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  • 2:30 random dude does spontaneous backflip. Was that a Moonwalk at 3:46? 

  • Wilhelminaaaaaa !!!! whaouuuuu 

  • I allways liked Vanessa Williams and she still looks so good today she has come a long way and made a very good name for her self I have WHOLE LOT OF RESPECT!!! For her and there is life after Penthouse where are they now? and she is still doing her thing so like one person said IN YOUR FACE AMERICA PAGENT!!!!!!!!! she made it on her own and she is still T-W-O F-I-N-E NUFF SAID!!!!!!

  • I was so happy for her when she came out with this album. In your face Miss America Pagent. I think we know who the most successfull Miss America is.

  • @fryelee11 No doubt my man Vanessa Williams and to this day in 2012......

  • My god Wilhelmina SLater was a fierce bitch !

  • you don't find this kind of natural beauty anymore in music videos. I remember when i rocked hair just like this. She is completely glamorous & sexy all in one without showing hardly any flesh. this was the biz back in the day & still is in 2012

  • notice how they play all these b side records when you go to burger king on their satellite radiostation

  • OMG I remember when this song and video came out and she performed it on Soul Train IT WAS MAJOR for then! Also her albums first single it was fierce especially with the whole penthouse scandal and she was READY the choreography and some of those steps later seen by Janet love em all !, .. still Paula Abdul and Vanessa actually had it first! and introduction of the DANCE BREAK in the middle of the song ..!! MAJOR!!

  • Awesome Song

  • This Reminds me of Shangela!!!!! but I love Ms. Williams!!!!

  • I luv Vanessa Williams but her dancers in the video are straight faggitz lmao

  • She may have posed for penthouse but she worked it being the first black women to win Ms America

  • all i can think of is venus d-lite pouncing on shangela on rupaul's drag race to this song

  • @Jamel201000 venus should of stayed I dislike that shangela got another chance so unfair

  • vanessa look a whole lotta good!!!lol........

  • I remember when I was 17, I was sitting watching Video Soul and Donnie Simpson said; "We have a premiere video from Miss America. So I watched the first few seconds and then when I saw Vanessa I was HOOKED!!! I watched this video over and over on VHS. hahaha!! This was the sh[t back then, at least for me. I never get tired of seeing her. BEAUTIFUL!!! What's happening to todays music? sad.

  • FYI- this was the first video I looked up on youtube

  • She looks super cool. Cute outfit.

  • TRIPLE THREAT ....SING DANCE AND ACT...

  • LOLOLOL HAHAHAHA.. HEHEHE OUCH.. I hurt my side.. Did they really dress like that @ 1:03?

  • @syver9 She looks pretty cool. I thought that hat with the earrings and pink open collar shirt over a lace bodysuit was banging. Then she looks all cool in a short leather jacket over a bustier. Gold bangle bracelets on each arm. That's pretty cool.

  • @RandiSierra Vanessa look FIYNE with what she has on... I meant the groupies/dancers.. Reminds of the pajama pants we used to wear back in the MC Hammer days, and everyone loved Milli Vanilli, hehe.

  • @syver9 Lol!  Ha ha

  • THE 80.S ROCKED WITH CRAZY DANCES!!!

  • Vanessa is so talented she more then a triple threat... I always loved her...

  • dahm michael jackson is a GOD

  • i read some wheres that there is an alternate to this video does anyone know if this is true

  • She has always been a fashioneesta! Love her...

  • This use to be my shit.. Ms vanessa and I share the same B DAY.

    MARCH 18TH

  • I was in high school then LOL GOR NESSA

  • 3:07 and 4:20 BAD!

  • 3:07 BAD!

  • talk about reinventing urself and going for yours. teamVanessa

  • You know what, she's Miss Vanessa Williams baby! And she'll answer the damn phone in her heels and nightie if she wants to! That's what all glamorous babes do when they're home alone.

  • @RedSoreLips

    OKKK DAMMIT!!!!!

  • HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH ITS Wilhelmina

  • 7 ppl dont have the right stuff

  • vanessa williams was the 1st african american miss america,also her talent in the pagent was well......what else singing :D great voice and real cute even now at 48! years later a young man by the name of brian mcknight would be discovered by her as her back up singer...

  • This is so cooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

  • but first she was miss america in "83. this was great hit then and still is. I love

    when Shangela performed it drag race.

  • the music was soooo good back then and the guys had hair oooooooo

  • I forgot she was a singer...dang

  • @COJAZZ3 She was a singer before she was an actress. She has always done both. 

  • Have always loved Vanessa as a singer.. she is multi-talented and still one of the most beautiful women in the world!!

  • Yes Mam.......

  • Beautiful 4 ever Ms. Williams

  • 5 people don't have the right stuff

  • Eight people apparently don't have the right stuff.

  • Love her!

  • oh god~ I really love this

  • wow she looks so different in this video than in desperate housewives! But either way she's still beautiful

  • @dabeast1101 she was way older then thats why she was so young here,

  • She looks amazing in this video. I love the pink dress. The song remainds me of Paula Abdul style.

  • gorgeous...ah the time when artist were actually talented!!! Sing girl!

  • It's funny how those guys (the dancers) were supposed to be tough back then. lmao

  • i believe she had some facial work done.

  • @msfrazier11 what did she have done? lol

  • @lookatdadamage94: SHE HAD NO WORK DONE.. . As she ages; she gets anti-aging spa facials. With either topical creams or injections to smooth out fine lines that will eventually become deep wrinkles if you don't get rid of them. THAT'S NOT PLASTIC SURGERY. Everyone should have a good Skincare Regimen especially after age 35yrs old to prevent pre-mature aging.

  • ahahahhahahahahahahaahha wow rupauls drag race brought me hear

  • still the baddest diva around...Vanessa proved EVERYONE who doubted her wrong!

  • FIERCE!!!

  • 2:01 is that Will Smith?

  • RuPaul: Ladies, I must admit that made me feel uncomfortable. i expect my queens to outshine, not outgun each other. But, I have ade my decision.  Shangela, shontay you stay.

    Shangela: Thank you. Thank you very much. (weeps) Thank you.

    RuPaul: Venus DLite you may be leaving RuPaul's Drag Race, but youre returning to the constellation of great drag stars. Shine on Venus, Shine on. Sashay away.

    Venus: Thank you for this wonderful experience from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Thank you

  • Shangela: Venus gets physical but you what? even when pushed, you can't stop me./

  • VENUS: I really want to be here and I'm determined to be here.

  • Mariah: Miss Venus takes her pony tail and throws it to the back of the stage. if it had hit me, i'd probably wouldve had to sock her.

  • Mimi: The lip sync is starting to get violent. Shangela's lamp shade is now a weapon

  • the nah nah nah nah hey hey hey hey sounds like rupaul. :)

  • Raja: Shangela is doing what she's supposed to be doing and that's lip syncing and performing. Venus is just pouncing on her.

  • RuPaul's Drag Race is why I'm here! I just wanna lipsync for my life right now!

  • I like the song, but the video is dumb!

  • Never knew who she was until RuPaul's Drag Race lol ending up liking the song ^^

  • I love this song!

  • BEST PART starts @ 3:40 !!!!

  • @HarlemWorld32988 WORK SHANGELA!!! HALEHLU!!!!!!!!

  • im going to be 100% honest and heard this on rupauls drag race.... i loved seeing shangela lip sync to this ! even though his nipples kept popping out, but lorddd i do believe that shangela can make it far :)

    and blah, i dont see how raja won that contest... her look was random to me, and her photo just made her look like she had padding on top xD

  • @yancyPELOSI yesssss.!!

  • Wilhelmina!! lol

  • Thumbs up if you heard this on Rupaul's Drag Race

  • @HarlemWorld32988 yep i heard this song on Rupaul's Drag Race!!! Im going to add it to my favorites.

