Culture Beat: mr. vain 12″ promo demonstration XPR 1930 UK 1993. RARE. Check video and 12″ vinyl videos

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Culture Beat – Mr. Vain
Label: Epic
Catalog#: XPR 1930
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Promo
Country: UK
Released: 1993
Genre: Electronic
Style: House

Tracklist
A Mr. Vain (Vain Mix) 6:35
B1 Mr. Vain (Decent Mix) 7:06
B2 Mr. Vain (Special Radio Edit) 4:17

Vocals – Jay Supreme , Tania Evans
DEMONSTRATION ONLY


“Mr. Vain” is a song by the German group Culture Beat, released as the lead single from their second studio album Serenity (1993). It was written by Steven Levis, Nosie Katzmann and Jay Supreme, and produced by Torsten Fenslau. Tania Evans is the lead vocalist and Supreme is the rapper. The song achieved huge success worldwide, reaching number-one in at least 12 countries. In the United States, it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. The song earned an award at the German Echo Award in 1994, in the category for “Best International Dance Single”.

Critical reception:
AllMusic editor William Cooper called the song an “engaging house tune”. He compared it to Snap!’s “Rhythm Is a Dancer” and Real McCoy’s “Another Night” with its “instantly memorable keyboard hook”. Larry Flick from Billboard described it as a “chirpy rave/NRG track”. He stated that “if its European chart success is a fair indicator”, then the song “will be all the rage within minutes.” Nicole Leedham from The Canberra Times noted Culture Beat’s “combination of soul, insightful lyrics and dance floor-friendly music”. Columbia Daily Spectator stated that “near-indiscernible rapping over a pulsing techno beat and an unforgettable synth line” make the song “the quintessential ‘9os dance track.” Tom Ewing from Freaky Trigger wrote that “Mr. Vain” “heads straight for the dark heart of the club, sketching a dancefloor predator who – like Eezer Goode – is as much metaphor as character. For drugs, lust, loss of control – who knows? The lyrics’ almost-there English works to the song’s benefit – there’s an awkward poetry to “Call him Mr Raider, call him Mr Wrong” – and for once the obligatory rap isn’t an embarrassment, with Jay Supreme’s gloating, bassy flow reminding me of knowingly devilish Chicago house classics like “Your Only Friend”. “Mr Vain” is the hustling flipside to “All That She Wants”, and almost as good a pop record.” Pop Rescue noted the song as “fantastically catchy” in their review of the Serenity album.

Chart performance:
“Mr. Vain” was one of the best-selling singles across Europe of 1993. It first broke in Germany before breaking more widely through the summer, eventually topping the charts in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100. In the UK, the song hit the top spot in its fourth week at the UK Singles Chart, on August 22, 1993. The single spent four weeks at the top of the chart and sold over 442,000 copies in the UK. Outside Europe, it peaked at number-one in Australia, on the RPM Dance/Urban Chart in Canada and in Zimbabwe. In the United States, the single reached number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and earned a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). “Mr. Vain” also peaked at number two for two weeks on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. It charted also in Japan. The song also earned a gold record in Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, while it received a silver record in France. It was also awarded a 3× gold record in Germany, with a sale of 750,000 units, and a platinum record in Australia and Norway.

“Mr. Vain” is notable in the UK as it was the first number-one single not to be available as a 7″ vinyl single since the 1950s and heralded the demise of the 7″ single as a mass market medium.

Music video:
Tania Evans in the “Mr. Vain” music video.
The music video for “Mr. Vain” was directed by Matt Broadley.

Impact and legacy
The German Echo Award honored the song with an award in the category for “Best International Dance Single” in 1994.

MTV Dance ranked “Mr. Vain” at number 65 in their list of The 100 Biggest 90’s Dance Anthems of All Time in November 2011.

The Guardian picked “Mr. Vain” in their Sounds of Germany: a history of German pop in 10 songs in 2012. They wrote, “Culture Beat’s glorious Mr Vain, with its rollicking beat, diva vocals and stilted rapping, comes as close as anything to summarising the spirit of the genre.”

Australian music channel Max placed “Mr. Vain” at number 732 in their list of 1000 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2012.

In their The ABC in Eurodance in 2016, Finnish broadcaster Yle noted, “If someone could look up “The archetypal Eurodance hit song” in an Encyclopedia there would probably be a link to an audio file for “Mr Vain” – a song that more than anyone else came to define the 90’s dance music.”

BuzzFeed listed the song number 17 in their The 101 Greatest Dance Songs Of the ’90s list in 2017

Lyrics
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him Mr. Vain (Vain, Vain)
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him insane (him insane, him insane)
He’d say, “I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain”
I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain
Call me raider, call me wrong
Call me insane, call me Mr. Vain
Call me what you like
As long as you call me, time and again
Feel the presence of the aura
Of the man, none to compare
Lovelies dying
For a chance just to touch a hand
Or a moment to share
Can’t deny the urge, that makes them
Want to lose themselves to the debonair one
Hold me back, the simple fact is
That I’m all that, and I’m always near
One sexy, can’t perplex me
Now you know who’s raw
As if you didn’t know before
I know what I want, and I want it now
I want you, and then I want a little more
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him Mr. Vain
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him insane
He’d say, “I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain”
I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain (Mr. Vain, Mr. Vain)
Mr. Wrong
Mr. Wrong
Mr. Raider
Girls all over the world
They hope, and pray, and die for men like me
‘Cause I’m the one, begotten son
That breaks the mold, get a look at male epitome
Style has never seen
That makes you want to grab, and hold, and squeeze real tight
Who’s gonna be the one to save you from yourself
When you wanna take a bite?
Please, oh baby, please
You beg, you want, you stay, you got to get some
Caught up in the charm, that I laid on thick
And now there’s nowhere to run
Just another fish to pick the worm on the hook of my line
Yeah, I keep many
Females longing for a chance to win my heart
With S-E-X and plenty
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him Mr. Vain (Vain, Vain)
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him insane (him insane, him insane)
He’d say, “I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain”
I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him Mr. Vain (Vain, Vain)
Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong, call him insane (him insane, him insane)
He’d say, “I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain”
I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain
I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain
I know what I want
And I want it now
I want you, ’cause I’m Mr. Vain (Mr. Vain, Mr. Vain, Mr. Vain)

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