Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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Well? Vertically-challenged talentless Aussie slapper or better than a good date with Britney Spears?

― Ally, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I can still remember that "I Should Be So Lucky" song better than I can the "Loco-Motion" remake. And I like what I remember of it as well. And, unlike her ex-beau Mr. Hutchence, she's never been found dead as a result of a bizarre solo sex game, though I can understand how that would elevate her in some eyes.

Hmm...maybe not a classic, but no dud. I mean, when it comes to vertically challenged Australians, better her than those Silverchair rugrats. Although maybe they're tall now.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I'm gonna say Classic because of how much better she is than all the recent Classic or Dud choices. (Thanks, Ally, for saving us from another difficult Eggnoodley Commie Anti-Music or Eggnoodley Commie Anti-Music question.) I've only heard five Kylie songs - "I Should Be So Lucky", the cover of "Loco-Motion" which I also can't really remember, the murder-by-the-river duet with Nick Cave, "Spinning Around" and "Your Disco Needs You" - but I'll take them over all the Royal Trux albums I just sold.

She's definitely too small though.

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Although totally dud for me, she was clever enough to churn out commercial poop again. I hope her clothes are sold on the basis of how much they weigh. It'll only cost her a few pennies to dress like a successful Traci Lords.

― my fool name, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Dud. Not really for the songs which are just okayish pop songs, but more for the endless obssesion of the British music and lifestyle press with her. She isn't *that* interesting.

― Omar, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I would say Dud because she reminds me of lasses with perms, Danniii,'Especially for You', Streetfighter and 'The Hitman + Her'.

I would say NOTADUD for 'Confide in me' and that video where she gets naked in a Barberella stylee.

But not classic

― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Not absolutely a dud, but overrated. Really really overrated, the pop equivalent of GYBE or someone in terms of overratedness. Her various reinventions have been plodding, generally, and "I Should Be So Lucky" isn't even much good. The recent return-to-pop stuff has been weak, on a level with Geri and Emma Bunton, not even as good as Louise's comeback singles. That said once she became the biggest thing in the SAW stable she got some of their choicer songs - "Better The Devil You Know" for instance - so it's not all bad.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I think some of the SAW singles are classic, especially "I Should be so Lucky" and "Shocked". But everything else is extremely iffy. Not bad, but just not lovable. Her latest singles try to recapture the spirit of the SAW era, but there's none of the enthusiasm there. I thought "Spinning Around" was lifeless. I really couldn't categorize Classic or Dud. There should be a middle ground of "Eh" in there somewhere...

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I'll answer my own question now (and yes, Otis, I'm always good to ruin the indie bent of this board): classic, but I think if I was coming from the other 8 billion countries where Kylie is considered famous it'd be a different story. As it is, she's absolutely nothing in America, so it makes her feel underrated for me. Your Disco Needs You is one my favorite singles going right now.

Here's a question: a lot of people I know who classify themselves as pop fans don't particularly care for Kylie, while a lot of indie fans I know overrate her. Did her Nick Cave/Manics collabs ruin her for the pop set with her annoying "realness"?

Next up has got to the Traci Lords: Classic or Dud, except I fear I'm the only person round here with her album ;)

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

tom, you really love throwing around that "(genre) version of gybe!" comparison. ;)

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I know, it's crap, isn't it. I'm feeling really groggy and ill today so I wasn't up to thinking of another overrated band except for GYBE ;) Beck maybe.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I heard she's gonna do an episode of Neighbours! Probably Madge's funeral...Her songs were okay. Now, she is like one of those Chris Evan's guest people...so pretty dud.

― james edmund L, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Ooh, your mention of Madge reminds me that Mike from Neighbours is actually kicking Charlene's ass popularity-wise in the States.

And deservedly so, since Memento is much more fun than anything Kylie has done lately.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

It's got to be a question of perspective (geographically, anyway). In the UK, I can see how she'd be an "eh," as you guys get more than your fill of her songs and her appearances and her social life...but here in the U.S.? ZILCH. We got to see "Loco-motion" on MTV a few times way (I mean WAY) back when, had to hunt down a domestic release of "Confide in Me" before it disappeared forever, and have been desperately slapping every single from "Breathe" (fantastic) to "Your Disco Needs You" (genius) on homemade mix CDs so that we can get the word out that she's still alive and still making music and still at least somewhat deserving of an audience in the States. So count your lucky stars if you're sick of Kylie--I'd love to be sick of her. Classic all the way--in the U.S.A.

― Max Jones, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Is there a law that all Australians must be in Neighbours at some point in their lives?

