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New York Housewife Countess LuAnn de Lesseps has taken her vanity-fueled foray into music one step further and now has something in common with Lady Gaga, a catchy dance music video for her first single, "Money Can't Buy You Class." The song has been described as Emily Post meets T-Pain. It's part singing, or at least an attempt at singing, and part spoken word. The Countess' number has a dance beat and imparts these pearls of wisdom about social behavior: Life is all about elegance and flair and savoir-faire; you don't have to be rich and famous to be unforgettable; it's not about where you're from, it's about what you've learned.
Money may not be able to buy you class, as de Lesseps sings, but it can buy her a music video, and see the "Real Housewives of New York City" star transform from reality TV personality to disco diva. The video was shot in the Midtown Manhattan club Covet, and de Lesseps loads up the video with plenty of man candy. "When I made the song, I had dancing in Saint-Tropez in mind," the Countess told People magazine. "I'm putting myself out there knowing that I won't always be perfect. And it's scary, but it's worth it. Let people talk about it." It is, and they are. "There's not really dancing," she said. "I just have very good looking men standing around. And it's about how money can't buy you class, so I'm taking money out of their pockets and throwing it onto the floor."
Raised in Connecticut by her Algonquin father and a French mother, de Lesseps knows firsthand that class is a state of mind, not a birthright. On her first trip to Europe, The Countess fell in love with the Italian lifestyle, and remained in Italy to model, eventually becoming a TV personality. After three years of absorbing continental manners and style, she began a fairy-tale romance with Alexandre Count de Lesseps, a French Aristocrat of the Suez Canal dynasty, and married into high society. The Countess is a living example that elegance, taste, and chic can be acquired. It is this sophistication that she hopes to share with her fans.
The sexy Supernanny dominatrix in the video was actually looks good! The Countess isn't an unattractive woman, but between the corsets, the hair extensions, and however it is they smoothed out her complexion, she looks like a Pussycat Doll's older sister rather than the dowager of the Real Housewives. As for the video itself, it has to be seen to be believed. Just like in the song, the Countess instructs a bunch of young men how to treat a lady. Here she acts it out by simultaneously schooling the boys and rubbing her ladybits all over them, including a scene where she lounges in bed with a group of barely-clad gentleman. It's all very "Express Yourself"-era Madonna but, you know, kinda creepy. The auto-tune has done what it can for the housewife.