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  • @kanaiboded

    Yeah, but there wasn't actually a lot of clothing there.

  • Wow she was really good, I wish she still made music!

  • This is why Paula's still got a rockin' body today!! That woman can dance!!! that tap dancing is insane!!! andddd not lip syncing :) suck it, haters! =D

  • LADY GAGA, MADONNA, AND BRITNEY WHO?!

  • Thtsvreally good!

  • and she had clothes on, unlike most wannabe-singers

  • dam she can dance

  • Back when the Video Music Awards were cool!

  • So hot and sexy

  • i think that she is amaizing that was a great lesson of how to do a perfect performance, she is an amaizing dancer i think she is the best PAULA please come back, oh i really wish that she would be with simon i think that the both will be a great parents maybe thats´s the reason why their relacionships has not work out maybe they are ment to be please paula have a baby

    she still can have a baby isn´t?

  • jlo who?

  • Great performer! I love her.

  • It's too bad that none of Paula's relationships have really worked out. :( She'd be an amazing mom.

  • she doesn't ageeessssss

  • Shut up about the lipsync shit already people ...who cares , the dancing alone is worth watching .....after seeing this , I think J. Cole sucks mammoth ass..he destroyed the song "straigh up"

  • I will always love watching the lady dance, but the extra dancers here are nothing but clutter, and the camera work in capturing her moves is pitiful.

  • You can bet the life/health insurers were sweating there bollacks when Paula went down that zip line then twirled up into the air. Paula is awsome.

  • omg this video is the reason she will remain one of the greatest performers ever!!

    each song brought something different. i loved this.

    go Paula i wish she would do a tour of all of her greatest hits!

  • WHY I LOVEE HER!!! <3

  • omg... paula was a singer? wow... did not know that.

  • Gatta love Paula she was amazing here and she still is

  • Thats where J.Cole got that shit from...

    Woooooow .

  • She was at her peak!! Paula, release a new album, please. 

  • she can dance no matter what

  • lucky kids

  • i see janet jackson "if" chorography at 4:20

  • @Sharonda242 I'm pretty sure that's because Paula choreographed it. :P

  • Incredible! And can I just say at about 3:06 my legs totally would have given out lol!

  • amazing performance, amazing dancing.

  • To this day that performance is bad ass and it's my favorite live performance from an artist((ok only second to MJ's performances,I'm sure Paula won't be mad about that. He was her favorite))

  • little kids love paula

  • Paula had it . Sometime you forget

  • 100% rhythmic! I love her dance at 1:11 -1:14.

  • I'm stunned by her incredible dancing!!!

  • My cousin Rocky is On Bass Kickin It

  • very good performance.. this is the first time i see paula performing and i like it so much... =)

  • This was classic plain and simple

  • I'd say Paula and Mya Harrison are the best of the best in perfomance tallent

  • I have yet to see Paula sing live on any TV show. She lip synch's every time.

  • @yandrsupreme Paula was singing LIVE during this performance. Do you need a list of performances where she sings live? I'm willing to tell you!

  • is that arsenio hall .oh paula you never disappoint (=

  • great performance

  • paula is dancin her ass off!!!!! :)

  • @DANCEABILITY251 did u know pebbles singing the back vocals on the album for cold hearted....

  • Miss Abdul CAN Sing Live & Werq It on Out !

    Go head Girl

  • @spellbound008 dam her & Lisa Lisa songs reminds me of each other......

  • I don't care what anyone thinks! Paula Abdul is a talented singer, choreographer, producer, actress, you name it! And no one, I repeat no one, has the right to talk about her badly. Whether she used computerized stuff or what, it doesn't matter to me. She has PURE talent! Not like Miley, Shakira, or Britney! Yeah, I'm like, 12, but who the hell cares?! Your age shouldn't judge whether you can tell if someone has talent. And SHE, HAS TALENT! So forget all yall haters. I love her!

  • Paula won this, give credit where credit is due.

  • the beginning was awesome

  • nobody has performances like this anymore...this is entertaining and interesting to watch,not a single dull moment in it

  • she's lip syncing a pre recorded performance so it sounds real.... sigh... fail pop stars with no singing talent.

  • @s33thr3w i think you may be right.

  • IT'S THE MEDLEY OF MY PUREST DREAMS!!!!!!

  • Why her and MJ never made a video 2qether..i will never know:/ ..smh

  • Love her forever!!!

  • She is untouchable when it comes to dancing.

