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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

Even arch-smuggo Clive James appeared in it once.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

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 (twenty-two years ago) link

seven 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 (twenty-one years ago) link

one 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 (twenty-one years ago) link

three 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 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

jem to thread!

― geeta, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"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 (twenty-one years ago) link

late Kylie is like late Bolan ergo CLASSIC

she's even become the cover of Siren

― Paul, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

one 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 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

― Ally, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ilx like totally sux0r now!!!

― Ron, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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 (twenty-one years ago) link

two 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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

'oh'

― Josh, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

two 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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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she's re-releasing Disco with new tracks, most notably "Kiss of Life" with Jessie Ware

― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 15:08 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

ehhhhhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6Ig8Pz_Z4

― Murgatroid, Friday, 29 October 2021 04:09 (one year ago) link

“A second to midnight” w/years and years is pretty nice

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 29 October 2021 12:25 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

"magic" is good

― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link

Besides “A Second To Midnight”, I also came around to liking “Kiss of Life” a lot. I think both tracks are as good (or better) than anything on Disco.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

omg this rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJfZFpsJ6Y

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link

gloria sounds SO GOOD

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link

I still like disco

Also, this might be better on an Underworld thread, but one of my favorite things is that you can, using remixes/alternate mixes, re-imagine the self-tilted Kylie Minogue album to sound way more like dubnobasswithmyheadman than you'd ever expect. Thanks Brothers in Rhythm.

Confide in Me (Big Brothers mix)
Where Is the Feeling (BIR Dolphin Mix)
Surrender (Talking Soul Mix)
Where Has The Love Gone? (Fire Island Mix)
Falling (Original Mix)
Where Is The Feeling (BIR soundtrack)
Put Yourself In My Place (Driza-Bone Mix)

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link

this one also p great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZucxtSFe2s

― corrs unplugged, Friday, 8 April 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link

this Infinite Disco live album is incredible

― Roz, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 07:42 (one year ago) link

ok i need to hear that.

i'm very late to kylie beyond a few big singles. does anyone want to rep a few of their favorite house remixes? there have to be a few, right? i can't find anything obvious on the music purchasing sites i frequent and i don't have the attention span to comb through discogs.

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link

it’s not really house and I’m not sure if this is in your wheelhouse but one of my favorites tracks of the 00s is the Fisherspooner remix of “Come into my world”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee8RzKjzEHo

― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link

that's a jam, thanks

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link

there is this cheap and cheerful comp of quite a few decent remixes :

https://www.discogs.com/release/1605088-Kylie-Boombox-The-Remix-Album-2000-2008

― mark e, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link

👍👍

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link

surprisingly excellent stuff, ty!

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link

six months pass...

impossible princess vinyl reissue is out and sounds pretty dope. Its rep as an alt-rock album is probably slightly overstated, there’s also a fair amount of trip-hop and glistening dance-pop on here. Those rock songs tho they really don’t hide the presence of manic street preachers; ‘i don’t need anyone’ especially sounds very much like a lost cut from

everything must go

. i think it’s very much in line with other unexpected detours of that decade and one that’s one of the more successful. ‘some kind of bliss’ and ‘breathe’ remain in the top tier of her career

as mentioned upthread

infinite disco

is absolutely great, it feels almost like a definitive statement in some ways. also the extended mixes version of

disco

improves on the original. there are so many versions of that album.

side note met a guy awhile back who had interacted w/kylie and he reported that out of all the celebs he’s dealt with she was just the best, super kind and chill.

― omar little, Sunday, 30 October 2022 20:59 (six months ago) link

Whoops forgot how to tag properly obv let me fix that for legibility

impossible princess vinyl reissue is out and sounds pretty dope. Its rep as an alt-rock album is probably slightly overstated, there’s also a fair amount of trip-hop and glistening dance-pop on here. Those rock songs tho they really don’t hide the presence of manic street preachers; ‘i don’t need anyone’ especially sounds very much like a lost cut from everything must go. i think it’s very much in line with other unexpected detours of that decade and one that’s one of the more successful. ‘some kind of bliss’ and ‘breathe’ remain in the top tier of her career

as mentioned upthread infinite disco is absolutely great, it feels almost like a definitive statement in some ways. also the extended mixes version of disco improves on the original. there are so many versions of that album.

side note met a guy awhile back who had interacted w/kylie and he reported that out of all the celebs he’s dealt with she was just the best, super kind and chill.

― omar little, Sunday, 30 October 2022 21:02 (six months ago) link

side note met a guy awhile back who had interacted w/kylie and he reported that out of all the celebs he’s dealt with she was just the best, super kind and chill.

― omar little

Not the first time I've heard something like this. I think it was Simon Price who said she was one of the nicest celebrities he'd ever interviewed. Kylie and Phil Oakey.

Really enjoying the vinyl reissue of Impossible Princess. It sounds great. Nice to see it improving on its original chart placing and now becoming a top five album in the UK.

