Straight Up – Demo

Straight Up
Demo
19??

1. Search It Out
2. This Time
3. Joy of a Lifetime

Well, this was kind of a surprise. What you see on the cover is all you get, and based on all the other demos I got, I was expecting this to be a generic rock project. Nope. It’s a pop leaning New Jack Swing project, kind of somewhere between Spunkadelic and Janet Jackson. Probably leaning more towards Janet Jackson because she was briefly adding some crunchy guitars into some songs, which is what they do here as well. Female lead vocals, with male and female backing vocals and rap interludes. The second track is a CCM-ish ballad, and then back to the new jack rock. Maybe even more Euro-pop on the last track? Hard to say. Might just be a mix of all of the above. No songs titles on the tape, so I took a guess at them above.

Missing Information: What year was this released? Who played on it? What are the song titles?