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Funny how when this song was first released I wasn't a big fan of it. Here decades later it's in my top 5 faves by Paula. It's playful and innovative for sure. The animated character is "MC Skat Cat" and it's vocals are provided by the Wild Pair, Bruce DeShazer and Marv Gunn. The rap intro was written and performed by Derrick Stevens.
There are actually 2 guys singing/rapping along with Paula. It’s a duo called the Wild Pair. The video is not from a movie, but was inspired by a movie from the ‘40s called Anchors Aweigh that starred Gene Kelly. He has a scene where he dances with Tom from Tom and Jerry.
This is probably one of my favorite Paula videos! You should also try “Jam” by Michael Jackson. It’s also mixed with animation .
She reacted to that song already... go and check it out on her channel 😄
A very magnetic reaction 👩🏼🧲🧔🏼♂! The song is about a couple who love each other despite being different in almost every way possible. I see 👁👁 you have reacted to Paula Abdul before: Straight Up and Forever Your Girl. Opposites Attract (Street Mix) was released as the sixth single from Paula Abdul's 1988 debut album: Forever Your Girl. It was written by Oliver Leiber, Romany Malco (Rap) and Derrick "Delite" Stevens (Rap). It was produced by Oliver Leiber. Derrick "Delite" Stevens performed the rap in the Street Mix version of song which was also used for the music video. It reached #1 on the Hot 100, #3 on the R&B chart, #24 on the Dance Club chart and #45 on the AC chart. It also peaked at #1 in Canada and Australia. It was certified Gold.
The music video was directed by Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger and Paula Abdul created the choreography for the music video. The music video featured The Wild Pair (Bruce DeShazer, Marv Gunn) as MC Skat Kat. The idea of MC Skat Kat came from the 1945 Gene Kelly film: Anchors Aweigh, where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry Mouse from the Tom and Jerry cartoon series. Paula Abdul even choreographed the animated character's moves to match her live-action dance moves in the music video. MC Skat Kat was animated by members of the Disney animation team, working outside the studio between major projects, under the direction of Chris Bailey. Michael Patterson told Songfacts: "Gene Kelly loved it; he was a friend of Paula's".
MC Skat Kat's movements were the result of rotoscoping animation, with Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers standing in for the character against a blue screen, then drawing the animated form over Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers' dance moves. The Wild Pair Marvin Gunn and Bruce DeShazer did not appear in the video, although two other animated cats did appear, possibly meant to represent them. The video won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and was nominated for Breakthrough Video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.
Oliver told Songfacts "My MPC60 had just shown up a day before, and that was supposed to be the new improved version of the Linn 9000. It was a brand new sequencer drum machine. I had programmed a two-bar groove bassline and drum part to learn the MPC60, nothing more. It was just like: Okay, let's program and, as we all do with new pieces of gear, sort of find your way around. So I had this groove sitting there, I could press play, and I had a bunch of titles that I had written down, because my car had broken down near a second-hand cheesy bookstore, and I had like four hours to kill. It was all just drug store novels, and I wrote down all these titles, because they were incredibly dramatic. It was like 'A Bloody Moon', or 'Midnight Mistress,' just really over the top. I had this list in front of me, and I had Gemma on the phone, I had the two-bar groove right there, and I winged it, to be very honest. One of the titles jumped out at me, and it was 'Opposites Attract.' I was like: 'You know, I've got this idea and it's 'Opposites Attract', and here's the groove', and I was pretty much tap dancing. But I played her the groove and I spun an idea that maybe it could be a duet, and here's the melody over it. She was like: 'Okay, that sounds great! I love it! How fast can you do it?'. Honestly, I probably could have said anything at that point, although in retrospect, when a record sells 15 million copies everybody comes out and tells how they A&R'd everything, but this was not a whole lot of A&Ring going on, to be quite honest. So I got the green light".