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Yep! Neighbours has produced so many popstars...Steffan Dennis, Craig McSomething (Henry), Jason Donavon, even the twins released a single (I think). Who will be next?

― james edmund L, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Even arch-smuggo Clive James appeared in it once.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Kylie Kylie Kylie: DUD! DUD! DUD! She is so shit. completely awful apart from two moments of brilliance: "I should be so lucky" and "Where the Wild Roses Grow". Everything else is sooooo bad. And this rebranding of her as some kind of sex symbol is laughable - does anyone find her attractive? She's like a porcelein doll, not a human being. She'd probably shatter. Gah.

― PihkalBoy, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Oh, I think "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is easily one of the most overrated songs of all time. It's the 2nd worst song on Murder Ballads. It was just a stunt duet -- gimmicky and tacky. As far as Kylie duets go, even Kids is better. And I say this as more of a Nick Cave fan than a Kylie fan.

― Nicole, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Ah yes, the singing budgie. Classic because who knew budgie's could sing? The longevity of her career is more perplexing than Madonna's. Her early hits are all shite, albeit catchy shite, recent hits unremarkably bland. Redeeming features: (a) "Better the Devil You Know" - excellent single, even better video, (b) on-going propensity to fall out of her clothes, though I can't say I fancy her, but I appreciate the gesture, and (c) giving Nick Cave ONE redeeming feature by singing with him. Plus I liked how said duet's video had the (unwitting?) appearance of a Timotei shampoo commercial, Kylie walking wistfully through the grass with the sun in her hair, etc.

― AP, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I must be the only person who actually liked the Impossible Princess album she did before she decided to go full-fledged pop again. As mature artistic makeovers go it beat the living shit out of Ray Of Light. Now Kylie's bigger here than she's ever been really, but everything I've heard off Light Years has left me cold, like it's all a dispassionate attempt to make the SAW/handbag equivalent of "classic pop".

― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

No, Tim, I like that album too, unfortunate I can't get a copy of it anywhere.

On the attractiveness front: I've always found her terribly UNattractive, actually. I never understood that. I like her for her music and NOWT ELSE. She just looks a bit...I don't know, nostrilly and she's very, very tiny.

― Ally, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Would concur with Tom on her being overrated, but what's interesting to me is why she's overrated and how that came about. It always seems to me that she's liked by people who value "timelessness" in chartpop, the opposite of my / Tom's approach, so for us the fact that "I Should Be So Lucky" et al could have been written in 1969 or now just as much as in the late 80s is a reason to be wary of her (the early 90s were, as Tom hints, her best period). There's a tendency to praise that aspect of chartpop while denouncing the genuinely ephemeral stuff as "trash", while for me the more of-the- moment chartpop is, the more points there are in its favour; hence why the greatest SAW singles for me are Mel and Kim's Yuppie Trilogy and, of course, "I'd Rather Jack". By comparison Kylie's stuff of the time is "classic" in the worst sense.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

I think her new video is nearly perfect, the dancing on it is really good. It's like dancing is being constantly alluded to! What kind of a triumph is that? I like the men dressed like Kraftwerk, and the background which is like Metropolis. I like the 'nostalgia for the future.' I like the car, I had a toy car exactly like that, it was my favourite because the doors opened upwards. I like the way her body is all perfect and symmetrical, as if it were computer generated. I like to think that she was airbrushed neatly in photoshop. I like the white dress that doesn't matter if it gapes open, because her body is completely false. Now that I reread this, I feel I'm giving too much credit to Kylie herself. I don't respect her more because of this video and song.

― maryann, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

While I try not to delude myself into believing me to be an oracle of popular culture,I do know for certain one thing.If someone claims to be an artist,they should be capable of producing evidence of thatclaim.If I say I'm a painter,you'd want to see my..paintings.If I'm a singer you'd wnt to hear me sing etc etc.Now here's where the Pro-Anti Kylie thing comes in.As most Pop music is now produced through "Production",Smoke and Mirrors, one doesn't need to have artistic merit to be successful.Just an unshakeable belief in yourself and an unquenchable desire to be noticed.It seems most of the "artists" who appear in todays glossies seem to fall into this category.I always try to make the distinction between Artist and Celebrity.To be fair to Kylie she a classic CELEBRITY.But as an Artist she doesn't of course register on the scale.

― Garry, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Well I used to like Kylie - when I was about 10. Now I cant stand her. I too think she is completely overrated. All she can do is flash her bum, which has recently became a lot more pert. Mmmmm..... And her lips and her boobs and her personality, I reckon are one thing and one thing only - FALSE!!!

Years ago she did not have big lips. Her right eyebrow did not touch her hairline like it does now, it was actually lower than the left one if you look at pics! Her boobs miraculously grew when she was seeing Micheal Hutchence, and her bum doesn't have a crease on it!!! Every bum has creases when you stand up. I dont rate her music either. I agree Better than the Devil you Know was OK, but her recent efforts such as at the Brit awards when she had her ar*e hanging out again, she wanted to be 'cool' by mixing her song with Blue Monday. SOoooo wasn't good.

She is an overrated, plastic, old tart who wants to get some clothes on and give women dignity, not make them look like they are gagging for it. Hopefully she'll go BACK out of fashion, AND SOON!!!!!!!

― Felicity, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

She has a wonderful body but sadly only her mouth makes music.
If Im actually supposed to like her singing then shes a dud, if your comparing her to Spears shes classic.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Put Yourself In My Place is absolute classic. as is the title track to Light Years..

― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I think she looks beautiful, like a sculpture. I was a bit disappointed when I found out some was plastic surgery but then the plastic surgery-d parts are the dumbest - she could have done okay without the lips and breasts, I mean, it's the shiny smooth skin I think. She has also made her music kind of 'match' herself; I mean, it's superficial and shiny and surfacy. She is like a perfect package. However, I don't actually understand how it's possible to be like that. It's quite disappointing seeing her on Top of the Pops, when strands of hair come loose and she's wearing leather and you can see the grain.

― maryann, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

kylie's great singles that have already been mentioned: confide in me, put yourself in my place, shocked, better the devil you know

kylie's GREAT, CONSTANTLY OVERLOOKED single: what do i have to do?!

kylie overall: classic. since when has it been about 'artistry' and 'singing'? i'm shocked that this stuff has come up.

― minna, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

More proof of how much criticism can be disarmed by becoming a Gay Icon. Every lapse of taste can be explained as ironic, self- consciously cheesy or deliberately camp. Critics who would normally be contemptuous of such mediocre talent are frozen by fear of appearing unhip or looking like they "don't get it".

― Naomi, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I didn't know anything about Kylie until early this year and I think she's scary and fabulous. There's this part where she shrieks in "More more more" that sends chills down my spine.

― Honda, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i'm convinced Kylie isn't a real person, she looks like a hologram.

that's what i want - hologram pop stars.

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

jem to thread!

― geeta, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

"I didn't know anything about Kylie until early this year and I think she's scary and fabulous. There's this part where she shrieks in "More more more" that sends chills down my spine."

YES!

It's amazing how Kylie jumped from my bad books into my good books with such a minute shift in style from the last album.

― Tim, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

late Kylie is like late Bolan ergo CLASSIC

she's even become the cover of Siren

― Paul, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

late Kylie is like late Bolan

not referring to the music
rather the persona

though some of the music (both's) is rather fine...

"..move on up, ya move on back
ya laser luv is like a ..heaartATTAACK!"

― Paul, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

People seem to be comparing The Minogue with Britney Spears. Personally, I think there's no comparison.

Both of their music style's is of course not their own, but Britney has this 'thing' about her that makes you want to watch her. She does actually look like what she does in the photos. And when people go on and on, criticising her about wearing skimpy stuff - we have to remember she is only 20 and has to entertain. However, Kylie is nearly 34 and is still prancing around like an old slut with her plastic, pinned up arse and nobody says a word!!! When are the papers gonna see sense and slate her for the old tart she is!!! She is revelling in all of this attention she is getting, and its about time it stopped! OK, Spears is rumoured to have had a boob-job (and propbably has), but when do you see them hanging out of her top, like the goofy- toothed dwarfs??? Those pics from her Fever tour are ridiculous. Her boobs are pushed up sooooooo much, you can see the plastic popping out of the flesh!!! And have you noticed that there's not a smile from the pop- pixie? She is just looking down on herself, revelling in her plasticness. I dont know, I think the country has been brainwashed. It was that song 'Cant get you out of my head' that done it. It must have had some kind of subliminal message saying "MEN: You will all adore Kylie - she is the perfect image of woman; and WOMEN: You will all not care that your men fantasise about Kylie every night in her hotpants, you must love her and want to be her".

Well, I think I must have been one of the few that escaped her propaganda tactics!

Is there anybody else out there??????????????????

― Felicity Collinson, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

calling kylie minogue's breasts "goofy- toothed dwarfs" = best post ever

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I'm worried about the idea that breasts have teeth.

― Ally, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

ilx like totally sux0r now!!!

