Paula couldn't come back to Minnesota, so I flew to LA with this, and in the studio with Paula figured out what lines she would sing. I had the Wild Pair – as they were called – sing the whole song, and I finished it first with them as a complete song with them singing every line. So I came up with the idea to make this a duet with those guys. They're the guys that sang on Prince's 'Kiss,' and they were incredibly soulful funky singers that I had been using as part of my sound on the first two tracks I did with Paula, helping to preserve the Minneapolis sound, because they sounded very Prince-y and it really added something to Paula's vocals. But I had these two singers I had been working with - Marvin Gunn and Tony Christian. It was saying, 'I like this and you like that.' It was basically: I like potatoes, and you like po-tah-toes, all from one singer's perspective. Oliver Leiber explains: 'I wrote it all from the perspective of one person singing it. This song evolved into a duet with the duo The Wild Pair. She was like, 'Okay, that sounds great! I love it! How fast can you do it?' Honestly, I probably could have said anything at that point, although in retrospect, when a record sells 15 million copies everybody comes out and tells how they A&R'd everything, but this was not a whole lot of A&Ring going on, to be quite honest. But I played her the groove and I spun an idea that maybe it could be a duet, and here's the melody over it. One of the titles jumped out at me, and it was 'Opposites Attract.' I was like, 'You know, I've got this idea and it's 'Opposites Attract,' and here's the groove,' and I was pretty much tap dancing. I had this list in front of me, and I had Gemma on the phone, I had the two-bar groove right there, and I winged it, to be very honest.

It was like 'A Bloody Moon,' or 'Midnight Mistress,' just really over the top. It was all just drug store novels, and I wrote down all these titles, because they were incredibly dramatic. So I had this groove sitting there, I could press play, and I had a bunch of titles that I had written down, because my car had broken down near a second-hand cheesy bookstore, and I had like four hours to kill. It was just like, Okay, let's program and, as we all do with new pieces of gear, sort of find your way around. I had programmed a two-bar groove bassline and drum part to learn the MPC60, nothing more. It was a brand new sequencer drum machine. Oliver says 'My MPC60 had just shown up a day before, and that was supposed to be the new improved version of the Linn 9000. She needed one more song to complete the album. Oliver Leiber had already written 'Forever Your Girl' and '(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me' for Paula Abdul when he got a frantic call from Gemma Corfield, who was the A&R head at Virgin Records. To keep things moving in the right direction Here's a little story and you're sure to like it and won Abdul a Grammy Award in 1991 for 'Best Short Form Music Video'. The video was produced by Sharon Oreck for O Pictures Inc.

The song is most remembered for its music video created and directed by Candace Reckinger and Michael Patterson from August to October 1989, in which Abdul dances with cartoon character MC Skat Kat. An interview that Derrick Stevens gave to The Current also confirms this. Malco confirmed that Derrick 'Delite' Stevens was the one that rapped the duet with Abdul. Romany Malco is often mistakenly credited for doing the raps as MC Skat Kat in the radio edit of “Opposites Attract.” In a 2013 interview with Wendy Williams he told her he wrote the rap, but did not perform it. Derrick also performed MC Skat Kat’s lead vocals on the 1991 studio album “The Adventures of MC Skat Kat and the Stray Mob” which also led to an appearance of the character on Abdul’s “Under My Spell” tour. The radio edit features a rap by Derrick “Delite” Stevens who portrays the voice of MC Skat Kat, and is first realized in the music video for the hit song.

Mc skat kat