  • i loved the ending :)

  • God. She sings live (and sounds MUCH better than most live singers of today) and dances her ass off, all while in heels. She is fierce and I love her so much. One of the biggest pop icons, and even if you don't like her, you can't deny her oozing talent. One of a kind. =) She's sweet, too; the ending was the best!

  • @MarryXMeXBuryXMe She's lip syncing throughout the entire number. Perhaps you're too young to remember but Paul Abdul was considered commercialized fluff back in the day. Everything from her breast to her nose is fake (she had an enormous beaker) and she was one of the first vocalists to use electronics to enhance her flat vocals. She was a corporate image who couldn't write, play or produce her own music (sorta like AI contestants). The only ppl who were interested were teenage girls

  • @ritter89 That's great, but I really don't care what society considered her. When I watch her performances I see talent and that's all that matters. And Paula had a nose job back before she was famous-- probably some facelifts, too, but other than that I don't think anything about her is fake. Oh, and by the way, she choreographed for the Jacksons-- so I'm pretty sure she COULD produce her own music. Just because I'm young doesn't mean I can't think she's talented.

  • @MarryXMeXBuryXMe fuck you she never coreograph for michael jackson. michael jackson was cheated in 1989 best dance video when he lost to paula abduls video that is call straight up everybody was shocked when smooth criminal lost to straight up, straight up was a very bad and boring song no dancing at all

  • @manche44 Ummm. I said the Jacksons? And actually, she did. Before she was even famous she choreographed for their Victory Tour, and Michael put her in the background of a few of his videos. Please do your research before telling me fuck you. It doesn't help your argument at all.

  • @MarryXMeXBuryXMe which video's of michael's was she in btw? i know she choreographed the victory tour and they worked together on many occasions, but i've never spotted her in his videos. then again i wasn't looking for her...

  • @padfoot92 She was in the background of Liberian Girl-- if you rewatch the video she even does the count off in the beginning, as a tribute to her choreography for them behind the scenes. She is also a background dancer in another video-- I forgot the name of it, regrettably, but I'll let you know if I ever find it.

  • @ritter89 Paula's true talent is her choreography--she is a great dancer & dance teacher. She can sing, but it's believed that Paula's vocals were laced with another's singers vocals--not lipsyncing but how the industry used Mariah Carey early in her career by adding her voice to a less powerful singer's voice to enhance the sound. Kinda how auto-tune hides weak singers now, but real singing. Anywho, Paula won a court case to prove she did sing the majority vocals on her album--but enhanced.

  • @ritter89 WHO CARES??? The show was just great...SHE IS GREAT!!!

  • @ritter89 WHO CARES??? The show was just great...SHE IS GREAT!!!...THIS IS ENTERTAINMENT!!!

  • DAMN PAULA!!!

  • Amazing. Paula is so talented and beautiful its unbelievable.

    This is back when we had "REAL" pop singers with "REAL" talent unlike today.

    There isint one pop singer on the Billboard Hot 100 right now that could follow Paula, in 1989 or today, i bet any amount of money on it.

    Real talent will ALWAYS win in the end.

  • I've been watching her on youtube recently. And she really was the first with stage props! 

  • Wow she is dancing and singing live. She puts this generation to shame. I miss 80's music and the early 90's and 00's. I was born in 89 I missed this legendary performance

  • All while in heels!

  • what a dance <3

  • i wasn't even born yet. but now she is the most important person in my life & i love her SO much! this performance is AMAZING. Honestly, when she was first tap dancing on the ledge thing, i instantly got goosebumps & i will admit, i teared up a bit. lol. Paula is the most amazing woman on the planet. she is the most amazing dancer & choreographer. lol i will also admit... i full on cried as soon as she started singing "Forever Your Girl" ... that song just really gets me. lol. LOVE HER!

  • I was 17 but not know much about American music that but when I turned 20 she was one of my best musical lady

  • i was 12 back then ... she was very famous back then

  • Great dancer and a strong girl too.

  • wow...nice,,,,great performance...

  • Thank you so much for sharing this. This is why we loved Paula!

  • wow i was about 16 when this came out

  • topped it how? by coming out with a snake around her while wearing a flesh colored bodysuit? oh yeh thats creativity and fine dancing skills.

  • music now sucks.

  • I can see where Janet got parts of her "If" routine from in the Straight Up performance.

  • No doubt she is a fantastic dancer but all those recorded taps were not coming from her feet!

