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It's kind of shocking to realize that it took Virgin and Paula Abdul six full seasons of American Idol to capitalize on her resurgence of fame, but they finally got around to exploiting her back catalog with the release of the 18-track Greatest Hits: Straight Up! in May 2007, just as the sixth season was about to draw to a close. It is what it says it is: a collection of her greatest hits, all 13 of her Billboard charting singles, plus five other album tracks. Of these, not all of them are huge hits and some aren't even that familiar. Abdul peaked early, with all of her biggest and best hits arriving on her 1988 debut, Forever Your Girl, which contained "Forever Your Girl," "Straight Up," "Cold Hearted," "The Way You Love Me," "Knocked Out," and "Opposites Attact," all of which are here, along with "One or the Other," also featured here. That means that Straight Up! has seven of the ten tracks from Forever Your Girl, a pretty high ratio, but it's only right that it dominates this hits compilation, because these are the songs that Abdul's fame was built upon. After that debut, her decline in popularity was pretty swift: her 1991 sophomore set, Spellbound, had four hits in "Rush, Rush," "The Promise of a New Day," "Blowing Kisses in the Wind," and "Vibeology," but none of them were as big or memorable as the singles from the debut, and when Straight Up! works its way toward them, it starts to loose momentum, just as Abdul's career did. She stumbled through 1995's Head Over Heels, as she tried to modernize her eternally chipper dance-pop, before disappearing from the spotlight until American Idol. Straight Up! charts this career arc -- minus the career revival, since she hasn't recorded a comeback album, after all -- with accuracy, generously sampling from all three albums, and if the selections from Forever Your Girl are undeniably still the highlights (and the reason to get this set) there are a couple of surprises along with the way, including how "The Promise of a New Day" and "Vibeology" stand as bright, colorful time capsules of early-'90s dance-pop and how slinky and seductive 1995's "My Love for Real" is. These aren't enough to offer a revisionist take on Abdul's recording career -- this hits set doesn't smash conventional wisdom, it cements it -- but as a summary of her years as a pop star, Greatest Hits: Straight Up! is as good as any hits disc ever could be.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Oliver Leiber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Paula Abdul, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1988 Virgin Records
Elliot Wolff, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Paula Abdul, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1988 Virgin Records
Elliot Wolff, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Paula Abdul, MainArtist - Keith Cohen, Producer, Co-Producer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1988 Virgin Records
Oliver Leiber, Composer, Producer - Paula Abdul, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1988 Virgin Records
Daryl Simmons, ComposerLyricist - L.A. Reid, Producer - Kenneth Edmonds, ComposerLyricist - Antonio Reid, ComposerLyricist - Paula Abdul, MainArtist - Babyface, Performer, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1988 Virgin Records
Duncan Pain, Composer - Curtis Williams, Composer, Producer, Vocal Arranger, Programming, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - JEFF LORBER, Additional Keyboards, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer - Kendall Stubbs, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paula Abdul, Composer, Background Vocalist, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Jaquette, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Somma, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Keith "KC" Cohen, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Danny Grigsby, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Randy Weber, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Evelyn Halus, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Williams for Willpower Productions, Producer - Mike Wisenger, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Delissa Davis, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1988 Capitol Records, LLC
Oliver Leiber, Producer - Paula Abdul, MainArtist - Keith Cohen, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Wild Pair, FeaturedArtist - Ollie Leiber, ComposerLyricist - Bruce DeShazer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Marvin Gunn, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1988 Capitol Records, LLC
V. Jeffrey Smith, Producer - Peter Lord, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Paula Abdul, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1991 Virgin Records
V. Jeffrey Smith, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Peter Lord, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sandra St. Victor, ComposerLyricist - Paula Abdul, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1991 Virgin Records
V. Jeffrey Smith, Producer - Peter Lord, Composer, Producer - Paula Abdul, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1991 Virgin Records
V. Jeffrey Smith, Composer, Producer - Peter Lord, Composer, Producer - Sandra St. Victor, Composer - Paula Abdul, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1991 Virgin Records
Elliot Wolff, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Paula Abdul, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1992 Virgin Records America, Inc.
V. Jeffrey Smith, Composer, Producer - Peter Lord, Composer, Producer - Sandra St. Victor, Composer - Paula Abdul, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1992 Virgin Records
Rhett Lawrence, Composer, Producer - Paula Abdul, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records America, Inc.
V. Jeffrey Smith, Composer, Producer - Peter Lord, Composer, Producer - Sandra St. Victor, Composer - Paula Abdul, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records America, Inc.
Rhett Lawrence, Composer, Producer - Paula Abdul, MainArtist - Crystal Bernard, Composer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records America, Inc.
Sam Watters, Composer - Mark Calderon, Composer - Kevin Thornton, Composer - Elliot Wolff, Composer, Producer - Howie Tee, Composer - Paula Abdul, MainArtist - Bryan Abrahms, Composer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records America, Inc.
Robb Boldt, Composer, Producer - Howie Hersh, Composer, Producer - Paula Abdul, Composer, MainArtist - Iki Levy, Composer, Producer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records America, Inc.
Presentación del Álbum
It's kind of shocking to realize that it took Virgin and Paula Abdul six full seasons of American Idol to capitalize on her resurgence of fame, but they finally got around to exploiting her back catalog with the release of the 18-track Greatest Hits: Straight Up! in May 2007, just as the sixth season was about to draw to a close. It is what it says it is: a collection of her greatest hits, all 13 of her Billboard charting singles, plus five other album tracks. Of these, not all of them are huge hits and some aren't even that familiar. Abdul peaked early, with all of her biggest and best hits arriving on her 1988 debut, Forever Your Girl, which contained "Forever Your Girl," "Straight Up," "Cold Hearted," "The Way You Love Me," "Knocked Out," and "Opposites Attact," all of which are here, along with "One or the Other," also featured here. That means that Straight Up! has seven of the ten tracks from Forever Your Girl, a pretty high ratio, but it's only right that it dominates this hits compilation, because these are the songs that Abdul's fame was built upon. After that debut, her decline in popularity was pretty swift: her 1991 sophomore set, Spellbound, had four hits in "Rush, Rush," "The Promise of a New Day," "Blowing Kisses in the Wind," and "Vibeology," but none of them were as big or memorable as the singles from the debut, and when Straight Up! works its way toward them, it starts to loose momentum, just as Abdul's career did. She stumbled through 1995's Head Over Heels, as she tried to modernize her eternally chipper dance-pop, before disappearing from the spotlight until American Idol. Straight Up! charts this career arc -- minus the career revival, since she hasn't recorded a comeback album, after all -- with accuracy, generously sampling from all three albums, and if the selections from Forever Your Girl are undeniably still the highlights (and the reason to get this set) there are a couple of surprises along with the way, including how "The Promise of a New Day" and "Vibeology" stand as bright, colorful time capsules of early-'90s dance-pop and how slinky and seductive 1995's "My Love for Real" is. These aren't enough to offer a revisionist take on Abdul's recording career -- this hits set doesn't smash conventional wisdom, it cements it -- but as a summary of her years as a pop star, Greatest Hits: Straight Up! is as good as any hits disc ever could be.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
Acerca del álbum
- 1 disco(s) - 18 pista(s)
- Duración total: 01:11:22
- 1 Libreto digital
- Artistas principales: Paula Abdul
- Compositor: Various Composers
- Sello: Virgin Records
- Género Pop/Rock Pop
© 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2007 Virgin Records America, Inc.
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