Re: Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once (Album) / Into The Blue (Single)
Did the SAW fans jump ship en masse when they heard her new sound, or did most of them just go with it?
To me the "Let's Get To It" album made it pretty clear things had changed. The first time I heard "Word Is Out" I thought she had gone Mad. It used to sound like R&B to me and I had to get my head around the fact that is where she wanted S/A/W to take their sound.
Everybody I knew was anticipating the thrills of another "Better The Devil You Know" style bomb to launch the album and "Word Is Out" made it crystal clear it was aiming to be something different altogether.
By the time "Confide In Me" came along I had lived through the Nineties a bit more and had my ears opened to different influences and was a long time over the S/A/W sound.
However, I knew various gays (and some straights), who were still stuck in that S/A/W headspace and had to let them go because they couldn't move with the times and because I found it embarrassing that I would be viewed as being stuck in the same headspace as them by association.
I found it funny years later, when gay guys ten years younger than me started screaming blue murder at Alison Goldfrapp for taking away their disco beats on "Seventh Tree".