--- title: Paula Abdul Check Yourself Breast Cancer Awareness Month Video description: How about some information please canonical: https://time.com/3510790/paula-abdul-breast-cancer-check-yourself-music-video/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-15T18:51:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:09.936Z og:title: Watch Paula Abdul's Oddly Catchy Music Video About Breast Cancer og:description: How about some information please? og:url: https://time.com/3510790/paula-abdul-breast-cancer-check-yourself-music-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Paula Abdul's Oddly Catchy Music Video About Breast Cancer twitter:description: How about some information please? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Paula Abdul's Oddly Catchy Music Video About Breast Cancer  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 15, 2014 6:51 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 15, 2014 6:51 PM UTC Straight up now tell me when was the last time you checked yourself for breast cancer? Paula Abdul wants the ladies to know that if you’re over 50, you should be getting a mammogram once a year. So she’s reminding the public about this important health message with a medium _everyone_ can understand: a dance song that sounds a bit like her 1988 hit, [“Straight Up.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ7J0SwK8fE) The “Check Yourself” video, made on behalf of the Avon Foundation for Women in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, features some furious wrist-based choreography, a lot of purposeful (and appropriate!) breast touching and — because it’s 2014 — what appears to be a little cultural appropriation ([hasn’t Katy Perry taught](http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/07/30/3465849/katy-perry-questlove-cultural-appropriation/) musicians to avoid outfits like the one featured a minute and 20 seconds in?). The most noteworthy accomplishment, however — besides providing a Paula Abdul career update and, you know, spreading a positive message — may be the way Abdul makes the words “clinical exam” sound like they’ve always belonged in a big pop song. America’s currently all about that [bass](http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100), but will it be all about that breast? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3510790/paula-abdul-breast-cancer-check-yourself-music-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3510790/paula-abdul-breast-cancer-check-yourself-music-video/"},"headline":"Watch Paula Abdul's Oddly Catchy Music Video About Breast Cancer","datePublished":"2014-10-15T18:51:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:09.936Z","description":"How about some information please","url":"https://time.com/3510790/paula-abdul-breast-cancer-check-yourself-music-video/","keywords":["Living","Music","Breast Cancer","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3510790/paula-abdul-breast-cancer-check-yourself-music-video/","name":"Watch Paula Abdul's Oddly Catchy Music Video About Breast Cancer"}}]}] ```