Mr. Vain

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Mr. Vain
Culture Beat
publication April 16, 1993
length 5:37
Genre (s) Eurodance , pop music
Author (s) Nosie Katzmann ,
Steven Levis,
Jay Supreme
music Torsten Fenslau
album Serenity

Mr. Vain is a song by the dance floor band Culture Beat that became a number one hit in 1993.

Music and lyrics

The title was written by Nosie Katzmann , Steven Levis and Jay Supreme, and produced by Torsten Fenslau , who died in a car accident in the year of publication. The stanzas are sung by Jay Supreme, the chorus by Tania Evans . The text is about a man who is convinced that women all over the world find him sexually attractive.

Charts

Mr. Vain was released on April 16, 1993.

The title was the best-selling single in Europe in 1993. In the typical style of Eurodance at the time , the song first made its breakthrough in Germany and then climbed to the top of the charts in twelve countries over the summer. The song reached number one in the UK singles chart in August 1993 and climbed to number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 . In the same year a remix of Mr. Vain was released and in 2003 another version called Mr. Vain Recall (including the remix by CJ Stone, which was important for chart placement ). However, both versions could not build on the success of the original.

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks [↑]: treated together with the previous entry;
[←]: placed in both charts
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1993 Mr. Vain
Serenity 		DE1
Triple gold
× 3
Triple gold

(33 weeks)DE 		AT1
gold
gold

(15 weeks)AT 		CH1
gold
gold

(19 weeks)CH 		UK1
gold
gold

(15 weeks)UK 		US17th
gold
gold

(20 weeks)US
First published: April 16, 1993
Sales: + 10,000,000
Mr. Vain (Remix)
The Remix Album[DE: ↑][AT: ↑] 		CH10 (10 weeks)
CH[UK: ↑][US: ↑]
First published: June 17, 1993
2003 Mr. Vain Recall
Future Trance Vol. 24 (Sampler) 		DE7 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT8 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH46 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK51 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 10, 2003

Cover versions

  • In June 2008, the music producer Nosie Katzmann released the original version of the song in the form of a quieter guitar piece.
  • The Pet Shop Boys played Mr. Vain on their 1995 DiscoVery tour as a medley with their own song One in a Million . The result can also be seen on their VHS / DVD Discovery (Live In Rio) .
  • Even The lollipops have Mr. Vain interpreted in their live concerts.
  • The cover version of Vain Killer is on the album Clockwork Udder by the grindcore band Milking the Goatmachine .
  • Alex Christensen has released a crossover version of his album Classical 90s Dance 2, which he produced with the Berlin Orchestra in 2018 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date “Mr. Vain ”
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  3. ↑ culture-beat.com ( Memento from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )