Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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Well? Vertically-challenged talentless Aussie slapper or better than a good date with Britney Spears?

― Ally, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can still remember that "I Should Be So Lucky" song better than I can the "Loco-Motion" remake. And I like what I remember of it as well. And, unlike her ex-beau Mr. Hutchence, she's never been found dead as a result of a bizarre solo sex game, though I can understand how that would elevate her in some eyes.

Hmm...maybe not a classic, but no dud. I mean, when it comes to vertically challenged Australians, better her than those Silverchair rugrats. Although maybe they're tall now.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm gonna say Classic because of how much better she is than all the recent Classic or Dud choices. (Thanks, Ally, for saving us from another difficult Eggnoodley Commie Anti-Music or Eggnoodley Commie Anti-Music question.) I've only heard five Kylie songs - "I Should Be So Lucky", the cover of "Loco-Motion" which I also can't really remember, the murder-by-the-river duet with Nick Cave, "Spinning Around" and "Your Disco Needs You" - but I'll take them over all the Royal Trux albums I just sold.

She's definitely too small though.

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Although totally dud for me, she was clever enough to churn out commercial poop again. I hope her clothes are sold on the basis of how much they weigh. It'll only cost her a few pennies to dress like a successful Traci Lords.

― my fool name, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud. Not really for the songs which are just okayish pop songs, but more for the endless obssesion of the British music and lifestyle press with her. She isn't *that* interesting.

― Omar, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would say Dud because she reminds me of lasses with perms, Danniii,'Especially for You', Streetfighter and 'The Hitman + Her'.

I would say NOTADUD for 'Confide in me' and that video where she gets naked in a Barberella stylee.

But not classic

― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not absolutely a dud, but overrated. Really really overrated, the pop equivalent of GYBE or someone in terms of overratedness. Her various reinventions have been plodding, generally, and "I Should Be So Lucky" isn't even much good. The recent return-to-pop stuff has been weak, on a level with Geri and Emma Bunton, not even as good as Louise's comeback singles. That said once she became the biggest thing in the SAW stable she got some of their choicer songs - "Better The Devil You Know" for instance - so it's not all bad.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think some of the SAW singles are classic, especially "I Should be so Lucky" and "Shocked". But everything else is extremely iffy. Not bad, but just not lovable. Her latest singles try to recapture the spirit of the SAW era, but there's none of the enthusiasm there. I thought "Spinning Around" was lifeless. I really couldn't categorize Classic or Dud. There should be a middle ground of "Eh" in there somewhere...

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll answer my own question now (and yes, Otis, I'm always good to ruin the indie bent of this board): classic, but I think if I was coming from the other 8 billion countries where Kylie is considered famous it'd be a different story. As it is, she's absolutely nothing in America, so it makes her feel underrated for me. Your Disco Needs You is one my favorite singles going right now.

Here's a question: a lot of people I know who classify themselves as pop fans don't particularly care for Kylie, while a lot of indie fans I know overrate her. Did her Nick Cave/Manics collabs ruin her for the pop set with her annoying "realness"?

Next up has got to the Traci Lords: Classic or Dud, except I fear I'm the only person round here with her album ;)

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tom, you really love throwing around that "(genre) version of gybe!" comparison. ;)

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know, it's crap, isn't it. I'm feeling really groggy and ill today so I wasn't up to thinking of another overrated band except for GYBE ;) Beck maybe.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I heard she's gonna do an episode of Neighbours! Probably Madge's funeral...Her songs were okay. Now, she is like one of those Chris Evan's guest people...so pretty dud.

― james edmund L, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh, your mention of Madge reminds me that Mike from Neighbours is actually kicking Charlene's ass popularity-wise in the States.

And deservedly so, since Memento is much more fun than anything Kylie has done lately.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's got to be a question of perspective (geographically, anyway). In the UK, I can see how she'd be an "eh," as you guys get more than your fill of her songs and her appearances and her social life...but here in the U.S.? ZILCH. We got to see "Loco-motion" on MTV a few times way (I mean WAY) back when, had to hunt down a domestic release of "Confide in Me" before it disappeared forever, and have been desperately slapping every single from "Breathe" (fantastic) to "Your Disco Needs You" (genius) on homemade mix CDs so that we can get the word out that she's still alive and still making music and still at least somewhat deserving of an audience in the States. So count your lucky stars if you're sick of Kylie--I'd love to be sick of her. Classic all the way--in the U.S.A.

