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The Official Kylie "Aphrodite" Era Thread!
Topic Started: Apr 20 2010, 01:51 PM (24,662 Views)
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Jun 13 2010, 10:41 PM
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Jun 13 2010, 10:20 PM
Why does she have such little success in her home country? It's so weird!
the single's already falling down on airplay over in oz. i can't think of a single reason why the aussies are turning their backs on her. it looks like the x era has made damage more in home country than elsewhere.
Only her first couple of albums did well in Oz. She has found it VERY tough going ever since! Usually countries love their own stars, especially small populations.
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I reckon they were more than fed up after Neighbours
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Jun 13 2010, 11:06 PM
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Jun 13 2010, 10:41 PM
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Jun 13 2010, 10:20 PM
Why does she have such little success in her home country? It's so weird!
the single's already falling down on airplay over in oz. i can't think of a single reason why the aussies are turning their backs on her. it looks like the x era has made damage more in home country than elsewhere.
Only her first couple of albums did well in Oz. She has found it VERY tough going ever since! Usually countries love their own stars, especially small populations.
i beg to differ

throughout the 90s, australia was probably as strong of a market for her as the uk. confide in me topped the aussie chart for weeks and less we not forget impossible princess went platinum over there. throught the zeros her popularity in australia exploded, as both light years and fever turned to mega sellers. even body language sold 2xplatinum while ultimate kylie went 4xplatinum. x turned the cards around, that with being certified platinum just once. all the lovers might be suffering the consequences of the x backlash.
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at least she's overtaking fuckin germany at the moment. i hope goddess aphrodite will put lots of their money into the pocket of her greek gown, thus taking sweet revenge on our behalf

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New Popjustice interview! Very much an "X" autopsy...

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What’s the point in releasing another album?
That’s a very good question - I ask myself that sometimes too. Um, I think that the inspiration for getting back in and starting this whole rollercoaster again was after the shows I did in North America. They were so from the heart and I felt so rewarded with the feeling and response from doing it. That just gave me that reminder of how amazing it can be. That helped get me back on.

Touring and making new music are quite different things, though - what was it about performing that made you want to make new songs?
Well, to add to the performance. I’ve done so many reinterpretations of so many songs that the idea of having something fresh put within that was titillating. Just going back to your comment about the studio versus the stage, I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don’t live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine. Then you get home and there’s paperwork and you think, ‘oh my God, I’ve lived perfectly happy without any of that’ and you have a bit of post-tour depression. And then you’ve got to do something again, so I guess, you do the album. It’s just the proven cycle.

Is it disappointing and/or frustrating that your fanbase seems to want such a specific thing from you and reacts quite badly if they don’t get it?
It’s a fine line. I can get really ticked off sometimes when they seem to feel quite entitled.

It seems that the internet - with forums and social media and so on - fuels a particular type of fan entitlement...
Well absolutely because they can be faceless and they can say whatever they want. But even if it annoys me I can say, ‘well, at least they’re passionate’. And that can be harnessed in a positive way more often than not, so that’s fine.

So when ‘All The Lovers’ came along and the piece on the Popjustice front page described it as ‘proper Kylie’, did you think, ‘well, hang on, piss off, who’s this person to say what’s proper me and what’s not?’. Is the positivity of someone going ‘this is proper Kylie’ actually quite negative and confining when maybe you’d have preferred to do something else?
Yeah I totally know what you mean - didn’t you get that package I sent in the mail? (Laughs lengthily at concept of Minogue faeces parcel) No, I understand it now and I didn’t quite get it with ‘X’... I knew people weren’t entirely happy, I knew there were genius moments on it and perhaps parts were a bit ahead of their time but it didn’t sit with me and my audience at that time. I just agree with you. It’s fine.

What’s your favourite song on the album?
If I were to choose one to have a blast of right now I’d choose ‘Aphrodite’.

‘Aphrodite’, in many ways, being the sort of comeback tune people were hoping for, or expecting, a few years ago.
Yeah. Yes. And retrospect being the cow that it can be I now look back and realise that yeah, it would have been great then. And it also would have been great to have songs that I’d written about that dark period in my life. And I don’t know exactly why those songs weren’t on the album but I went with what I thought was the better judgement of others and... And I now understand that a fan or someone who sent out positive vibes to me throughout that period would have wanted to hear something... SOMETHING about that period. Not ‘hey I saw you across the dancefloor’.

Yes.
But, I dunno if I didn’t see clearly enough then, or if I didn’t have the strength to fight for what I wanted... I dunno.