  • more talent than Miley Cyrus ... Paula is the real deal she can sing and dance also has acted in other things too

  • No one will argue that she's a lot better than Britney, and what I like about her a lot is the way she dressed on the safe side but still look gorgeous and sexy!!!

  • This is the Paula I will always love and remember!!! She was my IDOL back then! I was 10 when this aired. :)

  • P.S. ... now that I look at this, its pretty obvious to me that she's singing here. Heard the album enough times to know the subtle changes she's making.

  • I totally support lip syncing when there is dancing like this. But if you're just standing there, bouncing around, for Pete's sake! There's no excuse for it! This is one of those times where its okay. It was cool for MJ to do it too. But seriously, there are only a hand full of people who get a pass to do it.

  • ok diegolcl...what's that suppose to mean? Seriously, they are making the same steps...it's called choreography!

  • she can dance

  • Man, that was nice, the coreography is very much like an architecture, not just a bunch of dancers behind her making the same steps (Hello, Janet lol)

  • I love Paula but if yoy look at her most recentr performances and are objective, you can tell she can't dance like she used too. She can dance but her moves are a lor looser and she doesn't dance much. Of course that's probably because of her back and whatnot

  • @DaxShaw and then again this was the 80s when she was what 20somthing now shes like forty somthing

  • Mya remindz me so much of her..... minus the #1 hitz. :(

  • Emilio Estevez (Sheen Jr.) is an idiot letting her go

  • I wish that I was alive during this times. :| It sucks that I didn't get to watch this LIVE. DAYUMN, she's so awesome.. I bet my life that nobody can top this now, UGGHH, I hate the music being produced right now, they ALWAYS talk about either sex or Drugs... EWW. and that came from a 15 yr old girl..

  • these songs go deep.. u can hear it always and its make u feel real good.. not like these worthless music we have nowadays nobody will remember.. actually real pop died.. Paula Abdul had a relative short successfull music career but she was definitely one of the best pop acts.. I give her my credits

  • I categorize her a performer and not a singer. Her goal is to entertain. Anyway Lip Syncing is a form of art and I don't know why people disapprove of this technique when it seems logical when one dances.

  • @unholyedsoul I know where you are coming from but i would not go to a queen concert if I knew that they were lip syncing. I go for Freddy's amazing voice and bands talent.

  • I'm making a Paula video and I'd really love to use this footage. Would you mind if I used it?

  • it's fantastical! WHERE her first tour? Paula Abdul to create wonder!

    i need to see Paula's first tour on a Club MTV tour - greatest performances from Paula Abdul forever! But my search = 0, just zero:(( Why Paula Abdul without this concert (first tour) on DVD or VHS?((( Where may to get it, to buy it?

  • LOVE HER!!!!

  • She sort of looks like Cruella (sp?) DeVille :P

  • The BEST PERFORMANCE!

  • the steps in coldhearted though sexy were really done in good taste.. makes you appreciate it a little bit more than the video itself... :D

  • britney's dance moves are very similar to hers.

  • I hope that she finds peace and rest, in this life.

  • Nobody can perform like this now! Absolute classic

    Love you Paula

  • @nickbfly totally agree!!

  • This was beyond Amazing!!! Paula's just amazing...so talented!! God Bless Her! <3

  • Paula needs to loose the losers, and Marry me...I swear to everyone that I would treat her like the true queen that she is!!!!!

  • I SWEAR she's lip sincing i can tell !!!

  • @90sStyle no she's not. this is one of the ones she had the courage to do LIVE. believe me.

    she was definitely proving herself with this one

  • @Lipscombe23 Agreed- If she wasn't singing the people in front

    would be able to tell. They would not be dance and jumping up and down

    if they could not her singing. Get a grip people!

  • @43slade exactly. you can hear the differences CLEARLY while she was SINGING all the song. all you have to do is listen to the origianl songs and then listen to this LIVE performance. Paula wanted to make a statement and she did by singing abd dancing at the SAME TIME

  • Well... She's "Dancing Queen" & "Queen Of Pop" sheerly accurately.

    God, thanks You!

  • whoa . really rocks.

  • Look how amazing she was..

  • paula killin it..

  • wow...i've been try'n to find this video clip for ages. I'm an avid fan of Paula's loved her style of dance...everyone had a dream, mine was to dance like this woman...she will always be my idol...thank you antcar 1375 for let'n me relive my dream again...awesome mate!!!