― Max Jones, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is there a law that all Australians must be in Neighbours at some point in their lives?

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yep! Neighbours has produced so many popstars...Steffan Dennis, Craig McSomething (Henry), Jason Donavon, even the twins released a single (I think). Who will be next?

― james edmund L, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even arch-smuggo Clive James appeared in it once.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kylie Kylie Kylie: DUD! DUD! DUD! She is so shit. completely awful apart from two moments of brilliance: "I should be so lucky" and "Where the Wild Roses Grow". Everything else is sooooo bad. And this rebranding of her as some kind of sex symbol is laughable - does anyone find her attractive? She's like a porcelein doll, not a human being. She'd probably shatter. Gah.

― PihkalBoy, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I think "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is easily one of the most overrated songs of all time. It's the 2nd worst song on Murder Ballads. It was just a stunt duet -- gimmicky and tacky. As far as Kylie duets go, even Kids is better. And I say this as more of a Nick Cave fan than a Kylie fan.

― Nicole, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah yes, the singing budgie. Classic because who knew budgie's could sing? The longevity of her career is more perplexing than Madonna's. Her early hits are all shite, albeit catchy shite, recent hits unremarkably bland. Redeeming features: (a) "Better the Devil You Know" - excellent single, even better video, (b) on-going propensity to fall out of her clothes, though I can't say I fancy her, but I appreciate the gesture, and (c) giving Nick Cave ONE redeeming feature by singing with him. Plus I liked how said duet's video had the (unwitting?) appearance of a Timotei shampoo commercial, Kylie walking wistfully through the grass with the sun in her hair, etc.

― AP, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I must be the only person who actually liked the Impossible Princess album she did before she decided to go full-fledged pop again. As mature artistic makeovers go it beat the living shit out of Ray Of Light. Now Kylie's bigger here than she's ever been really, but everything I've heard off Light Years has left me cold, like it's all a dispassionate attempt to make the SAW/handbag equivalent of "classic pop".

― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, Tim, I like that album too, unfortunate I can't get a copy of it anywhere.

On the attractiveness front: I've always found her terribly UNattractive, actually. I never understood that. I like her for her music and NOWT ELSE. She just looks a bit...I don't know, nostrilly and she's very, very tiny.

― Ally, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would concur with Tom on her being overrated, but what's interesting to me is why she's overrated and how that came about. It always seems to me that she's liked by people who value "timelessness" in chartpop, the opposite of my / Tom's approach, so for us the fact that "I Should Be So Lucky" et al could have been written in 1969 or now just as much as in the late 80s is a reason to be wary of her (the early 90s were, as Tom hints, her best period). There's a tendency to praise that aspect of chartpop while denouncing the genuinely ephemeral stuff as "trash", while for me the more of-the- moment chartpop is, the more points there are in its favour; hence why the greatest SAW singles for me are Mel and Kim's Yuppie Trilogy and, of course, "I'd Rather Jack". By comparison Kylie's stuff of the time is "classic" in the worst sense.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

I think her new video is nearly perfect, the dancing on it is really good. It's like dancing is being constantly alluded to! What kind of a triumph is that? I like the men dressed like Kraftwerk, and the background which is like Metropolis. I like the 'nostalgia for the future.' I like the car, I had a toy car exactly like that, it was my favourite because the doors opened upwards. I like the way her body is all perfect and symmetrical, as if it were computer generated. I like to think that she was airbrushed neatly in photoshop. I like the white dress that doesn't matter if it gapes open, because her body is completely false. Now that I reread this, I feel I'm giving too much credit to Kylie herself. I don't respect her more because of this video and song.

― maryann, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

While I try not to delude myself into believing me to be an oracle of popular culture,I do know for certain one thing.If someone claims to be an artist,they should be capable of producing evidence of thatclaim.If I say I'm a painter,you'd want to see my..paintings.If I'm a singer you'd wnt to hear me sing etc etc.Now here's where the Pro-Anti Kylie thing comes in.As most Pop music is now produced through "Production",Smoke and Mirrors, one doesn't need to have artistic merit to be successful.Just an unshakeable belief in yourself and an unquenchable desire to be noticed.It seems most of the "artists" who appear in todays glossies seem to fall into this category.I always try to make the distinction between Artist and Celebrity.To be fair to Kylie she a classic CELEBRITY.But as an Artist she doesn't of course register on the scale.

