With her thin voice and mad dance skills, Paula Abdul stomped onto the pop music scene in 1988, fresh from a stint as the Jacksons' choreographer. Her debut album was a smash success, eventually selling over 7 million copies in the U.S. and spawning four #1 hits, the second of which was its title track, "Forever Your Girl." A jaunty, joyful ode to love, the song sounds incredibly dated in this day and age, full of saxophone solos, tinkling xylophone scales and random cameos from an uncredited male vocalist. But charm can be a powerful guard against the wear of time, and "Girl" is brimming with it, from Abdul's squeaky enthusiasm to the climactic expressions of affection as the song draws to a close. It may be an '80s relic, but this one is forever a delight. A
23 years ago this week, "Forever Your Girl" was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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