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The Official Kylie "Aphrodite" Era Thread!
Topic Started: Apr 20 2010, 01:51 PM (24,648 Views)
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the album's gettin mixed reviews, which is understandable as it's more of a grower rather than an instant love flink. what i don't get is people having unreasonably high expectations each and every time she releases a new album. take this latest offer for what it is, a straight up, fun pop journey. as a whole set, i insist it's her best in a decade.
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I was listening to it today while walking around Dublin in the sunshine and I have to say, I really, really enjoyed it. As Kylie albums go, it's pretty decent stuff. It's great not to have to skip stuff for once!
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I was listening to it today while walking around Dublin in the sunshine and I have to say, I really, really enjoyed it. As Kylie albums go, it's pretty decent stuff. It's great not to have to skip stuff for once!
i was listening to it while at the beach today and it really feels like the ultimate summer album. lovely pop this is.
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I was listening it as I cycled to and from work yesterday and it passed the albums I can listen to when I cycle-to-work test
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Jul 3 2010, 06:59 AM
I was listening it as I cycled to and from work yesterday and it passed the albums I can listen to when I cycle-to-work test
:lol2: They should get that quote on a sticker for the album!
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I bought the vinyl LP today. :shy:
oh take photos i wanna see :shy:
Here it is! Not very impressive, as it's not a gatefold one. :(

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SayHey had a vote on what the third single from Aphrdite should be after Get Out Of My Way. Here are the results so far!

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Financial Times review:

Kylie Minogue
Aphrodite
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Faith in the free market may have been rocked by the credit crunch but the Adam Smith crew can take succour from this at least: competition has brought out the best in Kylie Minogue. Since her last album, 2007’s patchy X, the singer has observed the rise of synth-pop revivalists such as La Roux and Lady Gaga and roused herself to action.Aphrodite is sharper than anything we’ve seen from her in a long time. Madonna collaborator Stuart Price oversees the album as executive producer, thus avoiding the muddled plethora of producers that bedevilled X, and the tone is free from the grabby desperation to appear relevant that’s dogged Kylie since 2001’s Fever.
“All the Lovers” nicely mixes the euphoric and the elegiac, “Closer”’s slinky harpsichord motif imagines her as an Elizabethan disco queen and “Aphrodite” sets feisty lines like “I’m fierce and feeling mighty” to a sugary vocal and cute martial beat.
Kylie’s processed voice suggests her Aphrodite isn’t so much the goddess of beauty as the goddess of airbrushed beauty, but who’s complaining? As she sings on the title track, “Here’s what I do when I know what I can do.”
That means classy dance-pop with her distinctive mix of artificiality and warmth. In the language of the free market, Kylie has restored her comparative advantage.
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Question: On Impossible Princess and Ultimate Kylie, the versions of "Breathe" are both FAR slower than the one I love. What's the faster version on?
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The Observer review:

Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite: enjoyable, though it lacks the depth and chutzpah of some of her rivals' efforts

Looking to Kylie for works of great substance would be futile. Since her sublime 2001 comeback "Can't Get You Out of My Head" ushered in a fresh era of Minoguery, the Australian has specialised in grown-up dance-pop with all the consequence of a bit of dandelion fluff. She has faced down both breast cancer and a love rat, but still Kylie's records – collated by an international battalion of songwriter/producers – place surface gloss over any real-life unpleasantness. She is there for the good times. There are no bad times. Pop-phobics might call this sort of thing vapid, but there is bad vapid and there is good vapid.

Aphrodite is billed as yet another comeback album, after X, her 2007 offering, did well (but not all that well). As with most latterday Kylie works, Aphrodite glides by classily, registering a hit here and there. Warm and consolatory, "All the Lovers" is a keeper. The title track is another minor revelation. It's a stompy, hand-clappy, sloppily enunciated Kyliefication of R&B whose core levels of piffle ("It's the truth/ It's a fact/ I was gone/ Now I'm back") are magically transcended by the combined forces of stereo panning and chutzpah. DJs with a passing interest in the classics will surely fade "Aphrodite" into Bananarama's version of "Venus".

For all its wrinkle-free exterior, Aphrodite does have becoming quirks. "Closer" features something akin to a harpsichord, while "Cupid Boy" has an eye on the States. "Why don't you call me and start hitting me up?" invites Kylie, whose first, successful tour of the US last year has clearly lodged the possibilities of that territory more squarely in her sights.

Pop man of the moment Stuart Price – he produced Madonna's Confessions, Scissor Sisters' latest and part-produced the forthcoming Brandon Flowers solo album – is in the executive producer's chair, herding the cabal of tune elves and lending a sleek cohesion to the whole. The big guest names fail to ignite, however. Keane mainman Tim Rice-Oxley's "Everything Is Beautiful" is insufficiently dancey; Jake Shears's contribution, "Too Much", is just all right.

