Forever Your Girl - Abdul, Paula (CD 1992)

*This review is an entry in lambchops Where it all Began Write Off.* One of my brothers, who is seven years older than me, had quite the enviable collection of cassettes when we were younger. Among them was Paula Abdul s Forever Your Girl. I would listen to the tape in our big, ugly, but cool van that not only had a TV and VCR in it, but also TWO(!) Tape players, so we kids could listen to whatever we liked with individual headphone plugs near each seat. After hearing Paula while on the road I decided I needed to hear her more often. I would borrow the tape from my brother and lay on the...

(Disclaimer: Those looking for a brief description of the album will find what their looking for in the "Album Overview" section. The section titled "Detailed Track Discussion" is meant only for those who want to read detailed descriptions of the songs, and they do not constitute the essence of this review. Lastly and most importantly, this review is not necessarily written by the point of view of a Paula Abdul fan.) Introduction: It's funny that I forgot that Paula Abdul has a mole on her left cheek. You don't seem to see it much anymore. It's probably pretty hard to put on make-up...

Some kids out there who only know Paula Abdul as the trainwreck of a judge on TV's "American Idol" might have forgotten (or may not have even known) that she had a recording career in the late Eighties and early Nineties. Not only did she have a recording career, she was HUGE, with her only competition at the time being Janet Jackson and maybe Madonna. In the time since, it has become obvious that she was the weakest of the three talents, not only because Madonna and Janet still have viable music careers while Paula doesn't, but also because their music from the same time period has aged...

Yesterday, I was doing my occasional raid at a place called Secondspin.Com in Denver, Colorado looking for some cheap buys and a little nostalgia. All though I didn't find some of the items I had hoped for, I did find for a bargain basement price of $2.99 Paula Abdul's late eighties debut Forever Your Girl. This morning I popped this piece of history in my CD player and somehow I magically transformed from a twenty four year old married woman to a thirteen year old little girl. Honestly, I was taken by surprise about how much I still like this CD. (it was a tape when I last owned it.) Paula...