Always loved this track from "Spellbound". The video is pretty sexy too...

One of my favorite songs ever!

I feel bad to say this, but i love this song....together with "will you marry me".

I still listen to it frequently, although i can hear she can't sing. I especially love the

part where the male voice comes in.

sosgemini said:

Laughing out loud, eh?

SEANMAN said:

sosgemini said:

Laughing out loud, eh?

Now, I had Paula's Forever Your Girl ages before it blew up (I fell in love with Knocked Out when it flopped and bought the album and loved it) but the producers on the second album did a horrible job of masking her lack of singing ability. I can't help but giggle when I hear this song and Hush, Hush...I mean Rush Rush.

^^I'll admit that there are cringeworthy moments in her vocals on BKITW, but it is overall a great track.

i remember winning the cassete tape with this song on it from my local radio station. i used to be a big fan of hers.

I'm a 90s baby and I never was a Paula fan but I like the cinematography of the video.

SEANMAN said:

^^I'll admit that there are cringeworthy moments in her vocals on BKITW, but it is overall a great track.

You know it's bad when I'm one of those who don't hear what other's hate about Appples singing in Take Me With You but can hear how off Paula is.

robertlove said:

I feel bad to say this, but i love this song....together with "will you marry me".

I still listen to it frequently, although i can hear she can't sing. I especially love the

part where the male voice comes in.

I always wonder why people feel bad to say they like a specific song.

I loved Paula's songs from that period and the period before that (the Forever Your Girl era). I think she released it at a weird time in the music industry. After the Milli Vanilli scandal in 1989, folks started to sing live onstage like Janet and 'em in fear they may be accused of not being "singers". Paula did this too.

Around the time Paula put out Spellbound, Martha Wash sued (and later won) against record companies who hadn't credited her for her hits with C+C Music Factory (and for not letting her in their music videos in replacement of Zelma Davis, who could sing a bit but not like Martha) and Black Box (some Afro-European model sung in the video but she wasn't even a member of that group) and New Kids on the Block had to prove to people they could sing despite claims someone did all their vocals.

So Paula decided to go for more ballads than the usual dance stuff. Guess it didn't really prove anything to people who thought "she's a great dancer but a HORRIBLE singer."

I remembered In Living Color mocked her for "Promise of a New Day":

Timmy84 said:

I loved Paula's songs from that period and the period before that (the Forever Your Girl era). I think she released it at a weird time in the music industry. After the Milli Vanilli scandal in 1989, folks started to sing live onstage like Janet and 'em in fear they may be accused of not being "singers". Paula did this too.

Around the time Paula put out Spellbound, Martha Wash sued (and later won) against record companies who hadn't credited her for her hits with C+C Music Factory (and for not letting her in their music videos in replacement of Zelma Davis, who could sing a bit but not like Martha) and Black Box (some Afro-European model sung in the video but she wasn't even a member of that group) and New Kids on the Block had to prove to people they could sing despite claims someone did all their vocals.

So Paula decided to go for more ballads than the usual dance stuff. Guess it didn't really prove anything to people who thought "she's a great dancer but a HORRIBLE singer."

I remembered In Living Color mocked her for "Promise of a New Day":

LOL I was just watching this In Living Color spoof yesterday!

sosgemini said:

SEANMAN said:

^^I'll admit that there are cringeworthy moments in her vocals on BKITW, but it is overall a great track.

You know it's bad when I'm one of those who don't hear what other's hate about Appples singing in Take Me With You but can hear how off Paula is.

It's probably her "Woo hoo-hoo!" part at the end of TMWY...and the "I don't care purddy baybaaeah!"

love it

I always liked the orchestration on this song. Beautiful.

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sosgemini said:

SEANMAN said:

Laughing out loud, eh?

Now, I had Paula's Forever Your Girl ages before it blew up (I fell in love with Knocked Out when it flopped and bought the album and loved it) but the producers on the second album did a horrible job of masking her lack of singing ability. I can't help but giggle when I hear this song and Hush, Hush...I mean Rush Rush.

Thats the only song I love by her, it brings so many memories.

Absolutely trash.... Next!

seeingvoices12 said:

Absolutely trash.... Next!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SEANMAN said:

^^I'll admit that there are cringeworthy moments in her vocals on BKITW, but it is overall a great track.

I bought this as a CD single

SEANMAN said:

sosgemini said:

You know it's bad when I'm one of those who don't hear what other's hate about Appples singing in Take Me With You but can hear how off Paula is.

It's probably her "Woo hoo-hoo!" part at the end of TMWY...and the "I don't care purddy baybaaeah!"

That's definitely the part but I like it. It's so bad it's good...'cause it's funny!

robertlove said:

I feel bad to say this, but i love this song....together with "will you marry me".

I still listen to it frequently, although i can hear she can't sing. I especially love the

part where the male voice comes in.

I do too. She's not a good vocalist but it's a good song.

leecappella said:

robertlove said:

I feel bad to say this, but i love this song....together with "will you marry me".

I still listen to it frequently, although i can hear she can't sing. I especially love the

part where the male voice comes in.

I always wonder why people feel bad to say they like a specific song.

don't take it too seriously, but you don't score points as a 37 year old guy singing along with
Paula abduls "will you marry me" LOL

sosgemini said:

daPrettyman said:

sosgemini said:

Now, I had Paula's Forever Your Girl ages before it blew up (I fell in love with Knocked Out when it flopped and bought the album and loved it) but the producers on the second album did a horrible job of masking her lack of singing ability. I can't help but giggle when I hear this song and Hush, Hush...I mean Rush Rush.

Rush rush was turned down by Patti Labelle for.her Burning or Be Yourself albums.

Wow! To hear a real vocalist pull the song off would seem odd now. LOL

sosgemini said:

daPrettyman said:

sosgemini said: Rush rush was turned down by Patti Labelle for.her Burning or Be Yourself albums.

Wow! To hear a real vocalist pull the song off would seem odd now. LOL

She sings it on her DVD, Live in NY.

sosgemini said:

daPrettyman said:

sosgemini said: Rush rush was turned down by Patti Labelle for.her Burning or Be Yourself albums.

Wow! To hear a real vocalist pull the song off would seem odd now. LOL

you probably wouldn't even be able to discern a melody through all that caterwauling. it would have just been another one of those potentially great songs wasted on Patti Labelle that someone had to cover to make it any good, and then she woulda gotten pissed, etc.

errant said:

sosgemini said:

Wow! To hear a real vocalist pull the song off would seem odd now. LOL

you probably wouldn't even be able to discern a melody through all that caterwauling. it would have just been another one of those potentially great songs wasted on Patti Labelle that someone had to cover to make it any good, and then she woulda gotten pissed, etc.

That only happened ONCE.

Anyway, I found the video of her performing "Rush Rush."

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sosgemini said:

'nuff said