Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

“Speakerphone”!

So I'm probably the last person to learn this, but apparently she's not singing "shocked" here at 1'12, 2'00 and 2'46:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwYB-DVS27k

Nice list Alfred. Nice to see you mention the quality of some of her albums. Body Language, X and Aphrodite are all pretty underrated.

Would be great to see a Kylie poll on here one day.

i've been wanting to run one for ages

maybe in a few months

That would be awesome!

The new song "Magic" reminded me of another recent song I couldn't put my finger on until I read the YouTube comments and realized it was Katy Perry's "Chained to the Rhythm"

anyway it's not bad or anything but the similarity is a bit too much for me tbh

guess it's for the best that i struggle to remember what "chained to the rhythm" was like

think this is another great one

definitely not too similar to 'chained to the rhythm' for me. one thing about that song is that the lyrics sucked while these lyrics are great. i love everything about the new song. i loved 'say something' too. lol i didn't expect to like new kylie especially this year but like she is so so good at the highest form of generic disco pop it makes me want to cry.

wrt the katie perry song it represents a type of major-hit pop song that wants to look like it 'has something to say' but really just makes a virtue out of submission to the powers that be - i gag at that sort of thing. with these new kylie songs she just sounds so refreshed and focused on this goal of achieving pure dance pop transcendence it bowls me over completely. i'm buying it all lol. i didn't like 'golden' much.

she looks SO GOOD in that blue dress

another good one!

Great album but I dunno if it's everything going on or what but it's going in one ear and out the other

on first listen it's all just fine. no real duds but there's nothing really to elevate it and make me want to come back to it either

the speed-up & solo in "dance floor darling" is quite cool though

This set of tracks seems super generic but I'll give them a few tries. Maybe a few of them will start to pop.

... whoa @ "real groove"

^^ yes.

Between this album, Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware, and Kylie Minogue's, it's been a banner year for post-disco awesomeness.

monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday it's the weekend

This is a really likeable album. I don't see it sticking and some of the production is a bit Hype Machine Remixes 2008, but she's so endearing and charismatic even when it feels a little bland.

^^ yes.

Between this album, Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware, and Kylie Minogue's, it's been a banner year for post-disco awesomeness.

I did, thanks.

Feel like Sophie Ellis-Bextor could get those Instagram living room disco covers into an album we would be living through a total renaissance

That unexpected tempo change on Dancefloor Darling is one of my favourite musical moments of the year.

Great album.

This album is nonstop. Such a fantastic return to form.

Love “Magic”, and the Infinite Disco version of “Say something” with the added choir is A+

i think this is probably better than future nostalgia as far as post-disco pop this year

definitely the best kylie album in a decade

I don't think it's a great album, certainly not as imaginatively produced as Roisin Murphy, Jessie Ware, and Dua Lipa's, say -- what a year! But I like half of it.

it's good-not-great but still incredibly solid. a lot of little great moments like the "get me to the weekend!" mini bass solo on "monday blues"

Between this album, Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware, and (Roisin)'s, it's been a banner year for post-disco awesomeness.

Also for consideration on the pile, Horse Meat Disco's debut album, including four Amy Douglas lead vocals, two Kathy Sledge leads, and one N'Dea Davenport.

oh god, i need to hear that - thanks for reminding me!

'falling deep in love again' is *chef's kiss*

after a few listens, i'm not hearing anything exciting here and it's bumming me out

how is "dancefloor darling" at least not exciting

tbh i have just replayed the first six tracks a number of times so i don't think i've gotten there yet. i will try DFD and check back.

Between this album, Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware, and Kylie Minogue's, it's been a banner year for post-disco awesomeness.

gonna assume you intended to write Roísín Murphy there.

I get grouping these four albums together as some mini-zeitgeist, but Kylie's is bringing up the rear by a considerable distance.

*at a considerable distance makes more sense. It's late.

Have been caning the HMD album the last two weeks - so good! xps

Playing all four records (plus Annie's) back-to-back this weekend and having the best time. xpost

Disagree that Kylie's is the worst - it's about on par with Future Nostalgia for me.

Ware > Murphy >>>> Dua Lipa >>>>>>>>>>>>> Kylie

The Annie is a different thing imo, and I would've loved it in 2014 more than I do now.

Disco LP debuted at #1 in the UK: she has now had #1 albums there in five calendar decades.

(she didn't get a #1 in Australia until the 2000s.)

Ware > Dua > Roisin > Kylie for me

Trust me, I’m more disappointed in myself for the order of the middle two than anyone in here could be

I hadn't noticed this was happening - a 24 hour Kylie channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t982j1D5V_o

currently playing one of my fave videos: "Did It Again" <3 <3

Dua’s is best, to me

alright, i tried dancefloor and it feels like it's trying way too hard for me.
i don't think i fuck with this at all.

idk if it's weird to talk about the songwriting on a dance-pop record but the real strength on this record for me is the way the melodies move. i get ppl's issues with the production, it's certainly broad, but i think the songs have really interesting and catchy interlocking parts

reviewing this has certainly renewed my faith in people being awful

were you in danger of losing it?

no

fwiw katherine if I were a reviewer I'd have written something almost identical to yours. You nailed it.

I agree. I can't swallow this lumpy album.