― kitchen person, Monday, 31 October 2022 00:39 (six months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8IxEHEo0bM

this is one of the most endearing, likeable things I've ever watched - it doesn't surprise me her personal reputation is so high

― boxedjoy, Monday, 31 October 2022 11:11 (six months ago) link

I saw the Robbie one a while ago and was surprised that I liked the format a lot. Good for an interviewee to use as signposts to talk about relatively niche aspects of certain eras.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 31 October 2022 12:29 (six months ago) link

That was great. So touching to see her get so emotional talking about Glastonbury at the end there.

― kitchen person, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:19 (six months ago) link

Wasn’t aware of these, not being a fashion icon, however will need to check these out. Though can’t imagine anyone being as charming as Kylie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, 31 October 2022 14:21 (six months ago) link

the mariah carey one is great but i should probably post that in a mariah carey thread

― ꙮ (map), Monday, 31 October 2022 18:35 (six months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JqHuOktd9I

new demo from 1994 has leaked, nothing special but still has that vintage '90s pop house charm

― omar little, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:39 (six months ago) link

six months pass...

excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saL6s6OKgAc

New album Tension out Sept 22

― Roz, Thursday, 18 May 2023 13:22 (one week ago) link

really sick song

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 May 2023 13:46 (one week ago) link

Psyched. Feels like it's hot on the heels of Disco but it'll be about three years? Good song!

― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:08 (one week ago) link

does she sing "you look like someone who ate my dog"

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:09 (one week ago) link

Love this. Kylie really knows how to deliver a lead single.

I love how her new eras still feel like an event after all this time.

― kitchen person, Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:30 (one week ago) link

Her albums are imo typically so strong that I'm confident about this one. I need to revisit kiss me once and golden, because while those albums did have some highlights I felt at the time they weren't quite up to par with everything she's released from the 94 self-titled onward.

― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:59 (one week ago) link

I could use a little less pitch-shifting / vocal manipulation but I like the new single. Already want a Bollywood style remix with strings to accentuate the chorus even more.

― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 18 May 2023 16:07 (one week ago) link

oh fuck yeah. that electro-edm-r3hab thing sounds good on her.

― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:17 (one week ago) link

going for the us charts maybe? it could happen. i would love it if it happened.

― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:18 (one week ago) link

does she sing "you look like someone who ate my dog"

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 18, 2023 9:09 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Pitch-shifting really is a psychedelic spice sometimes

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:22 (one week ago) link

Or auto tune, whatever

I dig this song

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:22 (one week ago) link

leave it to kylie to write a believable & still magic-sounding hookup song

― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:25 (one week ago) link

would love it if she made the charts here. i do feel like her kate bush moment has gotta arrive at some point stateside, there are just too many killer songs in her back catalog and potentially more to come.

― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:30 (one week ago) link

"Say Something" topped my '20 singles list -- what a blast of enthusiasm during peak COVID quarter! But in a rare thing I didn't much at all for the album (I played Róisín Murphy's to death though).

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:33 (one week ago) link

i had a dream a while ago that the kate bush thing happened with 'locomotion', there were zoomers on a see-saw on tik tok.

xp i still get a little choked up by some of the stuff on disco, "i can't stop writing songs about you" in particular

― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:36 (one week ago) link

it's gonna be another roisin / kylie year!!!

― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:37 (one week ago) link

i'm telling you, infinite disco is a *killer* album. think the disco extended mixes album might edge out the original slightly, though i still stick w/listening to the OG release since that's the one i physically possess.

― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:40 (one week ago) link

The only tracks that I've had any genuine affection for on each Kylie album since Aphrodite have been their respective lead singles. "Say Something" in particular I just adored; I distinctly remember being brought to tears all of a sudden when watching the Infinite Disco version, which may have in part been a side effect of lockdown-induced mania.

This one feels slightly undercooked (I would like another rehash of the chorus at the end) and all in all is giving me Rita Ora x Imanbek or a lost Inna single. But the sound seems TikTok-friendly to me, so it wouldn't surprise me if it does end up doing something in the charts in the UK at least.

― monotony, Friday, 19 May 2023 01:25 (one week ago) link

feels like it could use an extended mix or another section besides the verse/chorus—2:45 is too short, and that does give it a kind of undercooked feel.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 19 May 2023 01:41 (one week ago) link

i agree it's a little undercooked. the vocal production is also just odd - beyond whatever manipulation is going on it just sits in a weird place in the mix?

i still really like "dance floor darling" from disco

― ufo, Friday, 19 May 2023 01:47 (one week ago) link

yeah I think the vocal production doesn’t let her personality/warmth seep through as much as it could, it’s a bit cold and robotic/robo-tuned. but i could live with it if there was a middle 8 or if the outro was extended into a longer instrumental section.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 19 May 2023 01:59 (one week ago) link

have we seen the video yet? it's just chefs kiss. i roared when she's getting the updraft of air on the junker car. it's soooooooo awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Cnazi_Fi0

― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 21 May 2023 15:52 (one week ago) link

Love the cover art on the album. It's got galaxy brains convincing themselves she's part of the Illuminati based on some comments on her IG lol.

― omar little, Sunday, 21 May 2023 17:14 (one week ago) link

kylie roaming methed out california desert junkyards and motels from the 70s like a malevolent sex demon is exactly what i needed this weekend.

― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 21 May 2023 17:18 (one week ago) link

Yesss

― omar little, Sunday, 21 May 2023 17:34 (one week ago) link

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