Kylie Minogue - Tension II

V3RYP05H

V3RYP05H

I think it’s more that Kylie is down to try anything offered to her. Which is commendable. She’s also reached a status (mostly worldwide) where why not? I mean, didn’t she reveal that the four collabs included on Tension II were just her saying “yes” when asked?

Now I want to know the person who is saying “no” because “Running”, “Night Owl” (although this wasn’t claimed to be a reject), and some other rejects are so much better than what actually gets put on her albums (fuck it, I know “Heavenly Body” got a limited release but I’m gonna include it in this lil rant). The Quality Control is lacking.

bestinase said:
Midnight Cowboy should have not been did though

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True.
 
Knightr634

Knightr634

I love My Oh My it’s was a nice summery bop and she looked like a goddess in the music video.

I think the amount of leaks we’ve had for all her albums proves that her/her team are more about getting an album done which hits the mark in terms of a fantastic collection of songs that may or may not have a thread running through them, and sometimes strike absolute Gold, rather than taking her time to delve into a more unsafe waters. She’s very consistent in having albums out, she’s not taking 5 years plus for each album release. So I’d assume that at some point the release date of the album starts to take precedence over how unsafe she explores the sound of the album.
 
MrP

MrP

The YouNotUs mix is on Australian Spotify. Kinda surprised they have been given a remix credit as it's mostly the same as the original version - main differences in first 9 seconds, a bit more kick in the verses and they chopped the last post-chorus verse - making the song only 2m19. I like them both but I miss Kylie describing herself as behaving "selfishly".
I'll take a video now, please.
 
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LoveMachine

LoveMachine

Vasilios said:
German BMG had this idea and it went through to help with German sales. She was paid to do this so extra income too. Especially if there’s a tv tie in. She’s a legend she’s earned her status this won’t damage her brand. Also doing things > not doing things.
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I get the logic behind the colaboration and I also get why she released Tension II the way it is.
But I don't really agree with that last part. I mean, yes, releasing a few Padam clones doesn't make Padam a worse song, but it does tarnish her brand ever so slightly (I don't think there's real damage here and she's earned everything she's doing, but just for the sake of the argument...).
Doing things is great, doing things carefully might be even better to a degree, not doing things can also be a good idea.
 
V3RYP05H

V3RYP05H

LoveMachine said:
but it does tarnish her brand ever so slightly
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Gonna need you to elaborate on this.

From the get-go she mentioned that, as a project, T2 was set into motion because of the success of “Padam Padam”, stressing that the songs would be in that vein/soundscape (come to think of it, didn’t she say it was initially a Tension 1 reissue, if a reissue is more respectable than a companion album… yikes). If it does anything, it proves that Kylie sticks to her word and accomplishes what she sets out to do.

Plus a lot of her brand to the general public tends to highlight her dance-pop bops anyways, which T2 is full of.
 
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