Jan 28 2008
This is the one with the ’80s Diva CD.
I was reading on PerezHilton.com about the newest Paula Abdul song, and I decided to do a little illegal downloading and to check it out for myself. I’d agree with Perez’s take:
It’s actually really good.
Shocking, right?
Sure, the vocals are manipulated beyond belief, but so are Britney’s!
The song sounds like something that should have been on Spears’ last album or Janet’s new one.
It’s called Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow. It premiered on Seacrets’s radio show, and it is bound to go to #1 for Abdul and Jackson on the club play charts.
They may even play this on the radio! It should be played. It’s better than a lot of the crap on radio right now.
When I was downloading some of Abdul’s stuff, I realized that there were quite a few really good Paula songs from the ’80s that I didn’t have in my collection. In fact, there were quite a few songs sung by 1980s Divas that weren’t in my collection.
Today I did some downloading and compiled what I would like to call “The Ultimate ’80s Diva Compilation.”
- Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
- Straight Up - Paula Abdul
- Opposites Attract - Paula Abdul
- Cold-hearted Snake - Paula Abdul
- Borderline - Madonna
- Like a Virgin - Madonna
- Material Girl - Madonna
- Dress You Up - Madonna
- Like a Prayer - Madonna
- Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
- Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
- I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
- What Have You Done For Me Lately? - Janet Jackson
- Escapade - Janet Jackson
- Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
- What’s Love Got To Do With It? - Tina Turner
- Rhythm is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estefan
- 1-2-3 - Gloria Estefan
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper- Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
- True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
I was tempted to add a little Debbie Gibson to this list; I consider her stuff to be a solid 80s sound, but I’m not too sure she fits the diva roll.
What did I miss?
Catching up on some tv.
I need you to share this with me. Excellent compilation.
I wonder if any of the YouTube searching for classic Whitney music videos on Saturday added to this Diva idea. :)
Oh, and imo, I don’t think Debbie Gibson qualifies.
How could you possibly forget Taylor Dane?! “With Every Beat of My Heart”, “I’ll Be Your Shelter”, and “Tell it to My Heart” are some iconic 80s Diva Tracks…
I’ve love to share some of the 80s music except there are two reasons:
1) I’m a pop culture failure for anything before 1995
2) I was born in ‘87.
I am a bit tempted to ask you to send this compilation along though…