i woulsd say more 90's cause that when her fame rose sure she came out in 1988 wit straght up but paula was more bigger in the 90's

I'm gonna say 80's

Cuz thats when her first (and most popular album) was released.....
Everything after that was considered after she "jumped the shark"....
The "Estevez" Years....LOL

I'm going to say '80s too.

80s!

Tanya

i guess u can put her in that catgorey late 80's early 90's  :)

I'm gonna say 80's

Cuz thats when her first (and most popular album) was released.....
Everything after that was considered after she "jumped the shark"....
The "Estevez" Years....LOL



Ditto

And not forget her having her then boyfriend Arsenio Hall in her "Straight Up" video.

Hmmm... I guess I'd say 80s.  But really only 1989, sorta like Britney is really a 90s artist but I can't seriously refer to her as one the way I can with Nirvana, Celine Dion, or Garth Brooks.

Paula Abdul's year may of been 1989, but she was really popular even up to 1992.  Even her later stuff was very close to the eighties.  But when discussing 80s music, I typically won't bring Paula Abdul up with Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, or Depeche Mode.  Know what I mean?

Hmmm... I guess I'd say 80s.  But really only 1989, sorta like Britney is really a 90s artist but I can't seriously refer to her as one the way I can with Nirvana, Celine Dion, or Garth Brooks.

Paula Abdul's year may of been 1989, but she was really popular even up to 1992.  Even her later stuff was very close to the eighties.  But when discussing 80s music, I typically won't bring Paula Abdul up with Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, or Depeche Mode.  Know what I mean?


She's definitely '80s the music sounds '80s and the videos have a '80s look to them.

Hmmm... I guess I'd say 80s.  But really only 1989, sorta like Britney is really a 90s artist but I can't seriously refer to her as one the way I can with Nirvana, Celine Dion, or Garth Brooks.

Paula Abdul's year may of been 1989, but she was really popular even up to 1992.  Even her later stuff was very close to the eighties.  But when discussing 80s music, I typically won't bring Paula Abdul up with Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, or Depeche Mode.  Know what I mean?
Actley Forever Your Girl Came Out in 1988 3 singels were relsed in 1988 and in 1989 Forever Your Girl and Cold Hearted were the only To Songs that year to go to NO1 in 1990 Oppsisets Attrack went to no1 and that year she won a Grammey and she won 2 again in 1991

i woulsd say more 90's cause that when her fame rose sure she came out in 1988 wit straght up but paula was more bigger in the 90's


According to the sleeve of her "Forever Your Girl" album, that was released in 1988. I'd say I agree with her being more 90's, but then again she did release her single "Straight Up" in the January of 1989, then her second single "Forever Your Girl" was released in the middle of that year and then came her third single "Knocked Out" which failed to chart only reaching number 45 before giving the remix treatment a year later and reached number 21 in the summer of 1990.

She was great, her singles "Rush Rush", "Blowing Kisses In The Wind" and "Will You Marry Me" were brilliant ballads.

hears how it went May 1988 Knocked out was resessed no 40

the way that you love me reached no 34 in augest 1988

Straght up was resesed in decmber 1988 and spent 7 weeks at no1 and was no1 in jan 1989

Cold Hearted and Forever Your Girl Bouth no1 hits in 1989

1990 Oppisets Attrack no 1 she wins 2 Amacrean Music Awards and a Grammey And sweped the 1989 VMA's

1991 spell bound is resled 8"000'000 copyes sold Rush Rush and Promsie Of A New Day No singels folwed buy 3 top ten hits in 1992

1995 Head Over Heals is resled and only sells 500'000 copys that year and it would be the last we hear from Paula untill 2002

I must bring up that Paula Abdul had legacy as a music video choreographer (whatever that is  ;D ) is the earlier 80s.

She was a Laker Girl! She's a great choreograher and she still looks beautiful! BTW, I say 90's because she had much more success :)

She was a Laker Girl! She's a great choreograher and she still looks beautiful! BTW, I say 90's because she had much more success :)


I dislike the Lakers now.  F*ck Kobe.  Rapist or not, you're an a$$ and I'd take Shaq over you any day.  >:(

-FHF  ;)

As a kid of the 80s-early 90s, I thought she was great. 

I say 80s, but I loved the 90s stuff too.

I saw her more as a 90's artist.  She did have hits in the 80's, but she didn't come in until late 1988

It's cool to see this on the first page again. Another I thought I'd responded to, but I guess not, LOL.

Overall, I'd say musically she was more 80's, but imagewise more 90's.

For instance, the "Opposites Attract" video and song was technically a duet with MC Skat Cat - which totally fits with the more party/light rap of the time. That wouldn't have fit back in 1984, but was perfect for 1990.

FullHouseFan's quote says it well too:

Hmmm... I guess I'd say 80s.  But really only 1989, sorta like Britney is really a 90s artist but I can't seriously refer to her as one the way I can with Nirvana, Celine Dion, or Garth Brooks.

Paula Abdul's year may of been 1989, but she was really popular even up to 1992.  Even her later stuff was very close to the eighties.  But when discussing 80s music, I typically won't bring Paula Abdul up with Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, or Depeche Mode.  Know what I mean?

Her style was clearly very 80s.

1988/1989 was her key time.  She did have that Rush album in 1991, but honestly it never registered with the public the way "Forever Your Girl" did.  Paula Abdul became dated very fast though, along with her boyfriend Arsenio Hall. 

Arsenio's talk show was very late 80s, but he continued on into 1994....he did modify the show to be more 90s around 1992 or so, but I kinda always think of him as late 80s/very early 90s too.

It's interesting, back then a 28 year old like her could be a superstar, these days that's kinda too old.  It's literally the 16-23 year olds that are the main acts today.
 

^ Yeah, I sometimes actually was surprised Eminem got as big as he did from, say 2000-2003 around age 30. Gwen Stefani is also 35 or so now.

You're right though, they're more the exceptions. The cutoff does seem to be mid 20's for beginning stardom now.

In the early 80's, Huey Lewis came out of nowhere at age 32 or so with "Do You Believe in Love" - that's quite a change from now.

As for Paula, I think she was born in 1962, so yeah, I guess she was 28 in 1990. I forgot about that till you mentioned it - I always thought of her as way younger. (Of course, it also doesn't hurt that she hasn't aged a day since then. If it weren't for that info, I'd not have ever believed she's a 43 year old now! ;) )

^It blew me away when I first found out how old Gwen Stefani was, she's 35 and so popular.  She's a grandma compared most to other pop artists. The thing is that most people would probably figure her to be much, much younger.  She certainly doesn't look or "act 35", she acts like she is in her early 20s.  The 16-23 youth obession seemed to begin in 1999, when Britney and the boy bands arrived on the scene.  Madonna was already 26 when she hit it big back in 1984, that's somewhat too old to be starting out today.

^It blew me away when I first found out how old Gwen Stefani was, she's 35 and so popular.  The thing is that most people would probably figure her to be much, much younger.  She certainly doesn't "act 35", she acts like she is in her early 20s. The 16-23 youth obession seemed to begin in 1999, when Britney and the boy bands arrived on the scene.


Agreed.

I guess she had the advantage of already being popular with No Doubt before 1999 (I think "Don't Speak" and "Spiderwebs" were huge in 1996/97).

Her style and fashion sense is also very teenage/20's.

Theoretically, I guess you could say Paula didn't act "late 20's" in 1990 either. But it was also less out of the ordinary then to burst onto the scene at that age.