PAULA ABDUL (with Hit Parade's Chris Molanphy)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Hit Parade host Chris Molanphy returns to discuss one of the defining pop stars of the late 1980s, Paula Abdul. Louie and Chris discuss the virtuosic choreography that snatched Paula a ticket to pop superstardom, her three year run of signature hits beginning with 1988’s blockbuster Forever Your Girl through 1991's Spellbound, her contributions to the MTV music video boom, why her final album, 1995’s Head Over Heels, flopped, and her second act as a TV personality. Finally, they rank Paula Abdul in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:14.3 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.2 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. |
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| 1:10.1 | show notes of this episode. |
| 1:11.3 | All right, this week we are talking about a pop star who came mighty fast and fell off just as fast in the late 80s and early 90s. |
| 1:21.1 | This is Paula Abdul. |
| 1:22.3 | Some of you actually probably might know her better from her pretty iconic run as a judge on American Idol in the 2000s, |
| 1:29.3 | maybe in the early 20 times. I forgot exactly what years those were. But this is a story about a |
| 1:34.7 | pop career that seemed absolutely impenetrable for a couple of years, had a string of huge hits, |
| 1:41.0 | a couple big albums, and then burned really fast and bright. |
| 1:44.5 | So it was really fun getting to talk about this because it shows how a pop star can |
| 1:48.2 | really speak to a specific moment, but then be unable to transcend that specific moment, |
| 1:52.8 | despite many talents and some really good songs. |
| 1:55.5 | So I had a really fun time getting into this episode, and I hope you enjoy it too. |
| 2:00.4 | So here is Pop Pantheon, |
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