Paula Abdul has been played on NTS in shows including Bubble Gum Violence, featured first on 24 May 2019. Songs played include Rush Rush, Straight Up and Opposites Attract.

Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962 in San Fernando Valley, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American pop singer, dancer, two-time Emmy Award-winning choreographer, actress, and television personality. In the 1980s, she rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a pop-rnb singer with a string of hits in the late 1980s and early…