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Kylie Minogue Announces New Single & Album (Thread 2)
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June 24, 2010
Kylie Minogue will finally play at Glastonbury this weekend.
Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears has co-written several songs on her new album, 'Aphrodite'.
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Leak already.
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^^ | |
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4 real?She's boring, hasn't been musically or culturally relevant since 2002. | |
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Agreed. The woman makes me yawn. | |
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I'm mad that it hasn't.
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New Billboard.com interview/review (apres Splash gig) The rest of the world has loved her since the '80s. Now Kylie Minogue is hoping the third time's the charm for her U.S. career.
It's a hot, sweaty June Friday night in New York when Kylie Minogue arrives at the Splash club, the first step on a yearlong journey designed to re-establish her as one of the world's biggest pop-dance superstars. Initially, she'd planned to just introduce her new single, euphoric floor-filler "All the Lovers." Then, she decided to unveil a special megamix of tracks from her 11th studio album, "Aphrodite," due July 6 in the United States on Astralwerks and a day earlier in the United Kingdom on Parlophone. But ultimately, being Kylie, when she found herself onstage surrounded by a seething, cheering mass of adoring humanity, she just couldn't help herself. "I'm elevated, I have a microphone, so of course I'm going to sing along," she says with a smile, still buzzing about the impromptu performance-a far cry from her usual state-of-the-art arena shows-a few days later as she sips tea from a Kylie Minogue cup in manager Terry Blamey's West London office. "Nothing can replace playing live-not just for me, but for the audience. It's what resonates in that country." That the country involved was the United States -- as opposed to the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany or Japan -- is significant. Minogue, 42, may have long had a hardcore U.S. fan base in gay clubs like Splash but, in truth, while the rest of the world has enjoyed a decades-long love affair with the diminutive Aussie, the U.S. pop mainstream has settled for a couple of one-night stands. The first time, in 1988, she was a bubble-haired 20-year-old, all cheeky smiles and gauche dance moves, singing a production-line pop version of Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "The Loco-Motion." Elsewhere in the world, that was enough to catapult her to enduring superstardom. In the United States, not so much. By the time Minogue finally managed her second top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Can't Get You Out of My Head" 14 years later, she'd been transformed into a sleek, sexed-up electro-pop diva. Not that it did her much good. While she did move 1.1 million U.S. copies of parent album "Fever" (Capitol), according to Nielsen SoundScan, it ultimately merely marked the start of another eight years in the pop wilderness. But now, Minogue's back in America. And truly, if ever a record was in the right place at the right time, it's "Aphrodite." It arrives just as mainstream America discovers a love of precisely the sort of upbeat pop-dance tunes with which Minogue made her name. It will be released on the same label that broke David Guetta-another Europe-based superstar who'd never quite crossed over stateside. And it also emerges just as Minogue herself finally decides to give the world's No. 1 music market her undivided attention. That process began last October with her first U.S. tour. Without a current album to promote, she nonetheless played to 37,172 people at nine shows in six American/Canadian cities, for a reported gross of $3.1 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. "I was just getting really tired of my answers for why I'd never toured there," she says. "Something just clicked and I thought, 'If I don't do it now, I'll never do it.' " Unusually, America will get "Aphrodite" at the same time as the rest of the world-"Anything other than simultaneous and I'd have hit the roof," she says-and Astralwerks senior VP/GM Glenn Mendlinger is convinced her time has finally come. "I'm very optimistic," Mendlinger says. "She's maintained a base of 40,000-60,000 people in the U.S. that know her and buy her music on a regular basis. Now we need to pull other fans back into the mix." Globally, Minogue has high-profile TV appearances like "Friday Night With Jonathan Ross" (United Kingdom) and "Germany's Next Top Model" lined up, while she will launch the album to the world's media with a release party in Ibiza, Spain. Touring-including more U.S. dates-will follow in 2011. But Astralwerks' U.S. launch campaign will follow the Guetta model rather than an international superstar template. That means initially targeting the fan base in the clubs-"All the Lovers" is No. 31 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart-and the gay community to build buzz, before attempting to cross over to rhythmic and pop radio later in the summer. "If you study the science of rhythmic radio, tempos are getting faster and faster," says Nick Gatfield, EMI's president of new music for North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland. "Top 40 and rhythmic radio have come 'round to her sound, which gives us the strongest opportunities for her in America since 'Fever.' " But if "Aphrodite" is beginning to sound like an album conceived in a focus group rather than a nightclub, rest assured, it isn't. Indeed, ironically enough, this was supposed to be the record that moved Minogue away from her natural dancefloor habitat to more mature territory. When initial sessions for the album began in April 2009, Minogue was paired with U.K. singer/songwriter Nerina Pallot. Among the first fruits was "Better Than Today." Excited by the live instrumentation feel and all too aware that Minogue's previous album, 2007's "X" (Capitol), had suffered from a serious case of too many chefs, Parlophone decided natural and grown-up could be the way to go. But subsequent sessions were less productive, and Pallot's songs were rapidly supplemented with tracks from a wide range of songwriters and producers, to the point where Minogue became "very confused." "I remember saying, 'Where's the dance tracks?' " she says now. "I felt like I was going down the same road, doing the rounds of all the pop dynamos but lacking any cohesive quality." Enter Minogue's "fairy godmother," Jake Shears. Shears was making the Scissor Sisters' "Night Work" (Downtown) album with Stuart Price, whose work on the Killers' "Human" had been a touchstone for the early "Aphrodite" sessions. "In the most caring, loving, GBF [gay best friend] kind of way," Minogue says with a laugh, "Jake basically pestered me to work with Stuart." Parlophone president Miles Leonard enlisted Price as executive producer in December 2009 and together they set about retooling the record. "Better Than Today" and the Pallot-penned title track remain, albeit in funked-up incarnations. Shears teamed with U.K. dance artist Calvin Harris and Minogue to write the trancey "Too Much." And Price made coherent sense of diverse offerings from collaborators including Nervo ("Put Your Hands Up [If You Feel Love]"), Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley ("Everything Is Beautiful") and Swedish