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Paula-Abdul.net Has Relaunched!

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Dear Fans and Friends, I am pleased to announce the launch of the brand new, redesigned Paula-Abdul.net .  This launch culminates my vision of a building a comprehensive Paula Abdul web site that was built by the fans, for the fans. Paula-Abdul.net continues to this day and, for the last 17 years, to be the largest Paula Abdul web site on the Internet. I started building my Paula Abdul web site in 1997 because I didn’t like having to visit multiple web sites to get current information on Paula’s various projects. Based on a bet from my brother that I would never learn HTML, I picked up a book and used my love of Paula Abdul’s music as my inspiration for learning how to build a web site. I figured if I could indirectly help create more interest in Paula Abdul and her music, and thereby help sell more records, she may be able to release more music which I enjoy. Flash forward two years and in the fall of 1999 I received a call from Keith Lewis (Music Producer on “Cardio D

Kylie Minogue Kiss Me Once Album Review

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Kiss Me Once is the 12th studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It was released March 18 2014, and is her first studio album release since Aphrodite (2010), and first album under the management of Jay Z's Roc Nation. The first song and first single "Into the Blue" was written by Kelly Sheehan, Mike Del Rio and Jacob Kasher. The song incorporates instrumentation from strings, guitars and synthesizers; as well as being generalized as part of the electronic dance music genre. If you know anything about my critiques of music, you’ll know that I believe the first single released is the most important release of an album so it’s very important for the record label to get the first single right.  As with most of Kylie’s singles – the label once again picked the wrong song to use as the first single for the album. Parlophone had it right with “Spinning Around” as the first single from the “Light Years” album and “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” from her