  • @HarlemWorld32988 Some of us are actually old enough to remember this song when it first came out and didn't hear it for the first time on the RuPaul show.

  • @josbo51715 I heard this song too before the show but it was great seeing her on it and for them to use this song. I mean I was only 4 months old when the song came out but at least it can expose people my age and younger to her music

  • @HarlemWorld32988 I was about to say this! :o)

  • @HarlemWorld32988 Hallelu!

  • @HarlemWorld32988 Honey, some of us are old enough to remember boogieing our asses off to this one when it debuted. No one even saw it coming at the time (pre-internet); it was like OMFG, it's the dethroned Miss America chick!  It was a kick seeing RuPaul pay homage to the great Vanessa Williams on Drag Race.

  • I think it's sad that people are on here because of RuPaul & you wonder why music today is so mediocre & repetitive like that crappy new Britney album.

  • @PopCulture20 ...so what bought you here then?

  • @DaniFPalmer ........ I knew Vanessa Williams as a singer long before I knew her as an actress, model, & way before RuPaul came out with his tired-drag show. What brought you here? RuPaul?

  • @PopCulture20 No, I was listening to Colours of the Wind & went on to click on some other songs. I have never watched RuPaul's show.

    I just didn't think your snide holier than thou attitude was very nice, so I felt compelled to comment.

  • @DaniFPalmer Well thank-you for responding.

  • Rick Fox is a fool

  • @soulburst I agree 100%, I don't care if you are a former NBA superstar (Rick Fox) when you have a woman like that you never let her go...end of story.

  • Help Vanessa Williams find her dog, Enzo!

    Go to OliverAlert on facebook or RT @OliverAlert on Twitter...Enzo has a post on both!

  • I really like this !

  • if he learn to put hes hands

  • Good looks and lots of sampling back in the 80s. Im not mad good jam

  • Damn! Vanessa was hot as hell in this VID. you go sista-gurl with your 80's outfit, LOLz!

  • Former beauty queen ala Miss America '83 Vanessa Williams in her debut music career. Vanessa name is corrupt form of the correct name which is Venus, the mythical name for Goddess of Love and Beauty. Well, seeing this beautiful creature in the video it is fittin, you disagree?

  • almost looks like Whitney :-)

  • @jowaness Truthfully, when one female singer is popular, there's always a batch of look-alikes and some sound-alikes produced. The reason is simple the formula worls so why tamper with it.

  • When I first saw this video in 1988, I was 16 years old and was drooling over this beautiful woman.

  • listen to im an island by kaz piech

  • V.W. is on the cover of Ebony Dec.2010 and she still has the right stuff after all the marriages and children. I would not kick her out the bed, I wouldn't let her get away from me!!

  • willhelmina slayter! xD

  • dance Nessa!

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  • Remixed by The Bomb Squad...OF ALL PEOPLE!!! LOL!!!

  • I love the coreography of this song =) Vanessa Williams are a amazing singer.

  • hey thats pasadena city hall in the back ground where the limousine is i love this song i played that so much when i DJ'd in high school it drove them crazy

  • hey that looks like pasadena city hall in the back ground where the limosine is im gonna look that up i love this song i played that so much when i DJ'd in high school it drove them crazy

  • I need the right stuff too. Get on up!!!!

  • I was surprised then and now that this song (peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard R&B Singles charts in 1988) and "(He's Got) the Look" (No. 10) did as well as they did. They were both generic songs that no intrinsic quality outside of that period.

    Not to mention when Vanessa Williams came out as a singer, she had to overcome major credibility issues. On top of that, there were a ton of female singers making dance-heavy music circa 1988. But they worked and put her n the map.

  • @CaptainMike1968

    Why are you surprised the songs charted so high on the R&B charts? These songs were great!!! AND THEY WERE HUGE (especially this one) IN THE CLUBS AND ON THE RADIO...:)

  • @NJNupe1911 Because they were average songs even for their time. They are simply generic, heavily-sampled songs that really sound dated today. Not to mention it wasn't like people were looking at Vanessa Williams as a serious recording artist at the time of her debut album.

