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I was having some trouble falling asleep shortly after Daylight Savings Time, so I reached for my iPhone to listen to some mellow music that wouldn't shake any sleep out of me. I ended up listening to "Rush, Rush" by Paula Abdul, which turned into listening to a Pandora station based on "Rush, Rush," which is a station I highly recommend if you're into late '80s/early '90s pop music. It didn't exactly help me fall asleep, though, so I wouldn't recommend the station for that purpose.

Growing up, the only contexts I knew Paula Abdul in were that she was a) a joke of a singer back in the late '80s/early '90s, b) a former Lakers girl, and c) a judge on "American Idol". She and her song "Straight Up" were in practically every VH1 special about the '80s. (And I probably watched them all.)

Turns out I had been exposed to more Paula Abdul than I knew growing up ... thanks to my favorite television show as a preteen, "Kids, Incorporated," I actually knew all the words to Paula's song "The Promise Of A New Day." And by the time I got around to hearing "Rush, Rush" for the first time, I realized that maybe Paula hadn't been the best singer, but her music really wasn't as bad as it'd been made out to be.