Paula Abdul - Straight Up (Official Music Video)
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The song also received positive reviews from music critics, with Daniel J. Levitin's This Is Your Brain on Music praising it as "hold[ing] a certain appeal over many, many listenings." It also earned Abdul several award nominations in the US, most notably including her first Grammy nomination in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1990, and six other nominations for its music video at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.
The song became so popular that it ascended up the charts before a music video had even been shot for the song. The black and white video, directed by David Fincher and choreographed by Abdul herself in mid-January 1989, won four 1989 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video, Best Editing, Best Choreography, and the first Best Dance Video. The video features an appearance by her friend, comedian Arsenio Hall, whose popular talk show had premiered a few weeks prior to the video shoot. Djimon Hounsou also appears. Released later that month, the video at the time went into very heavy rotation on MTV, helping further Abdul's popularity.
Nobody does dancing on scaffolding in fishnet stockings for music executives better than Paula Abdul did in "Cold-Hearted." The video, directed by future-"The Social Network" director David Fincher, is yet another example of Abdul's dance moves. (Side note: Does anybody else think Britney Spears totally ripped off the ending for her "Slave 4 U" video?)
Paula Abdul has danced with a cartoon cat, grinded on scaffolding, and seduced Keanu Reeves. So what better way to follow all of that up than by dancing in a "Lawrence of Arabia"-style music video, desert heat included?
These are broad definitions. Hip hop, jazz, tap they each have countless style permutations, but for the purposes of understanding how a music video is edited, I think rhythm and lyrical editing fit very well. Rhythm values editing to the hard beat, reflecting the pace and intensity of the music itself. Lyrical editing prioritizes the story; you edit to the timing the narrative demands.
Straight Up reached the Top 20 before a video had even been created. Despite there being a rush to get a video out, the black and white video (choreographed by Paul Adbul herself) managed to win four MTV video music awards. 781b155fdc