Well one point to remember, perhaps, is that many of the fans wailing in the streets that ‘X’ didn’t cover various topics would be exactly the same people accusing you of milking it if you had, in fact, addressed those issues in your songs. But it felt odd that there seemed to be so little emotional investment.
Yeah. I get it. I suppose my response to that was at least doing a couple of those songs on the ‘X’ 2008 tour, so people at least had an idea...

Also, most fans just made their own versions of ‘X’ from the demos they got online.
(Brightens up) I think they HAVE, yeah! These days you can get so much feedback from fans through Twitter and everything, and I’d love to do the anti-tour, like a two week run in Soho of all the songs that will never be on tour. The ones that fans hold really dear that I’d love to have the opportunity to perform.

This sounds like the sort of show that would please anyone persisting with the idea that ‘Impossible Princess’ is your best album.
Yes! I have no idea whether it is or isn’t but I think what resonates for that album’s fans is that you could see a little bit of my thought pattern in the lyrics that came from me.

So what would we find out about you from ‘Aphrodite’?
Well I still haven’t written on this album anything about that time, because it didn’t feel like the right time. This album is more about being in a pretty happy in my moment in my life.

You see happiness is all very well Kylie but it doesn’t usually make for very good pop music.
I know! But I think the lyrics definitely have a... Well with ‘Put Your Hands Up’ for example, have you ever met the Nervo girls? They’re a ball of energy! I tend to go back to my favourite... Not lynchpins but you know what I mean. I do like cosmic thoughts.

Do you have Kylie moments when you listen to your own music?
What does that mean?

Well, a Kylie moment is when a bit in a song inspires a slightly unexpected surging emotion, and happiness but also some sadness, with a sense of being slightly close to tears for no real reason. It is a bit like Christmas.
I have that a lot! I have it a lot in the studio. Actually I’ll confess, I had a Kylie moment about twenty five minutes ago. I just saw the latest edit of the video and when it goes into that rush part after the tiny middle eight the vision and the sound made me make lots of firework noises. I’m very vocal. I’m a good audience member!

If ‘Aphrodite’ turned out to be your last album, would it make a good farewell album?
I think so. I think it’s joyful. It’s like the jus of all the best bits of my musical career. And it has enough of those Kylie moments you talked about. It’s reflective in some parts - and I think there’s enough to it so that it doesn’t just bang you around the head. When Stuart and I were compiling the tracklist we decided that we have plenty of bangers and that’s when we decided we needed songs like ‘Closer’ to bring it down a little.

Do you think Stuart Price should be knighted or at least receive some sort of official recognition for his quite good pop tunes?
He should at very least be on one of the plinths in Trafalgar Square.

What would he do on the plinth?
If he had his time up there on a plinth he’d be geekily eloquent and he’d seduce everyone with his charm, and he’d be wearing grey socks because that’s what he does. You can take the man out of his studio but you can’t take him out of Burlington socks.

A lot of producers are a bit weird aren’t they.
Fortunately he isn’t like that. He might have that studio gene but he also has another gene that complements it - that socially capable and entertaining gene.

When he told us about the album he said that instead of the usual label politics about who gets which songs on an album this one simply came down to who had the best songs. That seems like a nice idea but slightly fanciful, is it true?
(Sighs) I’m sure there was some of that that needed seeing to with Miles and Elias from Parlophone but frankly that’s their job and they can sort it out.

Let the boys sort it out among themselves.
Exactly - get on the phone, get off the phone, go and have a drink to talk about it, blah blah blah. But that’s just the technical part of it and that red tape stuff has to be done. But I think it was incredibly generous - and that generous spirit does come through on the album - for those other five producers to send all their stuff through to Stuart and to feel confident in his ability [to make it all work together]. I was worried. I was thinking, ‘oh my God, they’re not going to be happy, it’s not going to work, I’m trying to do something that’s impossible’, but amazingly it all came together and it all worked. I wasn’t privy to any of that tablethumping, although I’m sure it happened.

One privilege of being ‘the talent’.
It’s more because they had me working in the studio every hour! (Chuckles)

There has been some debate over whether Radio 1 were right not to immediately A-List you. Are you appropriate for Radio 1’s perceived demographic?
Well of course they should play me! (Laughs) I think that single two is probably going to be more up their strasse. We did discuss this when we were talking about what the first single should be and we just kept coming back to the statement of ‘All The Lovers’. And regardless of how it goes in the chart the impact it’s had already is the impact we dreamt of. (Pause) I heard it on Capital the other day and I was really excited.

