★★★★★
Paula Abdul plunges into her thundering new album, Spellbound, with the steely determination of an underdog withsomething to prove. It's almost hard to imagine what, since Abdul's 1988 debut, Forever Your Girl, established her as the hard-workingqueen of the hop...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
For those who know Paula Abdul only as American Idol's ditzy queen of positive reinforcement, it bears pointing out that Abdul herself was once an American idol. Back when the '80s turned lightly into the '90s ? when record executive Simon Cowell was busy going bankrupt, Randy Jackson was playing the state?fair circuit as Journey's second?string bassist and Kelly Clarkson was having tea parties with her My Little Pony ? Abdul was the biggest chick in the game, a choreographer and former L.A...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Modern pop fans rarely go for the innocent type ? especially when it comes to women. Swoons more commonly surround shock queens (Madonna), superbabes (Janet Jackson), or serious hellcats (Courtney Love). Even pop's most conservative heroines (Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston) consider themselves enlightened sophisticates. All of which clears an uncrowded spot for Paula Abdul. In a world of knowing women, her voice speaks for the utterly uninformed...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Watch Virgin Records build ? with no effort ? on Paula Abdul'ssuccess. Watch them release a second Abdul album, containingelectronically altered versions of seven of the 10 songs from herall-conquering, super-multiplatinum debut, Forever Your Girl. Savorthe one new item, cannily titled "1990 Medley Mix," which is stitchedtogether from snips of the seven remixes. Watch the new album sell.See the money pour in. Or don't be so cynical...
- ew.com
2009-06-04
★★★★★
If Debbie Gibson already has platinum imitators, there's more to the world than is dreamt of in Madonna's philosophy. This unthreateningly dusky disco-dolly-next-door plays the field romantic-metaphorwise, with a weakness for can't-help-myself. She's less imitator than imitation, short on tokens of self-creation--her only writing credit is also the only time she threatens to play around.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-03-22
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