― Garry, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Well I used to like Kylie - when I was about 10. Now I cant stand her. I too think she is completely overrated. All she can do is flash her bum, which has recently became a lot more pert. Mmmmm..... And her lips and her boobs and her personality, I reckon are one thing and one thing only - FALSE!!!

Years ago she did not have big lips. Her right eyebrow did not touch her hairline like it does now, it was actually lower than the left one if you look at pics! Her boobs miraculously grew when she was seeing Micheal Hutchence, and her bum doesn't have a crease on it!!! Every bum has creases when you stand up. I dont rate her music either. I agree Better than the Devil you Know was OK, but her recent efforts such as at the Brit awards when she had her ar*e hanging out again, she wanted to be 'cool' by mixing her song with Blue Monday. SOoooo wasn't good.

She is an overrated, plastic, old tart who wants to get some clothes on and give women dignity, not make them look like they are gagging for it. Hopefully she'll go BACK out of fashion, AND SOON!!!!!!!

― Felicity, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She has a wonderful body but sadly only her mouth makes music.
If Im actually supposed to like her singing then shes a dud, if your comparing her to Spears shes classic.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Put Yourself In My Place is absolute classic. as is the title track to Light Years..

― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think she looks beautiful, like a sculpture. I was a bit disappointed when I found out some was plastic surgery but then the plastic surgery-d parts are the dumbest - she could have done okay without the lips and breasts, I mean, it's the shiny smooth skin I think. She has also made her music kind of 'match' herself; I mean, it's superficial and shiny and surfacy. She is like a perfect package. However, I don't actually understand how it's possible to be like that. It's quite disappointing seeing her on Top of the Pops, when strands of hair come loose and she's wearing leather and you can see the grain.

― maryann, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

kylie's great singles that have already been mentioned: confide in me, put yourself in my place, shocked, better the devil you know

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.

― minna, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

More proof of how much criticism can be disarmed by becoming a Gay Icon. Every lapse of taste can be explained as ironic, self- consciously cheesy or deliberately camp. Critics who would normally be contemptuous of such mediocre talent are frozen by fear of appearing unhip or looking like they "don't get it".

― Naomi, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't know anything about Kylie until early this year and I think she's scary and fabulous. There's this part where she shrieks in "More more more" that sends chills down my spine.

― Honda, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm convinced Kylie isn't a real person, she looks like a hologram.

that's what i want - hologram pop stars.

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jem to thread!

― geeta, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I didn't know anything about Kylie until early this year and I think she's scary and fabulous. There's this part where she shrieks in "More more more" that sends chills down my spine."

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.

― Tim, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

late Kylie is like late Bolan ergo CLASSIC

she's even become the cover of Siren

― Paul, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

late Kylie is like late Bolan

not referring to the music
rather the persona

though some of the music (both's) is rather fine...

"..move on up, ya move on back
ya laser luv is like a ..heaartATTAACK!"

― Paul, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

People seem to be comparing The Minogue with Britney Spears. Personally, I think there's no comparison.

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

― Felicity Collinson, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

calling kylie minogue's breasts "goofy- toothed dwarfs" = best post ever

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm worried about the idea that breasts have teeth.

― Ally, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ilx like totally sux0r now!!!

― Ron, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't Get You Out Of My Head is classic, and one or two others have been goodies too. I don't have much idea how much credit Kylie deserves for these or how much blame for the awful, awful ones. She generally looks cute, though that hardly makes her stand out from several hundred other pop stars.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm really obsessed with the title track to Light Years all of a sudden. Hello, my name...is Kylie. I will be...your person - what the hell does it even mean? It's great.

― Ally, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i bought the 'rhythm of love' cd recently, because of 'what do i have to do'... but it's only driven home how great 'better the devil you know' is. i love the synthesiser male back up singer bits:

kylie: "i'll take you back again"
male synthesiser 'oh' noise: "oh oh oh oh oh"
kylie: "i'll take you back again"
male synthesister 'oh' noise: "oo-oo-oh...oo-oo-oh"

i wonder what he's trying to say?

