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Kylie Minogue I should be so lucky a quarter of century old
Didn't know this, apparantly Kylie Minogue reached the top of the charts 25 years ago on the 14th february 1988 with I should be so lucky, for a whooping 5 weeks!
Before my time and lots of others on here of course, so I don't know much about it, but its interesting that song is now 1/4 of a century old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCXx5k01Tg
Before my time and lots of others on here of course, so I don't know much about it, but its interesting that song is now 1/4 of a century old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCXx5k01Tg
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he has been proven right.
SAW hit factory changed the musical landscape, and not for the better. most pop music prior to this was created by the youth of the day expressing themselves, and old businessmen facilitating it. SAW took away creativity from the youth, they gave them everything, the artists became puppets. what youve had since is a succession of manufactured acts, all sounding the same, all following the formula. whether you or anyone likes manufactured music is irrelevant. what is relevant though is that old men creating pop products have killed creativity in pop.
as for the op's post.... so what? 25 years is like the other day! worry when its 50 years, like the rolling stones! or beatles.
Get in there, my son!
Mind you, Kylie was my first massive crush when I was about 13 years old. I cried when she drove off up Ramsey Street for the last time in that little green mini.
The reason I Should Be So Lucky sounds so bad is because SAW rushed the whole production because I think they only had Kylie in the studio for a day due to her commitments in Oz. What SAW really should've done later down the line was re-record the song and lay Kylie's original vocal over it.
25 years of pain and suffering.
This made me laugh. I do agree though
I hope she keeps her music career going for another 25 years Kylie.
Her career stalling in the mid nineties was the best thing as she came back with a new image and never looked back. Don't do her early stuff, but her post 1997 stuff is excellent.
I always thought that song was appalling. But Kylie didn't end up being a puppet, she turned her career around. I Should Be So Lucky was a bit of a millstone for her at one time.
Here's Kylie's surprise performance at the Poetry Olympics.
I saw her interviewed about this, I think she said (through ever so slightly gritted teeth) that it was a cathartic moment.
She seems OK about the song now though, and performs different versions of it, like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9px38NmR_4c
I also heard her singing a version on the radio once, it sounded like a sad lament from a middle aged Kylie about her lost loves (!)
i assume the concept is quite simple, its nostalgic, retro. a concept not entirely alien to you considering your own nostalgic threads and while on one of your own retro trips you focused on music from only 8 years ago.:o
I'm not sure you can trace it precisely to this one ghastly Kylie song (I thought it might be the Rick Astley thing) but I agree that with the rise of moderately musical puppets like Kylie we have the slow death of creativity in modern pop.
true, after she left SAW.
twas a light hearted comment dude...
didnt suggest it was down to that one song, i cited SAW, not isbsl.