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Post by Auroranorth on Oct 17, 2014 11:14:22 GMT -4
I can't help it, I still love her videos.
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Post by Hamatron on Oct 17, 2014 11:49:18 GMT -4
I think some of the crazy might come from her suffering from a chronic pain disorder. I'm sure trying to get a diagnosis while dealing with that and then taking meds for it would make you loopy.
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Post by Augustus on Oct 17, 2014 14:27:17 GMT -4
I just love how the last couple of pages ended up being rather nostalgic and reminiscent of the late 80s/early 90s. I loved her music. It was poppy, carefree stuff, she had fun videos, and she could dance like no other.
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Post by Sunbaby on Oct 17, 2014 15:05:25 GMT -4
What timing! I was eyeing one of her Greatest Hits CD a few weeks back. I still have a cassette tape of 'Forever Your Girl' somewhere.
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Post by carrier76 on Oct 17, 2014 19:37:10 GMT -4
I have her Greatest Hits. The version of Straight Up is slightly truncated, and possibly a couple of the other songs, which annoys me. I have the Spellbound album on CD and have been meaning to just pony up for Forever Your Girl.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 21:04:51 GMT -4
I need to download some of her stuff, I had Spellbound on cassette and never got any CDs.
I got sucked into a Wikipedia hole reading about her videos. Her first few were directed by David Fincher. That kinda blew my mind, I remember when he used to do videos but I had no idea he'd done some of hers.
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Post by Spinderella on Oct 17, 2014 23:25:38 GMT -4
I have so many tapes that were strictly singles (remember those?!), so much better than getting a full album which usually consisted of just one or two decent tracks. And I just said tracks. Is that what they can still be called or is that going too far back to the days of cassettes? But that being said, I do have a ton of the full albums on cassette and one of them was Spellbound. I had no idea that Prince had a track for Paula, puretrash! My memory was fuzzy about the whole track list, so maybe "U" stood out in my mind and I might have remembered it being Prince related. Hard to believe that was 23 years ago!
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Post by puretrash on Oct 18, 2014 13:02:36 GMT -4
I have her Greatest Hits. The version of Straight Up is slightly truncated, and possibly a couple of the other songs, which annoys me. I have the Spellbound album on CD and have been meaning to just pony up for Forever Your Girl. Ugh, that annoys me. When I download songs from Rhapsody, I tend to get the ones from the artist's most recent Greatest Hits compilation because a lot of times they're remastered and sound better. I noticed "Vibelogy" was heavily edited, so I got the Spellbound version. I haven't checked out the other ones yet. But I forgot about "Knocked Out"! That song is soo catchy.
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Post by deeconsistent on Oct 18, 2014 18:19:38 GMT -4
I just love how the last couple of pages ended up being rather nostalgic and reminiscent of the late 80s/early 90s. I loved her music. It was poppy, carefree stuff, she had fun videos, and she could dance like no other. This thread sent me down a 80/90s dance video k-hole, and one thing I am marveling at is how good videos from that era looked. Tour videos from before 2000 almost look like they are from prehistoric times to me, but the best of what was going on then in music videos holds up and ,in a lot of cases, looks far better than the best of what's being released today. Someone posted a clip of Paula and Janet Jackson practicing the choreography for "When I Think of You", so I clicked over to the finished product. I was too young to appreciate it when it was new, but it is really gorgeous.
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Post by divasahm on Oct 19, 2014 12:52:55 GMT -4
There was a PE unit at my kids' middle school where each 6th-grader researched a famous athlete or coach, created a presentation, and participated in a "wax museum" exhibit that was open to parents and fellow students. Divaspawn1, having zero interest in sports, found out that some of the girls were researching prima ballerinas and asked if she could research Paula Abdul. She had to go all the way to the principal for permission because nobody else realized that Paula was a choreographer/dancer--they just knew her as the chemically-impaired judge on American Idol. The principal enthusiastically encouraged ds1 to go ahead with Paula, with the caveat that she focus on Paula's dance and choreography career and not mention AI. She was the hit of the exhibit--she dressed in Paula's big-shouldered, belted suit jacket over black tights and tap shoes, and posed in different positions from the Straight Up videos, tap-dancing from one pose to the next when it was time to move. Her display listed all of Paula's awards and featured lots of pics of her working with Janet Jackson and the Laker Girls. So much fun...
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