Paula Abdul - whatever happened to her ? By no means a one hit wonder, you could call her a one CD wonder perhaps... well, not really that either. The former L.A.Lakers cheerleader and choreographer started her string of hits in mid 1988 with the L. A. Reid and Babyface produced song, "Knocked Out." Her debut CD, Forever Your Girl has one after another of catchy "dance" hits. For those interested in stats, it yielded four #1 pop hits and three others that charted.
Oliver Leiber seems to have best figured out the formula that worked for Abdul, with "Opposites Attract," "Forever Your Girl" and "(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me." Elliot Wolff is no slacker as a producer either; his contributions include "Cold Hearted" and "Straight Up."

Abdul's CD Shut Up And Dance (The Dance Mixes) has remixes of 7 of the songs from the first album plus a "medley mix."

Spellbound, which debuted in mid-1991, produced 5 pop hits, and 1995's Head Over Heels had 2 more; one of which, "My Love Is For Real" has Ofra Haza on backing vocals.

Yeah, Michael, but What Do You Think ??
The eclectic Michael does like to dance, and enjoys dance music - no, that does not mean disco, though may include some. There's that repetitive beat in most "dance" music, but the more imaginative stuff changes tempo now and then, and if the words are not inspiring, they might at least be clever.

I really like the first CD, Forever Your Girl, especially (in order): "Straight Up," "Opposites Attract," "The Way That You Love Me," "Forever Your Girl," "Cold Hearted" and "I Need You." What's that, four of the ten I'm not enthusiastic over ?