I was into the SAW written/produced tracks from Rhythm Of Love...not into the rest. For me, Rhythm Of Love is a mixed bag.

You really should write a whole life story on Madonna/Kylie/madonna/Kylie et al...

Your long posts have kept us entertained..You really do love Kylie dont you??

We all love it really!!

Anyway back to the topic.

PYIMP, had a great UK chart run, although it didnt reach the UK top10, it stayed around the top 20 for ages.

The KM94 era was her way of coming to terms in who and what she was (she was only 25 when she recorded the album)...Impossible Princess on the other hand was her most successful album in Australia to that date...Her I&L concerts broke records there. Shame the UK never cottoned on.

Still, she's adored here in the UK. Kylie is constantly and daily topping UK polls!! She's our adopted icon...There's so much love for her in the UK its touching...

I guess it helps when you look as pretty and perfect as her

We tend to forget she's a 43 year old artist as is JLO/Mariah etc...and not some mid 50's artist who is trying desperately to pretend they are their teenage daughter..FOR SHAME... x

Hey,

The "hits" collection you mention in your kind post above is the "ULTIMATE KYLIE" album released in 2004!

The album reached no 4 in the UK and has so far sold over 1.1 MILLION copies in the UK alone!!!

I'm sure you really enjoyed it darling!!

Where The Wild Roses Grow was a MASSIVE seller all throughout Europe in 1995...Won several ARIA awards in Australia as it reached NO1 there..Aswell as Germany etc..

I'll ALWAYS be here to factually correct you on Kylie...XX

I am so HAPPY and GLAD Kylie hasnt broken the US market THANK GOD!! Kylie is a down to earth superstar..I would absolutely hate it if she was ever as massive or huge in the US as she is in the UK..Its what makes her so loveable!! x


Her appeal is her down to earth personality..No airs and graces! Dont ever change Kylie

The weird thing about this “flop” period is that Kylie never did go “all indie”. I only remember Kylie being dubbed as "indie" for a very short period of time. Probably for less than a year and really only after she worked with James Dean Bradfield. All she did was release an indie sounding single in advance of an album which wasn’t all that indie, to be honest. People might have thought it was going to be an indie album and might remember it as such, but it really wasn’t (and isn’t).

I do remember a quote from Keith Blackhurst (I think) after he signed her and he said something along the lines of... "most people see Kylie as a trashy disco singer... we see her as a radical dance diva". After she parted company with PWL and right up until she released "Some Kind Of Bliss", I believe Kylie was very much regarded as a dance music artist. She was on a dance label, after all, and her main collaborators were dance music producers, with the odd foray into R&B I suppose. (With hindsight, "Where The Wild Roses Grow" could perhaps be seen as an "indie" sounding release but I don’t really remember that phrase being used at the time and, let's face it, there was no evidence to suggest it was anything other than a one-off.)

Even the Manics produced tracks on Impossible Princess were a bit of an afterthought, tagged on to the tracklisting at the last minute That album started its life as very much an edgy, alternative, dance album. Tracks like "Drunk" and “Cowboy Style” and "Say Hey" kinda prove that. The indie sounding songs do stick out a bit like a sore thumb when you play that album nowadays.

I am pretty certain that her “Kylie Minogue” album sold more and charted higher than “Let’s Get To It” (which didn’t even go Top 10), so it’s not as though she consistently “flopped” throughout her time with Deconstruction, compared to her time with PWL. It’s just that Deconstruction weren’t able to match her early popularity, which had already begun to fade during her time with PWL, instead choosing to favour something which Kylie craved even more so, which was credibility.

Did Kylie flop in 1997/1998 because she made music her fans didn’t want her to? I would argue no. I do think that she had simply less fans during that period, for what could be any number of reasons. But I do remember the critics suddenly loved her when they once despised her – and on the fan forums at the time most of her fans were incredibly excited about the prospect of that album and were just as in love with her as always.