The song evolved into a duet with a cartoon cat named MC Skat Kat, who was actually the duo The Wild Pair (Bruce DeShazer, Marv Gunn). Oliver Leiber explains: "I wrote it all from the perspective of one person singing it. It wasn't initially a duet. It was saying: 'I like this and you like that'. It was basically: I like potatoes, and you like po-tah-toes, all from one singer's perspective. But I had these two singers I had been working with - Marvin Gunn and Tony Christian. They're the guys that sang on Prince's 1986 song: "Kiss", and they were incredibly Soulful Funky singers that I had been using as part of my sound on the first two tracks I did with Paula, helping to preserve the Minneapolis sound, because they sounded very Prince-y and it really added something to Paula's vocals.
So I came up with the idea to make this a duet with those guys. I had The Wild Pair - as they were called - sing the whole song, and I finished it first with them as a complete song with them singing every line. Paula couldn't come back to Minnesota, so I flew to LA with this, and in the studio with Paula figured out what lines she would sing. And because their lines were all sung and covered, we could pick and choose which ones made sense. I always had the answer line, because they had sung the whole song.
I was sort of embarrassed by the way that one came out. I was really sure that I had completely missed the mark. I almost sent that one in with an apology - literally. Like: 'I'm really sorry I let you down. I thought this was gonna be good'. It's how I felt when I handed it in, because I really was making it all up as I went along. You know, it was a two-bar groove, there are no changes, there's no beat section, so it's all in how you do it and how it's arranged. And it was such a struggle to do in some ways that by the end of the process I was more in touch with the struggle than I was with what the end product turned out to be. I couldn't even appreciate whether it was good or not. I was exhausted and a little bummed".
Listen to the remixed single compared with the album version of this song, and you'll hear very different instrumentation. Oliver Leiber explains why: "I second guessed that track so much, and when I came to LA, I got together with the keyboard player Jeff Lorber. I had him replace my bass line, my clavinet part, and my drum programming. So I had Lorber replace what I had done, because I had just totally lost confidence on it. So if you listen to the album version of 'Opposites Attract', that's with Jeff Lorber's replacement parts on some of what I did. So a year or so down the line when it's coming to be a single, they call me up and they ask me if I would do a remix for a single. Well, now that Paula was a huge star, I wasn't worried about all the things that I was worried about before this album came out, I kind of heard it with different ears. And when I put up the original tracks that I had done, I went: 'That's pretty good'. It was funkier and heavier and more open than what I ended up doing with Jeff. I love Jeff, and I basically forced him to play a bunch of parts that were in the style of a record he played on before. I was like: 'I love what you did on this record. Do this on 'Opposites'. It wasn't his fault. But when I put up the original tracks, I went: 'There's my remix'. And it was what I had originally done. So the single version that was a hit, that's my original track. It wasn't broken, I had just lost confidence in it".
Critical Reception 🗣:
Melody Maker commented, "Lovely, lovely Paula released her fourth American Number One. This kicks off with a smart little rap then Paula jumps in and tip-taps her way through sounding happy, naive and full of herself, like the homecoming queen out on her first real date. She can do no wrong. It must be love".
Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "For this release Abdul duets with the Wild Pair. The song also features a rap by Derrick 'Delite' and is, of course, very danceable".
A reviewer from People Magazine described it as one of "the liveliest cuts" from the album.
Song Credits 📝:
Paula Abdul - lead vocals
The Wild Pair (Bruce DeShazer and Marv Gunn) - lead vocals
Oliver Leiber - writer, producer, drum programming, keyboard, guitar
Jeff Lorber - additional drum programming
Yvette Marine - background vocals
Patti Brooks - background vocals
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Lyrics 🗒:
Baby, seems we never ever agree
You like the movies and I like TV
I take things serious and you take 'em light
I go to bed early and I party all night
Our friends are sayin' we ain't gonna last
'Cause I move slowly and baby, I'm fast
I like it quiet and I love to shout
But when we get together, it just all works out
I take two steps forward, I'll take two steps back
We come together 'cause opposites attract
And you know, it ain't fiction, just a natural fact
We come together 'cause opposites attract
Who would've thought we could be lovers?
