Forever Your Girl (song)
Forever Your Girl is a pop / R & B song by the American singer Paula Abdul from the year 1989. The song was written and produced by Oliver Leiber.
The song was released in the spring of 1989 as a single, but was released in mid- 1988 on the eponymous album. The piece is 4:57 minutes in the single version 4:15 minutes and the album version. The single occupied in May 1989, two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Abdul's second number -one hit. The title was awarded in the U.S. for more than half a million units sold with gold.
History
The song is about a loving relationship. The female protagonist and singer sings: Despite the rumors that others may be interested in me, I do not mind it and consider myself only to my dear faithful husband. So it remains "forever be Girl (girl, woman). " The single version is slightly different from the album version, as in the single version a male voice is used as backing vocals and a somewhat modified instrumentation used.
The song was a part of the medley that Abdul sang at the MTV Video Music Awards 1989.
Music Video
The Director for Music Video by David Fincher, it shows Paula Abdul as an actress, dancer, choreographer and as head of a children's dance group ( of the 7 -year-old Trevor Wright, of the 8 -year-old Elijah Wood and the 10 -year-old Nikki Cox ), they considered themselves the performance. It was Woods 's first appearance. The Forever Your Girl video spent two weeks at # 1 on the MTV charts.
The music video became a hit on MTV and made Paula Abdul known for their kitschy, controversial, dance music videos, with their own elaborate choreography. The video is an allusion to Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love music video, there were five female dressed women can be seen ( black dresses, red lipstick, white makeup and stylish hair styles ) that women played in Palmers Video guitars, keyboards and drums.
Commercial success
Forever Your Girl spent in May 1989, two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, in Canada, the single was also Paula's second number -one hit in 1989, in the UK the single reached number 24 of the UK Singles Chart and in Germany Course 17 of the Media Control Charts.