No, it's valid if you understood the point I was trying to make...but instead you get offended and let it fly over your head. If you want to make this a Paula Abdul appreciation thread do that, but let's not try to snatch anyone who has made valid points about Paula's so-called influence on today's pop world. It's nearly nonexistent, especially compared to some of the artists she competed against in the past.
Her competition of the past was influenced by her, she came hard without a warning, changing the game, and the others had to step up in terms of choreography and video imagery.
Wow she had 6 #1s at that time. It's like having twelve #1s nowadays. Maybe she should have tried harder. I will admit that she is not known and never brought up in France, but it seems she was also a WW phenomen and an album artist. So what went down?
Wow she had 6 #1s at that time. It's like having twelve #1s nowadays. Maybe she should have tried harder. I will admit that she is not known and never brought up in France, but it seems she was also a WW phenomen and an album artist. So what went down?
She started developing bulimia, as journalists started saying she was "fat" and she married and divorced Emilio Estevez and went into a depression.
so she did not release any albums from 1991 until 1995, and it seemed it was too late, she didnt have the reception of her previous albums, she married another guy and he turned out to be gay so she divorced quickly after, that got her even more depressed.
At the same time, the internet was eating up record labels, so she lost her contract with Virgin, she then got a contract with Mercury Records and was preparing a comeback album, and Mercury got merged with another label and she lost that contract again, and she went into seclusion for a couple of years.
I believe her pill popping ways of today are a consequence of what I just mentioned, it must have been really hard for her being one of the most important pop singers and 5 years later not having a career. I think she started getting medicated to cope with depression and that loss.
In Promise of a New Day, Paula had started resenting the critics that accused her of being "fat" and the legend says that her video producers decided to "stretch" her image to make her look slimmer:
This move was mocked to death by the media in numerous harsh comments and parodies on national TV of the incident such as this one, Promise of a Thin Me:
This caused Paula to develop bulimia by throwing up after eating, until it became a compulsion and had to be interned in a clinic. Her bulimia struggles: http://www.paula-abdul.net/html/article_30.html
She's heavy medicated and has to be carried and ushered just like another current pop princess. Its sad, at the end its the public's loss, because she had a brilliant career and she was ready to offer more.
Paula was HUGE here in late 80's/beggining of 90's. I was listening to her songs and my parents remember it:beatfreak:
I remember that when my parents bought our very first cd player, the first cd he bought and the first cd we ever played was Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl. And my father isnt gay, lol, but I remember her asked for the best cds in a store (he didnt know much about music) and they gave him that one and Janet's Rhythm Nation.
Britney established herself long ago and has a massive following world wide, and given her struggles it makes her relatable to the general public therefore the masses will always root for her no matter what. Paula was never as big as Britney when Paula was in her prime. You really tried it to with your weak shade.
Um wrong, I love Britney, but Paula was as big as Britney, at her prime, in fact without Paula exposing the world to a good performer with a not so great voice I dont think Britney would have been as big as she was, no shade