This one and (It's Just) The Way You Love Me!!!!!

Same. I don't know if it's just nostalgia talking or what but, this one just doesn't seem to get enough recognition like her other songs.

It's timeless cause Babyface wrote this song. This was also my favorite song from her.

I agree and 73 and I still love this 😃👍💯❤️🇦🇺

Oooohhhh yeahhhhh.

😂 I think that’s her best video by far

She choreographed most of her video on that album and was a Laker Girl!!❤

That's awesome!!

No that would be jimmy jam and terry lewis not Paula she choreographed her videos

Jimmy and Terry are song writers and music Producers , there not involved with the choreography

I may have to agree, thanks to LA, baby face and Daryl Simmons.

Randall Clarkson I agree. It was one of the first singles released on "Forever Your Girl" and wasn't as popular as the album finally got more airplay a year after it was released, so it is definitely critically underrated. The re-release with the Shep Pettibone remix doesn't do the original version justice.

***** I agree this is the best cut on that album and my fav of her songs..and same with Pleasure Principal. Both under rated and excellent!

+Brandon Queen if this was her first single from Forever Your Girl then why did the Straight Up video came out first

I don't think it was underrated... I think it was either number one on the charts or on the top 5 for the longest. I remember when this song came out and it was regularly played and known as her breakout hit.....

I can't speak for the rest of the U.S. but in NY it got very little play and Straight Up was considered the break out hit there..I just had the album and it became my personal fav:)

🥰😘

king esseen you got that right! I remember I was In Dallas Fort Worth when this came out. I was 15! Loved it then and still do. LA & FACE Were monsters.

malsadig Some of the best music was in this era. 12/5/18

Not really they were cunts to her,but she was the bigger person...

Absolutely love this song fond memories from this era

king esseen Exactly

Soraya Mangal :me too! i never understood how "straight up" got more airplay than "knocked out".

Mine too. I wanted them to rerelease it after The Way That You Love Me became a big hit, because I felt it could have went to number one.

Mine too

Me aswell! Always loved this track.

yes👍🏼

Yeah,Dennis,the late 80's ROCKED !!! LOL. Now female entertainers like Cardi B are winning grammys !!! HUH ??? LOL.

I swear it has to be Karyn White singing the secondary lead on the outro of this track…sounds so much like her! ETA: I was wrong. It was Pebbles, especially considering this was an LA/Babyface song, NOT Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam.

I liked all of those artists you named along Taylor Dayne, Debbie Gibson, and Madonna amongst many others.

Karyn white so underrated

I Totally agree

EXACTLY!!!

I was in elementary school and loved her SO much!! I had a t shirt with her on it and probably wore it to school every single week!! She was a dance and vocal hero to our generation!! What a Queen 👸!!

Take me back!!!!

You GO THEN , GIRL!!!!! 😊

Me too. And Madonna and MJ. Never pursued it more than fun but had to choreograph in Jr high in a dance routine. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I did all the work for our group. But we got a A, haha. And choreographed w friends, performed for parents as a kid. Was fun!

That’s so sweet and real

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I understand that. They influenced me too, same as Brian Friedman who used to choreograph for Britney Spears and is from Arizona like I am. Only stupid commenters like the ones who don't understand the life of REAL DANCERS and performing arts professionals would claim that you're wasting your time when in reality this is a multi generational legacy that both you and I combined are proud to be part of! Never stop dancing! For the record I was a personal friend of Shabba Doo and he taught me Locking and Nina Simmons lives in Phoenix now! Thanks for sharing!

With Paula's Voice And Dancing Skills!!!

@@cjturner5076 don't forget her looks

Yep. You can hear the Black American influence. That's usually who Paula was ever around in her prime. Baby face had to make sure that her music was popular back East too because the bass rhythms had to be heavier otherwise the radio stations back then wouldn't play West coast artists.

@@alexw853 U do know She Toured With The Jackson's And They Asked Her To Teach Janet There Baby Sis Moves!?

Babyface is music god

It went to #1 I believe after they re released it after Straight Up

Should have been a number one hit from the get-go

This and "(It's Just) The Way You Love Me" were both Top 10 songs on the R&B charts, I think.

no kidding

Didn’t it the Top 10 when it first came out? Her first release. I recall making it to the Top 10. Or maybe I noticed it was Top 10 when they did a quick Top 10 of the Dance Charts. As they often did on The Casey Kasem TV countdown show. 🤔

It IS a great song. Smart pure essence video too.

