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  • what is the four letter word?

  • I always thought Aaliyah around the time she died looked like Vanity.

  • She is biracial, but she also have that indian feature and hair,

  • She is beautiful, the mixture in her half black and white just stunning!!

  • Wow! Fabulous!

  • Wow what a beautiful woman!!!! I was hooked by her voice too!!!!

  • I remember just loving this song when it first came out. I was in high school and I rushed out to buy the 45. (For all you kiddies out there, a 45 was a single.)

  • Even if she's scantily dressed, she still looks classy

  • Is that Dieter Laser from "The Human Centipede"? movie

  • Fabulous Vanity! Thanks for posting. We love it! A big 2 of <3s to you.

    Your descendants of wild nobility, the New Aristocrats

  • Love Huh!!!!!!!!!!! <3

  • i miss her,she was not the best singer but it had a magic or charm of it is own,i could listen to her instead of the oversinging beyonce,boring

  • Great Video!!!!!

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  • what  a woman!!! Unbelievable fantastic!!!!

  • What the fuck is going on???

  • LOL@2:32 thats gonna be my new get out my face look I LOVE IT

  • @Dkenkade20 LMAO!

  • She is the most beautiful woman EVER...

  • Halle who?

  • She was dating Nikki 6 and James Debarge around this time.

  • Who was Vanity dating when this came out? In this video Vanity has that whole Adam Ant fashion vibe going on. You also have to admit, that Motown did put out some pretty good music in the 80s. This song sound different maybe even better than some of her earlier material. I also think that Latoya Jackson sort of stole some of Vanity's thunder when she disappeared off the scene.

  • @musiclover77able Hmmm... in 30 years, it's virtually impossible to evolve, or to put it another way: they is no way that people in the 1980s can physically look different...

  • That's true. They don't make biracial women like they used to. };^D

  • I'm hard, it's hard, it's hard to stop watching.

  • my god....the woman was sexy as hell.....there is NO ONE like her.....

  • i just love this song! i saw her recently in an interview on and she looks amazing! she was not looking so good for a moment but there she was on my tv screen praising Jesus! i wonder what she would say if i called her Vanity. shes soooo sexy here. halle berry and beyonce wished they looked as good.

  • @kayetraye Yes, Vanity is more beautiful then Halley and Beonce.

  • Yes, yes, yes!!!

  • i'm such a fan . can't you tell??????

  • In high school and college guys told me i look like Denise Katrina Matthews,so i went to 1hr moto photo and took a color 5x7 pic and attached it to a resume and i went to a music video audition and i selected for "BABY BE MINE" REMIX with TEDDY RILEY&BLACKSTREET in video 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 got casted for MTV THE GRIND in 1993 with same hairstyle,see lil louie vega grind live late 90's

  • Beyonce pay attention! 

  • An incredible talent who truly turned her life around!

  • she slapped the bs outta homeboy..guess it turned both of em on :/

  • I see why Vanity went to Jesus. She was sellin' a whole heap of sex in this video. Did u see her on the stairs pushin' her ass up towards the camera? That's some strong "influence". lol

    All that said. She killed it. Vanity could perform her ass off. Literally. lol

  • This use to be the joint, I love it. She is so pretty she looks like Lena Horne.

  • @ 1:47 she slapped the sh!t out of him on beat! LOL Luv Vanity!!!!

  • @lycanos13 lool

  • @lycanos13 - LMAO, You saw that too...

  • Still the sexiest of all time!!!! I love you Denise!!!!!

  • she was in the horror movie terror train.

  • vanity had strong power to control men. she's a type of woman who tells a guy to jump,he'll say how high? she's a petite woman no more than a size one, she controlls her game well. the second prince saw her, he fell madly in love with her, that's how powerful she was. that woman put B in beauty.

  • mmmmmm is all i can say

  • I love this era (PRINCE TYPE STUFF), i don't think there will ever be a group of artists (ie. Prince, The Time, Vanity, Vanity 6, Sheila E, Jill Jones, Jesse johnson, The Family, Mazarati, Wendy & Lisa, Madhouse, 94 East, Andre Cymone and the list goes on and on) that influenced the music as much as these.

  • I Love This Vanity 1986 Music Video, "Under The Influence," Which Became A Top 10 Dance Hit In America.

  • They don't make pirates like that anymore. I still have to ask myself if i want her or want to be her hmmmmmm.

  • Under the influence of a four letter word-coke.

  • Heeey, maybe this song is about whoever got her hooked on cocaine. Hmmm. Makes you wonder.

