Cold Hearted
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| "Cold Hearted" | ||
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| Single by Paula Abdul | ||
| from the album Forever Your Girl | ||
| Released | 1989 | |
| Recorded | 1988 | |
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| Label | Virgin Records America | |
| Certification | 1x Platinum | |
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| Paula Abdul singles chronology | ||
| "Forever Your Girl" (1989) |
"Cold Hearted" (1989) |
"(It's Just) the Way That You Love Me" (re-release) (1989) |
"Cold Hearted" was a single from Paula Abdul's album Forever Your Girl. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1989, becoming the album's third song to top the U.S. pop chart. "Cold Hearted" became one of Abdul's best known songs for its then street wise lyrics and provocative music video.
The video for "Cold Hearted" was inspired from Bob Fosse's Erotica dance sequence from the movie All That Jazz. In the video, Abdul dances for music executives with a group of semi-nude dancers. The dance floor includes scaffolding where Abdul and her dancers hang and grind. Abdul's choreography for this video was very sexual and intricate, and showed a naughty side of Abdul. The video was directed by David Fincher and spent more three weeks on top of MTV's video rotation list.
[edit] Charts
"Cold Hearted" peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 for one week. It became one of the biggest hits of the year and it was ranked sixth in the Top 100 hits of 1989. The single debuted at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart the week of June 24, 1989, quickly leaping into the Top 40 to #36, by the week of July 8, 1989. The single was one of the top dance pop hits of the Summer of 1989, ending Richard Marx's three week run at the summit with "Right Here Waiting" the week of September 2, 1989. The single was slow to descend from the chart, spending a total of 8 weeks (2 months) in the Billboard Top 10.
| Preceded by "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single September 2, 1989 |
Succeeded by "Hangin' Tough" by New Kids On The Block |
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