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  • MUSIC REVIEW | DISCO – Unashamed, Pure Unadulterated Joy from start to finish!

    MUSIC REVIEW | DISCO – Unashamed, Pure Unadulterated Joy from start to finish!

    Rating: 4 out of 5.

    Kylie Minogue has always been an enigma. From her PWL days to the Deconstruction Indie-Kylie era, right through to 2018’s country-themed “Golden”. The pop-stalwart has always endeared the public with her creative talents and in a world when we are unable to go to the local discothèque and dance until dawn; it seems odd for the undisputed Queen of Pop to release a collection of dancefloor bangers, but in these times it has been more than welcome.

    Kylie is no stranger to the dancefloor, it’s been a recurring theme over the last 20 years of her career, but DISCO is the first time that she’s really gone balls to the wall hi-NRG. DISCO is relentless. From the slinky smooth staccato keys of “Magic” and the unifying message of DISCO’s lead single; “Say Something”; where Minogue asks; “Can we all be as one again”. DISCO proves that the only place we need to be when we’re allowed is the dancefloor and DISCO drips with future dancefloor bangers.

    Looking back on the various stages of disco, and reinventing in them for today, DISCO is the perfect tonic to these troubled times.  Songs like “Dance Floor Darling” fuses the eighties inspired power chords and an incredibly modern, fresh production, and a “Your Disco Needs You”-inspired spoken word section. The vocoder gets some use on “Supernova”; a relentless nod back to her Light Years album, coupled with some Moroder inspired beats. The albums closer “Celebrate You” is life-affirming, arms up in the air concert closer in the making, and when the time comes for Minogue to tour the album we are going to be in for a real treat. Other highlights of the record include the Donna Summer inspired “Where Does the DJ Go?” and the ABBA influenced “Last Chance” with a chorus that resembles “Voulez-Vous”.

    Whilst nothing on the album reaches the high camp, dizzying heights of “Your Disco Needs You”, DISCO has some brilliant songs. Lyrically it sometimes veers off into parody, however, it’s forgiven because everything comes across as so joyous and warm. You cannot help but smile when listening to this record, and this is the perfect tonic for what looks like it might be a long and dark winter. You can say what you want about Kylie, but DISCO cements her as the queen of the Disco and she has returned to wrap her arms around every one of us.

    Available to buy or steam now

  • NOOOO! Cher is apparently the third most negative tweeter

    NOOOO! Cher is apparently the third most negative tweeter

    Lockdown has generated a lot of negative tweets. About people, governments and society in general.

    A recent study of over 100 celebrities who run and maintain their own Twitter accounts has found that two of our favourite gay icons top the lists of positive and negative tweeters.

    While Kylie sits on top of the positive list, with 89.7 per cent of her tweets skewing positive, Cher (gawd love her) is number 3 on the negative list, with only 51.3 per cent of her tweets skewing positively, she follows Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan.

    Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan were the most negative celebrity tweeters during lockdown.

    A study conducted by Sheffield-based digital agency Evoluted has revealed the most positive and negative celebrity tweeters during the lockdown period.

    Research (www.evoluted.net/studies/lockdown-lovers-and-loathers/) revealed that Kylie Minogue has been the most positive tweeter, closely followed by Sir Tom Jones and Lionel Richie, amongst others.

    Meanwhile, Nigel Farage tops the polls for the most negative tweeter under lockdown, joined by Piers Morgan and Cher.

    The research was conducted by digital agency Evoluted, who took the 200 most famous personalities in the UK (according to YouGov) and filtered the list down to 131 who are active on Twitter and clearly run their accounts personally.

    The agency then collected their tweets, quoted tweets and retweets that had been posted since March this year in order to evaluate the content that the person was putting out to all of their followers.

    Evoluted then used the bing lexicon method to attribute positive or negative meaning to the words used across all tweets, in order to analyse which tweeters were more positive than others.

    A positivity percentage was then assigned to each account – this was created by taking the ratio of positive words used on their timeline by the total number of negative and positive words.

    James Stone, Content Specialist at Evoluted, said, “We aim to be as thorough and accurate as possible within our research and our team really enjoyed carrying out this study.

    “It’s extremely interesting to see which celebrities are using their platforms to display positivity and which ones heavily feature negativity.”

    Research also ranked the jobs of the most positive celebrities, revealing that sports personalities, musicians, TV personalities, actors and public figures made up the top five.

    Top 10 positive Tweeters

    #Celeb% of pos
    1Kylie Minogue89.74
    2Sir Tom Jones89.39
    3Lionel Richie89.24
    4Mariah Carey89.24
    5Cristiano Ronaldo89.13
    6Ben Affleck89.13
    7Robbie Williams88.46
    8Jamie Oliver88.32
    9Paris Hilton87.27
    10Lewis Hamilton87.21

    #Celeb% of neg
    1Nigel Farage45.32
    2Piers Morgan46.2
    3Cher51.3
    4Hugh Grant51.59
    5Barbra Streisand52.47
    6Justin Timberlake52.83
    7Liam Gallagher53.09
    8Pamela Anderson53.13
    9Stephen King55.01
    10Lord Alan Sugar55.95

  • Kylie just shared the cutest Throwback Thursday picture with her sister…

    They are both Austrailian showbiz royalty, but who knew that both Kylie and Dannii were so cute when they were growing up.

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    Gay icons Kylie and Dannii Minogue look so cute together in a throwback picture shared by Kylie on Instagram. The pop-princesses look so happy together, holding hands, in the ultimate throwback picture. Kyles was wished her little sis a happy birthday, who is 45 today.

    Kylie recently launched a pro-gay marriage  campaign with her hubby-to-be. The pair promised not to get married until their Aussie LGBT friends could also get married in the country.

  • And this is why KYLIE is one hell of a gay icon

    We love Kylie – and her rather gorgeous BF Joshua.

    CREDIT: © s_bukley | Depositphotos

     

    The Aussie pop princess and her boyfriend, Joshua, have just done something that will totally and forever endear them to us…

    They’re not going to tie the knot  until same-sex couples get to say “I Do” down under.

    Surprisingly same-sex marriage is not yet permitted in Austrailia and they’re not happy about it.

    Kylie’s husband-to-be, Joshua Sasses, 28 helped launch the equality campaign, “Yes” and the “Say I Do Down Under” and said even though the pair would like to get married in Melbourne they won’t until the laws change to allow gay couples to get civilly partnered.

    Speaking to Australia’s Seven Network Joshua said,

    “When I found out that gay marriage was illegal in Australia, I was astounded,”

    “..we will not get married until this law has passed in Australia”.

    The Australian government has proposed a public referendum on the issue in February 2017.

    Joshua continued,

    “I simply can’t fathom on any level, whether it’s moral or religious or anything, that I have the right to get married and to marry the person that I love and that somebody else doesn’t because of their sexual orientation.”

    Despite being seen as progressive Austrailia’s laws affecting LGBTs are quite regressive. There’s no same-sex marriage and there are no adoption rights in some territories. The age of consent was only recently equalised in Queensland.

     

  • Kylie Records the Ab Fab Movie Theme, Sweetie Darling

    Kylie Records the Ab Fab Movie Theme, Sweetie Darling

    As if the excitement of the long awaited Ab Fab movie wasn’t enough to tantalise the gay community, the shows much loved theme tune, This Wheels On Fire has been recorded by the one and only Kylie Minogue.

    Credit: © s_bukley | Depositphotos

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  • WATCH: John Lewis Ad Gets The Kylie Treatment

    This is is pretty darn amazing. A super fan has changed the soundbed for John Lewis’s latest tear-jerker Christmas ad and replaced it with our Kylie!

    Changing up the sound from Aurora’s Half The World Away for Kylie and James Cordon’s Crimbo single Only You a Kylie super fan has created a wonderful video where the song fits really well. There’s even a hashtag – #ItShouldHaveBeenKylie – basically, it should have been.

    And just in case you’re wondering Kylie is a fan too!

     

  • This Is Not A Drill: Kylie To Switch On Oxford Street Christmas Lights

    Gentlegays… Kylie is turning on the Christmas lights on Oxford Street this weekend.

    Gay icon Kylie is to turn on all 750,000 of the Oxford Street Christmas lights on the 1st November. The hugely anticipated event kicks off from 5.30pm. The switching on will take place from outside the PANDORA Marble Arch Flagship store.

    The iconic event promises to excite and entertain shoppers from start to finish with a stellar line up of live performances from some of the UK’s freshest and coolest acts including Foxes, Fleur East, Ben Haenow and Gabrielle Aplin as well as a member of the cast of Matilda The Musical.

    This year’s event will be held on a traffic–free Sunday – inviting families, shoppers and visitors alike to enjoy the start of their Christmas shopping in an enhanced environment along West Oxford Street from 2pm. What’s more over forty high street stores have joined forces to offer exclusive discounts, in-store events and on-street activity for this special day only – free shopping tickets can be downloaded at oxfordstreet.co.uk/oxstshines.

  • COMMENT | How I Learned To Stop Worring And Love Kylie

    My mini joke was always that it was a homo crime for which I could have my Gay Card confiscated.

    And there have been times in the company of my peers I’ve been the odd queer out. But the truth is I never was a Kylie fan. Quite the opposite in fact.

    My personal opinion was that she was the poster girl for all that was bad in your average gay CD collection. And I was way hipper than that. My taste veers between skinny white kids with guitars to tortured hip hop ghetto types to electronic artists that are barely household names in their own households.

    By comparison Kylie Minogue always felt a bit, well, naff. From my cooler than thou music bunker, I had ruled years ago that she was kiddie pop sung mainly through her nose by a now middle aged ex soap star. Move on, nowt to see here…

    Anyway, with heavy heart then I accompanied my Kylie lovin’ other half to Hyde Park to watch her headining the BST Festival. When I say heavy heart, Grace Jones and Chic were on the bill, both acts that put a nicely designed tick in my hipster music box, so on paper it was not going to be a total waste of a day. Though of course as the selfless boyfriend I am, I would have to tolerate Minogue.

    Grace and Chic were excellent. Predictably so. I kind of knew that before both played a single note. But I digress. For this is not a column singing the praises of the support acts. Oh no. This is me relating the tale of just how I became a Kylie convert.

    The trade off of the big name summer outdoor gigs is always high ticket prices, restricted view due to distance from the stage in a huge area (we were not that far back but still felt like we were standing somewhere in Essex) and the sense that they are more about corporate interest and sponsorship than musical quality. At BST in Hyde Park all of this was on show. And yet…

    It was roughly three songs in, during the glorious glitter ball rush of Wow it clicked. I “got’’ Kylie. Yes, it’s a simple formula on paper; keep the BPM high and hit the chorus at full throttle. It is however brutally effective.

    Plus as my other half so succinctly put it at her strongest, the biggest surprise is that thanks to some clever state of the art production Kylie sounds both ultra contemporary and like the future. Simmering beneath the pop sheen of a Can’t Get You Out Of My Head or a Get Outta My Way is something darker and quietly subversive.

    In a royal park on a summer Sunday night amongst the heavy branding of credit card company sponsorship, the moment the harsh electronic rhythm of Slow was cranked up, as heavy as anything in underground EDM became a mass communal moment.

    Then there is Kylie herself. After several decades in the business, it seems fairly redundant to say she is a polished performer. But likability without blandness is no mean feat to pull off. Unlike her contemporaries, the grim determination and often joylessness of Madonna for example, Minogue comes across as hugely likeable. Niceness is pop stars is so rare that in her case it feels refreshing rather that forced or insincere.

    I will always struggle to stay in the room for The Locomotion and I Should Be So Lucky still is the wrong side of cringeworthy. But after years and years of dismissing her, I can honestly say I have found corners of her back catalogue I genuinely love.

    Until the next time KM.

     

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  • Kylie quits The Voice

    Kylie won’t be returning for the next series of The Voice because of touring commitments.

    Speaking to The Mirror, Kylie has confirmed she won’t be returning to The Voice on BBC 1 next season, because of her upcoming Kiss Me Once Tour.

    ‘I’m touring this year and the timings wouldn’t work,

    ‘We started filming in November last year for the show and this year I’m on tour in September, October and November.’

    She added: ‘Being on the show is a huge commitment. I have loved it although there have been parts which have been really difficult, too taxing and emotional.

    ‘You can’t second guess yourself. You deal with a lot of decisions and emotions.’

    However the BBC is reportedly not giving up on wooing the Pop Queen, stating that there might be the possibility of swapping film dates.

  • ALBUM REVIEW | Kylie, Kiss Me Once

    ★★★★ |  Kylie, Kiss Me Once

    The shimmering pop queen is back with a confident new update to her sound, she’s also feeling sexy and she wants you to know it!

    INTO THE BLUE:
    After a year of chucking out some promo singles, Kylie is back to business good and proper, with the lead single from Kiss Me Once. An epic stringed euphoric song in the same vein as All The Lovers and one the few “Kylie” songs on the album. ★★★

    MILLION MILES:
    Guitar intro alert! Don’t panic about 13 seconds later along comes the big throbbing beat to reassure you everything is going to be OK. A dance-pop guitar pop infused banger that wouldn’t sound out of place on the “Fever” / “Light Years” album. A song about feeling detached from any sexual activity and enjoying it! ★★★★

    I WAS GONNA CANCEL:
    Also known as that Pharrell produced song, and you can tell! His trademark cowbell sound signature funky basslines are all in place, the addition of some electro beats, a ghostly choir that pops up elevates the song and like much of the album it rattles along at a fair pace, so it doesn’t out stay its welcome. ★★★

    SEXY LOVE:
    This is another song that starts off very Kylie, and it really wouldn’t sound out of place on the “Fever” album, it also wouldn’t sound out of place on Daft Punks “Random Access Memories”. It’s fun, it’s frothy, it’s flirty and it’s precisely the kind of dance-pop that Kylie does so well. ★★★★

    SEXERCISE:
    Sound the co-written by Sia Klaxon. An interesting track for both Kylie and Sia, a sexual innuendo laden offering that starts off with some lovely airy strings and then comes in the chunky dub-step flecked bassline. It’s perfectly matched with the whole tone of the lyrics. It IS going to divide a lot of her long term fans, you will either love it or hate it. I love it! ★★★★

    FEELS SO GOOD:
    A cover of the little known song Indiana by Tom Aspaul and produced by the uber trendy MNEK (who has just score a Top 5 hit with his latest single) It just seems like it belongs to Kylie, it’s perfect for her, again it’s that kind of fluttering breathless dance-pop that she does so well, and it’s a nice juxtaposition to the down and dirty affair of the previous track. An album highlight. ★★★★

    IF ONLY:
    Don’t panic your CD / Download isn’t warped! This a stuttering beat infused electro “ballad” It’s big sounding and the marching beat with futuristic synths come together to make something pretty unique and addictve. The chorus is huge btw, it’s the song I have been singing most after listening. ★★★★

    LES SEX:
    Starting off with some clockwork style beats (that remain throughout the track), it bursts into life a few seconds later and it doesn’t stop! It’s the only real cheeky wink to camp Kylie, and it feels like a very modern successor to her camp classic Your Disco Needs You. Weird electro-frog noises, big giant electro riffs, processed snatches of vocals, it’s all a bit bonkers really. It is a song that was made to be performed live and will probably be one of the highlights of her upcoming tour. ★★★

    KISS ME ONCE:
    The album’s title track is once again co-written by Sia, in fact after the very first sentence and after verse you will want to burst into a quick chant of “Tiataniummmmmm” This is properly brilliant. It sounds like a classic “SAW” produced track but with very modern bells and whistles attached, and it’s probably the most “Kylie” song on the whole album. And after all the flirty sex infused songs it’s nice to have a song about love conquering all. ★★★★★

    BEAUTIFUL
    Also known as the duet with Enrique Iglesias, and considering he is about to have a massive Top 5 hit with his new single, it’s perfect timing. It’s very electronic and the chorus is undeniably huge and it literally erupts out of nowhere, but the robotic vocodered vocals of the verses are really grating. It’s a very bold move and it definitely stands out and as a future single it may be just the song to get Kylie noticed again. Again it’s going to divide a lot of people. ★★★

    FINE:
    Saving the best for last? This ain’t no sad ballad album closer! It’s a nice 90’s house influenced solid dance-pop banger, the surprise stuttering looped male vocals as found on many of the biggest dance hits of the past year really help give this a very modern feel and it’s a great ending to the album. ★★★★★

    Overall this is perhaps the best Kylie album of her career, it’s modern without sounding try-hard and she seems refreshed and she sounds like she is absolutely loving singing it. It’s a great update to her “sound” and has a high replay factor, which is great since the sunny days are a coming!

    Into the Blue is out now to buy and “Kiss Me Once” is released next week March 17th and comes in a standard edition and deluxe edition.
    Buy Into the Blue here
    Order Kiss Me Once From iTunes here or from Amazon here

  • Kylie Moves Into The Blue Release Date Forward

    Due to excessive demand for the Red Bloodied Beauty, the Into The Blue release date has been pushed forward.

    Kylie Minogue’s new single Into The Blue is due to be released on the 9th March and the album will be released on the 17th.

    Her new album Kiss Me Once, is the first record since working with her new management team Roc Nation.

    Kylie released the artwork for Kiss Me Once last week

    Watch the official lyric video for Into The Blue here