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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: EMI Import
Salesrank: 81335
Released: October 3, 2005 |
| Our Price: $7.49 |
| Used Price: $0.01 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Head over Heels Track Listing:
1. Crazy Cool
2. My Love Is for Real
3. Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up
4. Love Don't Come Easy
5. If I Were Your Girl
6. Sexy Thoughts
7. Choice Is Yours
8. Ho-Down
9. Under the Influence
10. I Never Knew It
11. Get Your Groove On
12. Missing You
13. It's All About Feeling Good
14. Cry for Me
Editorial Review:
The Former Laker Girl and American Idol Judge's Third and Final Studio Album for Virgin Records is an Overlooked Mature Work that Didn't Cut the Mustard at the Time of It's Release. However, Re-examination after her Appearances on Television and Notoriety have Prompted Many to Re-evaluate and Find a Minor Pop Masterpiece that Reveals an Artist at the Height of her Powers.
Head over Heels Reviews:
So what?? 
2009-08-07 - I enjoyed this album and I LOVE Paula and everything she does so I am giving the album 5 stars. That is my opinion please respect it. Of course its not as amazing as her two previous albums, which are true classics! However, I don't appreciate people bashing her and saying it's trash because it most certainly is NOT! Standout tracks include "Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up" and "It's All About Feeling Good" as well as the sexy, sultry song "My Love Is For Real" Enjoy! =}
A Re-Discovered Jem 
2009-01-06 - I was going through some of my old CD's and came across this CD and immidiately remembered how much I loved Paula "back in the day". She had a fun, funky sound and this album shows how she had the ability to deliver a mediocre song and inject it with so much personality that you had to take notice. Unfortunately, there are no real "singles" on this album. My love is for Real is an amazing song, and an outstanding choice for the first single. In fact, it still sounds great today. As far as I can recall, the real tragedy is that the album lacked promotion, and paulas fans had moved on after her 4 year hiatus. The sound of music had changed and acts like TLC were dominating the charts. Give it a try, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised with the quriky little jem that is this album.
best so far`
2006-04-23 - this album, i thought was the best she put out, dont get me wrong i love paula's music and everyone laughs at me, im sure im not the only one. i just love the more grown-up sound it vibes out to us. if virgin records would or gave the album it's credit, there would be four or five top ten singles..my love is for real it's real fresh nothing out there now could put that song to the test..crazy cool i thought was outstanding if it was released at a remix if i were your girl absoulty would made a great single.. i really do think that everyone has this impression that paula bombed out for four years and never gave her the credit she should get, maybe if her fans put out a voice the album could be remixed and be re-released and put her back on the charts were she belongs
Her Best :-()
2006-02-16 - I do love every album of Paula's. I've been a fan of hers from the very start. But this is the best cd to me, because she's a little beyond the pop, and moved in a more funky direction here. The songs are amazing and really cool. If I Were Your Girl, My Love Is For Real and Crazy Cool are the best best songs here, but really they are all good. She has kept her unique voice throughout the years, but the music has progressed and if she was great at the start, - just imagine how excellent she is now. I really wish her new music (which has been promised) would take a front seat and she'd get on with recording a new cd for all her die-hard fans (especially if it's this kind of quality).
Paula's best work
2005-02-19 - I guess you can't please everyone all the time. It seems that by the time this record dropped in 1995, Paula wasn't really welcomed back to the pop fold with open arms. And while clearly this is Paula's best work, from reading others reviews...most people thought her first two records were better than this.
I have to say that Paula began to continue what she started on "Spellbound". Creating a record that could not only produce radio ready singles, but also have album material that could hold its own next to the singles as well. Here, with "Head Over Heels" Paula accomplishes this.
The record literally pulsates with groove ready tracks. The funk play of "Crazy Cool" (which is even better in its single version) is slick, hip, & well...refreshing. The music on this record unlike her first two doesn't automatically date itself, which is why this record can be spun today & be seen as more than a nostalgia trip.
Songs such as the Middle Eastern tinged "My Love Is For Real" (possibly Paula's best single?) featuring vocals by the late Ofra Haza & the Motown pizazz of "Ain't Never Gonna give You Up" with an irresistable horn hook smoulder, & clearly outshine most of the pop songs on the radio today.
No, Paula isn't a diva like singer. But with each recording Paula's voice has gotten stronger, & her charisma shines through every song & she carries a tune very well.
Many fans complained that while there was good material here, there was far too much filler. For me, there were about only two tracks that could've been left off. That said the songs here are just simply better than most of the filler on her first two records, & with each spin the album tracks get better.
In short I recommend that if you are starting off as a Paula fan, this is a good record to start with. While (criminally) no longer in print, this is a record you can find in most second hand used music stores today, & I advise you to pick up probably one of the most underrated pop records of the 1990's.
