Apollonia 6



"I'm a sex shooter, shooting love in your direction I'm a sex shooter, come and play with my affection"

- Apollonia 6, "Sex Shooter"

Vanity 6 except with Apollonia instead of Vanity.

Really, that's pretty much it. Vanity resigned from the band in 1983 for various reasons (some of them being Prince's jerkiness) and kind of disappeared - she's since been Hijacked by Jesus and repented for her extreme harlotry, but that's another story for another time. In the meantime, Prince found actress Patricia Kotero after a frantic casting call. Re-christened "Apollonia", she was installed as the new frontwoman and the band was very appropriately renamed "Apollonia 6".

Apollonia played Prince's girlfriend in Purple Rain and the entire band made a cameo. An album, Apollonia 6, followed in 1984 but by this point Prince lost interest in his Girl Group, which probably explains why he allowed more input from others - Apollonia 6 featured backing vocals from Wendy and Lisa and Jill Jones, but even this couldn't save the album from even weaker material than before and even more over-the-top "explicit" lyrics that stumbled bravely into Narmland, as seen by the hilariously stupid "Sex Shooter" and the also hilariously stupid Hot for Student song "Happy Birthday Mr. Christian". You know you're in a bad position when what's most notable about your album is what songs didn't make it - reportedly, Prince had considered "Manic Monday", "17 Days" and "The Glamorous Life" for inclusion before coming to his senses and giving them to The Bangles, himself and Sheila E. respectively.

The band broke up for good a year later. Brenda managed to snag herself backing vocals on "17 Days" but otherwise hasn't done anything, Apollonia continued with her acting/modeling career and Susan...er...we'll get back to you on that.

The chorus of The Pixies' "Debaser" was originally "Shed, Apollonia!" before it mutated into "Un chien andalusia!", thus making Apollonia 6 the only Prince-associated band to get a Shout-Out in a Pixies song.


 * Girl Group
 * Hot for Student: "Happy Birthday Mr. Christian"
 * Intercourse with You + Bawdy Song: 99% of their catalogue, pretty much.
 * New Wave
 * Piss-Take Rap: "Ooh She She Wa Wa". Actually, Apollonia 6 is pretty much a Piss Take Album.
 * Self-Titled Album
 * Spoken Word in Music: "In a Spanish Villa".
 * Stage Names: Apollonia.