The poor thing was coked tf out of her head for years before it destroyed her health. I'd have preferred she was doing Botox and filler. She was so much more than beautiful, she fought hard against her demons, but they won.
The thing about Vanity (Denise Matthews) is that as beautiful as she was (inside & out) she was not full of herself. That's the kind of beautiful person that pulled in both male & female fans. R.I.P. Ms. Matthews. You are sorely missed.
Yep that’s how I KNOW Prince was murdered...she die in January and he died in April of the same year, coincidence...NOT! RIP PRINCE & VANITY. It’s nice to know she was waiting for him though. Can’t believe they were both taken from us, they both had so much to give, beautiful beyond belief, both.
I listened to Denise's sermons and she delighted in The Lord. She hated herself as Vanity but was able to use it to help people and encourage people. She was beautiful then and even more beautiful later in life. If any of you get the chance pull up her sermons and/or her interviews. She was so honest about her walk with God and admitted that it took time for her life to change. She left this world happy and uplifted.😊. I loved her!!
@@Michael-uv6cn I'm not into organized religion but spirituality is certainly elevating your consciousness so that you don't just live life preoccupied with materialistic things. We're here for so much more.
My mom was very beautiful like Vanity! RIP Mom I love you. Vanity I love you too.Vanity 6 got me through my teenage years. Wow I would sit in my room with my boom box and listen to that cassette over and over again it was magic
She gave me lits of valuble spiritual advice and counsling on the phone she was a very spiritual sister i love and thank her for that about 8 months before she past away...
Losing too many artist who we grew up with in the 70's and 80's. She is gone a bit too soon, but most importantly for "Vanity", she found the Lord before it was too late. RIP "Vanity" (Ms. Matthews)
Well they say that "it's the good that always die young. Not saying that many of our artist are saints, but they did far more good than bad. I often think of artist like MJ, Minnie Riperton, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Heavy D, Phylis Hyman, Biggie, 2-Pac, Eazy E, Gerald Levert and Teena Marie. All died well before their time! Did Far More Good than Bad in Life!
+Hatori Hanzo It suck that she got all fundy on us in the decades before her death. She because a religious blowhard who had some very pointed things to say about gays and anyone deemed "less than" by her dogmatic beliefs.
I so love this song, and from reading the lyrics, I think we all know what this song is really talking about when she says, "He made such a pretty mess on my dress" lol.
She really was just stunning so sorry to hear she had passed so young and before prince ! Those 80s graphics tho ....crack me up ! RIP darlin hope you and prince are back together creating music again !
This song is a classic and the fact that its relatively unknown makes it even more a classic legend song and her voice is untouchable and her simple moves delicious Love you Vanity forever
@@lisagrl89m.67 Actually, she resembled her African American/Black father and his mother, Vanity/Denise's BLACK grandmother! If you REALLY KNEW anything about her family, you wouldn't give SO MUCH credence to her White/German heritage. Her mother's family rejected her for being half Black. She DID NOT look ANYTHING like her Mother's side of the family!! Shameful that you claim that the reason she was so beautiful is because she was half White. TRULY appalling and disrespectful to Vanity/Denise who identified as a B-L-A-C-K woman!!!! Not to mention, most Germanic people aren't attractive and nowhere NEAR as beautiful as Vanity/Denise was!!! Her own German mother was not pretty.
@@chelsabailey1018 Vanity doesn't look black at all!! Stop desperately trying to reach! Everybody knows that woman looks racially ambiguous/eurocentric! Iv'e seen her father, he had a short, slight angular face and her mother too, yes she has semblance to both parents, but it's not with the typical bantu, west afro features. Bi/multi racial women are seen as the most beautiful or represented as the "token" preferred black beauties in America.
@@lisagrl89m.67 Perhaps she doesn't look Black to you, but she does to me! More importantly, she looked BLACK to herself. If you've really seen her parents, then you know that she looked NOTHING like her White mother, but did resemble her Black father. Like Vanity/Denise, I am also technically biracial, but I also identify as Black. I don't need you or anyone trying to tell me what I and other Black/technically biracial women represent to America. It is vulgar and insulting!! So what if Vanity, or Halle Berry or myself don't have typical Bantu, West African features. The WORLD DOES NOT and WILL NEVER accept us as being anything other than Black and guess what?! We're ALL just FINE with that!!! NONE of us have an issue identifying as Black and there's NOTHING WRONG with it!!!! STOP trying to correct how we choose to identify and how we see ourselves!!! No one here is reaching, so please stop preaching.
@@lisagrl89m.67 Maybe to you, she doesn't look Black, but she certainly looked Black to herself as that is how she identified. The ONLY person that believes that EVERYONE thinks she looks Eurocentric, is YOU!!! Not everyone shares in that opinion. Many have said that she looked Asian Indian or Hispanic and neither of those are Eurocentric. Regardless, if you've truly seen her father and his mother, you'd KNOW that Vanity/Denise resembled them!! Eurocentric, they WERE NOT and neither was she!! STOP trying to change how she identified and trying to make it look like I'm making her out to be something that she wasn't. Her birth certificate, driver's license and death certificate ALL have her identified as B-L-A-C-K!!!! I DID NOT do that nor did I force her to identify as Black. Black is how she identified and therefore that is what she SHOULD BE REGARDED AS!! Vanity was a beautiful, Black woman regardless to whether you want to think of her as such.
I never caught this video! Wow, so many memories.. high school, seeing The Last Dragon at the movie, buying her album Wild Animal which I still have. God bless her soul.
+Latasha EsawHouseAustin The mess that Bill and Monica made wasn't pretty. Imagine someone left the lid off of a can of paint in a mixer and then turned it on. It was much like a Pollack painting I suspect.
That sistah was ridiculously fine. Still have an autographed pic of her from an album release signing at a major record store in my hometown back in the summer of 1986. Me, my cousin and his homeboy actually got the last 3 pics. As she signed it and shock my hand I remember thinking in going to have a wife this fine one day. She was so sweet and down to earth with everyone in line. RIP
Loved Prince vanity and Appolonia Never attended a better concert in my life ......with Sheila E It was steaming HOT SO MUCH SO MY MOM COVERED MY EYES ... I WAS 15 49 NOW 😁💙
she was the black Marilyn Monroe....who also turned to drugs for comfort!! Such a pretty mess! The last of our Goddess gone ! God will not ever re-create a Vanity and a Marilyn. Rest in peace to these Goddess.
Indeed. I'm 100% straight female, and when I see her, all I can think is 'JEE-zus!...the straight guys in the crowd must be going insane.... she's hot, she's sexy, but at the same time, pure class. And those lyrics?! Talk about suggestive! And I love her cute, playful flirty manner on stage...combined with that 'breathi-ness' with which she utters some of the lyrics... At the same time though, it's sad to watch this performance and just try imagining what's really going on here... a woman who's likely on some drugs....who probably came from not much...was suddenly thrown into the spotlight.... she's 'adored' by fans, but no one really knows 'who' she is at the core... and so sure, she got all kinds of money and 'freebies' thrown at her...but was she really happy??? It all feels so hollow and empty.
@@yippee2000 WTF mean? So if you're a beautiful sexy woman you have to look like a white woman? You need to smacked with the real truth you so dam uneducated. There's plenty of beautiful black sexy women ok when you get through bumping your gums idiot. You have Dorothy Dandrige who Marilynn Monroe looked up to! You Josephine Baker and so on. Don't let me smack you with truth F your white washed ideology and F white women.
I would've *never* thought Prince would pass right after Vanity.I really wonder what was on Princes mind the last few days of his life.He stayed awake 6 days before he *so-called* collapsed. I think he was organizing his vault and getting rid of some things also.
Growing up as a kid in the 80's, I remember Vanity just exuberated sexuality. I had the biggest crush on her, lol. Being 10 and trying to watch the episode of 'Tales from the Crypt' on HBO that she appeared on and that explicit scene (for the 90's it was) she did. Good times lol.
Vanity was naturally beautiful. No filler, no injections, no plastic needed. Even before her passing she had aged beautifully.
Yes !
Shouldn’t say this when Vanity had a notorious drug problem that put her on dialysis for the last 20 years of her life
Obvious nose job and very obvious breast implants.
@@dantegood2195 Even with her medical issues and having to be on constant dialysis, she still looked good up until the day she died.
The poor thing was coked tf out of her head for years before it destroyed her health. I'd have preferred she was doing Botox and filler. She was so much more than beautiful, she fought hard against her demons, but they won.
her body/figure was everything!!!
