The video’s popularity did little to lift the performance of the single, however, which hit a high of #96 on the Billboard Hot 100.Ī second video was produced, for the track Big Time ( check it out here), but following a disappointing showing, things were not looking good for the Stray Mob.Īs one review of The Adventures Of… (albeit a few years after its release) put it, the album was a “product of clueless committee thinking and Milli Vanilli-style studio hackwork at its most cynical”. To grab the microphone and make the ladies go” Me and Paula did a duo and then I went solo I’m the kat who did the rap in “Opposites Attract” In case people didn’t get the reference, at one point MC Skat Kat raps: Skat Strut, which borrowed heavily from Earth, Wind & Fire’s Let’s Groove, was only single to be released, with Abdul emerging from an inkwell (and why not!) in the accompanying video.
This is one pussy that would not go gently into that good night.īolstered by the success of Opposites Attract, an animated ‘group’ (a precursor to Gorillaz?) was hastily assembled, MC Skat Kat and the Stray Mob, which saw Skat team up with characters Fatz, Taboo, Micetro, Leo, Katleen, and Silk, several of which had similarly appeared in Abdul’s video.ġ991 saw the release of an album, The Adventures of MC Skat Kat and the Stray Mob, which featured a number of feline-inspired cuts – I Ain’t No Kitty, No Dogs Allowed, On The Prowl and New Kat Swing. It also won the Best Short Form Music Video award at the 1991 Grammys.īut what then? Was MC Skat Kat doomed to fade into obscurity, like fellow late 80s heroes Yahoo Serious or Roger Rabbit? MC Skat Kat captured the imagination of the public, and some two months on from its release, Opposites Attract hit number one in the US early February 1990.
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