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The black and white video, directed by David Fincher and choreographed by Paula herself in mid-January 1989, won four 1989 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video, Best Editing, Best Choreography, and the first Best Dance Video. The demo was recorded by Delissa Davis.Р”Р„fter debuting at # 79 on Billboard the week of December 3, 1988, the song became so popular that it ascended to the Hot 100 top 20 before a music video had even been filmed to promote the song. The single was officially released on Nov 22, 1988. The song wasР’В co-produced by Keith РІР‚СљK.C.РІР‚Сњ Cohen. РІР‚СњStraight UpРІР‚Сњ was written and produced by Elliot Wolf. The song was recorded at a cost of $3,000. Virgin Records didn't think the song was any good but Abdul offered to record two songs they wanted, which she didn't like, if they would let her do 'Straight Up'. But Abdul was intrigued and heard something she liked in it, and retrieved it saying, РІР‚СљThere's something about it that's crazy good, and I have to hear it again.' PaulaРІР‚в„ўs mother Lorraine found 'Straight Up.' Abdul says that her mother knew someone whose boyfriend (Wolff) was an aspiring songwriter, and she was handed 'Straight Up' as an 8-track demo.Р”Р„bdul said the demo version was РІР‚Сљso badРІР‚Сњ that AbdulРІР‚в„ўs mother was 'crying laughing' at it, and threw it in the trash. These aren't enough to offer a revisionist take on Abdul's recording career - this hits set doesn't smash conventional wisdom, it cements it - but as a summary of her years as a pop star, Greatest Hits: Straight Up! is as good as any hits disc ever could be.Stacey Piersa, Paula Abdul and Elliot Wolff Straight Up! charts this career arc - minus the career revival, since she hasn't recorded a comeback album, after all - with accuracy, generously sampling from all three albums, and if the selections from Forever Your Girl are undeniably still the highlights (and the reason to get this set) there are a couple of surprises along with the way, including how 'The Promise of a New Day' and 'Vibeology' stand as bright, colorful time capsules of early-'90s dance-pop and how slinky and seductive 1995's 'My Love for Real' is. She stumbled through 1995's Head Over Heels, as she tried to modernize her eternally chipper dance-pop, before disappearing from the spotlight until American Idol. After that debut, her decline in popularity was pretty swift: her 1991 sophomore set, Spellbound, had four hits in 'Rush, Rush,' 'The Promise of a New Day,' 'Blowing Kisses in the Wind,' and 'Vibeology,' but none of them were as big or memorable as the singles from the debut, and when Straight Up! works its way toward them, it starts to loose momentum, just as Abdul's career did.

That means that Straight Up! has seven of the ten tracks from Forever Your Girl, a pretty high ratio, but it's only right that it dominates this hits compilation, because these are the songs that Abdul's fame was built upon. Abdul peaked early, with all of her biggest and best hits arriving on her 1988 debut, Forever Your Girl, which contained 'Forever Your Girl,' 'Straight Up,' 'Cold Hearted,' 'The Way You Love Me,' 'Knocked Out,' and 'Opposites Attact,' all of which are here, along with 'One or the Other,' also featured here. Of these, not all of them are huge hits and some aren't even that familiar.

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It is what it says it is: a collection of her greatest hits, all 13 of her Billboard charting singles, plus five other album tracks.

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It's kind of shocking to realize that it took Virgin and Paula Abdul six full seasons of American Idol to capitalize on her resurgence of fame, but they finally got around to exploiting her back catalog with the release of the 18-track Greatest Hits: Straight Up! in May 2007, just as the sixth season was about to draw to a close.

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