  • I'm mainly a hard rock and metal fan, but have no problem admitting i have a huge thing for paula and her music

  • she was the hottest thing in the music business at this point.

    too bad her music career faded in the late 90's.

  • i would luv to butter her muffin & her croissant ! shes fucking sexy

  • amazing i still listen to her lyk OLD songs and They never get old .... u idiots out there who say that she don't have talent obviously live n a bubble ... she is obviously singing live :)

  • haha paula got hung up and twisted on the rope, and almost failed to lip sync with the music.

  • that is on one level to Michael Jackson and far above Titney Spears. Great!

  • buenazo solo lo vi una vez y despues de tantos años que chevere gracias

  • love the tap dancing

  • I would've passed out after seeing her live. She was iconic. It's a shame she didn't sing that well and the nineties was full of crappy music. She would've been a hit nowadays with her acts.

  • @qarlosjo -

    I believe you've contradicted yourself. You say it's too bad Paula didn't sing well but that she'd be a hit today.

    No - today is not crappy voice time. People have to sing - too many good singers to tolerate crappy singers.

    Here's the real point, though. Paula was a HIT - THEN!

    You ain't know?

  • Dude, girl, whatever you are. It was just a comment. Go get a life.

  • she wasnt really tapping to the song...but still the performance was the $hit!!!

  • because she doesnt have time to change her shoes .... thats why

  • okay then........guess i was just thinking out loud....I just actually NOTICED she wasn't really tapping to the song...... ;-)

  • but she never had time to switch shoes to tapp and dance pop

  • @ThePaulaAbdulfan: Chances are, they just had it recorded, or she faked it haha. Either way, spot on XD

  • @Meakx she is singing live .. her voice is shaky HELLO?!

  • @ThePaulaAbdulfan HAHA no I know, you said shoes, therefore I wasn't responding to voice. HELLO?!

  • how do u guys know she passed out?

  • she passed out after this performance backstage

  • its ridiculous she had to pass out backstage after all that

  • she is mor eof a dancer than a singer....performances like these really dispaly her talent for dance (she did the choreography for this number)

    She is perhaps onece of the greatest choreographers of modern times (she did choreography for The Jackson tours and Prince tours, and she also worked with Janet in her early videos)

  • how is she not panting...?

    holy crap

  • i remember this, omg I saw it live

  • awee omg dominic lucero!! <3 <3 <3 :)

    love him.. rip

  • I love love her choreo, it's clean :) ugh. too bad i wasn't born yet at that time. I would love to see it live. :D

  • It's a mix of singing live and over a track.... It's like watching a really great choreographer try to sing and dance.

  • Awesome performance. And she's singing live. :)

  • You're an idiot. This isn't even close to the original or the remix/dance version.  She's not lip-syncing...you can tell by the tremor you sometimes hear in her voice while she's dancing.

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  • This is my favourite performance ever!

  • @Managydja Mine too! I love this song!!

  • Paula was singing live... she found a way to dance and SING at the same time... this is rare for her, but she did a GREAT JOB

  • She is possibly one of the best dancers of her time.

  • yeah she's great!!!

  • @43slade best performer of her time, best female dancer and performer of all time, Paula Abdul is one of a kind, there would never be anyone close to her talent and charisma

  • @pumpdaddythe1st I could not agree more. She is an icon.

  • Just noticed the microphone switcing hands. I've seen this performance before but never caught it.

    When Paula is singing Cold Heartet snake, she hands the microphone to one of the dancers at 4:25, just before she's about to dance with the male dancers.

    Then at 4:58 she gets it back from a female dancer when she's about to sing again.

    It's just like it seems so effortless but I'm sure they have put a lot of work into it. So many things could have went wrong.

  • she was not singing at that time and needed her hands to dance whats so wrong with that?

  • and she was singing live wither u like it or not :)

  • Hey, I'm not at any point saying that there's anything wrong about it. I'm just pointing out that I'm impressed by how professionally and effortlessly the microphone were swiching hands so that you barely notice it.

    And I didn't say that she's not singing live, not at any moment did I imply that. It would only be a hindrance for her to hold it while dancing.

    I'm sorry if I didn't express myself clearly. I'm a big fan of Paula

  • ohh i thought u meant effortlessly like she didn't try to do good or something im srry lmao :D

  • Lol,paula is great,shes one of my FaV

  • man the 80s were so awsome, and i was born in '91.

  • One of her best performances!

  • One Classy Woman

  • AMAZING ....love it =D

  • she has great hip,legs & a very cute ass