Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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

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

Or auto tune, whatever

I dig this song

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

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.

"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).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Yesss

Padam Padam becoming an actual hit single and getting Radio One to playlist Kylie for the first time in 13 years is so cool to see.

It's a real grower, and a sick video obv

first Beyonce invented house and now Kylie invents techno, what a time to be alive

sounds like r3hab to me but elevated of course

ah ok

Best known for their work on hits like Clean Bandit’s Rockabye, producer Lostboy and songwriter Ina Wroldsen have penned the lyrics for the song.

A pop star who seems like a decent human being also has an album dropping soon. New single tomorrow.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cwk6hIxoun7/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

this song is great

same hard discrete electro approach as "padam" but inflected with just a little feverish disco... it sounds so sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70z_YAcOD3E

love the piano

This album's gonna be fire

As with Padam Padam I can't help but feel this it's quite anonymous. But I don't really mind it.

(Also, as with PP, I can hear the perfect moment for a cool fade-out but then no one does something as playlist-unfriendly as that anymore.)

i actually hear some Grimes in this a bit, there's something about the airiness of it which hits the same sweet spot for me. minus the fascism.

Piano house resurgence example #12312415155153

Yeah no I'm being too kind really. I'm not feeling this if I'm being honest with myself. Which I initially wasn't with the last album either.

Not being honest that is.

this isn’t as immediate as Padam Padam was, but feels like it might grow on me (whereas I tired of PP pretty quickly). either way, it’s great - her consistency is incredible

the last one grew on me a lot, though i did like it on first pass. the extended mixes album and Infinite Disco might be the best incarnations of those tracks however. Padam Padam is another which sounds a bit better over time. this one really sounds to me like another possible hit, though who knows?

Among the reasons I admittedly like this is that it sounds like something that won't be a hit circa 2023

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