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Bite the Beat
Prince’s main contribution was the lyrics: Vanity 6’s most sexually aggressive this side of “Nasty Girl.”
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Wet Dream (Wet Dream Cousin)
Vanity was chosen to lead the group for her firecracker personality, bedroom eyes, and ability to fill out a lace camisole, not for her powerhouse pipes. The trouble is that Prince wasn’t always good at selecting material that played to her strengths.
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Drive Me Wild
At the core of Susan Moonsie’s dirty-schoolgirl persona was “Drive Me Wild,” one of the handful of songs originally recorded for the proto-Vanity 6 Hookers project in 1981.
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Make-Up
“Make-Up” matches its arrangement’s ice-cold glamour with a portrait of singer Susan Moonsie as a fembot at her toilette.
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Nasty Girl
The role that made Denise Matthews a star–even if, as she later admitted, it was one she played reluctantly.
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The Walk
“The Walk” is the What Time is It? track that most resembles the style of its predecessor. It’s long: nine and a half minutes, to be exact, roughly halfway between the lengths of “Get It Up” and “Cool.” And, like “Get It Up” and “The Stick,” it moves at a sauntering pace, driven by an…