Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

I actually had the "don't worry, I don't think she has stans, you'll be fine" / "yes, she does" argument before it went up (not with an editor)

It seems counterintuitive that a feverish hate-mail writing stan culture is made up of 40-something blokes.

can i introduce you to "men"

like... have you never been on reddit

actually it's about ethics in disco revisionism journalism

I'm coming around to this album a little bit. It does sound pretty same-y along with the other recent releases listed above (Horse Meat Disco, Dua Lipa, etc). A lot of different acts that used to sound different seem to have converged to this style.

my experience of going on reddit is: aspie-adjacent podcast listeners politely apologising to each other if anyone misunderstands someone else & downvoting sexism; and Am I The Asshole? readers telling people that they absolutely are the asshole, and they don't deserve their girlfriends, mothers' love, or to have a cat.

can i introduce you to "men"

point absolutely taken on my wording. but in my head, the sort of stans who brigade with hate mail were primarily teens-to-22ish with the combo of too much energy, and insecurity. 44-year-old gay men who loved Kylie when they were 12 or 25 have had plenty of experience of her putting out 6/10 albums with a few generous 8/10 tracks in the five calendar decades that she's had UK #1s!

gonna have to repeat Maura's "like... have you never been on reddit" here

You guys talk like going on Reddit is something that healthy-minded people do. Been on Parler lately?

a good number of people on this site go on RYM, which is basically /mu/

All ILXors should sign an exclusive contract that forbids you from visiting other websites.

There's other websites?

So they say, and they’re *bad*.

i thought this was google

gonna have to repeat Maura's "like... have you never been on reddit" here

my answer will remain the same as in the post you're replaying to!

okay I looked at the Kylie reddit and the top threads are:

- Hi fellow kylie lovelies - I am loving Disco Tv on YouTube and thought you all might like it too - it’s a wonderful mix of all of Miss Minogue’s fabulous videos (including lyric videos for the Disco album) has really cheered me up and hope it makes someone else smile 🥰

- When she was on the Voice (photo)

- Kylie Minogue Breaks Down 17 Looks From 1988 to Now | Life in Looks | Vogue (youtube link, 1 reply)

- Disco debuts at 25 on the Billboard 200, her highest-charting U.S. album since Aphrodite (5 replies wishing she would tour)

- Kylie Minogue - Blame It On The Boogie [Mike Walsh Show 1987] (youtube link, no replies)

- Spotted in Sydney this morning (photo of a flyposter, 5 replies asking where the cassette is sold)



not an argument against there being absolutely horrible subreddits elsewhere but this is even less enthusiasm than I'd have expected, let alone any negativity

*tips fedora at maura*

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

Do Gaga fans go HAM over mixed reviews? I think of the Little Monsters as peaceful.

this critically-acclaimed nu disco thing reminds me of griselda

endless RIYL slots enabled by genre specific playlisting

members of all 'stanbases' are fully capable of stooping to horrific lows, and indeed do so somewhat regularly. while yes the contingent overall skews gay, male and young, plenty of these folks are supposedly grown up too! pretty horrifying

I don't see why people are surprised grownups can do this, has anyone ever met a republican, or one of the adults who sneers at people online for morally neutral things they find embarrassing

basically, have you ever met a human being

I can honestly say I’ve never known anyone IRL whom I thought had the capacity to launch personal attacks at a writer over a music review.

pretty sure critics are real and daft and mean

also i dunno what's the problem are you worreid the world will misevaluate a Kylie record>?

also lol keeping a score keeping a score

I can honestly say I’ve never known anyone IRL whom I thought had the capacity to launch personal attacks at a writer over a music review.

― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Saturday, November 21, 2020 7:45 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no offense but you're on this board, so you do

maybe that doesn't qualify as IRL but there are many people here who have personally attacked me over my opinions about bands or my "insane" way of listening to music

I might say Noodle Vague is insane for laboriously relistening to alternate mixes so many times that it's slightly dragging out the results of the MC Tunes poll, but it's just out of admiration for his process

this was specifically saying that my preferring to not listen to music that makes me feel bad is an "insane" way of listening

what kind of music makes you feel bad?

generally it involves lyric

as in the lyrics make you feel bad because they're offensive?

I think this album is good and I'm sorry people are terrible, it's just a review. :(

PS Supernova is def the best track here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFYLeTJEvWY
Kylie ft. Dua Lipa, Róisín Murphy & Jessie Ware - Real Groove (Studio 2054 Remix)

well, not quite, but still...

Lol. I like this but it needs a better chorus

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

ehhhhhhh

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

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

"magic" is good

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.

omg this rules

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

gloria sounds SO GOOD

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)

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

this Infinite Disco live album is incredible

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.

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

that's a jam, thanks