The question that the market asks of every disc by a pop female in 2011 is, will it Gaga? As befits a star of some decades' standing, Kylie has resisted the temptation to match La Germanotta stunt for stunt. But Aphrodite is a little flimsy next to Gaga. Best then to leave Kylie on her little silvery cloud of dry ice, hovering winningly for a few tunes, then floating away.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/04/kylie-minogue-aphrodite-review
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Kylie performing at Madrid Pride a few hours ago. The setlist was:

Get Outta My Way (Extended)
Better Than Today
Los Amores chorus acapella
Can't Get You Out Of My Head
All The Lovers... See more
Love At First Sight

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I bought the vinyl LP today. :shy:
oh take photos i wanna see :shy:
Here it is! Not very impressive, as it's not a gatefold one. :(

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it's pretty :wub:
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http://new.uk.music.yahoo.com/blogs/albumreviewsuk/117/kylieaphrodite-710/

Kylie - 'Aphrodite' (7/10)

Posted Thu 1 Jul 2010 18:23 BST by Music Editor in Album Reviews

One big question hangs over 'Aphrodite': can it restore Kylie Minogue to the pop Premier League? After all, the preceding ‘X' not only faltered commercially, but even provoked griping amongst one of the most slavishly loyal fanbases in music. Then add the Lady Gaga factor: will the pristine princess resort to Aguilera-like mimicry of the New York provocateur in order to remain relevant? The answer to the first question is surely yes: ‘Aphrodite' is probably the most consistent and graceful album of her career. And the answer to the second is no, thank God: this is very much a Kylie record.

Indeed, ‘Aphrodite' carefully reassembles all the components that made the Australian a UK chart colossus from her big 1999 comeback right through until 2007's stuttering ‘X'. There's shimmering disco in the vein of ‘I Believe In You', streamlined cyberpop like ‘Can't Get You Out Of My Head' and giddy dance tunes that echo ‘Spinnin' Around', all precision engineered to win back those wavering fans.

If that sounds a little manipulative that's because it is. Even the lusciously lovely comeback single ‘All The Lovers' feels slightly clinical, with its time-worn dance/sex metaphor and a soaring chorus that is only slightly undermined by the suspicion that its euphoria was plotted on a graph by chart technicians. But none of this truly matters: nobody has ever expected real soul or spontaneity from Kylie, just superior champagne pop, and ‘All The Lovers' delivers it in spades, as does ‘Aphrodite' as a whole.

Producer Stuart Price deserves much of the credit: a staggering 29 songwriters appear to have contributed to the album (wars have literally been organised by less people, just search for Churchill's War Cabinet) and yet Price gives ‘Aphrodite' a uniform sheen and coherence. So although the album takes in finger-snapping floor-fillers like ‘Get Outta My Way, miniature trance-symphonies like ‘Closer' and irresistibly kittenish pop-funk like ‘Better Than Today', it's all wrapped in a frothy, feathery finish that perfectly complements her candyfloss voice.

There are a couple of lightweight fillers, but the only howler comes on the oddball title track, when Kylie tries her hand at Gaga-style self-mythologising. Describing herself as "fierce", "mighty" and "real" is unlikely enough, but "the original"? Imagine Madonna's disdainful reaction to that. Ironically, it's the only song here which doesn't sound like Kylie. Elsewhere, ‘Aphrodite' is glossy, undemanding, enjoyable and perfectly turned out, like the singer herself. The fanbase will find nothing to bitch about here and, yes, it sounds very much like a return to the Premier League.

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If Aphrodite goes to #1 in the UK, she'll be the first act to have a #1 album in the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s!
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If Aphrodite goes to #1 in the UK, she'll be the first act to have a #1 album in the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s!
What are her chances?
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If Aphrodite goes to #1 in the UK, she'll be the first act to have a #1 album in the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s!
What are her chances?
Pretty good actually. They picked a very good week to release in. There are no other big albums out this week and Eminem's album should be cooling off a bit now.
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Jul 5 2010, 01:37 PM
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If Aphrodite goes to #1 in the UK, she'll be the first act to have a #1 album in the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s!
What are her chances?
Pretty good actually. They picked a very good week to release in. There are no other big albums out this week and Eminem's album should be cooling off a bit now.
That stupid album... :manson:
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Eminem's album

Week 1: 139438
Week 2: 68997

Kylie will probably need to sell roughly 40k this week to be in with a chance.
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By the way, the total UK sales of X are 463,056.
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