Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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.

that's what i want - hologram pop stars.

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.

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??????????????????

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

agree on that last point too.

http://www.cstrecords.com/img/godspeed/mapofevilinvert.jpg

To tell you the truth I put on Fever a ot more than say, Rooty or Under Construction.

Fever is inconsistent. Light Years is all bliss, except that horrid ballad thing in the middle. You skip that obv.

I mean, is her explosive commercial success of 2 years ago now eclipsed?

I finally downloaded it yesterday and I'm obsessed with it now.
It's even better than I remembered - that synth part, that bassline, the whispered backing vocals in the chorus...holy shit, it's the best song ever.

Any thoughts on 'Ultimate Kylie'? Mine are that the first disc is best used as a frisbee, but that the second is really pretty great. I'm surprised by how many of these I like. I can even cope with the Robbie duet and 'Spinning Around' in retrospect.

Otherwise, quite good.

The only Kylie thing I bought was "Some kind of bliss" the nice 7" single. It's not on this.

sounds good to me, liking that guitarish synth part near the end

I've been dancing in my office for the last hour.

someone get me water

Sending you a tropical storm, hold tight

When I first heard Padam I thought it sounded like recent (ish) Metric, for a little bit at least

Sending you a tropical storm, hold tight

― omar little

I need a storm surge

Feeling the warm urge

I feel our bodies merge

A bit old for this dirge

liking this a lot on first listen

I think this one is fantastic (most of the joy of "Padam" to me was in seeing it resonate beyond Kylie's core 2023 audience), but from what I hear, most of the album won't necessarily follow the same icy electro path as these singles. Still very excited for it though.

this is great. I agree about the grimes comparison, though the chorus makes me flash on "look what you made me do"

coolest Tardis ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-aEr4WRPYk

Maybe amaarae more than grimes ?

Anyway this is ok to me, I think I’m just not that interested in this sonic template at this point but I’m sure no one in her audience will be disappointed

Amazing MV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyk7_8x1SKc

The singles were a bit misleading for the album, but I'm really enjoying it. Vegas High, Story and especially Hold On To Now are my immediate favourites. I slightly prefer it to Disco. Feel like I'm into that album much more than most people on here though.

misremembered the title as Pressure since she is holding a diamond on the cover - last minute change do you think?

the album is cute, but yes the singles are the best songs on it. I like "One More Time" which feels like a Future Nostalgia leftover and "Hold On To Now" is that big sweeping electropop that she does so well (although admittedly when I hear it I do compulsively just want to put on Robyn's "Honey" instead)

yeah agree with that, a lot of this feels like Kylie by-the-numbers to me though it's a very breezy and enjoyable listen.

Apart from the singles, my favourite track is "Hands" - the rapped verses are just on the right side of silly, and the chorus is lovely

Quite taken with 'Hold On To Now' but never got round to checking out the previous two albums.

title track is one of my fave Kylie tracks ever at this point, just sublime stuff imo. the rest of the album is less unpredictable, but still stellar. i imagine this is going to be her biggest US album since Fever, riding the Padam Padam wave, and bolstered by the Vegas residency.