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Paula Abdul Found Artistic Growth and Maturity with ‘Spellbound’
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Paula Abdul Found Artistic Growth and Maturity with ‘Spellbound’

By
​Peter Piatkowski
/ 24 May 2023

Paula Abdul confounded her critics with Spellbound, looking to expand pop hooks and catchy melodies with more esoteric sounds to festoon her state-of-the-art dance-pop.

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