― minna, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'oh'

― Josh, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's also not often-mentioned that Kylie is also CLASSIC for that rapping diva in "Shocked". And also CLASSIC for the poncey dance-in-beret that Kylie does while said diva is in command of the song.

― Tim, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She's getting very credible if the Kid Kreme and Erick Morillo remixes of her new single are a sign of credibility and since Subliminal Records are so good then I think they are.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Being also vertically challenged, gotta go for classic, though "I Should Be So Lucky" should be shredded as a definite cringe-maker.

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

― Nichole Graham, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Put it this way;like her or love her,would you have her sing at your Wedding?

― Garry Coe, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A little POO! (in honor of Keiko) --> "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" [Blue Monday Remix] - That one's a classic. Dud: Didn't she do that "brand new dance" the "Locomotion" ... ? I could do without that song.

― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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they were in ibiza a few weeks back, i think that's where a lot of the footage is from?

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 23 August 2024 21:49 (nine months ago)

Played it out tonight, and Oh My God it landed hard, epic scenes etc. The sonics at volume are exquisite.

― mike t-diva, Saturday, 24 August 2024 02:02 (nine months ago)

awesome. yeah it sounds incredible. that sweet spot where it's loud but also deep and clear. i also played it out last night. most people didn't seem to know it yet but it went over well. kylie doesn't really register with my crowd. doja cat on the other hand... the little shits. i kid. kind of.

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Saturday, 24 August 2024 15:57 (nine months ago)

three weeks pass...

little tease of "lights camera action" on her insta has me EXCITED, brings to mind gaga x charli.. "tension ii" out 10/18!!!

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 20 September 2024 18:24 (eight months ago)

oh dude i was coming here to post this just now

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAF8pUjN7zC

― omar little, Friday, 20 September 2024 18:26 (eight months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAVqr8hwjVY

― mike t-diva, Friday, 27 September 2024 13:53 (eight months ago)

damn that rules

― Roz, Friday, 27 September 2024 14:25 (eight months ago)

^^^

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 27 September 2024 14:33 (eight months ago)

extended mix necessary

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 27 September 2024 15:04 (eight months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Oj7p0ZGPk

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 27 September 2024 15:05 (eight months ago)

song of the year tbh

― ivy., Friday, 27 September 2024 15:40 (eight months ago)

drag queens around the world are rejoicing

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 27 September 2024 16:37 (eight months ago)

The run she’s on is absolutely insane tbh

― omar little, Friday, 27 September 2024 16:37 (eight months ago)

massive

― Murgatroid, Friday, 27 September 2024 17:48 (eight months ago)

why in the world is an extended mix less than 4 mins long ;_;

― Roz, Saturday, 28 September 2024 06:17 (eight months ago)

Her last three albums have all been LP length with later Extended Mixes versions that are an hour long

― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Saturday, 28 September 2024 08:26 (eight months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/M1f5ruX.png

― omar little, Sunday, 29 September 2024 15:25 (eight months ago)

This single is so good and it's one of her best videos in a long time.

Crazy to think this decade alone she's put out Say Something, Magic, Padam Padam, Tension, Hold On To Now, Edge Of Saturday Night and now this. All instant classic singles that would add to her already incredible back catalogue. I don't know how she does it.

― kitchen person, Sunday, 29 September 2024 19:33 (eight months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/WbqIDvP.png

― omar little, Thursday, 3 October 2024 17:27 (eight months ago)

Nice

― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 3 October 2024 17:36 (eight months ago)

two weeks pass...

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.

― kitchen person, Friday, 18 October 2024 03:26 (seven months ago)

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

― Murgatroid, Friday, 18 October 2024 03:29 (seven months ago)

Do it! I’m going.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 October 2024 12:51 (seven months ago)

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

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 18 October 2024 14:16 (seven months ago)

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

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 18 October 2024 14:24 (seven months ago)

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

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 18 October 2024 19:06 (seven months ago)

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.

― omar little, Friday, 18 October 2024 19:16 (seven months ago)

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

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 18 October 2024 20:01 (seven months ago)

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.

