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By 1980 Ross had been a star for fifteen years and needed a new sound, so she went to Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic, the hottest production team in New York. They wrote and produced all eight songs. Then Ross took the tapes back to Motown and had the whole album remixed, vocals pushed up front, and the producers were angry enough to nearly remove their names. The remix won: Upside Down went to number one, I'm Coming Out right behind it, and the album outsold everything else she ever made.