Why wasn't Kylie Minogue a hit in the States?

i think people do like remember her here ... shes not like a total non entity. altho yes they remember her mainly as a one-album cycle star

yeah that's accurate. "Can't You Get Out of My Head" remains enduringly and broadly popular, beyond her cult

I think in the UK, aside from the gay icon thing which is obviously massive, there's a sense of enormous ongoing affection, almost like she's been adopted by the country, that people have grown up with her, plus the cancer battle at the peak of her career, there's an ongoing engagement with the soap opera of Kylie that's largely separate from what she might really be like as a person.

Also there's more than enough glamour going on to make her feel like a proper pop star while also fulfilling the key British pop criterion that you just might conceivably bump into her in your local pub. I think this might be different even to how it is in Australia.

Also the British media tends to occasionally Dianafy female pop stars and it definitely did that with Kylie around 2005.

there aren't really any australian pop stars who both have the star power of kylie and still live here so there's not really the 'just might conceivably bump into her in your local pub' thing i think

does Delta Goodrem come close? I’ve always had the impression she was/is mega big in Australia, but please correct me if I’m off the mark here (also, I don’t know where she resides obviously).

I dunno if Delta has any general cultural resonance as a pop star after the '00s, beyond it getting her a $2 million/yr TV gig, that then provides her with a discrete audience for the occasional record and tour.

(Even as a teenager she was basically AOR, too - a big chunk of her initial marketing was that she'd been signed by John Farnham's manager.)

omg i had no idea there was a new single, it's GREAT

Would be interested in seeing American’s take on the reaction of the Glastonbury crowd. Such a joyful, loving experience. I’d wonder if a ‘neutral’ could experience it in the same way without the back story of her career/persona.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ0Qr__LQNY

i hear Disco tracks out in the wild more than any other Kylie tracks these days, maybe even more than CGYOOMH. it's weird that it was slightly more of a slow-burn album for me at the very beginning, because it has the feel of one of her classics. for me at this point it probably rates vv slightly above the other disco-influenced pop classics of 2020, w/the exception of Roisin Machine.

Do you think there is some similarity to the Aussie love of Kylie as to perhaps Canadian Iove of Celine Dion or is that a totally different thing?

Do you think there is some similarity to the Aussie love of Kylie as to perhaps seppo love of Elvis Presley or is that a totally different thing?

Don’t think there is anything quite like death week in Memphis.

It’s probably that Kylie is the superstar everyone of a certain age grew up with via Neighbours, and she seems particularly beloved not just for that obv but for her persona and reputation for being a vv decent human being. But there’s more complexity to it than that I’m sure.