Well Capital is, of course, London’s hit music station.
More to the point I’d been in the car for an hour, I hadn’t heard it on the radio and I was starting to get tetchy. (Cackles) I stayed on Capital the whole journey. I was thrilled.

Will you be releasing a barrage of duvet covers during this campaign?
(Laughs) We’re all about the music at the moment.
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She's being very frank and open in her interviews for this era! Very much saying it like it is on every subject. At last!
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Jun 14 2010, 10:25 AM
I knew there were genius moments on it and perhaps parts were a bit ahead of their time

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no Kylie, dear. there were some OK moments on X-crement and the rest of the album was horrendous.

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Jun 14 2010, 03:53 PM
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I knew there were genius moments on it and perhaps parts were a bit ahead of their time

:rotfl:

no Kylie, dear. there were some OK moments on X-crement and the rest of the album was horrendous.

True. I can't believe she really thinks some of X was "ahead of its time".

That really is TRAGIC and utterly DELUDED.
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Apparently "Aphrodite" is released in Japan on the 30th of June, so we're looking at leak a couple of days before that date at the very latest!
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30 second clips of ALL the songs are on iTunes now!
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Quite a few of these clips sound a bit...well...shit. :confused:
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iTunes All The Lovers

#3 UK
#4 Mexico
#4 Spain
#5 Italy
#5 Ireland
#5 Luxembourg
#5 Switzerland
#5 Austria
#8 Belgium
#8 Germany
#11 Australia
#12 Greece
#14 Sweden
#20 France
#26 Canada
#29 New Zealand
#18 Portugal
#30 Finland
#35 Denmark
#41 Norway
#45 Netherlands
#66 Japan
#135 USA

as usual, the US is showing their appreciation for good pop music :chuckle:
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Those figures are pretty good for her!
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Jun 16 2010, 07:25 PM
Quite a few of these clips sound a bit...well...shit. :confused:
my itunes store won't load up for some reason. but i believe you :lol2:
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Jun 16 2010, 09:56 PM
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Quite a few of these clips sound a bit...well...shit. :confused:
my itunes store won't load up for some reason. but i believe you :lol2:
Check em out here:

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ohhh, thanks!
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Jun 16 2010, 07:25 PM
Quite a few of these clips sound a bit...well...shit. :confused:
i fear u're spot on. as much as i want to love this era, i can't help but fear the album's following the fever route - a couple of killers, another two or three worthy singles and lots of generic tunes to fill in the gaps. surely these are just snippets, we should definitely wait till the full album is leaked, yet i track less potential hits than on x -there was lots of crap on it, but also some strong songs, too. it does flow pretty nicely, but then so did body language, and we all know how that turned out. ironically, i believe light years has been her most solid in delivering a cohesive album yet packed with great pop songs.

anyways, it's rather obvious now why they went with all the lovers as the lead single, it really stands out of the bunch. no wonder it's set to be her biggest global hit since the fever days. i have a feeling it's gonna be a steady seller throughout summer and should do wonders for its parent album- just like head did only in a lesser scale. it'll be a shame if it peaks this week as it has classic kylie number 2 hit written all over it.
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Jun 16 2010, 11:00 PM
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Quite a few of these clips sound a bit...well...shit. :confused:
i fear u're spot on. as much as i want to love this era, i can't help but fear the album's following the fever route - a couple of killers, another two or three worthy singles and lots of generic tunes to fill in the gaps. surely these are just snippets, we should definitely wait till the full album is leaked, yet i track less potential hits than on x -there was lots of crap on it, but also some strong songs, too. it does flow pretty nicely, but then so did body language, and we all know how that turned out. ironically, i believe light years has been her most solid in delivering a cohesive album yet packed with great pop songs.

anyways, it's rather obvious now why they went with all the lovers as the lead single, it really stands out of the bunch. no wonder it's set to be her biggest global hit since the fever days. i have a feeling it's gonna be a steady seller throughout summer and should do wonders for its parent album- just like head did only in a lesser scale. it'll be a shame if it peaks this week as it has classic kylie number 2 hit written all over it.
Yes I agree with everything you said there. I just wish they hadn't talked up this album as being her first filler-free album. From these clips, it would appear that's far from the case.

Still, they're only clips and they've proven very misleading before!
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i think i'm gonna love at least 5-6 of the songs. no surprises there. the rest sound so bland.

also, most songs sound like they have identical production. now we know why M had to crack the whip when she worked with Stuart. :lol2:
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