And to have these two very successful producers basically say, 'Don't bother to come back,' she was not in a very confident place. She was devastated because she had confidence issues to begin with, knowing she wasn't the strongest singer. That was her first experience on this record, song number one that she recorded. No need to keep singing and no need to come back.
They had basically told her, 'You can't sing, you can go home, we're gonna finish this song without you.' Like, you suck, get outta here, we'll finish this somehow. Says Oliver: "Paula's first experience in the studio with a pair of hit producers that I won't mention, had been very, very discouraging.
Oliver did as instructed, and when Abdul flew to Minnesota to record her tracks, she had recorded just one song for the album: "Knocked Out," which was written and produced by the heavyweight team of LA Reid and Babyface. I guess I did a convincing enough job that it was legitimate, and they said, 'Work up the track, let us know when you're ready, and Paula will come out and do vocals.'" It was really funny, because I had done all this stuff on my bed – I lived in a bedroom, and I had done it all on a sequencer with a couple midi-keyboards and a DX7 synthesizer. I was completely unknown, and they wanted to see if I had a real studio to work in, so I got people to lend me a studio so it looked like I was really professional. They weren't 100% sure about who I was and if I was legitimate. Gemma and Paula flew out to Minnesota to kind of check me out. I produced this, right? And I said, 'Yes.' And that was the beginning of my involvement with Paula. She grilled me, asked me who I was, what did I do, where did I come from, and was I a producer? And up to that point I had never produced anything in my life other than my demos, but I thought to myself, Well, yeah, I'm a producer. In an interview with Oliver Leiber, he told Song Facts: "I got a frantic call from a very high-strung English lady named Gemma Corfield, who was head of A&R at Virgin Records. On a lunch break, Paula told Paul about her record deal and the sound she was looking for, and Peterson gave her a cassette with the demo of "(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me." Paula loved it, and Oliver got his big break. Paul" and was called to Los Angeles to make a video for his single "Rich Man," which was choreographed by - Paula Abdul. Oliver made a demo of the song and his friend Paul Peterson played on it. Thanks to Prince, Minnesota became a music mecca in the '80s, and that Funk sound was what Paula Abdul was after on her first album. “The Way That You Love Me” was written by Oliver Leiber, who despite being the son of Jerry Leiber of Leiber and Stoller fame, was an unknown producer living in Minnesota with 5 roommates. Honey I ain't impressed with those material things
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