― omar little, Friday, 18 October 2024 20:16 (seven months ago)

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.

― omar little, Tuesday, 22 October 2024 18:58 (seven months ago)

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.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 22 October 2024 21:05 (seven months ago)

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.

― skip, Friday, 25 October 2024 20:30 (seven months ago)

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.

― Michael F Gill, Monday, 4 November 2024 15:08 (seven months ago)

three months pass...

new collab with brazilian producer Alok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE7iT8IUnsU

― donna rouge, Saturday, 15 February 2025 00:32 (three months ago)

God, she's been on such a roll recently: the gift that just keeps on giving!

― mike t-diva, Sunday, 16 February 2025 14:02 (three months ago)

fun tune, but why even stretch it out to a full 2 minutes. Just make it the length of a Instagram reel or a TikTok. Surely Kylie’s cover of Wire’s Field Day For The Sundays is imminent.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 16:54 (three months ago)

I’d personally probably prefer a full album of tunes like Hold On to Now or Somebody to Love, instead of songs like this. Though it’s fun for sure.

― omar little, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:10 (three months ago)

one month passes...

just saw her on the tension tour stop in Boston and it was a super fun time. All of the newish songs sounded great live and I think the tempo for all of them was upped. Really leaning into the disco vibes. Was surprised to hear “time bomb” and it was one of the highlights for me, even if it was part of a medley.

― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 10 April 2025 16:42 (one month ago)

Can't wait for the SF show tonight, which I assume will have a VERY vocal crowd.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 17:27 (one month ago)

The Montréal show was sensational. The B stage was total magic, and the post-2020 material hit extremely hard. And Confide in Me knocked me the hell out.

Have fun, Ned!

― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 17:30 (one month ago)

Seeing her tonight!

― skip, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 23:14 (one month ago)

Will wave at you across the arena.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 00:39 (one month ago)

Going to see her on May 2 in LA. I’ve checked out a few videos of the tour, she sounds pretty great, which is to be expected — her voice is arguably stronger now than it’s ever been.

― omar little, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 01:02 (one month ago)

In a word -- well, in a photo:

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― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 15:48 (one month ago)

Highlights for me - Spinning Around, Slow, Locomotion. Love at First Sight turned into a great disco-rock-funk outro. Kylie’s charisma and professionalism are palpable. Her singing voice also seemed stronger than I remember from the 2011 tour.

The previous US tour was very Aphrodite-focused while this one came off as more of a career retrospective. Something for everyone, though the demographic in SF skewed Gen X first and early millennial second.

Hopefully she comes back soon!

― skip, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 21:50 (one month ago)

Curious what the request song was, I’ll be the one shouting “Fragile! or Somebody to Love!” on May 2.

― omar little, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 22:57 (one month ago)

She did a number of short solo snippets of requested songs: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/kylie-minogue/2025/chase-center-san-francisco-ca-b50b57e.html

I Should Be So Lucky got the mostly full treatment with guitar and backup vocals on the B stage.

― skip, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 23:09 (one month ago)

Which was very great since that was how I first heard of her, so it was a bit of a full circle moment.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 April 2025 00:35 (one month ago)

Her singing voice also seemed stronger than I remember from the 2011 tour.

despite her reputation, she’s always been a good singer, who has become an excellent one over time. as the years have gone on her voice has attained some richness and depth. I think I first really noticed her improvement on X, and I would say Disco, Infinite Disco, and Tension are the best she’s ever been. I mean that the singer of “I Should Be So Lucky” (a good performance) is the same singer as the latter album’s title track (total masterpiece of vocals) is simply remarkable.

― omar little, Thursday, 24 April 2025 20:46 (one month ago)

So we saw her last night in Los Angeles, and considering she’s going to be turning 57 this month, the amount of energy she has is crazy. Two hours almost nonstop, only pausing for costume changes. Really, really impressive and a ton of fun. Probably the most enthusiastic crowd I’ve seen in a really long time at a show. There were the obvious hits, and a few really excellent deep cuts. If I had to pick some highlights, there was a really epic performance of Confide In Me, Shocked, Tension, All the Lovers, Two Hearts, and maybe Slow most of all — the latter with an incredible arrangement.

― omar little, Sunday, 4 May 2025 02:02 (one month ago)

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