77]

THIS BITCH was werking that coat....she looked woooow...and i'm a woman admitting it

[DjTragic06]

I was born the year 1980 so i grew up with this from brothers and family. To this day I look back at the 80s and love it and cherish it so much because it was such a WILD and sexy change to music. I do like music nowadays but not nearly as much as the 80s. I am very glad that she has found Christ in her life and is a devoted christian.

[inaj27]

I agree! i was born 81..lol but now shes under the influence of the 4 letter word!

L O R D

i still love the heck out of VANITY tho!

[kirz778]

Vanity should have played Akasha in the movie "Queen Of The Damned".

[whirlaway05]

@kirz778 YES! Definitely- man, could you imagine? Now THAT would've been HOT!!

[neovengeans1wife]

My sister made me a cd with vanity 6 and vanity's hits on it. I have her album "Under the Influence" and I had Wild Animals. The 80's were the best!

[GOLDENPERFECTION]

Sexy at 1:56!

[inaj27]

she is sooo dang1 fione! thanks for putting this one on here! she's sooo fierce!

[neovengeans1wife]

OMG! I love that dress! She designed it herself. Although it was made out of real gorilla fur along with the matching coat. I remember an interview she gave, saying how it was made. Thank you so much for posting.

[GOLDENPERFECTION]

I can't believe they put the mic out so far that she had to run to get to it. She shot the guy a look, as if saying, I know you fucked up. She was counting the steps on her way to the mic and realized it had been put much farther out without telling her about it. She still did an excellent performance.

[inaj27]

she still played it off good tho! whippin her head back to the beat!

[dropdeadbrunette]

Vanity was gorgeous! Love her and her music still. I'm sorry, but she had a stage presence that I don't remember seeing from Apollonia... though I know it's not fair to compare the two. And people need to stop saying that Beyonce or whoever else is the new Vanity -- might as well hold a scrappy Xerox to the original and kid yourself by saying there's no difference. I just hate that Vanity nearly met a tragic end, but glad she got a second chance and is still around... even if not as "Vanity".

[inaj27]

I 2nd that! I was only 3 years old when she did this and to this day i feel this woman is an original bombshell! minus the crap that she went through in life. I think if she didnt get caught up in the drugs she would've went way further in her acting talents

[GOLDENPERFECTION]

Vanity Bonet you out did yourself with this rare find. You are the best and you are gorgeous too.

[dirty06maggot]

thanks for this video

[sexyaz1]

LOOK AT THAT FACE...BEAUTIFUL

[peedy06]

I'm under the influence! It's a blessing that she found Jesus, but I miss this Vanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I so need a Vanity 6/ Apollnia 6 Reunion!

[inaj27]

Even though Denise doesnt think so but Vanity is a blessing!..count the blessings and count the time because this too shall pass and all that we are left with is the Love and memories. God Bless this WILD Animal

[udunnonan]

Great performer. Before her time! Love that sexy but covered up look Thanks for posting.

[NSJ2003]

ain't she!!!

[nyheem91]

She is sooo pretty and has a great attitude.

[Aphrodite1070]

you must love Vanity as much as i do, i miss her, noone today compares!!! it's funny in high school i use to do my hair & makeup just like her, miss the 80's!!!!!!!!!!