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It has shades of the darkness that would appear on Kylie Minogue in 1994, without the conviction. Despite the early career *shock horror* explicit mention of sex and the creeping beat, this song is deceptively traditional – “But what is love/Without the finer feelings”. The harmonies are drab, the rhythm feels dead and so do you after listening to the full three minutes. A namedrop of the O’Jays and the Jackson Five reference feels earnt through the exceptional doo-wop delivery; the production driven by rich wah-guitar, and thumped bass. The new millennium calcified Kylie’s claim to pop royalty and knighted her a gay icon.
It’s a mature recording with acoustic instruments that seemed to spell out a “late career” comedown from the electronic-hype of the early noughties. In retrospect, the track is too strong as a piece of workshop pop – Kylie really does sound like she’s reading lines. She’d left Neighbours and changed out dating the innocence of Jason Donavan for Michael Hutchence – the media didn’t need much further prodding to wheel in the 'good girl turned bad' tropes. About Our Ads "It’s No Secret" has a quietly disruptive sentiment, hidden under the ringing piano and fluffed-up innocence. The song was explicitly marketed to teens, and its music video appears to wink to a rare degree of early self-awareness in its faux-Parisian setting – Minogue is the only spark of colour in the monochrome world, dressed like a Hollywood starlet. Watch the music video for "Spinning Around" below... "Spinning Around" is Kylie’s glamorous epitaph for the 20th century. Kylie Minogue is perhaps the Australian pop star most worthy of a serious retrospective, with a divergent career now straddling nearly five decades, and her 15th studio album, Disco, arriving later this year. The deadpanned bridge -- "Stick or twist, the choice is yours/Hit or miss, what's mine is yours" -- is delivered in a murmur that yearns for a Serious Artiste label.
The lead single from Kiss Me Once was more of a reaffirmation that Kylie Minogue could continue to peddle her trademarked brand of optimism-drenched electro pop nearly 30 years into her career. "Better The Devil You Know"Found On: "Rhythm of Love" (1990). Taken in isolation, the lyrics harken back to bubblegum Kylie, celebrating the naivety of a good mood. It didn’t perform in the charts, and it’s likely because Minogue plays it a little too straight. Here, she is selling every syllable with breathy allure, cloaking her desire in a beautifully inclusive hook. Terms of Use Devotees of Stock Aitken Waterman prize this song, and they’re right to do so; it’s an exemplar of mass-production pop songwriting, with a hook so undeniable you take it as a command. Jason Lipshutz 3/17/2014 The beat borrows from house and jungle music, and in an alternate version, Kylie adds candid lyrics of her own – “Detached and vulnerable / The world on my shoulders...If only I could laugh in the face of irony/Safe in the knowledge of our eternal love”.
A Pharrell Williams-produced song that is unsurprisingly the funkiest instrumental 2010s Kylie presided over, driven by staccato harpsichord. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"Found On: "Fever" (2001). Forgot account? The nu-disco was more refined than Kylie’s previous entries into the genre, with its strings ringing with the fantasia-like fidelity of a Disney soundtrack.