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| The official Kylie thread; New album "Golden" | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 13 2013, 01:57 AM (19,465 Views) | |
| FuckBuddy | Feb 15 2014, 12:45 AM Post #421 |
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YAY i'm so ready to get a tour ticket whatever the cost. i mean, just imagine this song brought to life on the stage of an arena. |
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| Riverwide | Feb 15 2014, 05:23 AM Post #422 |
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kylie minogue @kylieminogue 3h #Lovers! Turn on @grahnort on @BBCRadio2 11am GMT for the premiere of #Beautiful w/ @Enrique305! #kissmeonce |
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| FuckBuddy | Feb 15 2014, 05:26 AM Post #423 |
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well, that was fast |
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| Riverwide | Feb 15 2014, 06:02 AM Post #424 |
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Indeed. It's not her usual tactic. I guess with a month to go, they feel they need more than one song out there to plug the album. Seems a little hasty though. There hasn't even been a single TV performance of ITB yet, has there? |
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| Riverwide | Feb 15 2014, 11:39 AM Post #425 |
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LQ radio rip of "Beautiful": http://www.directlyrics.com/new-music-enrique-iglesias-beautiful-full-audio-review-news.html They can't seriously think that's going to be a hit, can they?? It's far too slow and uneventful. It's not the cheesefest I was expecting either though, which is a relief. |
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| Pera | Feb 15 2014, 12:41 PM Post #426 |
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bleah another weak track When can we expect some tour dates ? I hope she has some European dates in late September or October, or I won't be able to attend |
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| quoideneuf | Feb 15 2014, 11:27 PM Post #427 |
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Really like les sex Beautiful is decent Into the.blue is okay one of her weakest lead singles however she always delivers decent albums |
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| FuckBuddy | Feb 16 2014, 02:59 AM Post #428 |
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beautiful may be ok-ish, yet it sounds nothing like a proper second single off a kylie studio album, surely there have to be stronger songs on the set les sex is brilliant, though |
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| Riverwide | Feb 16 2014, 09:09 PM Post #429 |
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Popjustice review! Kylie’s ‘Kiss Me Once’: at a push you could call this a review, but you’re better off with ‘coverage’ A new Kylie Minogue album is always a special, magical thing. Clearly, the first review should do justice to the gift we have all been handed by the pop gods, and it should be executed in a new, exciting way that pushes back boundaries of online music journalism. But we couldn’t think of one, so here are the tracks in reverse order of amazingness. ▼ 13‘Sexy Love’ It’s: one of those Kylie songs that with the very best will in the world will never represent anything more than the missed opportunity for something better to be on the album. A waste of space, if you will; not a bad song per se, just a filler. The best bit is: hard to pinpoint, but if you like the idea of a ‘Fever’-era b-side in 2014 then you’re going to explode when you hear this. Kylie Moment? The “every time I look at you” bit in the chorus is probably the nearest this song gets to a Kylie Moment, but it comes nowhere near the legal minimum requirement for a true Kylie Moment. 12‘Sexercize’ It’s: another early disappointment, we’re afraid, if you too were hoping this album’s trio of absurdly-titled sextunes would create a pyramid of glory at the heart of ‘Kiss Me Once’. It’s definitely a song about fucking so it doesn’t disappoint on that level but it’s not exactly bursting with melody; instead it’s a churning, bassy, downbeat sort of affair. It wouldn’t have sounded out of place on ‘X’. The best bit is: ”Bounce bounce bounce bounce.” Kylie Moment? NONE. 11‘Mr President’ It’s: probably the song on the album (except it’s not properly on the album, being a bonus track, but we’re all going to do our own iTunes playlists aren’t we) that has most in common with ‘Skirt’. It’s all a bit silly (“Hey Mr President, you’re such a gentleman, it’s such an honour to meet ya; Hey Mr President I’ll be your Marilyn and baby I’ll never leave you”) but quite good fun. The best bit is: SHE SOUNDS LIKE ALESHA DIXON IN THE SECOND VERSE. Kylie Moment? Kylie Moments are absent from this song. 10‘Beautiful’ It’s: a song that poses more questions than it answers. Two questions above all others: ‘Why the Vocoder?’ and ‘Why the Enrique?’