Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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.

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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.

I am thinking 'I believe in you' might be my favourite single of the year. This is odd, really.

Her vocals sound great on it, and it's got that icy siren quality that made Fever so brilliant.

The new album seems quite slight, especially with the songs being so short, but there's some great stuff here. It definitely works better as an album if you stop it after Edge Of Saturday Night.

should I go see her live next year? still quite a few seats available

Do it! I’m going.

I’m going too! I don’t think she has toured around the US in over a decade.

btw the new album is 13 songs in 36:47, so it does seem like there was an effort to keep all the songs extra short

On one listen “Hello” is a bit too much of a padam rewrite but the rest of the new tracks are fun

this album is *almost* all bangers, the Sia track is kinda generic and the Orville Peck collab is more just fun than it is really good. everything else is the good shit.

the sia track does sound written in 5 minutes but it fits the vibe and I think it works better as a Kylie featuring sia song than the other way around. has grown on me.

I kind of want to hear the Orville song with just Kylie doing all the parts

i don't think the Sia track is bad or anything, in fact it's better than i thought it would be considering the takes i read here and there.

i actually really like Hello a lot -- once it kicks in properly around the 30 second mark it starts killing it.

this is a really cohesive album, up thru EOSN. It does sound like a very skilled attempt at capturing the "Padam Padam" lightning in a bottle with almost every track being under 3 min and several of them having a *really* similar style, and it feels more like a bonus album than a real major statement, but in that capacity it's really impressive. There are plenty of people out there who seem to prefer this to Tension itself, and while I'm definitely not one of them, I can understand the perspective.

It’s definitely has a “mini-album” or “bonus album” vibes, and I can see how the previously released collab tracks at the end feels like further “bonus tracks”. But you are right the fact that it doesn’t take itself too seriously or try to do much is one of its strengths.

I'm underwhelmed by this, but I never got much enjoyment from Padam Padam so no surprise that what is essentially a Padam Padam-knockoff extended EP/mini LP is not rising to the top.

just heard the extended version of tension ii (was only available for a few days on her website, you can find it on YouTube at least for now) and a lot of the songs breathe better at 3-4 minutes with longer intros and breakdowns. Not sure they all need the extended touch, but it does make them slightly trackier/closer to classic extended disco tracks. There are random times where the instrumental breakdown happens in the middle of the second verse / before the second chorus, but otherwise worth checking out.