Bonjour belle chorégraphie

I agree!

RestlessRick this is probably my favorite song about her even though it’s not the most popular. Paula was a dance instructor and she would create the choreography for a lot of the professional basketball teams dancers. Later on she became an NBA dancer herself. I had no idea she had a heck of a! Voice until she came out with her first song straight up. Hard to believe this was 30 years ago because my daughter is 30 and I was pregnant in my first trimester when straight up came out. Now it’s amazing to look back 30 years to see how our musicians used to wear clothes at one time😂😂 nowadays most musicians where is a little of nothing as possible and the queen bee herself, Beyoncé, looks great and absolutely anything. I knew when Destiny’s Child came out around 1999 or so that Beyoncé had something special.

All thanks to Baby face who co wrote and produced it!!

+Nominefy XXI Indeed! When troublesome 99 arrived, it was all marketability rather than raw talent! In other words music went down the drain 17 years ago. old school and underground 4ever!

Amen!

Lol For real tho!!

@Nominefy, Three years later, I've given you the 101st like. YEs, we are lucky to have been alive in the 80s.

You mean "pop-n-porn stars?"

thankyou u guys for liking my comment I really appreciate it.

Wow, that is so cool:) very nice of her to write back!

Yes she is. Definitely one of the best choreographers to this day

Chauntel Bland Paula choreographed Girlfriend for Pebbles. She wanted Babyface to producer her a hit. That was their connection.

+Chauntel Bland I miss this kind of dancing...it reminds me of NYC, leg warmers, FAME, dusty warehouses where EVERY other dancer was GOOD...these kids don't dance this way anymore...not at all.

Mr. Mystique Paula got over like crazy!😁😁😁

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Too bad it's all shot in quick cuts. I can hardly tell WTF they're doing!

I used to dance to this in the clubs when it came out, now I dance in the basement when nobody is home, :/

Luna Bar ..I hear you I use to dance to this song in the garage when no one was around

me too I use to go in the garage when nobody was around and dance to this song

Me too

I would... but can’t dance lol 😂

Knocked Out(original version) only has 111,657 views..

it seems like everyone danced until after 2013 wen everything either sexual our the dance moves are lazy and don't make you run out of energy

+Jillian Tavares She really does look great still, she's always been gorgeous...and she was sexy without being in your face sexual.

She still is!

Still is a knockout!!!!!

Storm still is

Multiple videos for one song I like that is this the first video or the second one

a very good partnership in this 80s classic..

Yes. I will join you

Your telling me.

Puh-lease! Yesssss!

So you can be transported smack-dab in the middle of the LA riots!!

I agree.

It reached the top 10 The second time it was released

Plus she was so sexy.

@@cjturner2008 Your thinking of The Way That You Love Me.

Mr Peabody to KZfaq...

+Veronica Baldwin Too bad the voice is not as good.

+toyoscio sad words

+toyoscio when you are singing Pop music you don't have to have a great voice. Her dance moves made up for the lack of not having a voice like Whitney or Anita Baker.

Reginald Marshall awesome !

@GM Podcasting Arguably

I know huh, I love it

This tune is still a JAM !!! LOL. Paula's first album was SICK !!! LOL. And so were the videos !!!

Same

this does not sound like you.. weird

I can't believe i have just listened this song for the first time. Incredible feeling :))

i know it gives me life so underrated

She didn't teach Janet how to dance, she choreographed a couple of her videos, there's a difference

Yep we have PAULA to thank for some of Janet's most iconic and timeless dance moves. Paula is beyond talented and could probably reach beyawnce a thang or two or three dance moves 😂

@@latrinarandolph66 the difference is some of Janet's most iconic and timeless dance moves belong to PAULA.

#FACTS,choreographed alot of Janet 's videos too

What drugs are bad people somebody should taught Paula how to sing.

~.ya know..meee2..~~ ~I know..? ~...yeP~~~ ~writing

Well paula was into dancing more..

xang74 ~yes & more dancing & ton~s of talent..loved vid. w*

What's the problem with raunch? Anyway go check out the choreography of Cold Hearted. Paula was raunchy herself. That's the thing, sexuality has been used to sell music for ages upon ages. Open your eyes.

Just saying finally someone who gets it, although sex appeal wasn't as emphasized then as it is today.