  • @CaptainMike1968

    "It wasn't like people were looking at Vanessa Williams as a serious recording artist at the time of her debut album."

    Funny you should mention this, because I recall some DJ in LA was making fun of her before she even release the single "The Right Stuff" saying Vanessa will flop even before he even heard the song! When he debuted the single on the radio, he ask the audience to call in if they liked it. Everyone liked (so did I), and he did too, lol!! The rest is history.

  • I remember when Vanessa WIlliams' first two albums came out, and it was obvious she was trying to get away from the prim-and-proper image (Hustler pictures notwithstanding). All the typical '80s sampling, choreographed videos to sell the image she was a homegirl. This song and some of her uptempo songs did enough to move past the Miss America scandal and preconception she wasn't "down."

  • The first move from the chorus dance seems like Paula Abdul's

  • love love love her...till this day....

  • The person who disliked this must be Jbrothersnumbr1fan

  • I downloaded this from Rhapsody and I BLAST This Song on the way to work!!! Puts me in a GREAT mood!

  • @Elektrikkiss You must be either a bitter pedophile or a rapist

  • I love how her thighs jiggle in that lace. Mmmmmm ... chocolate.

  • 4:57, what a hottie!

  • I've seen Ciara do one of those moves in Get Up. -_-

  • Oh. My. God.

  • SHE IS GORGEOUS AND FIERCE THE ONE AND ONLY VANESSA WILLIAMS!!!!

  • Excelente!!!

  • 1:10 ...like my dog when I give him a belly rub :D lol

  • She's still a beautiful woman.

  • she had every right to be ms. america back in the day.. damn

  • i remember when i first saw this video on "Video Soul" i couldn't stop smiling cause she was just so damn sexy. I just saw it again right now and that smile just came back. Vanessa ooozzzes Sexyness without trying!!!! DAMN!!!!

  • Vanessa was some kinda HOTT in this vid! Wow....great pussy!

  • this girls was and will be a good singer she has a beutiful voice until now

    she has much talent like actress many romantic songs

  • Hmm..80's music isn't too bad I have to admit.. Buuut Dudes with eye-liner??????

  • @diakrite Haha, are you trying to say, today there are no dudes with eye-liner. There are a lot actually!

  • AFTER like 22 years she still looks so sexy! I love her!

  • Stuntin' on these **** since 1984! Go head, Vanessa! You will always be Miss America...

  • I love this song!

  • too bad her image is too ghetto. Even though Mj was black he featured alot of diversity in his video and that is an important factor to his image

  • @spike378 what do u mean too ghetto, she was a huge pop star in the 80's who crossed over to the white mainstream audience. She showed a wide range of diversity in her songs, and videos.

  • @lwj24 Vanessa is very popular with white audiences as well as black. Her image actually isn't ghetto at all. Maybe a little in this video but overall she isn't really ghetto. Just classy and talented. You could never call Save the Best For Last ghetto

  • @spike378 With all due respect when you say that her image is too ghetto are you basing this on all her songs/videos?

  • @spike378 I should've said is your comment about Vanessa being too ghetto "based" on all her videos?

  • Yeah, Vanessa wasn't just another pretty face she could sing, dance and act.

  • She should have kept the crown!

  • Wow, Wilhemina!!!

  • OMG It's Wilhelmina Slater! ;)

  • This was a couple years after the Miss America scandal, Vanessa returned with a vegeance. She proved that she wasn't just a pretty face. She had talent.

    The Miss America organization can shove it....Vanessa is way bigger than them or any other Miss America past or present!!!!!

  • Still one of the finest women I ever laid eyes on

  • Werk it Willi

  • Go girl,getting your dance on This is nice. You have not aged a bit!

  • It's funny to see Vanessa in those lace jumpsuits and all "80's" Up!

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