Kylie Minogue - X
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Artist: Kylie MinogueEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Capitol/Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
- 2 Hearts
- Like A Drug
- In My Arms
- Speakerphone
- Sensitized
- Heart Beat Rock
- The One 8
- No More Rain
- All I See
- Stars
- Wow
- Nu-di-ty
- Cosmic
- All I See featuring MIMS (BONUS TRACK)
Free Music Notes for X
Free Music Review: Another Kylie album, another mixed bag.
Hit: 3 Stars
X is actually the first Kylie album I've been desperate to buy on the day of release, based on the strength of the leaked album tracks and outtakes.
Having now got a copy of my very own, the hard part of this review is the final rating. When X is good it's very good, to the point that I can overlook the fillers and the car-crash. However, Kylie has come out with a few duds. To be brutally honest, "filler" is too good a term to call a couple of the tracks. It's so frustrating; she had 50+ tracks to pick from!
The album highlight for me is 'In My Arms'. Very dance-pop, the lyrics are simple & catchy. The music is very Calvin Harris.
`Like A Drug', `The One', 'Stars' are pure pop. Forget the credibility chasing please, Kylie is made for pop, she makes these tracks shine.
The Cathy Dennis penned 'Sensitized' - dropped from BODY LANGUAGE - makes it way onto X. Like '2 Hearts' it's new for Kylie, but it works. Simple, yet complex, it sounds like it could have been an IMPOSSIBLE PRINCESS track. Very sensual lyrics.
A classic Kylie album (for me) has at least one average single. 'X' manges to have 2 (So far).
`2 Hearts' is a solid, slickly produced number, with nice breathy vocals, but it just doesn't do anything for me. Maybe I'd like it more if my first thought wasn't "It's Goldfrapp". The song, its video and Kylie's style are blatant copies. Anyone else would have been instantly shot down for this huge rip.
`Wow' (UK and Aus single) is klassic Kylie for the first few listens. However it gets irritating, thanks to the chorus; You're wow... wow... wow... wow. You'll soon be skipping this track.
Another, unfortunate classic Kylie album stable is the use of bland 'filler' tracks. I played the album before sitting down for this review, but I still can't think of anything constructive to say about `No More Rain', `All I See' (both versions) or `Cosmic', apart from It's something we've come to expect from Kylie, but with the above mentioned treasure trove of potential tracks (Lose Control, Fall For You, Excuse My French, When The Cat's Away, I Am Ready, Boombox etc) for team Kylie to pick from this really could have been avoided.
I do have another negative point. There are a few songs that aren't even filler tracks, they're just horrid. Take a bow `Speakerphone' and `Heart Beat Rock'.
`Nu-di-ty' gets a few points for becoming car-crash; it's not good and it's painful, but I can't help listening.
Maybe next time.
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Perhaps best known stateside for her 2001 smash singles, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and "Love At First Sight", Kylie Minogue is an international pop icon who, over the course of an extraordinary 20-year-career, has released ten studio albums, scored 45 hit singles, received countless gold and platinum discs, earned three Grammy? nominations, and sold out six world tours!The wait is finally over! On April 1st, Kylie releases X in the US, her first new studio album in four years. 'X' features international smash hits, 2 Hearts, WOW, In My Arms and the US first single ALL I SEE!! The album, Kylie's 10th, features 14 new tracks including a BONUS track - ALL I SEE featuring MIMS, not currently available on any international verison to date!!! For months fans have been referring to the title of the new album as X, so when it came to naming the album it was the obvious choice!
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