Do you remember your first reaction when you first heard this song?
In 1982, we didn't hear stuff like that, except on a Richard Pryor or Aunt Esther comedy album. To hear, "if you ain't scared, take it out," and "I need 7 inches and more." was just pushing the envelope at the time.
Then came Hip Hop in 1985, and all bets were off!

When i first heard this song i was blown away by the suggestive lyrics and mesmerized by the music playing behind these vampish/sexy women. I loved it and too this day no other song has come close to making us come to CLOSE to....well you know...lol One of those rare songs that can still pack a dance floor.

I chubbed up when I first heard it. Though back then, a strong wind would have done the same to me.

Can't touch that beat

I think even in my teen years (teens in the 80's aren't like teens in these years) I was a sensual young man, so it wasn't shocking too hear it, but it was still 'underground' to me and I love that kind of stuff, it's actually 'human' thinking not dirty or nasty. People have sex plain in simple

Now the Vanity version of Sex Shooter is really hot

Here's a funny story for you guys...

In my area,our local R&B station played "Nasty Girl" but they edited out the most shocking lyric ("I need seven inches or more")...lol...so when you would hear it,Vanity would say....

that's right I can't control it
Tonight,I can no longer hold it

so,for Christmas '82,I got the album for Christmas.I played it really loud while the family was gathered in the living room,and when we heard Vanity talking about her "requirements",my mother was like "wtf did she just say??" Needless to say,it's not exactly the type of record to play when your parents are around.

I remember hearing it for the first time in either the late summer or early fall of 1982. I loved it from my first listen. As for the lyrics, I didn't find them shocking. I mean, "Get It Up" and "Head" had already been all over the radio in previous years so the suggestive lyrics were nothing new to me. It was just Prince as usual.

i just loved the beat and didn't pay attention to the lyrics.

" i guess im just use to sailors, i think they got water on the brain"

I still don't know what that means.

DesireeNevermind said:

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in everyday vernacular it just means someone is brain damaged.

i think she was trying to say she's used to big stupid guys who are well hung.

I must've been 9 or 10, and MTV ran a "Back in the 80's special" for an entire weekend. They featured Vanity in a Where Are They Now segment which included video's from her 80's catalog. Upon sight and sound of Vanity and her two scantily clad female friends crooning to this infectious tuned called Nasty Girl, I was hooked!

I was 11 years old when it came out. I didn't find out what the lyrics really meant until several years later. Can you imagine a unsuspecting 11 year old boy running around singing the lyrics to "Wet Dream"?

the 1st time I heard it I said that bass line is a nasty girl and Prince is my hero....

in that movie private school on late night tv, when i was a young'n

alls i know was that the vid waz hotter jalepenos in da summer

wow I was like the guys in the porkys movies and nasty girls was the soundtrack! LOl...from a musical point the bass line was the funkiest I had ever heard..even today 2009, I don't know any body rap or hip hop that can mess with a track that had women wearing nightie to the dance floor!

I was a young adult with his own money and was buying up anything associated with Prince, including this one, and so I was enamored of it, regardless of whether or not it was good. I liked it, but I don't think I could've truly appreciated it at such a young age. Anyway, when I first heard Nasty Girl, I had just come out of the mall (Horton Plaza, San Diego) in 1988, from a studio where I recorded my very first karaoke track - coincidentally it was When Doves Cry. I recognized the same drum pattern sounds from 1999, and so I was sold. For me, I heard the lyrics as being sexual, but besides this, in a way, I actually felt the lyrics educational. I wasn't sensing any kind of negative vibe or anything, like some in the PMRC would have liked to claim I was susceptible to (props to the person who posted the Zappa debate the other day). Overall, I did grow to like that album a lot, and I especially liked Make-Up. It has excellent Linn programming and synth bass.

"If a Girl Answers Don't Hang Up" and the unreleased "Vibrator" are also the serious shit.

Man, if you haven't heard "Vibrator," you don't the half of how nasty Vanity could be, in the best possible way - of course.