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"Why doesn't Paula sing anymore"
Posted by mesha on 03-13-06 at 00:37 AM
What happened with Paula's singing career? I forget what songs she used to sing , its been so long.
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"RE: Why doesn't Paula sing anymore"
Posted by Snidget on 03-13-06 at 05:54 AM
Well first it is unusual for people to actually keep singing for several decades although a few people do manage to do it

Second check out this http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1500556/20050421/story.jhtml about the pain she has been in. That was a big part of why she dropped out of making music when she did.


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"RE: Why doesn't Paula sing anymore"
Posted by prosecutor on 03-13-06 at 10:32 AM
so Ms.abdul reads the message boards huh?
Paula I think people were also referring to the
fact that when the contestants got up to sing, you
turn to Simon and start talking. That's the disrespect
that we see on camera.
"Because she NEVER could"
Posted by CattyChat on 03-14-06 at 11:00 AM
The thing with Paula was that she was more the entertainer than singer. She could dance & choreograph and with synthesized vocals & background singers she had a few hits back in the day. People like her don't have any real longevity in the music industry, because people realize that it's all smoke & mirrors.

Not to knock her or anything, I had one of her CDs back in the 80s, but she just isn't someone who I would classify as a true singer. Just good dance/party music when you're young.


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"RE: Because she NEVER could"
Posted by forlorn73 on 03-15-06 at 00:30 AM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080040
"RE: Why doesn't Paula sing anymore-VERY LONGGGGG"
Posted by FOXmePUHLEEZ on 03-16-06 at 04:49 PM
LAST EDITED ON 03-16-06 AT 04:52 PM (EST)

It seems her ACUTE pain is not only physical, but also emotional. I knew back in the day when the Wayans made fun of her and Arsenio Hall got mad at them because she is his friend and the Wayans made her cry that her longevity would be cut short in the business.

And I wish her shell were tougher. She is a beauty and a talent. Her voice has great clarity and she could still help our world with her voice, or by instructing our youth with her own dance company. Or just by being Paula -- as she does on IDOL.

When great talents (and I think she is one. she is a cute, great American package) get their feelings hurt and take their toys and go home, we all suffer, IMO.

When Ellen Degeneres came out and then had to go back in because she ended up in a series of bad feelings and was hurt ... she left us without her radiant smile, her comedy, her gift. When she came back, with that self-confidence and that smile and humor again, I said .... "WHEW. We almost LOST that one, Lord."

I will always be thankful to Oprah. When the Wayans made fun of Paula in a dance routine, they made fun of Oprah in sketch where she ate and cried about people's problems and ate and ate until she blew up.

Oprah kept going and later had the Wayans on her show. And she kept on giving her gift to the world in the interim. I am grateful for that.

Paula should not let critics and what some people think of her take her away from that part of the public that needs her gift.

I have stepped off my soap box and I apologize for this dissertation.