Vanity - Strap On "Robbie Baby" - Wild Animal

From Denise "Vanity" Matthews 1st solo LP, "Wild Animal". Written by "Vanity". 1984.

Fun Fact: This Vanity song in paticular, happened to list as #6 in the infamous 1985 "Filthy 15" list.

Lyrics:
you want some candy,little boy?

Robbie,don't you wanna come out and play? Make me arrr
Robbie baby,hear ya' got an electric machine
and it's mean,makes me want to arrr
Robbie baby,I like your style and the way you rock wigglin'

He say somethin' inside me,excites U
strap it on...tight!
If you wanna come on a carnival ride,baby yeah
strap it on...tonight!

Robbie baby,I like your hair and the way you slide your fingers through
Robbie,maybe,just maybe way down here
you'll take me nice and easy...your pretty

Don't you provoke me,come on stroke me
strap this thing...tight!
If you wanna glide down my highway,it's open
strap yourself in...ride!

So why don't ya ride me,excite V...ooh
strap me on tight!
Yeah,I wanna glide down your carnival ride
strap me on tonight
Yeah,you gotta fly down my highway
it's open,strap me on,oh! Tonight!
Go ahead...knock yourself out

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Vanity;
• Wild
• Animal;
• Strap
• On
• Robbie
• Baby;
• 1984;
• Pop;
• Filthy
• 15;
• Denise
• Matthews

[dacci545]

Man I used to mean and crazy "air guitar" to this song all over my bedroom and my fans loved it. (fans= my cat Leo and my dog Brownie)

[SwitchbladeKitty]

aww. lol

[LiteraryWriter]

I love this song as it represents a rock and roll sensibility for a woman who had concentrated almost exclusively on ballads and rather superficial sexual works. Vanity is a woman of incredible sensitivity, in a way a little girl, but she was cast as a sex goddess without limitations, a woman without constraints. This song is no different, but what separates it is the depth and the headlong rush into the abyss of the unknown. It's like driving 200mph toward a brick wall, and not giving a damn.

[SIMPFANN]

Maybe it's because I'm a 90s kid and not an 80s kid, but the whole idea of a "Filthy Fifteen" is ludicrous to me. As the late, great Bill Hicks said, "When did sex become a bad thing?"

[tsisk4ever98]

this fucking sucks

[utubegirl]

@LustingSvenska Also, the pic was from a movie that Denise starred in w/ Roy Scheider called "52Pickup", which, really disturbed since it was another movie were she was being used by no-good dogs.

[utubegirl]

@LustingSvenska However, in the past 20 or so yrs. Denise has turned her life around, and given up Vanity (which I don't really agree w/ cuz even though Vanity had her faults, so STILL was one of the BADDEST WOMEN ON EARTH in her time - nobody came close. However, Denise is much happier now that she has given her life to God, and I respect that. My problem is that I like both Denise Matthews and the image that was Vanity (even when she was drugged out). I still thought she was cool and swag.

[utubegirl]

@LustingSvenska I agree. And, not only was the drug abuse and being used by men heartbreaking but, she also had to endure horrendous physical and emotional abuse by her biological father when she was a child, (which could explain why she choose to be w/ just dirtbag bastards - men like her father) which, is why I suspected the reason that she took on her alter ego Vanity to begin w/ (to mentally escape memories of her childhood abuse). Thus, came the drugs, promiscuity, and everything else.

[LustingSvenska]

i really feel compassion for Vanity when she was at the height of her career...drug abuse and being used by men (RoyScheider couldnt be more distant from her in that photo than if he was outside on the balcony) and all she was seeking was the same as any of us do...love...wanting to belong to someone...i am so happy she got her life turned around and now has found the happiness she so desired with the loser men who took advantage of her

[LiteraryWriter]

@brightlights456X What is what?

[brightlights456X]

@LiteraryWriter

What is that?

[LiteraryWriter]

@brightlights456X What they say about you is absolutely true.

[brightlights456X]

@LiteraryWriter

You again!?