She was an MTV fixture in the 80's, but. Inevitably, she moved on to making music videos of her own. Paula Abdul began her career in Los Angeles as a choreographer for music videos. Profile: American singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer and actress born June 19th, 1962 in Los Angeles, California. Real Name: Paula Julie Abdul.
PAULA ABDUL FOREVER YOUR GIRL / FULL Album 1988. Lakers cheerleader and choreographer scored her first hit in 1989, when 'Straight Up' shot to Billboards number one spot, becoming the first of four U.S. In the wake of Madonnas success, many dance-pop divas filled the charts, but out of them all, Paula Abdul was the only one who sustained a career. This tour was nearly cancelled due Paula Abdul – Shut Up And Dance – The Remixes (1990) albumListen to Paula Abdul on Spotify. Abdul promoted the album through the 'Under My Spell Tour', which was named by an MTV contest for fans. The track 'U' was written for Paula by Prince.
The minimal sounding start reminds me of one some tracks on a few early Deee-Lite albums, although whilst the song gently meanders, the best part of this track is most definitely Paula’s vocals.Legendary producer Shep Pettibone gives us Knocked Out (Pettibone 12″) – which begins with the sultry breathy samples from Paula – the kind that you’d find in his later work with Madonna (especially hit Vogue). After a bundle of vocal samples, the bass-heavy mix is pretty mellow, giving Paula plenty of space to deliver some flawless vocals that help turn this into quite a catchy track.Next up is Forever Your Girl (Frankie Foncett Mix), with remixer and producer Frankie Foncett on the dials of the previous album’s title track. If there’s never been a court case over this, then I’d be surprised, but then Paula’s earlier career as a choreographer, led to her choreographing The Jacksons‘ 1984 Victory tour… so maybe it was okay. This remix opens as a near carbon copy (in my opinion) as Michael Jackson‘s hit Bad. This is quite a nice version, although at 2m 58s I am 99.9% sure that there’s a robot that in a brief musical pause shouts ‘ BITCH!‘ before Paula returns.One Or The Other (1990 Mix) follows this, and this is one of her album tracks.
This song starts off with a brooding synth bassline before a familiar sounding synth teases you along. Not the most innovative mix or exciting track on this album – the original is far better.What is probably the best-known Paula Abdul track is up next – Opposites Attract (1990 Mix) – a duet with The Wild Pair. This remix feels like it may have come from that year, although the sleeve suggests it was really 1989. This was her second solo single, but it floundered at #74 in the UK back in 1988. A fantastic version, complete with teasing false ending.This is followed by The Way That You Love Me (Houseafire Edit), which comes bursting in with what sounds like my old Casio keyboard on drums.
There’s no funky saxophone sounds here, but instead this remix builds up well from it’s somewhat muted beginnings. However, as the track progresses, it kind of loses its momentum.The album closes with Cold Hearted (Chad Jackson/12″ Re-Mix), which see’s the aforementioned Chad Jackson (who had had a #3 UK hit in 1990 with Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked)) takes the controls. The mix seems to keep clear of Paula’s first verse, allowing her vocals to shine somewhat, and allowing the song to build up to the chorus. Despite the title of this mix mentioning ‘Power’, this mix seems to be running a bit low on energy.Shep Pettibone takes the helm of Opposites Attract (Shep’s Special Mix), which whilst having a really nice beat to it, it doesn’t really stray far from the single version, aside from a few vocal sample and instrumental sections.He also has the controls for penultimate track Forever Your Girl (Shep’s Special Mix). There’s a bit of a pounding beat and this mix feels like it’s much more pumping that the previous track. Paula begins with a ‘ oooooh YEAH!‘ and then her soft vocals arrive to take the verse.
Prior to MJ, Madonna had held the top spot. Until 1997, it was the second biggest selling album – having been outranked by the biggest selling one – Michael Jackson’s 1997 Blood On The Dancefloor (somehow!). However, amongst the weak, there’s some really good versions of her hits here, and some that are worthy counterparts to them.Whilst this album stalled here in the UK, despite Chad Jackson being included, it reached #7 in the USA, and this album has the honour of being the 5th biggest selling remix album of all time. This could well be because it’s 25 years since it was released, and dance remixes being so contemporary and stylised don’t tend to age so well. POP RESCUE RATINGOver all, this remix album sounds like a real mixed bag. However, a revival of her musical career success remains elusive.That aside, Paula has sold an estimated 53 million records worldwide.
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