She makes the bed and he steals the covers
She likes it neat and he makes a mess
I take it easy, baby, I get obsessed
She's got the money and he's always broke
I don't like cigarettes and I like to smoke
Things in common? There just ain't a one
But when we get together, we have nothin' but fun
I take two steps forward, I'll take two steps back
We come together 'cause opposites attract
And you know, it ain't fiction, just a natural fact
We come together 'cause opposites attract
Two steps forward, two steps back
We come together 'cause opposites attract
And you know, it ain't fiction, just a natural fact
We come together 'cause opposites attract
You know it, baby, baby
We come together
We come together
Baby, ain't it somethin' how we lasted this long?
You and me provin' everyone wrong
Don't think we'll ever get our differences patched
Don't really matter 'cause we're perfectly matched
I take two steps forward, I'll take two steps back
We come together 'cause opposites attract
And you know, it ain't fiction, just a natural fact
We come together 'cause opposites attract
Two steps forward, two steps back
We come together 'cause opposites attract
And you know, it ain't fiction, just a natural fact
We come together 'cause opposites attract
Two steps forward, two steps back
Two steps back
We come together 'cause opposites, opposites
It ain't fiction, you know it's a fact
It's a fact
We come together 'cause opposites, opposites
Two steps forward, two steps back
Two steps back
Opposites attract
We go together
We go together
'Cause opposites attract
Two steps forward, two steps back
Two steps back
'Cause opposites attract
We go together, we go together
Opposites, opposites, I said opposites attract
Paula Abdul Info 📰:
Paula Abdul was born on June 19, 1962 in San Fernando, California. She is a singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. The discography of American singer and dancer Paula Abdul consists of three studio albums, one remix album, five compilation albums, eight video albums, eighteen singles, and seven other appearances. Throughout her career, she has sold over 50 million records worldwide. Billboard listed her as the 92nd Greatest Artist of all Time. She is recognized as the reigning "Dance-Pop Princess" by the media while others says she is the original "Pop Princess" of her generation.
As an avid dancer, she was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the 1952 film: Singin' In The Rain. She began taking dance lessons at an early age in Ballet, Jazz, and Tap.
She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader and an honor student. At 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1978, appeared in the independent musical film: Junior High School. In 1980, she graduated from Van Nuys High School. She then studied broadcasting at California State University, Northridge. During her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team known as "The Laker Girls". Within a year, she became head choreographer. She remained with the Laker Girls until 1986.
Paula Abdul was discovered by The Jacksons during her time as a Laker Girl. She was signed to do the choreography for the video to their 1984 single: "Torture". She recalled feeling intimidated by having to tell The Jacksons how to dance, stating that she was "not quite sure how [she] got through that". She was subsequently was chosen to be the choreographer for The Jacksons' 1984 Victory tour. The success of the choreography in the music video and tour led to her career as choreographer of music videos, notably Janet Jackson's: "What Have You Done For Me Lately", "Nasty", "When I Think Of You" and "Control", music videos.
She also choreographed music videos and tours for other artists including: Kool & The Gang, ZZ Top, Toto, Duran Duran, The Pointer Sisters, Angela Winbush, Debbie Gipson, George Michael, Steve Winwood, Taylor Dayne, INXS and more.
After choreographing music videos for Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul became a choreographer at the height of the music video era and soon thereafter she was signed to Virgin Records. Her debut studio album: Forever Your Girl (1988) became one of the most successful debut albums at that time, selling seven million copies in the United States and setting a record for the most number-one singles from a debut album on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: "Straight Up", "Forever Your Girl", "Cold Hearted", and "Opposites Attract". Her second album: Spellbound (1991), scored her two more chart-toppers: "Rush Rush" and "The Promise Of A New Day". With six number-one singles on Hot 100, Paula Abdul tied Diana Ross for the third-most chart-toppers among female solo artists at the time.
Following a short musical hiatus while dealing with personal issues, Paula Abdul released her third and final album: Head Over Heels, in 1995. Three singles were released from the album: "My Love Is For Real", was the only Top 40 single from the album, peaking at number 28 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Dance Club chart. The following single: "Crazy Cool", peaked at number 58 on the Hot 100 and 313 on the Dance Club chart. The last single from the album: "Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up", reached number 12 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
Paula Abdul choreographed the giant keyboard dance scene involving Tom Hanks's character in the 1988 film: Big. Other films she received choreography credits on include: Private School (1983), Dragnet (1987), Can't Buy Me Love (1987), The Running Man (1987), Coming To America (1988), Action Jackson (1988), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), The Doors (1991), Jerry Maguire (1996), and American Beauty (1999).