― Ron, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Can't Get You Out Of My Head is classic, and one or two others have been goodies too. I don't have much idea how much credit Kylie deserves for these or how much blame for the awful, awful ones. She generally looks cute, though that hardly makes her stand out from several hundred other pop stars.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

I'm really obsessed with the title track to Light Years all of a sudden. Hello, my name...is Kylie. I will be...your person - what the hell does it even mean? It's great.

― Ally, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

i bought the 'rhythm of love' cd recently, because of 'what do i have to do'... but it's only driven home how great 'better the devil you know' is. i love the synthesiser male back up singer bits:

kylie: "i'll take you back again"
male synthesiser 'oh' noise: "oh oh oh oh oh"
kylie: "i'll take you back again"
male synthesister 'oh' noise: "oo-oo-oh...oo-oo-oh"

i wonder what he's trying to say?

― minna, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

'oh'

― Josh, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

It's also not often-mentioned that Kylie is also CLASSIC for that rapping diva in "Shocked". And also CLASSIC for the poncey dance-in-beret that Kylie does while said diva is in command of the song.

― Tim, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

She's getting very credible if the Kid Kreme and Erick Morillo remixes of her new single are a sign of credibility and since Subliminal Records are so good then I think they are.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Being also vertically challenged, gotta go for classic, though "I Should Be So Lucky" should be shredded as a definite cringe-maker.

Thank god she got rid of the bad perm and reinvented herself....

― Nichole Graham, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Put it this way;like her or love her,would you have her sing at your Wedding?

― Garry Coe, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

A little POO! (in honor of Keiko) --> "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" [Blue Monday Remix] - That one's a classic. Dud: Didn't she do that "brand new dance" the "Locomotion" ... ? I could do without that song.

― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

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'Made In Glass' is the b-side to next Kylie single (Giving You Up) so unfortunately it seems a bit improbable that Rachel's people will want/get it now.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 3 March 2005 09:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

anyone heard the new remixes of Giving you up ?

alter ego and riton .. i am somewhat excited. especially as the normal version is just soooooo .. good.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

'Made of Glass' makes me think of a Moroderized Altered Images. It would be much better if Clare Grogan sang it.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

new video :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/extras.html

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 3 March 2005 18:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

I wonder if Tom still stands by this:

The recent return-to-pop stuff has been weak, on a level with Geri and Emma Bunton, not even as good as Louise's comeback singles.

Or has Kylie listened to Tom's criticisms and returned with Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Come Into My World, Slow, I Believe In You, Lovin' You, Made Of Glass, etc?

Well done, Tom. GYBE never listened though, did they?

― davidsim (davidsim), Thursday, 3 March 2005 19:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

dueds, she was in bio-dome so get wit it...

'chek out that tasty dactyl'

― squirly, Friday, 4 March 2005 02:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

The only classic stuff she has done is to recent to be classic yet...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

As to the alter Ego and Riton remixes, well, depends what you want from a remix. If you want a bleepy, bloopy track which has little to do with the original song apart from the occasional vocal line, go for the Riton Re Rub. If, however, you want the song played over a Daft Punk Discovery-era album track with added gay-disco fills and handclaps, go for the Alter ego.

I'll take the latter. Till the Almighty.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

The most pop act thread has made me speak up to say that Light Years may be the gayest thing i've ever heard. if there is a gayer album, please inform me because i will have to download pronto.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Specifically, 'Your Disco Needs You'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

naturally

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah, Your Disco Needs You is probably the gayest song on there, but the album as a whole is pretty uniformly gay otherwise.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Some friends and I watched a smuggled-out-of-the-UK video of her Showgirl show, recorded just before she stopped due to her health problems.

Good show, esp. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", "Your Disco Needs You", er one or two others. The best bit was this Back to 1990 italo house and rave rivalism sequence! Smily faces and "Step Back In Time" and "What Do I Have To Do", but best of all, a rollicking piano vamp early house version of "Spinning Around"! Which was awesome! Now keep in mind that I usually loathe "Spinning Around" as being only one rung above the absolute nadir of bad millenial disco-pop ("Make Luv") (obv. there is loads of great millenial disco pop) and you'll get a sense of how stunning this transformation is.

Needs to be recorded and released properly!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

"Chocolate" is a really great song
is it true it was prod. by kurtis mantronik??

― deej, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

im googling around now, apparently cathy dennis did some writing on this

― deej, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

i guess 'obsession' was the mantronik joint

― deej, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

no homo but i was about to do a kylie singles poll

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

"What Do I Have to Do?" FTW

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

new single rules

― groovemaaan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

The name of the album is a reference to a book of poetry written by Billy Childish titled Poems to Break the Hearts of Impossible Princesses. The book was given to Minogue as a gift by Nick Cave, and she has said that the poems summarized where she was at that time in her life.

― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

― W4LTER, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

Love the new single, it really improves on the demo version with the added piano track. Kylie fans aren't really into it though.

― musically, Friday, 19 October 2007 00:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

why are her latest videos so damn bad? what has happened?

― o-ess, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

She is Brave and Plucky and Tragic (c. every British tabloid ever), and therefore will sell shiteloads no matter what cack she throws out because she's the People's Pop Princess. emperor's new clothes, and that.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

In Your Eyes was a good vid (if you like big light installations) - can't think of any other good 00s Kylie vids

― blueski, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

guess i'm the only person who likes 'wow' (the original more than the remixes too - mstrkrft one is a real case of them milking a tired formula)

― blueski, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

I didn't know that the far superior 'In My Arms' was only released on the European market, confusing as the UK & Ireland market seems to need to be separate from the rest of the continent. WOW was terrible in all respects. sounded like someone messing with the volume alot. And the videos....sigh.

― o-ess, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

That video where there were lots of Kylies was alright - Come into My World, I think.

Was "Hmmm, someone's been listening to Goldfrapp" anyone else's first reaction on hearing 2 Hearts?

― chap, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

mine was "hmmm, someone's been listening to Chungking listening to Goldfrapp listening to and so on..."

forgot about the Gondry CIMW vid, but she's never been an artist for particularly good videos generally.

― blueski, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

I like Wow too steve. Lots. Still unconvinced by 60% of new album though.

And yes, come into my world was a GREAT video, and I think can't get you out of my head had a fairly ace one too. Also, the barbarella pastiche for put yourself in my place. I mean yeah, she turns out plenty of very average promos, but she has flashes of greatness now and again.

― JimD, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

RIP big popism.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

What about the video for "Chocolate" with her dancers dancing on a hat she's wearing!? That was kind of fun.

I hope she releases "The One" as a single.

― !Alicia!, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 16:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

One can only hope. But if she keeps these four male dancers she's got lately, it might hurt our eyes no matter what.
I believe 'Slow' is the best in recent years, post Fever

― o-ess, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 17:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

I really like Slow as well.

― chap, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 17:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

Wow is the pick of this album.

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 22:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

Surprised people are so down on X; aside from the odd turd ("Nu-di-ty") I've found it pretty listenable.

What Goldfrapp tracks should I check out along the lines of 2 Hearts? (have never really had any time for them bar their remixes)

― __CB__, Thursday, 14 February 2008 23:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

Kylie Minogue is SO much better than Goldfrapp; the new one is particularly grueling.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 14 February 2008 23:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

x is really quite good

― omar little, Thursday, 14 February 2008 23:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

What Goldfrapp tracks should I check out along the lines of 2 Hearts?

On top of my head: "Ooh La La" (from Supernature) and maybe "Strict Machine" (from Black Cherry).

― daavid, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

'love affair' was the shit

― deej, Friday, 26 September 2008 13:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Of course every time I go to buy a Kylie Minogue CD I feel like I have to compensate in some way, so I also grabbed Ace of Spades.
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, May 31, 2004 12:31 AM (4 years ago)
Yeah, me too. I always pack a Kylie CD in with something credible, so people don't look down on me.
― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, May 31, 2004 12:37 AM (4 years ago)

Hah, I just picked up a couple Kylie discs this week that I'd been meaning to actually buy for a while. Also in my purchase? One of the new Joy Division remasters, some Roy Montgomery, a Godflesh EP, a maligned Cranes album (have a guess which!) and the new/posthumous UGK release.

― ilxor, Friday, 3 April 2009 04:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Love Affair" really was the shit, one of my favourites off Fever.

If I was Kylie I would be asking The Freemasons and/or Aeroplane to produce my next stuff. Sonics a la the "Paris" remix would be perfect for her.

― Tim F, Friday, 3 April 2009 11:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

"In My Arms" is at least in my top 3 Kylie singles.

― Straight from the Top of My Dom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 April 2009 11:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

'Slow', 'Can't get out out of my head' and 'Confide in me'

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 3 April 2009 11:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Put Yourself in My Place", "What Do I Have to Do?", "In My Arms". Order varies.

― Straight from the Top of My Dom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 April 2009 11:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Interviewed by Simon Price at the Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/10473-kylie-minogue-interview

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:42 (6 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

signs with Jay-Z

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 7 February 2013 04:37 (3 months ago) Permalink

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/kylie-minogue-roc-nation-jay-z-label_n_2631861.html

Minogue told Yahoo! UK in November that she has started an upcoming album. "I have started work on the next album," she said.

― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 February 2013 05:54 (3 months ago) Permalink

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