Vanity was so gorgeous that she didn't need back up dancers or even choreography.....everyone was content to just watch her. Beautiful! RIP Vanity!
The thing about Vanity (Denise Matthews) is that as beautiful as she was (inside & out) she was not full of herself. That's the kind of beautiful person that pulled in both male & female fans. R.I.P. Ms. Matthews. You are sorely missed.
Even in a simple dress she looks above average. True beauty.
that's not a simple dress
She was so beautiful
Used to sing this song as a kid..Not knowing what the hell I was singing😂
Vanity is so beautiful..(All natural too)
Love her swag !!!!!!❤❤❤
That was funny!
She was the most beautiful woman of the 80s !!!
Nobody could dance like Vanity her dance style was truly her own!
She came out on stage like a boss.Black fur coat black gloves and her ever present God given beauty.Vanity was the truth.R. I.P. sweet lady.
Pure fact
RIP my love, you made the 80's fun
80' was best for everyone
L McNeil she sure did! All the humor in this. Every time, I laugh!
Miss Denise Matthews is the most sexiest, natural figure ever
Drop dead gorgeous sexy stunning and fully clothes
Lo stessooo!!!la vedo ora,che mi sono perso!👍🇮🇹5:39 pm
You are free from this world and now in a better world RIP
God must gave her a little extra sprinkle at birth...My God, this lady was absolutely flawless. Her beauty was stunning. RIP Denise.
OMG! I hadn't heard she died! That makes me so sad. I adored her in the '80s. :( :(
Yep that’s how I KNOW Prince was murdered...she die in January and he died in April of the same year, coincidence...NOT! RIP PRINCE & VANITY. It’s nice to know she was waiting for him though. Can’t believe they were both taken from us, they both had so much to give, beautiful beyond belief, both.
@@steiffbar Where were you? Prince died shortly after...
It was sad losing her. I miss her presence on the planet.
@@steiffbar uh old news
I listened to Denise's sermons and she delighted in The Lord. She hated herself as Vanity but was able to use it to help people and encourage people. She was beautiful then and even more beautiful later in life. If any of you get the chance pull up her sermons and/or her interviews. She was so honest about her walk with God and admitted that it took time for her life to change. She left this world happy and uplifted.😊. I loved her!!
She did what was right for her, but not everyone wants to go down the religious road
Beautifully stated!!!
@@Michael-uv6cn I'm not into organized religion but spirituality is certainly elevating your consciousness so that you don't just live life preoccupied with materialistic things. We're here for so much more.
@@lemurianchick like I said, it’s fine for some people but not everyone
She was such a NATURAL BEAUTY.
Vanity is so pretty. RIP💕
She had flirtaciousness like no one ever had! RIP Beautiful!
She was very petite and beautiful without make-up. RIP Beautiful One....
Yes so beautiful and all natural no fillers,Botox or plastic surgery RIP DM
She knew she was going home, her soul was ready!!!!!!!! Glory to God for Denise Matthews life, she was here for a testimony!!!!!!!!
RIP Denise I know you loved the lord and your with him now thank you for your talent. Your work is done now rest.
Vanity really was the prettiest woman E V E R 🗣
Chenika Harris my mom was
@morenazo952 no that would be Vanity
From my vantage point, you looking pretty damn good yourself. (DCOG)
Lamonte Hale Gracias 💫
@@meanQueen1215 You are most welcome.
Vanity was so ahead of her time. If she would have came along a couple decades later she would have won.a couple dozen Grammy Awards.
id never seen this performance! ! she could really move!..great,song!! gorgeous Vanity..
She was so beautiful. I hope we all get to find God before our demise! Rest in Heaven!
I don't understand why no one ever comments on how beautiful and pure her voice was
I love her voice.
Because they are too busy commenting on her looks.
My mom was very beautiful like Vanity! RIP Mom I love you. Vanity I love you too.Vanity 6 got me through my teenage years. Wow I would sit in my room with my boom box and listen to that cassette over and over again it was magic
She gave me lits of valuble spiritual advice and counsling on the phone she was a very spiritual sister i love and thank her for that about 8 months before she past away...