. But Radio 2 seem to like it – they played it yesterday – and maybe that’s the only answer you need. The best bit is: The chorus – when it kicks off with the whole “after all this time” business – is pretty great, but the vocal effects are always going to see this tune relegated to the ‘enchanting curiosity’ corner of most fans’ music libraries. Kylie Moment? ”Still… The… One.” 09‘Fine’ It’s: somewhere between mid-tempo and up-tempo, and it’s an empowerment anthem. It’s about turning your face “into the sun” if things seem shit, which is all very well but not great advice for anyone wallowing in despair at the recent loss of their sunglasses. The songwriting’s a bit weak in the verses with lots of repeated bits (“the night, the night, the night, is full of tears you cry, you cry, you cry”) and oh-not-you-again tropes like “when you feel everything’s impossible”. The best bit is: a short vocal sample that pops up at various points. Kylie Moment? None but don’t worry there’ll be some along in a bit. Below this line is where things start to get really good. 08‘I Was Gonna Cancel’ It’s: the Pharrell one. An album track, but a good one. The best bit is: ”HEY!” (and the line about the shovel). Kylie Moment? Not yet. 07‘Sleeping With The Enemy’ It’s: a bonus track that kicks off like ‘Unfinished Sympathy’, moves forward with slight hints of Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Behaviour’ album, and while not making the earth shake ends up feeling like a rather splendid addition to the Minogue ‘oeuvre’. The best bit is: the ”It’s like I don’t know who you are…” bit. Kylie Moment? The big payoff at the end of the chorus – “suddenly now it seems, I’m sleeping with the enemy” – is pretty close to a Kylie moment. 06‘Million Miles’ It’s: an upbeat one about bodies going weak when they are touched. The best bit is: ”I feel so in-vi-si-ble…” Kylie Moment? No big ones here we’re afraid. 05‘Les Sex’ It’s: ridiculous and amazing. You’ve probably seen the clips from the Old Blue Last show by now, but if you haven’t here’s one. The best bit is: ”We could call it I don’t care.” Kylie Moment? This is a great tune, and it’s hard to imagine anyone else pulling it off, but there are no true Kylie Moments on offer. 04‘Into The Blue’ It’s: the first single, and probably the best choice of first single. It’s Radio 1 enough to sound like Kylie hasn’t given up on that part of her pop career completely, but Radio 2 enough to ensure that some fucker actually plays it. The best bit is: ”In-to the b…” Kylie Moment? ”…uloooo” 03‘Feels So Good’ It’s: a song which, as you know, has already been released once – under a different name – by Tom Aspaul. Kylie’s version keeps the simplicity of Aspaul’s while adding a few production flourishes. The best bit is: ”People come, people go, but I’d like to get to know you now.” Kylie Moment? This song is devoid of true Kylie Moments. 02‘If Only’ It’s: reflective and dramatic, like Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ put through a 2014 enormoballad blender. The best bit is: knowing that when Kylie heads off on the tour she’ll inevitably announce either the week the single comes out or the week the album comes out, this will be what they call a ‘live highlight’. Kylie Moment? ”True love is waiting in the wings… If only.” AND THE BEST KYLIE MINOGUE SONG ON THE NEW KYLIE MINOGUE ALBUM ‘KISS ME ONCE’ IS: 01‘Kiss Me Once’ It’s: a pensive, glorious mid-tempo extravaganza that redefines the term “explodes into chorus”, could have worked just as well on either of Kylie’s first two albums as it does on ‘Kiss Me Once’, proves that romance always wins over sex (as long as there’s some sex somewhere else in the equation), will make grown men weep, makes you fall deeper in love with Kylie than you have ever been before, could save as many relationships as it ignites, and has bells in it. The best bit is: ”Me and you, baby we made it through.” If we don’t see at least two gentlemen doing their first dance to this on YouTube by the end of March something has gone very wrong with humanity. Kylie Moment? This whole song is either a succession of different cascading Kylie moments, or one long Kylie moment from beginning to end. ■ So: relatively few true Kylie Moments, but some great songs along the way. We’re giving this album a 7/10. And we’ve had a while to live with it so it’s a proper 7/10 rather than the sort of 7/10 we gave to the Britney album which is, frankly, a 6/10 at best, and even then only on a good day. Anyway you’ll be able to hear the songs for yourself sooner than you might be expecting, and when you do hear it make sure you let us know what you think because this is a two-way street, you know. |
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| Riverwide | Feb 16 2014, 09:13 PM Post #430 |
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Doesn't sound particularly great, does it? |
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| Pera | Feb 16 2014, 09:24 PM Post #431 |
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Somewhat better than Britney Jean sounds tragic |
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| Riverwide | Feb 16 2014, 09:27 PM Post #432 |
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Indeed. I can't see that glowing praise going on the poster.
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Feb 16 2014, 09:48 PM Post #433 |
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Yeah, he doesn't sound particularly enthusiastic about it. |
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| FuckBuddy | Feb 16 2014, 09:58 PM Post #434 |
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well, anyone giving britney jean a 7/10 rating is hardly a reliable reviewer. anyway, this is clearly gonna be an album of mixed reactions to it. |
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| bulgar | Feb 16 2014, 10:02 PM Post #435 |
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So true.
