0028 - Paula Abdul

I was expecting Paula Abdul - or to give her full name, My Homegirl Paula Abdul - to be the first entry on this blog that I was a bit embarrassed about.  There will be plenty of music I write about in the future that I'd rather not admit to owning, but write about it I will.  It turns out, though, that I actually quite like my Paula Abdul song.

I'm not getting carried away here, Straight Up is no classic.  It's incredibly lightweight, musically it's a cheesy amalgam of most that was wrong with the late 80s mainstream, vocally it's Madonna-lite, but it's ok.  I can't imagine ever choosing to play it, other than in circumstances like these, but if it comes on the radio, I certainly won't switch it off.

And the girl can dance, no question.  A bit less attitude and a bit more joy wouldn't go amiss though.  Joy, that's what dancing should be:

Straight Up was the first of six US number ones for My Homegirl, which I think is pretty good going for a former cheerleader.