Losing too many artist who we grew up with in the 70's and 80's. She is gone a bit too soon, but most importantly for "Vanity", she found the Lord before it was too late. RIP "Vanity" (Ms. Matthews)
Well they say that "it's the good that always die young. Not saying that many of our artist are saints, but they did far more good than bad. I often think of artist like MJ, Minnie Riperton, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Heavy D, Phylis Hyman, Biggie, 2-Pac, Eazy E, Gerald Levert and Teena Marie. All died well before their time! Did Far More Good than Bad in Life!
+utubegirl amen., she came to the lord and he blessed her to tell her story of redemption..rip. Resting in the light of the loed
sadly prince is gone now too
+Hatori Hanzo It suck that she got all fundy on us in the decades before her death. She because a religious blowhard who had some very pointed things to say about gays and anyone deemed "less than" by her dogmatic beliefs.
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I used to run around the house singing this song when I was four! Didn't realize the lyrics!😁
VANITY was the most beautiful woman in the business..even more than Beyonce & Halle Berry
I AGREE 100%
WHAT?????? Just kidding, Vanity started it all.
Facts. Don't know why her career never took off
Halle berry had a major nose job I’m sure Beyoncé had worn too but it was to maintain her looks not to alter
Vanity most beautiful talent gifted Artist, she not like these fake Artists .rest peacefully Angel.
God the most beautiful woman to ever walk the earth
I so love this song, and from reading the lyrics, I think we all know what this song is really talking about when she says, "He made such a pretty mess on my dress" lol.
protectorofillinois3 never one time does she say on..... Listen
@@vincentthomas7142 @1:08 she says he made such a pretty mess on my dress
(chorus)
Ooh yeah,such a pretty mess
He made such a pretty mess on my dress
Ooh yeah,such a pretty mess
@@goodmeasure777 you're right. Its OF my dress
When i was 11 i didnt know. Dain all that time my Mom got mad, now i know lol. I waa a pretty ness.
She was gorgeous
The Sexiest Singer Ever.
Love all her music.
Rip ...Vanity
Miss thing was the real queen bee. I am so sad she died. I think about her all the time. I had such a real crush on her.
She was absolutely beautiful....And I loved this song ...great memories..RIP
my God beautiful face and body? can anyone be more gorgeous?
+corsican lulu Yes. You tell the truth! :)
She is completely stunning beauty.Rlp. Vanity.
+corsican lulu No noone is more beautiful..
+Shaunda DeWitt That's bull! Susan and Apollonia was in her league!
+MissTia777 appalonia wasn't fucking with vanity nobooboo... Prince chose vanity for purple rain, appalonia was 2nd choice
She really was just stunning so sorry to hear she had passed so young and before prince ! Those 80s graphics tho ....crack me up ! RIP darlin hope you and prince are back together creating music again !
This was my girl back in the day. So beautiful. They should have taken care of her in the business. So beautiful. RIP Angel.
That's a woman, so sensual and feminine :)
This song is a classic and the fact that its relatively unknown makes it even more a classic legend song and her voice is untouchable and her simple moves delicious
Love you Vanity forever
Most beautiful human ever created. No scalpel could ever create this kind of perfection.
Vanity was such a stunningly gorgeous, Black woman!!! A beauty supreme!!!
She's half German, that's why she's so beautiful! Looks like a white woman with brown skin.
@@lisagrl89m.67 Actually, she resembled her African American/Black father and his mother, Vanity/Denise's BLACK grandmother! If you REALLY KNEW anything about her family, you wouldn't give SO MUCH credence to her White/German heritage. Her mother's family rejected her for being half Black. She DID NOT look ANYTHING like her Mother's side of the family!! Shameful that you claim that the reason she was so beautiful is because she was half White. TRULY appalling and disrespectful to Vanity/Denise who identified as a B-L-A-C-K woman!!!! Not to mention, most Germanic people aren't attractive and nowhere NEAR as beautiful as Vanity/Denise was!!! Her own German mother was not pretty.
@@chelsabailey1018 Vanity doesn't look black at all!! Stop desperately trying to reach! Everybody knows that woman looks racially ambiguous/eurocentric! Iv'e seen her father, he had a short, slight angular face and her mother too, yes she has semblance to both parents, but it's not with the typical bantu, west afro features. Bi/multi racial women are seen as the most beautiful or represented as the "token" preferred black beauties in America.
