APHRODITE (is the new album by Kylie Minogue)

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How busy will this thread be in 2010? Hopefully very busy.

Not feeling the fake rocks tbh.

So "All The Lovers" just made its debut on Radio One, and the nice people at the record label were kind enough to share the entire track (Moyles-free!) on Youtube. Why they're doing it a full six weeks before the single is commercially available, I dunno. It took me less than 5 minutes to extract it and make my own mp3, but whatevs... labels will be labels.

Anyway, here's the track. Those high synths during the chorus and again during the instrumental break near the end KILL IT DEAD!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekPRAeHc-L4

if this was 2003, we'd have a mashup with OX4 in t-10 and counting.

love love love this.

This should be great. She's been on a hot streak since the late '90s.

From Popjustice:

Everyone loves a tracklisting.

Here's one for Kylie's 'Aphrodite'.

1. All The Lovers
2. Get Outta My Way
3. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)
4. Closer
5. Everything Is Beautiful
6. Aphrodite
7. Illusion
8. Better Than Today
9. Too Much
10. Cupid Boy
11. Looking For An Angel
12. Can’t Beat The Feeling

But who, you might be wondering, is responsible (APART FROM KYLIE) for the tuneage on offer?

'Et voila':

ALL THE LOVERS
Written by Jim Elliot & Mima Stilwell
Produced by Jim Eliot
Additional production and mix by Stuart Price

GET OUTTA MY WAY
Written by Cutfather: Lucas Secon, Damon Sharpe, Peter Wallevik, Daniel Davidsen & Mitch Hansen
Produced by Cutfather, Peter Wallevik & Daniel Davidsen
. Co-produced by Damon Sharpe, Lucas Secon & Stuart Price

PUT YOUR HANDS UP (IF YOU FEEL LOVE)
Written by Fin Dow-Smith, The Nervo Girls
Produced by Starsmith. Co-produced by Stuart Price. Additional vocal production by Nervo.
Mixed by Starsmith and Stuart Price

CLOSER
Written by Stuart Price & Beatrice Hatherley
Produced & mixed by Stuart Price

EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL
Written by Fraser T Smith & Tim Rice-Oxley (“Keane”)
Produced and mixed by Fraser T Smith

APHRODITE
Written & produced by Nerina Pallot & Andy Chatterley
Additional production and mix by Stuart Price

ILLUSION
Written by Kylie Minogue & Stuart Price
Produced & mixed by Stuart Price

BETTER THAN TODAY
Written & produced by Nerina Pallot & Andy Chatterley
Additional production and mix by Stuart Price

TOO MUCH
Written by Kylie Minogue, Calvin Harris & Jake Shears
Produced and mixed by Calvin Harris.

CUPID BOY
Written by Sebastian Ingrosso (“Swedish House Mafia”), Magnus Lidehall, Nick Clow & Luciana Caporaso
Produced & mixed by Stuart Price & Sebastian Ingrosso & Magnus

LOOKING FOR AN ANGEL
Written by Kylie Minogue & Stuart Price
Produced & mixed by Stuart Price

CAN’T BEAT THE FEELING
Written by Hannah Robinson, Pascal Gabriel, Borge Fjordheim, Matt Prime & Richard X
Produced by Stuart Price, Pascal Gabriel & Borge Fjordheim.
Mixed by Stuart Price

Yes we did just copy and paste all that from a press release. What of it?

With the whole thing masterminded by Stuart Price, I'm having visions of Confessions on a Dance Floor part II. (Yay!)

Is that her on the cover?

"KILL IT DEAD!" meaning "bad" or "KILL IT DEAD!" meaning "good"?

Meaning "good." I probably should've said kill me dead. When it explodes into that part around 2:30, it's made of win!

haha yeah i thought kill it dead was a bad thing

It's like adult-alternative Eurodance.

Not too crazy about it. The melody reminds me of "The Promise" (When In Rome, not Girls Aloud) which I never really liked in the first place. I'm also kind of disappointed they decided not to include any Xenomania songs on the album.

It's like adult-alternative Eurodance.

― skip, Friday, May 14, 2010 10:48 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^this. ugh i am not feelin this track

the chorus kinda seems like the weak link in the track to me. i do love the verses despite their slight cheesiness, though, as well as that instrumental break. in any case it's the most interesting thing kylie's done in quite a while, imo

Love the single. As long as she keeps to the electro sound and doesn't try anything like that ill-advised first single off her previous album.

2 Hearts? I loved that track!

Sounds like eurovision twaddle to me.

Love the single. As long as she keeps to the electro sound and doesn't try anything like that ill-advised first single off her previous album.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 14 May 2010 23:12 (3 weeks ago)

omg so rongro

about 2 hearts that is. New single is dope.