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| Riverwide | Feb 16 2014, 10:03 PM Post #436 |
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Popjustice has never been a trustworthy reviewer. He's been getting worse over the years too. |
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Feb 17 2014, 10:22 AM Post #437 |
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Album sampler |
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| Riverwide | Feb 17 2014, 11:27 AM Post #438 |
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Incredibly disappointing. It all sounds so, so generic, flat and cheap. Not a single clip made me think otherwise. Oh Kylie. |
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| Riverwide | Feb 17 2014, 11:41 AM Post #439 |
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Attitude magazine review Kylie’s 12th studio album, Kiss Me Once, isn’t released until March 17, but we’ve been treated to a sneaky upfront listen and here are our first impressions on each of the 11 tracks. Into the Blue The lead single, as you know, is a totally lovely slice of age-appropriate dance-pop – and if that sounds like a back-handed compliment, it isn’t meant as one. The more we listen to it, the more we notice the sadness in the lyrics. “I don’t care if the world is mine / ‘Cause this is all we know” is a little bit devastasting, in a way, isn’t it? Million Miles The album’s most straight up #banger is a close-ish relative to Get Outta My Way from Aphrodite – both tracks were produced by Danish hitmaker Cutfather. This time, Kylie’s trying to attract the attention of a guy who, *sigh*, barely seems to know she exists. “I feel so invisible, invisible…” she sings on the brilliant middle eight. Totally addictive; this should definitely be a single. I Was Gonna Cancel It’s immediately obvious this is a Pharrell Williams production, but the Blurred Lines beatmaker has – and here comes a technical term – “Kylied up” his trademark sound a bit. I Was Gonna Cancel is a little more disco than most of his productions (it uses Chic-like bells throughout) and a bit less flinty too. The lyrics are basically Kylie telling herself to stop fannying about and get on with it. “Go! Go! Go! Go girl!” goes one catchy refrain. Fabulous. Sexy Love OK, so that isn’t the most promising of track titles, but this tune is a keeper. It’s classic Kylie disco-pop with a hint of Nicki Minaj’s Starships to the intro, a chorus hook that’ll snag you like a barbed wire fence, and a brilliantly simple refrain towards the end: “You look so sexy, so sexy in my head / You look so sexy, sexy in my bed.” Pretty irresistible. Sexercize If you’d told Kylie when she left Neighbours in 1989 that 25 years later she’d be singing a song called Sexercize, she’d probably have shoved one of Charlene’s spanners up your… Anyway, this one’s a grindy midtempo track, flecked with dubstep, that features the world “sexercize” a lot. We’re not really feeling it, tbh. Feels So Good This cover of Indiana by Tom Aspaul – renamed with a more Kylie title – is pure class. It’s a percolating midtempo electro track with effortlessly romantic lyrics (“People come, people go, but I’d like to get to know you now”) that manages, somehow, to feel understated and euphoric at the same time. And she really nails the vocal. If Only This is a slow-building electro track with R&B flourishes – including a heavily-processed “oh-oh-oh-oh” vocal hook that some old-school Kylie fans might think a bit crass. She gets to show off her upper register on the string-swathed climax though, and the song itself is a grower. Very much an album track, but a perfectly respectable one. Les Sex Sadly it’s not about lady-on-lady action – for the purposes of this song “les sex” seems to mean “the sex, plural”. We think so, anyway. Kylie performed this song at her surprise gig on Thursday night, which suggests it’s at least in the running to become a single. It’s certainly as catchy as anything they deal with down the STD Clinic, and it doesn’t mess about, launching straight into its electro-funkin’ chorus, which Kylie sings in word-perfect Franglais. It also includes the lyric “If love’s a drug, we’re higher than stilettos”, which we quite like, though we know we probably shouldn’t. Kiss Me Once The last Kylie album, Aphrophite, had an amazing anthemic title track – and so does this one. Kiss Me Once was co-written by Sia and you can tell – it’s gorgeously melodic and the lyrics capture the rush of falling in love brilliantly. “Me and you, baby we made it through / Me and you, we’ve got some loving to do,” Kylie sings on the chorus. It’s all just so life-affirming. Beautiful – duet with Enrique Iglesias You’ve heard this one now, right? Click here if not. It’s a dreamy love-drunk balladwith loads of reverb on both Kylie and ‘Rique’s vocals, and a hint of ABBA’s Chiquitita to its melody. It’s a pretty tune, but perhaps not the surefire single that Mr Iglesias seems to think it is. Fine At first, this album closer has a whiff of filler about it, but after a few plays, its swirling electro pulse starts to grow on you… and then you notice that the lyrics seem to be pretty personal and revealing – possibly, anyway; this is post-Impossible Princess Kylie after all. “You’ve got it all but you don’t feel complete / Even the sweetest things are bittersweet,” she sings on the second verse. Intriguing. All in all: It’s an 8/10 from us. |
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| Pera | Feb 17 2014, 11:56 AM Post #440 |
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Attitude always gives high ratings to gay pop divas |
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