With the music video inspired by the scene from Anchors Aweigh when Gene Kelly dances with the cartoon mouse from Tom and Jerry, the lead single, “Opposites Attract,” from the debut album of Paula Abdul, Forever Your Girl, rose to number one and number two on the US and UK charts respectively on this day in 1990. 
The rotoscoped, animated feline character (a collaboration of both Disney and Warner Brothers studios) was voiced by the duo the Wild Pair with an addition rap bridge performed by Derrick “Delite” Stevens would go on to win that year’s MTV Music Award for Breakthrough Video and garnered a Grammy in 1991. MC Skat Kat and the Stray Mob went on briefly with a musical career, featuring Abdul in another video, “Skat Strut” and were spokespeople (along with Melba Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Bette Midler, et al) for a recycling campaign, “Yakety Yak - Take it Back!”
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synchronoptica
one year ago: a latter day prophet of peace (with synchronopticæ), assorted links worth revisiting plus The Ugly American
twelve years ago: Swiss vote on immigration policy
thirteen years ago: pharmaceutical vocabulary plus more on Germany’s renewable revolution
fourteen years ago: splintered support for EU IP bill
fifteen years ago: stock market mergers
sixteen years ago: elections in Ukraine
seventeen years ago: stimulants and sedatives
