["For a just to touch a hand or a moment to share","Please, oh baby, please, you beg, you want to stay","One sexy can't perplex me now","You know who 'raw, as if you didn't know before","That makes you want to grab and hold","I know what I want and I want it now","Hold me back, the simple fact is that","","","Girls are all over the world","When you wanna take a bite?","For a chance to win my heart with sex and plenty","I want you 'cause I'm 'Mr. Vain","Get a look at male epitome, style has never seen","He'd say, \"I know what I want and I want it now","Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong","I know what I want and I want it now","That I laid on thick and now there's nowhere to run","To lose themselves to the debonair one","You got to get some, caught up in the charm","Of the man none to compare","","","Whose gonna be the one to save you from yourself","","Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong","'Cause I'm the one, begotten son that breaks the mold","","Loveless dying","Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong","I want you 'cause I'm, 'Mr. Vain","Call him Mr. Vain","Call him Mr. Vain","Call me Mr. Raider, call me Mr. Wrong","They hope and pray and die for man like me","Call him Mr. Vain","I'm all that and I'm alway's near","Call me insane, call me Mr. Vain","","","On the hook of my line, yeah, I keep many females longing","Call me what you like, as long as you call me time and again","","I want you 'cause I'm 'Mr. Vain\"","Feel the presence of the aura","","Can't deny the urge that makes them want","And squeeze real tight","Call him Mr. Vain","I want you 'cause I'm 'Mr. Vain\"","Call him Mr. Raider, call him Mr. Wrong","","I want you then, I want a little more","I know what I want and I want it now","He'd say, \"I know what I want and I want it now"]
Performed by: Culture Beat Written by: Jeff Carmichael; Juergen Katzmann; Jay Supreme; Stephan Zick
Credits: Carmichael, Jeff (Songwriter); Katzmann, Juergen (Songwriter); Supreme, Jay (Songwriter); Zick, Stephan (Songwriter); GET INTO MAGIC MUSIC PUBL GMBH (Publisher); NEUE WELT MUSIKVERLAG GMBH & CO. KG (Publisher)
Written by Steven Levis, Nosie Katzmann and Jay Supreme and produced by Torsten Fenslau and Peter Zweier, Mr. Vain was the biggest selling single across Europe in 1993. Typical of the Eurodance style of the time, the song first broke in Germany before breaking more widely through the summer, eventually topping the chart in twelve countries. It reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a gold disc.
It first entered the UK Singles Chart in late July 1993 at #24 but its popularity grew and quickly climbed the chart and hit the #1 spot on 28 August and spent 4 weeks there, and spent a total of 15 weeks in the chart and was the 10th biggest selling single in the UK in 1993.
It is notable in the UK as it was the first number one single not to be available as a 7" since the 1950s and heralded the demise of the 7" single as a mass market medium.
Covers and samples
One of the song's original writers Nosie Katzmann recorded a new country version of the tune.
A lounge version was recorded by Axel Boys Quartet
Ray Hamilton recorded an instrumental version of the track.
The Pet Shop Boys covered the song during a live performance in Rio de Janeiro, as part of their 1994 "Discovery" Tour. A video of the performance can be found here: [2] The cover was performed middle of "One in a million".
Culture Beat released a new version of the song in 2003 which was renamed "Mr. Vain Recall".
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