Kylie - Golden

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mutucan87

mutucan87

I... don’t feel like I’m listening to Kylie album at all... i mean, the voice is there but the energy and the songs are not. except Stop Me From Falling (and maybe Dancing) I don’t think I will listen to it much after this week
 
BootedGay71

BootedGay71

Euphoria said:
I'm surprised at the universal 'meh' for Love. It's one of the tracks I was pleasantly surprised by.
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I adore Love. Has single potential I think. A summer single with some great remixes

There isn’t a dud on the whole album. Even the deluxe tracks are incredible

I have had it on repeat all night ⭐️
 
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Philllll

Philllll

Raining Glitter, Golden and Lost Without You are gems.

Love, Dancing, Every Little Part of Me and Live a Little are good as well.

The rest is okay/meh, but cohesive.

Except for A Lifetime To Repair…what in the hell.
 
Chris_P

Chris_P

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Of all the Dancing clones, I have to say, Every Little Part of Me is my favorite. It’s a sweet, icy little bop.
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It is kind of disappointing that all these songs share so many similarities when they absolutely did not need to.
What Every Little Part and Dancing share in terms of production for example, is not essential to Dancing. Why not have it be exclusive to Every Little Part then?
Or Lifetime for example has nothing to do with Dancing and Falling outside the chorus, why ruin it with that copy-paste chorus?
I understand that during the creative process, making such distinctions makes no sense since the timeline of when a song springs to mind and when it's finished may blur into the timeline of the realization of whatever other song. And of course they cannot know what will eventually be on the album. But when they put the track list together, and they see all these similarities, why not go an extra mile to change them? Not out of a need to satisfy my personal OCD, but merely so that the songs can shine brighter individually.

Elsewhere, I feel like Raining Glitter fails in representing both its disco and its country influences. The idea that what makes it country is a guitar bit repeated ad nauseam throughout its entire length feels so limp as a concept. Like, have a guitar in there, sure, but both country and disco have used guitar play organically to do something more interesting than just replacing what could effectively be achieved with a beat or a sample. Why not explore that potential? As for its disco side, when it starts out so refreshing and different during the verses, why let it devolve into that kitsch disco fodder during the chorus?

These are all songs with great lyrics, vocal melodies and deliveries, let down by the production... It's still good quality production and it suits the songs, but it feels... misguided.

(By the way, I disagree that Live a Little is a Dancing clone, I hear no association between them other than the fact that they both fit well on this record.)
 
Euphoria

Euphoria

Chris_P said:
It is kind of disappointing that all these songs share so many similarities when they absolutely did not need to.
What Every Little Part and Dancing share in terms of production for example, is not essential to Dancing. Why not have it be exclusive to Every Little Part then?
Or Lifetime for example has nothing to do with Dancing and Falling outside the chorus, why ruin it with that copy-paste chorus?
I understand that during the creative process, making such distinctions makes no sense since the timeline of when a song springs to mind and when it's finished may blur into the timeline of the realization of whatever other song. And of course they cannot know what will eventually be on the album. But when they put the track list together, and they see all these similarities, why not go an extra mile to change them? Not out of a need to satisfy my personal OCD, but merely so that the songs can shine brighter individually.
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I agree entirely.

(By the way, I disagree that Live a Little is a Dancing clone, I hear no association between them other than the fact that they both fit well on this record.)
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Interesting - I'll have to revisit it. I've only listened to the album in full a couple times & that song was not a highlight for me by any means. Rollin' is the worst Dancing Remix offender of the 3 for me.
 
Jacques

Jacques



The super deluxe doesn't seem very deluxe? I thought it'd be a 12" hardback book but it looks like the standard gatefold vinyl with the 12" booklet plonked in there along with a cardsleeve CD!
 
Pop Gaz

Pop Gaz

Jacques said:


The super deluxe doesn't seem very deluxe? I thought it'd be a 12" hardback book but it looks like the standard gatefold vinyl with the 12" booklet plonked in there along with a cardsleeve CD!
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I'm going to be so pissed if that is the case! However, the image on The Kylie Store definitely looks like a hard backed book.

[Edit] Damn, looking at the packaging video she posted the other day, there isn't a hard backed book, it may just be "pages" within the gatefold!
 
Pop Gaz

Pop Gaz

Yes, the mock up is rather cheeky and does imply something far more substantial, but yes, in hind sight, that looks bigger than what 30 pages would produce. I really wouldn't have bothered with this though if I'd have known, I thought it would be like the Aphrodite and Abbey Road books, just bigger, and could sit on the shelf alongside La La La and Fashion, as pretty as the vinyl will be I have no way to play it, and I could have saved some pennies and just got the cd deluxe, which looks like the book I thought we were getting, just smaller.

Oh well, at least I've done my bit to keep Kylie in those expensive killer heels she favours.
 
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