I really tried to get into this song. I played it like 30 times since it leaked but it still leaves me cold. It sounds a bit like a castoff from Gwen's L.A.M.B. - there's not much that's distinctive about it. Kylie has been doing this sort of sound for almost 4 years now, but for some reason, her music is a lot more fun than "Hung Up". Even the "rainbow" photoshoot that was posted above is something Kylie did years ago. I also heard that snippet of "I Love New York", and I liked that even less. Perhaps this will be the first Madonna album I don't buy.
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Damn...when is this CD gonna leak? I can't wait anymore


question for everyone...what track are you most eager to hear? For some reason,I think that "Sorry" is gonna be the album's gem.That's the tune I'm most excited about hearing.

Please have some faith...I hate Music I heard it for the first time! Now It's on my top ten!

I loved Music from the first time I heard it. Now that was an addictive track. I don't think this is going to grow on me, though. I hope there is one track that convinces me to buy the album, though, like Nothing Fails off American Life.

American Life is Madonna's "The Dreaming"...It's the album that I listen the most!

I think the comparisons Kylie gets to Madonna are both fair and unfair.

I mean, Madonna set the prototype for dance-pop female sex symbols. Kylie's post SAW material follows Madonna's career arch closer than anybody else's. So to pretend that the influence isn't there is a bit silly.

But there's always been something different about Madonna. Now, I'm not gonna act like she's the most profound, deep, important artist ever. But since the beginning, she's been about more than just the image, the sex appeal and the "pop" of it all. Her songs, videos and live performances are highly thematic. She's funny, irreverant, controversial, intelligent, influential...those elements just don't come across much in the other pop divas' work. Behind all the button pushing, the provocative visuals, there's a message and a meaning behind it. Sure, Kylie's cleavage cape and gold hot pants are iconic images at this point...but is there a point? If so, I still haven't figured it out. That's not to take anything away from the Kylies and Britneys and recently, the Janets. It's okay to have some mindless fun and just dance your cares away. Madonna still does that on occasion too. But in that way, it's unfair to the artists that have come since Madonna to expect them to live up to those kinds of standards. And it's unfair to Madonna to reduce her influence to being the forefather of the modern pop tart. She's tackled politics, religion, spirituality, sexuality and gender norms in a way that none of her followers could ever dare.

That said, I can appreciate Kylie, Dannii and even Britney to an extent. I don't listen to their music, but I've heard enough of it and quite like a few of their songs. I could probably even name nearly 50 Kylie songs that I kinda dig and that surprises me cuz I used to hate her. I think she's carved out a decent niche for herself and has a respectable body of work at this point. But she's no Madonna.

I agree with just about everything you said.From the very beginning,Madonna always had that "extra something" that makes her stand out from other dance music divas.She always had a purpose,a message,a point she had to make.Lyrically,she went deeper than Kylie and the others will ever go.Madonna is so much more than just image,a sexy smile and cool dance beats.

Just for the record, Kylie has tackled much more serious fodder from 1994-1997, especially with Impossible Princess. Since it flopped, she basically pulled a Confessions of a Dancefloor and went straight up dance.

Yes, Impossible Princess was Kylie's Ray of Light. She wrote two of the songs on it by herself, one of which is "Too Far", which basically came out of nowhere and which I think is one of her best. Michael Hutchence taught her many tricks of songwriting when they were together in the early 90's.
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not michael but this guy:



Almost 30 songs where written by Kylie during the period between KM94 and IP. Stephane Sednaoui (yes, the french guy that is a photographer and video director extraodinare!) influenced her in2 writting about her personal and inner thought!

They also did a trip throught the US, in which some tunes of IP where written!!

Some gems from the IP era are:

Free
This Girl
Love Takes Over Me

(damm all of them!)

Him, too. But Michael was the reason she broke away from SAW/PWL.

They r so diferent! Kylie is pure class and fun!

Yeah, Kylie's so cute. I wish I could package her up and take her home with me

And you know no one does B-sides better than Kylie. Ocean Blue

American Life is Madonna's "The Dreaming"...It's the album that I listen the most!

I burned myself a copy without American Life or I'm So Stupid on there. Then it's perfect

Yeah, Kylie's so cute. I wish I could package her up and take her home with me

And you know no one does B-sides better than Kylie. Ocean Blue