She received 17 MTV Video Music Award nominations, winning five, as well as receiving the Grammy Award for Best Music Video for "Opposites Attract" in 1991. She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography twice for her work on The Tracey Ullman Show, and her own performance at the American Music Awards in 1990.
In 1991, Paula Abdul was honored with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, and is the first entertainer to be honored with the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards' Hall of Fame Award.
Paula Abdul was one of the original judges on the television series: American Idol, from 2002 to 2009, and has since appeared as a judge on The X Factor, Live To Dance, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars and The Masked Dancer.
She has appeared on a few television series as an actress including: The Muppets Mayhem (2023), Fresh Off The Boat (2017), All Of Us (2005), That's So Raven (2004),The Bernie Mac Show (2004), The Wayans Bros (1999), Sabrina The Teenage Witch (1999), Spin City (1998), Cybill (1996) and more.
In January 2009, Paula Abdul hosted: "RAH!", a cheerleading competition on MTV. "RAH!" featured five collegiate squads competing in a series of challenges with Paula Abdul crowning the winner.
In 2014, she received an "Icon" award from the Industry Dance Awards.
In 2023, Paula Abdul joined the producing team of the Broadway musical: How To Dance In Ohio. She also appeared as a contestant on a celebrity edition for Wheel Of Fortune
In 2023, the Hollywood Christmas Parade honored her as "Humanitarian of the Year".
Paula Abdul still performs her music live on stage in 2024.
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Miscellaneous Note 🗃:
After Paula Abdul's 1989 song and music video: "Straight Up", became a big hit, she went out on tour with some other popular MTV singing acts at the time on the 1989 Club MTV Tour. This was the very same tour where Milli Vanilli were caught lip-synching when their tape skipped during a show in Connecticut.
Tours And Residencies 🏟:
1. Headlining
Under My Spell Tour (1991-92)
Straight Up Paula! (2018-19)
2. Co-Headlining
Club MTV Live (1989)
Total Package Tour (2017)
Magic Summer Tour (2024)
3. Residency
Paula Abdul: Forever Your Girl (2019-20)
Paula Abdul Albums 📀:
Forever Your Girl (1988)
Shut Up And Dance: Mixes (1990)
Spellbound (1991)
Head Over Heels (1995)
Some more good songs by Paula Abdul 🎶: Rush Rush, (It's Just) The Way That You Love Me, I Need You, State Of Attraction, Cold Hearted, Good Night My Love (Pleasant Dreams), Vibeology, Next To You, Spellbound, One Or The Other, Alright Tonight, Dream Medley, Crazy Cool, Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up, Love Don't Come Easy, If I Were Your Girl, Cry For Me, Rock House, I Never Knew It, Highschool Crush, Sexy Thoughts, Under The Influence, My Love Is For Real, The Choice Is Yours, Get Your Groove On, It's All About Feeling Good, To You, Knocked Out, Ho-Down, Check Yourself, My Foolish Heart, Crazy Love, I'm Just Here For The Music, Bend Time Back Around, U, Dance Like There's No Tomorrow, Will You Marry Me?, Missing You, Blowing Kisses In The Wind, The Promise Of A New Day and Alright Tonight.
Fun Fact 🕵🏼♀: In the early 1990s, The Learning Channel aired a program for kids called: Beakman's World, starring Paul Zaloom. He taught kids about science through jokes and sometimes songs. To explain magnetism, he sampled Paula Abdul's 1988 single: "Opposites Attract", by using the song's title and parts of the melody.
So catchy ❤❤❤
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If you haven't already, you should check out "Torture" by the Jacksons. It a great song and Paula Abdul choreographed the video. Plus it also features someone moonwalking!
Derrick Delite is the voice of Mc Scat kat.