Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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Paula Abdul

  • Forever Your Girl [Virgin, 1988] C
  • Spellbound [Virgin, 1991] Dud

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Forever Your Girl [Virgin, 1988]
If Debbie Gibson already has platinum imitators, there's more to the world than is dreamt of in Madonna's philosophy. This unthreateningly dusky disco-dolly-next-door plays the field romantic-metaphorwise, with a weakness for can't-help-myself. She's less imitator than imitation, short on tokens of self-creation--her only writing credit is also the only time she threatens to play around. C

Spellbound [Virgin, 1991] Dud