My theory is that Kylie has been most successful when she’s been creating a sound that is “cool” and totally on trend musically or, indeed, ahead of trend. The “Rhythm Of Love” singles were all amazing because she’d moved markedly from bubblegum pop to the fringes of early 90s acid house – and that was a sound which was selling by the bucketload at the time, long before the market for that kinda music imploded on itself. “Confide In Me” is seen as a milestone probably because it was a huge leap forward in credibility for her, plus it sounded really interesting and new. “Spinning Around” came along at exactly the right moment – when the world had largely turned its back on indie sounding music, in favour of bright meaningless pop! As for “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”, I firmly believe it was ahead of its time and set trends – which is why it rightly became as huge as it did.

THIS!!

the first album for deconstruction was poor except confide in me,put yourself in my place & dangerous game.
Impossible princess had some amazing singles but the albums tracks were hit and miss for me.
I don't rate limbo,too far or drunk I think they are quite dark and forgettable I also think the music press did not support her I remember one reviewer saying natalie imbruglia's album was better though on reflection their pretty similar.

I agree this was one of her best songs. Very creative and original, and, while I do still quite like Kylie, I feel that no subsequent material has matched this song.

I love Did it Again, Brilliant video as well.

Not sure why she lost her popularity for a while, however her loyal would have stuck with her.

Newer fans can re discover mid 90's Kylie.

As I remember it, Kylie was seen as a bit naff but then she gained some credibility from going out with the late Michael Hutchenes and later got paly with Chris Evans who had something of the midas touch at the time.

Without those two men, she would have been hoping to be KylieRolled along with her fellow SAW stablemate.

That's a new one... Believe me when I say that Chris Evans had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it. No one gives her credit for actually making the hard decisions herself (to leave SAW, etc), and outside of the UK, no one's ever heard of him anyway.

Secondly, Kylie was huge (remember Kylie mania) before she released a single song on both sides of the world, and had a hell of a lot of goodwill behind her.

There's too much history to write down here, so an autobiography is a great reference, and very enlightening. Most of the "stars" of this generation have a heck of a lot to learn even if a handful of them have some talent to even come close to what she's achieved, and come back from.

I disagree. Kylie was very much considered naff in the UK as are most soap actors turned pop stars. However, the Hutchenes relationship was good for her image. As for Chris Evans, he was hot property at that time and her appearances on TFIF and his breakfast shows certainly upped her profile here in the UK and helped with her reinvention.

I am not saying that its purely down to those 2 men, just that it helped turn her from aka Charlene to the Kylie who has endured.

that is exactly what you wrote though. i disagree anyway, i don't even think that her and chris were even that close.

Michael Hutchence definitely inspired Kylie in the early '90s to mature her look but Chris Evans had bugger all to do with it. Her interviewed her a couple of times on TFI Friday in 1996 and 1997 and that was it. He had absolutely no influence on making Kylie cool or her career a success. She also performed "Where Is the Feeling" on Don't Forget Your Toothbrush in 1995 and that also semi-flopped.


Kylie's career by the late '90s was pretty much seen as over by a lot of people. Her success with Parlophone is when Kylie came back big time and saved her from a floundering career that many former PWL stars have today. Last time I checked Michael Hutchence and Chris Evans had bugger all to do with her success post 2000.


Chris Evans may have been hot property in the UK but he had bugger all to do with upping her profile and helping her reinvention. Her interviewed her twice in the '90s on TFI Friday and that was it. It was just an interview. She performed Some Kind of Bliss live on the show which ended up bombing on the charts as did the album. Her reinvention during "Impossible Princess" is seen by a lot of people as unsuccessful due to the singles and the album flopping and many viewing it as Kylie's attempt at gaining credibility. So if Chris Evans did have something to do with helping her reinvention and upping her profile during this time - which he didn't - he really didn't do a very good job.



If anyone helped Kylie's career in the '90s, in terms of both success and influence, it was Nick Cave, Brothers in Rhythm and Stephane Sednaoui .