Heard a clip today of another really good track from the album, Cupid Boy. So far, Aphrodite is 2-for-2.

"2 Hearts" was incredible. As was her "electro sound," as Geir so eloquently puts it.

(leaked.)

http://a.yfrog.com/img341/9231/juh.jpg

'i've got to nip over to the label office to pick up a vinyl copy of my new album. oh, this'll do'

Haha. I wonder if she even owns normal clothes.

Two times through the album, btw, and I'm thinking it's the sequel to Kylie that some people have been waiting for since 2001. I happen to have liked the albums in the interim, but more of this is good too.

people i trust are telling me i will love this album.
friendships are on the line here.
but given i loved 'X', i think its a safe bet ..

The only Kylie album I've heard in full was X, which I loved. Looking forward to giving this a spin.

lots better than i was expecting, get outta my way & put ur hands up are jamz

Still wins. Top 3 Kylies of all time. Even the few dud songs are bearable.

how has this album and its singles done in the charts? i get the impression it was a total flop, sadly.

Yeah, it does seem to have sunk without a trace. Mystifying considering she's well on her game for the first time in about 10 years.

Get Outta My Way and Put Your Hands Up are pretty awesome but I think I'd be embarrassed to play them around most of my friends.

she's well on off her game for the first time in about 10 years

i am now in the right place to enjoy this album
its rather wonderful when your need that pop up-lift

new track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2wGYCINwY

Hate the video, but like the song.

not available in my country

I'M AUSTRALIAN FFS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYU8gdnkgZE

good song

shes also in & does music for the new carax flick -The soundtrack for Holy Motors will include a new Kylie Minogue song titled “Who Were We?”, which was written by Carax and Neil Hannon.

how was "can't beat the feeling" not a single?

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Yes! That is maybe my favorite song on the album.

Holy shit, I'd forgotten how much that song provided something for Daft Punk to borrow from for "Get Lucky".

that is some flagrantly silly influence-projecting

yeah i don't hear that at all

Are we not listening to the same song?

Skateboard P's whole chorus melody in Get Lucky is ripped right from the main synth theme of Can't Beat the Feeling, and the way the bass notes play off that melody is exactly the same. But whatever.

randomly heard 'the one' off x today & felt similar pangs of massive appreciation

Skateboard P's whole chorus melody in Get Lucky is ripped right from the main synth theme of Can't Beat the Feeling, and the way the bass notes play off that melody is exactly the same. But whatever.

I hear what you're talking about: the seven notes of "We've come too far to give up" echo a main part of the "Can't Beat the Feeling" synth hook. But the lines resolve differently. And "Get Lucky" is a bit slower, besides. Actually, where "Can't Beat the Feeling" reminds me more of Daft Punk is in the actual tone of that synth, which feels very Discovery-ish.

But the lines resolve differently.

The final two notes. Everything else is identical. I feel like anyone who would deny it probably also bought Vanilla Ice's argument about the bassline of "Ice Ice Baby".

sorry I don't hear it at all!

Ice sampled a song that had been a huge hit for over a decade. a synth melody from a recent album cut, transposed to a vocal line and modified in a significant way... even if i was certain the authors of "Get Lucky" had heard that song, i'd say changing that much is less 'borrowing' than just 'songwriting.'

plus both acts are mining a shared area of homage/nostalgia, i wouldn't be surprised if one of ilm's disco experts could point to one or several old songs that use similar melodies, it feels like very 'stock ascending disco riff.'

To be clear, I'm not accusing the robots of deliberate theft of the theme. It had just been driving me nuts since I first heard "Get Lucky" where I'd heard that theme before, because I was certain I had—and thanks to this thread I was able to pinpoint it.

Still, though, I can't believe some of y'all don't hear it as well. It's exactly the same minus the final two notes.

i hear it. i just think there are only so many notes, coincidences of this kind are very plausible to me.

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

Another occurrence from just this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0LP0FbR4Ng

that one's gotta be in reverse though, it didn't come out apparently until august

Oh right, I wasn't saying anybody stole anything from anyone else. Just that this melody seems to be zeitgesiting in my own sphere the last couple days.

I was just fishing around on Spotify after listening to the new Kris Menace album last night to see what else he's done recently and this song dropped in my lap. Very timely!

We have Aphrodite but I don't think I'd ever made it to track 12 before so thanks a lot Jordan for the shout.

Not one mention on this thread of the Abbey Road Sessions afaics. Any takers?

#TIL that "Get Outta My Way" was cowritten by Lucas "With the Lid Off" Secon