@@lisagrl89m.67 Perhaps she doesn't look Black to you, but she does to me! More importantly, she looked BLACK to herself. If you've really seen her parents, then you know that she looked NOTHING like her White mother, but did resemble her Black father. Like Vanity/Denise, I am also technically biracial, but I also identify as Black. I don't need you or anyone trying to tell me what I and other Black/technically biracial women represent to America. It is vulgar and insulting!! So what if Vanity, or Halle Berry or myself don't have typical Bantu, West African features. The WORLD DOES NOT and WILL NEVER accept us as being anything other than Black and guess what?! We're ALL just FINE with that!!! NONE of us have an issue identifying as Black and there's NOTHING WRONG with it!!!! STOP trying to correct how we choose to identify and how we see ourselves!!! No one here is reaching, so please stop preaching.
@@lisagrl89m.67 Maybe to you, she doesn't look Black, but she certainly looked Black to herself as that is how she identified. The ONLY person that believes that EVERYONE thinks she looks Eurocentric, is YOU!!! Not everyone shares in that opinion. Many have said that she looked Asian Indian or Hispanic and neither of those are Eurocentric. Regardless, if you've truly seen her father and his mother, you'd KNOW that Vanity/Denise resembled them!! Eurocentric, they WERE NOT and neither was she!! STOP trying to change how she identified and trying to make it look like I'm making her out to be something that she wasn't. Her birth certificate, driver's license and death certificate ALL have her identified as B-L-A-C-K!!!! I DID NOT do that nor did I force her to identify as Black. Black is how she identified and therefore that is what she SHOULD BE REGARDED AS!! Vanity was a beautiful, Black woman regardless to whether you want to think of her as such.
I never caught this video! Wow, so many memories.. high school, seeing The Last Dragon at the movie, buying her album Wild Animal which I still have. God bless her soul.
We miss you gorgeous Denise
the pre Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky song 😂😂😂
+Latasha EsawHouseAustin OhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHH : )
lol
+Latasha EsawHouseAustin The mess that Bill and Monica made wasn't pretty. Imagine someone left the lid off of a can of paint in a mixer and then turned it on. It was much like a Pollack painting I suspect.
I just hollered!!! 😋
NO LIE I WAS THINKING THE SAME LOL
I love Ms. Matthews. The 80s was fun becauses of wonderful celebrities like her.
She was always beautiful .
Sexiest woman to ever walk planet earth!!! Rest in peace Denise!❤️ you were a freakin Goddess!!! 🙌🏽
watching u baby, i can't believe that u are no longer with us.... u are a diva and truly divine....RIP, Baby, i miss u
Vanity was so beautiful.
Vanity!!! The Queen of Sex Soul. Never seen this one before! Thanks for uploading!
Bob
Wow, "Sex soul" first time hearing that, I like it and describes exactly what she was 😉
Yes sex soul
This song use to get me kicked out of class... rip Vanity she was so beautiful 👑
I will always Love her!!!! Sing with the Angels baby girl!!!
Wow she was beautiful. Thanks for posting this...
The sexiest woman ever. I am still here 2024🎉🎉❤❤
The most beautiful
She was so beautiful..painted her for my A level Art..RIP her & Prince.❤
That sistah was ridiculously fine. Still have an autographed pic of her from an album release signing at a major record store in my hometown back in the summer of 1986. Me, my cousin and his homeboy actually got the last 3 pics. As she signed it and shock my hand I remember thinking in going to have a wife this fine one day. She was so sweet and down to earth with everyone in line. RIP
Miss you💖, you we re just a beautiful being. A classy 😍woman with great talents, Thank You ms.Denise rip 🌹❤🌹❤🌹💜🌠🙏
The drugs will do it to you... the drugs will do it to you. Rip vanity love your music
Heh, she drove those boys crazy on that stage! Vanity was one of a kind!
Loved Prince vanity and Appolonia
Never attended a better concert in my life ......with Sheila E
It was steaming HOT
SO MUCH SO MY MOM COVERED MY EYES ...
I WAS 15
49 NOW 😁💙
I loved her......always will be one of my favorite singers. RIP beautiful......God bless you
RIP, Vanity 😞
DENISE,VANITY, MATTHEWS WAS S FLAWLESS BEAUTY! R.I.P.