House Mafia ("Cupid Boy"), ending up with not just a cluster of potential hits, but an album that Gatfield predicts will be among 2010's "top five biggest global pop records." Certainly, "All the Lovers" is off to a fast start, hitting No. 1 on the U.K. radio airplay chart after four weeks. Indeed, "Lovers" has the aura of one of "those" Minogue songs-the once-every-few-years anthems, like "Spinning Around" or "Can't Get You Out of My Head"-that come along, re-engage her original fan base and bring in the next generation. "I feel like it's spreading joy," she says, beaming. "Which is the best thing I could ever have wished for." Minogue may joke about her comparative veteran status-"I'm going to be put out to pasture soon"-but, in the same way that she was once said to have been all five of the Spice Girls at some point in her career, Minogue could be forgiven for looking at some of her current rivals for electro-pop queen bee status and thinking, "Been there, done that, got the uncomfortable-looking latex corset." Certainly, as Miley Cyrus struggles to make the transition from wholesome TV persona to grown-up dancefloor diva, she could do worse than study how Minogue graduated from her tomboy role on Australian soap opera "Neighbours" to "Better the Devil You Know" saucepot. As Christina Aguilera seeks out indie cred through collaborations with Le Tigre and Peaches, Minogue could point to her mid-'90s dalliances with Nick Cave and the Manic Street Preachers. Even Lady Gaga's co-option of cutting-edge dancefloor trends into pop statements seems to have something in common with Minogue's "Fever" period. But perhaps the main difference is, Minogue has always seemed at ease with herself. Even as she recovered from breast cancer diagnosed in 2005, she seemed to move effortlessly through the minefield of modern celebrity, never giving much away. Except when she's onstage. "Fame is a very weird thing and it can be confusing at times," she says. "The reason performing live is so addictive is that that's where [fame] makes sense. People are there to see you, you're there to show yourself, you're all there to share an experience and be in a frenzy. "Onstage, you don't have to deal with the real world-you deal with the world you've created. To have that great energy, nothing else can beat it. So you could call me an addict." And with that, there's a knock at the door to tell us our time is up. The schedule says she has to attend a management meeting, hit the studio to record with rising British pop combo Hurts and show up at a reception for Tous, the jewelry brand for which she is the public face. But in her head, she'll still be onstage at that sweaty club. Singing. Dancing. Being Kylie  
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and a majority of her catalog sounds the same. | |
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Doesn't this Miley song sound like "Love at First Sight?"
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That could be said about any artist. If you don't like the music of an act then it will seem that all their songs sound the same. [Edited 6/24/10 13:33pm] | |
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Actually, no lol. I do like some of her music but I don't like that her music doesn't evolve. [Edited 6/24/10 13:37pm] | |
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I think that since 1993, she evolved quite a bit with every album up through "I Believe in You". It was X that was sort of a victory lap for her career, recalling previous styles. Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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IT LEAKED, NO JOKE! | |
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WOW! That's all i gotta say! Kylie is back on top of her game and showing the Lady Gaga's, Kelly Rowlands, and Xtinas how to do sleek sexy and senusal pop music the right way. Fans said Madonna chose Stuart Price to make her Kyliesque album "Confessions on a Dancefloor" so it only makes sense for him to work with the real deal. Not many artists blossom and have their greatest albums 20 years into their career but Kylie is doing just that with this album though Body Langauge and X were spotty they were still some of the best pop records of the last decade and Aphrodite joins the rest of the parlophone panethon, Light Years, Fever, BL and X as amazing carefree dance/pop done right.http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/music/aphrodite-album-review/story-e6frf9hf-1225881695424
Kylie Minogue promised to live every moment. You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
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So what do you all think of the album? | |
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apart from "All The Lovers" and the megamix, i've not heard anything else....yet. so unless someone sends me an "advanced cop",
i know it's leaked...don't remind me....
.... i'm pretty sure someone next door at work will download it and burn it for me
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i'll have to practice restraint 
you know i'll be buying each edition anyway 
This album is brilliant. Not a bad or boring song on it. Truly of Light Years/Fever calibre - non-stop fucking FUN! | |
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i can't get over how cohesive it is. AMAZING!
i think the problems with Body Langauge and X were they images firsts in the minds of Willie and Kylie and they tried to build the albums around that. where this to me seems they built the sound than the image like they did for both Light Years and Fever. You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
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The album | |
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I agree!
This album is so consistent. Way better than her last album, IMHO. | |
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see why i love her?
that & because she does no wrong in my book (loco motion & where the wild roses grow aside
the new record is absolutely spotless. | |
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I think alot of artists from that era are going back but not going in a sense of being retro, they are applying limitations that they had back then to the current time and getting amazing results that sound fresh, and classic. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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I think for the Darenote crew they ended up with this album with a sleek futuristic sound back in 2001 that gave them this amazing visual concept for Fever that they got ahead of themselves with Body Langauge and wanted to do a "cool bridgette bardo meets rnb" look and tried to force the music to that it, that the album came out spotty... and repeated the mistake with X which was this all over the place ElectroClash inspired look and wanted an album to be there too.
they just went back to the basics with Aphrodite and did the music, picked the songs that sounded good together... looked at the theme... picked the one song title that could sum it up for the album name and than build the look and feel around it. producing something many of us were waiting for after Fever. You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
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'Get Outta My Way' needs to be the next single! | |
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put your hands up You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
authentic power is service- Pope Francis | |
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