  • If u notice on the videos of her when she was with Vanity 6, she looks totally different then when she went solo. I think when she left the group was when she started her crack cocaine addiction.

  • 1:10 YEEEESSSS!!! Vanity YEEEEESSSSS!!!

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  • She looks a lot like Sophia Loren. Can't think of anyone more beautiful than the two of them.

  • who wrote this ? i swear i can hear Prince in the background.

  • @annastesia67 i think prince wrote it.

  • under the influence of dick bitch!

  • @ericeao lol right

  • I have been waiting to see this again for years one of my favorite videos of her. she is so gorgeous thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.

  • This song is hot.

  • i love this song

  • she was so perfect wonder how she looks at 50, amazing girl, MJ shoud've been in this

  • @TheMikesMaiden well just take a look she is in her 50's and her footage is on here.

  • SHE WAS under THE INLUENCE OF A FOUR LETTER WORD (COKE)

  • @LADORSEY hey i said that first!

  • @LADORSEY NOW THAT'S JUST MEAN. (I'VE HEARD THOSE STORIES, THOUGH.)

  • Vanity looks just like my mom when she was a young girl. My mother used to walk into a room and men would go gaga. :-)

  • ...that purrfume smells niiice Denise...hehe

  • Wow she was and is really beautiful, i always loved this video and song!!!

  • The sexiest bitch eva!!!!!! Vanity the original..... the rest just knockoffs!!!

  • @TheJjlxx

    "Just knockoffs"

    LMAO!!! I know, you always hear people raving about Jolie, Halle, the Fox chick blah, blah, I mean they're alright if you're into that type, but damn! So overrated! There were 3 women back in the day (IMO), who I always thought was just stunning, naturally beautiful and enjoyed looking at: Jane Kennedy, Tamara Dobson (RIP) and of course VANITY!

  • This is my favorite song by Vanity. I think it really told her testimony of her life in the world. Growing up I wanted to look just like, because I thought that she was so pretty...understatement I know. But I am overjoyed that she is following God.

  • Coke!

  • Funny how they all find God when their careers tank.

  • @boblab5 However they go to Him, as long as they go to Him!!!!

  • I just sitting here thinking to myself, vanity was one chick who can wear anything and get away with it and make it look hot, there really isn't body like her back then or even now.

  • @nothinghumanlovesfor oh yes there is! i have a friend looks just like her,shes not in hollywood shes just walkin the streets of new york,there are alot of pretty women like that,they just not in hollywood,i was even told i look like her when i was younger,thats how i got in the blackstreet video with teddy riley,yall can see me in thelil louie vega live on mtv's grind late 90's i'm the chick with the black outfit and white stripes,once i upload my mtv the grind clips from 1993,you will seeatwin

  • @cloverfield00 thats fantastic

  • @nothinghumanloves after the blackstreet video,the director alledged he wud keep my resume&pic on file for future projects in 1998 i was concated to be in movie "BELLY" they alledged they got my pic&resume from teddy riley director because i never applied for any movies back then,i waas an extra,after Belly was finished i was called to be in movie "AUTUMN IN NEW YORK" with richard gere they saw BELLY on my resume and alledged they know the casting director winsome cincliar so i was casted,thanks

  • @nothinghumanlovesfor thanks again,once "AUTUMN IN NEW YORK" was released,i got a phone call from a ticket agent from northwest airlines,she alledged she saw me in the movie with a black dress&she was screamin i know her,then i was called for "THE TICK CODE" with gregory hines" i was sooo excited,i was casted by film &music video director JESSY TERERRO,who directed movie "SOUL PLANE" JESSY was also in movie 'JUICE" with tupac shurkur,great memories.

  • Gosh I love this song

  • i love vanity! she is soooo stunning. better looking than halle berry by far. i saw her last year on a christian talk show not looking so great. i was a bit disappointed. i am glad that she has turned her life around but gorgeous denise has let herself go. being a christian doesnt mean you have to stop trying to look attractive.

  • @kayetraye I don't think she purposely let herself go...she has a tremendous amount of health issues.

  • I bought this album,lol! Vanity is simply beautiful, but I'm glad she is now Denise and under the influence of God!

  • @SimplyJadaLynn what's so funny about buying this album ? just curious

  • She pretty

  • She was great...I understand that she now hates her past as "Vanity" but I will have fond memories of her and her music.

