Vanity 6 "Make Up" cover by Amanda Blank

Hello Vanity 6 Lovers,
I wrote about this on my blog (http://rodental.blogspot.com/)

Here is the text:

I love Vanity 6. Their first and only album is one of the best Prince related releases. It took years for me to find this stuff when I first began obsessing, because everything was out of print. This is a thoroughly enjoyable album.

There is this new rapper called Amanda Blank. I came across a review of her album in the last SPIN magazine. They quoted "Make Up" not acknowledging that it was a cover. I hate this laziness in journalists. Credit is not due to her! While the cover is not bad it cannot touch the classic original. So this 2009 person of the moment is so sassy or ballsy for these lyrics? Not really. Someone needs to do their homework. This was 1982! There should have been some citation or acknowledgement of Vanity 6 or even Prince.

Seems to be a pattern. Might Like You Better by Romeo Void, Make Up by Vanity 6...

http://www.amazon.com/Mak...B002JE95BK

I don't see the draw of this dame's delivery. Maybe because I'm so old, I use the word "dame".

I always said that music critics are lazy journalists. If you really want to know the facts about a CD then listen to it for yourself and then make your own choice.

Ms Blank's version is OK but it can't touch the nasty funk and Susan's coy delivery.

it gets worse. Here is the review from TIME OUT:

Album review
Amanda Blank
By Joshua P. Ferguson
I Love You Downtown Records
Booty music isn’t usually serious. In fact, it’s best when it leaves earnestness by the wayside, letting its fuck-all attitude shine. So from the jump, something’s slightly askew in Amanda Blank’s debut album, I Love You. A ghetto-flow love song seems inherently at odds with itself.

The saucy Philly MC can count raw-edged MCs and producers such as Diplo, M.I.A. and Spank Rock among her confidantes and promisingly locked down XXXChange, Eli Escobar, Switch and Diplo to produce her tracks. With these heavyweights behind her, she comes out strong with the Ting Tings–esque garage-punk of “Make It Take It,” where she spells out, “I know you want it / Just because I own it.” Backed up by XXXChange’s retro bounce, this is the sort of bombast we’d expect. Similarly, on the lead single, “Might Like You Better,” Blank spits, “Don’t waste my time / Just take me home.” Again, no bull there. It’s minimal electro, hilariously sexed up, and it kills in the club.

The problem here is that Blank—who fronts as if she couldn’t care less—includes generic commentary on the trials of being a modern woman, presumably to show her more somber side. From “Make-Up,” where she derides the idea of having to look good for her man, to the “Don’t remind me / I need love” chorus of “A Love Song,” Blank seems to invoke these subjects because they’re typical pop-song fodder, not because she genuinely feels the need to look good and become a wifey. She should’ve just stuck to getting laid. With this expertly produced yet cookie-cutter album, “blank” may be the most telling signifier.

Amanda Blank hits Bottom Lounge September 12.

--I don't think that is what the song is about. It seems to be ABOUT looking good, at least to me.

I saw amanda blank live a few weeks ago and she did Make Up, and I thought it was ok. She could use a bit more energy onstage because shes a pretty good dancer. I though the cover was okay, I recorded it.