JESUS and GOFUNDME have let VANITY DIE

What can you say?

WHAT can you believe in??

We don't expect Jesus to answer our every whimsical request to be spared, but...GOFUNDME didnt work either?

The other day "Prince protege" Vanity passed on. The media ran photos of how the 57 year-old looked at 27, and played up her association with Prince, which was long over.

Vanity also ran vintage photos of herself, including some choice portraits on her doomed GOFUNDME paeg.

While she wasn't yet a star when I was editing ROCKET, I certainly remember her from when I was the music editor at OUI. I was interviewing a wide variety of erotic rockers. I think she may have been too elite for us back then, but it's sobering to see so many from that vintage now obscure, signing autographs at memorabilia shows, or appearing in the obit columns. OK, then there's Lita Ford. I interviewed her for OUI, and now she's written a tell-all book to die for. Gosh, she bedded Sambora AND Bon Jovi. That's better than turning up on the obituary page. Really.

While a Stevie Nicks or Ann Wilson (from Heart) have kind fans and can still get it done even if they aren't quite the lookers they used to be, Vanity was long past competing with Beyonce or Rihanna and was suffering the typical miseries of the middle-aged.

Jesus wasn't answering her prayers, but the SAVIOR of our age, GOFUNDME? The INTERNET couldn't save her either???

Ms. Matthews was hoping to raise $50,000 for her medical bills.

Her GOFUNDME campaign started way back in September of 2015, and never got much attention. Or money. At the time of her death, 17 months after starting her GOFUNDME campaign, she wasn't even 20% toward her goal. Did people think Prince or Obamacare would be enough?

The Lord can be as cold and indifferent as a WiFi outage, or malware on a free download of Prince albums off Kickass.

At a time like this, some may find their faith shaken. They may be wondering, what went wrong? Was Jesus annoyed that He was not being asked directly, and that somehow $50,000 in mere medication and medical equipment was needed to do what He could do alone? Was he irritated that being the Prince of Peace, he was still playing second to Prince? As in "nothing compares 2 u, PRINCE?" Perhaps this isn't the time to ask such questions? Sorry for putting that in the form of a question.

Despite using vintage pictures and writing a very moving plea, complete with references to The Lord, it was all in vain for the lady once called VANITY.