  • She is very pretty. Not sure how she looks now but she does look back than. I think a lot of the women singers look good back in the 80's. In the 80's the women had there thick eyebrows and was not fake with bs. Real looking pretty women that kept their eyebrows.

  • At 1:07,Did She Just Put her Well Traveled Butt Up at the camera? HOTTTTT!!!!!! She clinched that Coochie up too,OOOH SHOOOOOOT!!!!!

  • I grew up in a small town and it was so hard to find anything of Vanity. Finally, we got cable back in 86 and connected to BET and saw this vid for the first time. I've always been a Vanity fan and never could get enough of her. She was way ahead of her time as far as her style and sensuality. Rhianna is wearing some of the same stuff she did.

  • I grew up in a small town and it was so hard to find anything of Vanity. Finally, we got cable back in 86 and connected to BET and saw this vid for the first time. I've always been a Vanity fan and never could get enough of her. She was way ahead of her time as far as her style and sensuality.

  • @jktoooo Shit, I remember when nasty girl came out when I was in 10th grade, all the kids loved it. I was one of those lame teens that didn't get it at first. Until I saw her & Prince on Rolling Stones cover 1 day, when I was at walgreens. I used 2 dream of having sex wit Vanity when I was like 15 or 16. 2 this day I still put this 1 on after midnight whenever i'm gettin ready 2 bone or just driving around at night. So erotic & intoxicating!

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    that's awesome! i was a little bit younger but still thought she was da bomb!

  • I grew up in a small town and it was so hard to find anything of Vanity.  Finally, we got cable back in 86 and connected to BET and saw this vid for the first time then. I've always been a Vanity fan and never could get enough of her. She was way ahead of her time as far as her style and sensuality.

  • classic 80's tune.

  • Those of us that we blessed to be born in the 1970s, got to witness some of the greatest performers ever. Here it is 30 years later, and we are still drooling over Vanity. She is simply awesome and picture perfect of what being sexy was and is......thanks uncle P for giving us Vanity.

  • @JellyBean2144 im 16 and i love vanity i wish she was still doing movie and music

  • @ ShugarPlumBaby...Good for you! You bring the knowledge to school the others that are not in the know!

  • that abckground beep things sounds familiar and ive never heard this song its liek a techno type thingie 0.o

  • No one has that gift that she had,so pretty i never could take my eyes of her when she was singing.

  • Wow this is really great to see again, i love this girl!!!! Pure entertainment and a real beauty!!!!

  • FLAWLESS N GORGEOUS!!!

  • I love me some Vanity....But I always cracked up over all of the air biting she does in this video...she show's her teeth quite alot in this video. LOL.

  • I love this girl!!! Pure natural sex appeal!!! No singer today has this gift! They try, but are unsuccessful!!

  • Cool video Vanity was a stunner, I pole vaulted out my room (using no hands) after watching this. She got really messed up with drugs, etc , glad she managed to turn her life around and found God.

  • When vanity sings "I'm under the influence of a 4 letter word in the night, Prince who wrote the song was prob. referring to "DICK", not love! Very beautiful Vanity- Goddess!!

  • Prince did not write this song. This song was recorded after she left Prince and it was written by Vanity. I have the album. Look it up.

  • @ShugarPlumBaby hey does the album have the lyrics to this song? if it does could you post them? cant find them anywhere!

  • oh yeah, she drives me crazy at 1:10. I wish women where this sexy these days

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

  • j/k i love you vanity!!!!

  • four letter word COKE

  • Oh wow. I thought that, or the f word or love.

  • 1986

  • I would say VANITY is the most beautiful exotic woman ever created...WOW thank you GOD!

  • what year was this? i remember the scene of her on the stairs as a young kid

  • this chick was the original bad girl...and no faking either

  • They don't make 'em like Vanity anymore. And no, The Pussycat Dolls don't even come close.

  • she did Adam Ant during this time, hence the piratey looking clothes..what a lucky girl!!! Adam was hooooootttttt

  • damm! I remember this joint! Good looking out!

  • dam!!! shes hotter than hot.

  • Every kid in the 80's was in love with her I know I was. I saw her recently, considering she's a 50yr old minister now. She looks like a teacher now but all the @#!% she's been through she looks great GOD Bless her for coming through it all

  • Hello everybody, is there anyone who coul possibly send me this song on mp3? Thanks.

  • I've always wanted to ask... just what FOUR letter word is she under the influence by??

  • LOVE!

  • Perhaps LUST!!

  • i thought it was the "f" word...lol

  • @mariannamedina coke

  • I alwayz thought it was F@#%!

  • @neepl8 COKE!!!

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  • @neepl8 M-U-S-K hee hee...jk

  • @neepl8 dick ?

  • @neepl8

    Coke most likely.

  • what ever she was spraying smells like fabreze!

  • I was Vanity addicted back in the early 80s, All the Vanity 6 buttons, all the posters. If I ever met Vanity I probably would have dropped dead.

  • I still have Vanity's ''Wild animal and Skin On Skin on Cassette. They still play like i bought them yesterday. I love this Video and Song too. I always felt that back then they never pushed Vanity the way they did Madonna.

  • I didn't know Vanity sang this song. Thanks Kaysing.

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  • I was in High School when this song came out think it was 1985. This is my favorite Vanity song

  • I love BLASTING this song until my whole house rumbles!!!!

  • VANITY DID NOT PLAY!!! PURE SEX. WORK.

  • God, she was beautiful. Love her complexion. She has a combination of very pretty features with an animal sensuality to them. That's what makes her looks so rare. Very feminine and exotic!

  • This was filmed at the Park Plaza Hotel, close to down town Los Angeles

  • Awesome! I've never seen the whole vid before; thanx!

  • I still love Vanity after all these years she was so under rated

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  • @pinkpostergirl ive got a solution to your problem, dont try and learn about her, dont watch her, just take her off your radar cause your obviousley deaf, dumb and blind!

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  • Damn! I don't know if I want to marry her or be her...at least back then anyway

  • I LOVE HER,THIS VIDEO AND THIS SONG

    THE ALBUM skin on skin IS FANTASTIC

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  • so what jackass? get a life!

  • she is so beautiful and she does seem like a vampire lol she has those big cleopatra doe cat eyes she has those sexy looks and exotic features shes very beautiful!

  • Thank you so much for posting this.  I love Vanity!

  • She's so mega f*ckin' hot!!!

  • This song and video have been with me since my early teens. I could never escape the image of Vanity, in all her beauty, singing this song. I was saddened to hear of the hardships she had but am glad to know that God brought her through it all. She truly blessed me with a song I still love to hear.

  • I love Denise she is so beautiful, and she doesnt have to dress skimpy to be beautiful, she just is. But now that she has found Jesus she radiates the Love of God and that is what makes her truely beautiful. I will always love her, praise God

  • this video is tight Vanity is so beautiful May God continues 2 bless her

  • Thank you for this high quality video! I love Vanity! The most beautiful woman of the 80's by far and with many talents.  Very underated in my opinion.

  • I remeber her song Flippin Out where she said a line "A Fool There Was....." that was from a silent movie by an actress named Theda Bara who played a vampire in a movie titled 'A Fool There Was"...she was deeper than many people gave her credit for.

  • Her Wild Animal Cover pic is a similar pic that Jim Morrison did many years before. She was bringing us some serious poses.

  • She gives us a taste of her wit when she does Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd at 0:45. She knew herself.

  • Either you get her or you don't. She is a cult icon.

  • Vanity can dance she had an Occult style. Her moves were to be very witch like very casting a spell sort of way. Think in terms of Morticia from the Adams family or Vampira from the 50s. Very smooth sensual moves. Her own style unlike Janet Jackson or Madonna.

    Look at her in Mesmers Bauble #5 scene and you will get an idea of what I am saying.

  • To rohampto Vanity can dance very well I might add. Check out her video Animals or Vanity 6 Makeup on IMEEM and tell me if you still think that she can't dance. Check out her 7th Heaven video and tell me she can't dance. She had moves that were perfect for her type of style and music.

  • Her eyes are rather large in a good way. Her eyes are haunting and very clear as though she can look through you. Her eyes are hypnotising. Her cheek bones are amazing and her chin has a slight dimple in it. You can barely see it. You can see it more when she smiles. Her teeth are strange yet pretty. She has vampire teeth. I so love vampires and she reminds me of a vampire at times. I love her pigeon toed walk too very sexy.

  • I thought i was the only one that loved and thought her pigeon toed walk was viciously sexy.

  • Vanity looks very different from picture to picture. For an example look at her Wild Animal cover and compare it to her inside cover with the fur coat on and she looks like two different people yet the same. Right? Depending on what angle the photographer was able to capture you could get so many variations from her. She had that perfect face that loves the camera. I have rarely seen lips that curve like hers does. I have only seen those type of lips maybe twice.

  • Vanity is not just beautiful in the common use of the word. Vanity is unusually gorgeous as