Abdul peaked early, with all of her biggest and best hits arriving on her 1988 debut, Forever Your Girl, which contained "Forever Your Girl," "Straight Up," "Cold Hearted," "The Way You Love Me," "Knocked Out," and "Opposites Attact," all of which are here, along with "One or the Other," also featured here. Of these, not all of them are huge hits and some aren't even that familiar.
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It is what it says it is: a collection of her greatest hits, all 13 of her Billboard charting singles, plus five other album tracks.
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Farewell message: "Be cool, Be nice, Be you.It's kind of shocking to realize that it took Virgin and Paula Abdul six full seasons of American Idol to capitalize on her resurgence of fame, but they finally got around to exploiting her back catalog with the release of the 18-track Greatest Hits: Straight Up! in May 2007, just as the sixth season was about to draw to a close.Lip Synch Song: "Vibeology" by Paula Abdul.Main Challenge Prize: Wig wardrobe from Outfiters Wig and a one-year haircare supply from Aquage.Main Challenge: Guest hosting The RuPaul Show and interviewing celebrity guests.Mini-Challenge: "Hung Men" hangman challenge.Guest Judges: Chaz Bono, Georgia Holt & Paula Abdul.Although both queens performed well, Ru saved Adore whilst asking Trinity to sashay away, but not before praising her for her progress during the competition. On the other hand, DeLa was praised for stepping away from her character, becoming more endearing and doing her research, Ru declared Courtney the winner of the challenge for her strong performance.Īdore and Trinity were named as the bottom two and performed a high-energy lip-sync to "Vibeology" by Paula Abdul. However, the judges criticized her outfit choice again.īoth Darienne and Bianca received mixed feedback, with Bianca noting her problems with time-keeping and Darienne being surprised when called out for her nerves during the challenge. Joslyn became emotional when being confronted about her inappropriate questions and her heartfelt apology was appreciated by Georgia, who praised her performance before then. Trinity also was called out for being nervous and calling Chaz the wrong name, when she was calling him Chad, but her outfit received acclaim. During the judges critiques, both Adore's outfit and her interview were criticized. Joslyn was the last to interview and started strong before making Georgia uncomfortable by asking very personal questions.įor their main stage presentation, the queens were asked to channel their inner "animal". Like Courtney, DeLa performed well in the interview, notably by combining both parts of her character and her own personality and doing her research. Darienne also struggled with nerves but her fun personality carried her through. On the other hand, after asking Ru for advice earlier in the workroom, Courtney focused on being friendly and approachable which led her to give a charming and well done interview. Trinity interviewed next and also struggled, forgetting Chaz Bono's name and asking irrelevant questions. Bianca gave a good interview but focused solely on Chaz and ran out of time before she could ask Georgia any questions. season 6's very own Adore Delano.ĭuring the main challenge, Adore's nerves got the better of her and she stumbled over her questions several times. The episode reunites Paula and "Idol" season 7 contestant Danny Noriega, a.k.a. This episode’s challenge involved the queens channeling their inner talk show host by guest-hosting The RuPaul Show and interviewing Chaz Bono and Georgia Holt. Paula Abdul appears in Episode Nine: “Drag Queens of Talk” which aired April 14, 2014. Fellow guest judges also included Chaz Bono and his grandmother (Cher's mom) Georgia Holt.
Paula Abdul joined the legendary RuPaul, Michelle Visage and "Project Runway" designer Santino Rice on the judges' panel as the queens head down the runway. Like the fifth season, the 6th season features 14 contestants competing for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar".įor the first time in the show's history, the season premiere was split into two episodes the fourteen queens are split into two groups and compete against each other before being united as one group for the third episode. The sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing Februon LOGO TV.