Promise of a Thin Me - Paula Abdul Parody

Here is a parody video from In Living Color of Paula Abdul's song "Promise of a New Day". Poked fun at the fact that the real video is stretched vertically. As far as I know, this video has been removed from future broadcasts of the show, and does not appear on the DVD sets.

Sorry in advance for the low volume.

Lyrics:
My thighs are spreading
and my butt is real wide
Can't disguise it
Got nowhere to hide

How can I look skinny?
Promise of a thin me
(Promise) Promise of a thin me

They've stretched my body
and they've shrunken my hips
They do this to Wilson Phillips

How do I look skinny?
Promise of a thin me
(Promise) Promise of a thin me

My voice is bad
and my singing's a joke
Still make millions
off of Diet Coke

How do I sing on key?
Other's do it with me
I give them a large fee

I cheered the Lakers
and taught Janet to dance
Then got into
Arsenio's pants

I'm on MTV
Connections didn't hurt me
(Promise) Promise of a rich me
(Promise) Promise of a thin me...

Category:

Comedy

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• abdul
• parody
• promise
• of
• a
• new
• day
• thin
• me
• in
• living
• color
• song

[videodude23]

OMG! I REMEMBER THIS SSHIT AS A KID!

I REMEMBERED THAT PART....

"My voice is BAAAD,and my singin's a Joke

Still Make Millions Dringing Diet Coke

How Do I Sing On Key,Others Do It With Me

I Give Them a Large Fee" LOL!

[ZiggyStarletJones]

Come ON, i'm only 15 and i kno in living color!

[Disbelieverful]

Paula Abdul wasn't even fat in this video. I don't get it.

[quaquaquaa]

@cnote4461 no, it's because the real video for this song had a bunch of weird camera effects to digitally slim everyone involved. i actually haven't seen this in 20 years -- i just googled "promise of a thin me" and found it right away. guess good parodies never leave your brain!

[VolumeSearcher]

@missjanet88 I'll agree J Lo has great dance moves, but you can thank autotune for her singing voice. Plus most of her music is filler. For example, she did a bad cover of Carly Simon's "You Belong to Me." Anita Baker's version is arguably the best. Unlike J Lo, Anita is known for her soothing, velvety voice as well as her timeless 40+ hit contributions to the music world. Recording albums of nothing but bland, uninspired, generic pop tunes does not a diva make. Anita is a diva, J Lo is not.

[cnote4461]

when this video actually came out - paula had picked up some wieght for a minute - ...and she did get a little "wide" in the hips....thats where this parody came from.

[pk33617]

@ScienceProjek I think you had to be at least @ 16 or so in 1990 to 'get it'

[DarkoTales]

LOL its great =)

[kevness2112]

@btchnotme Oh, I didnt know that, I just remember seeing something on tv about her when I was like 7 or 8 about her eating disorder. So I just put the two together when I saw the rerun of this when I was 13. My bad.

[btchnotme]

@kevness2112 Actually her eating disorder started when she was a teenager in ballet dance class. By the time this parody came out she was 29 or 30 so I was say no, this did not lead to her disorder. Probably didn't help but it did not start it.

[btchnotme]

@ladigirl Paula was huge from about 1989 to 1992, she was right up there with Janet, Madonna, Whitney and all the other folks from yesteryear.