Oo! Promise you the moon! And then he pulled a seam and it went all the way, Oo!
she was the black Marilyn Monroe....who also turned to drugs for comfort!! Such a pretty mess! The last of our Goddess gone ! God will not ever re-create a Vanity and a Marilyn. Rest in peace to these Goddess.
Indeed. I'm 100% straight female, and when I see her, all I can think is 'JEE-zus!...the straight guys in the crowd must be going insane.... she's hot, she's sexy, but at the same time, pure class. And those lyrics?! Talk about suggestive! And I love her cute, playful flirty manner on stage...combined with that 'breathi-ness' with which she utters some of the lyrics...
At the same time though, it's sad to watch this performance and just try imagining what's really going on here... a woman who's likely on some drugs....who probably came from not much...was suddenly thrown into the spotlight.... she's 'adored' by fans, but no one really knows 'who' she is at the core... and so sure, she got all kinds of money and 'freebies' thrown at her...but was she really happy??? It all feels so hollow and empty.
She was and still is my all time favorite female badass rebels. May she continue to RIP, always.
You all must not have heard of Dorothy Dandridge.
@@earnestford4931 lool dorthoy has nothing on vanity
@@yippee2000 WTF mean? So if you're a beautiful sexy woman you have to look like a white woman? You need to smacked with the real truth you so dam uneducated. There's plenty of beautiful black sexy women ok when you get through bumping your gums idiot. You have Dorothy Dandrige who Marilynn Monroe looked up to! You Josephine Baker and so on. Don't let me smack you with truth F your white washed ideology and F white women.
RIP Vanity. I'm glad you found the Lord.
Never......a more Beautiful Woman...…!!!!!
She definitely had her black side rhythm while dancing
So unbelievably beautiful. I wanted her so bad when I was a kid.
Happy Birthday, Katrina ❤
I would've *never* thought Prince would pass right after Vanity.I really wonder what was on Princes mind the last few days of his life.He stayed awake 6 days before he *so-called* collapsed. I think he was organizing his vault and getting rid of some things also.
You was there for you to come up with this conspiracy bull.
I CAN'T believe she did this on soul train ....she was so pretty
And so talented ❤
I would give her my diamond earring gladly
💕🎶❤💕🎶❤💕
I miss her so much. Thank you for the wonderful footage of Miss V doing what she does best...electrify the audience.
Talented and naturally beautiful god bless and may she rest in peace 2020
R.I.P. Denise Matthews "Vanity"
Love your music and movies.
I'm happy you were at peace with yourself before you left this world!
Vanity and apollonia are the 2 baddest women from the 80s real true beauty
Loved this whole cassette
Happy birthday Vanity
4th January 1959
I’m now convinced Pretty Mess is one of greatest pop songs of ALL TIME!!!
My God this woman is beautiful ❤️
THIS VIDEOS REMINDS ME FROM THE LAST DRAGON MOVIE
So right the screen effects and performance was like hee "7th Heaven" song performance in 'The Last Dragon' film!
She was a beautiful light in this dark world 👑🙏❤️
She and Pebbles were my Nubian Goddesses RIP Denise
+Latz51 pebbles was gorgeous
Yesss!!!
Alwaaaayyyz..boy...I never knew a love like you before!
Driving to east beach ..Galveston Texas ...Windows down ...wind in our hair ...singing loud and proud
🎶💙🎶💙🎶💙🎶
And then he found a hallway that went all the way!!😉
Gorgeous in all ways and that voice!
BOY, can SHE move that body!
And that's all because she sure couldn't sing
Who cares if she can sing
@@shawnmassey6854 yes she could u hater
@@sasaboo4758 Tell me exactly what am I hating on
She's absolutely amazing singer and dancer I love her for real for real
Growing up as a kid in the 80's, I remember Vanity just exuberated sexuality. I had the biggest crush on her, lol. Being 10 and trying to watch the episode of 'Tales from the Crypt' on HBO that she appeared on and that explicit scene (for the 90's it was) she did. Good times lol.
She was such a fly girl!
I can't believe this. Wow. Rest in peace.
She was absolutely beautiful!
Timeless beauty
Such a pretty lady!!!!
Rest in Power, Vanity
So pretty 😍