Kylie Minogue - Tension II
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Love this and love that she is thriving. Gonna listen to this version and take a walk in the sunshine. Life is good.
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The extended mix is fine but it feels like the last minute drags on for no good reason. The original edit, whilst short, gets the job done and doesn't overstay its welcome.
Well I'm bopping to this. Though I’ve been stanning Alok and It Don’t Matter for 2 years now.
I get the critisms but I don’t think Tension II and the collabs have been that bad, they just don’t hit the way Padam did.
It doesn’t surprise me though that Kylie and her team have leaned into the more gimmicky type songs when you think her biggest songs (Padam, Head and Lucky) have all had that a certain gimmick to them.
But this phase will pass. Like when 15 years ago when there was a point where songs had to repeat the same word in the chorus again and again and again. (Cheryl Cole’s 3 Words album took it the extreme).
I get the critisms but I don’t think Tension II and the collabs have been that bad, they just don’t hit the way Padam did.
It doesn’t surprise me though that Kylie and her team have leaned into the more gimmicky type songs when you think her biggest songs (Padam, Head and Lucky) have all had that a certain gimmick to them.
But this phase will pass. Like when 15 years ago when there was a point where songs had to repeat the same word in the chorus again and again and again. (Cheryl Cole’s 3 Words album took it the extreme).
Hi ‘Quality’. It’s been a while.
So. Yeah. Not a fan.
So. Yeah. Not a fan.
This is a fucking bop.
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thanks a lot, anyway
These quick releases to keep her name out there, and keep her working with newer young artists, is a smart move in this content-demanding culture, especially if you're trying to avoid becoming nothing more than a legend act. Kylie is an artist who has always reveled in random collaborations and one-offs between eras, often to mixed results, so the newfound frustration about it is strange. Much like My Oh My and much of Tension II before it, I won't be giving this more listens, but I understand why it exists.
If she'd been doing something similar between 2007 and 2013 instead of big gaps with nothing but demo leaks, a never-ending delayed fold out Aphrodite tour edition and the Scabby Road Sessions then her 2014 run might have been starting from a better place. Instead all the big digital-era pop girls with US labels pumping out almost constant releases sucked all the oxygen out from where Kylie used to reign in the singles charts.
I get why she's doing this now. Make hay while the sun shines and all that. I don't have to love it, but I get it.
I’m not convinced it is particularly smart to keep releasing songs where the quality is um…. not up to her previous standards.
I know it is all a matter of personal taste but for me. I just become more frustrated if I don’t like the songs. I didn’t even buy Tension II as I wasn’t feeling it.
I think I’d rather have quality before anything else.
I know it is all a matter of personal taste but for me. I just become more frustrated if I don’t like the songs. I didn’t even buy Tension II as I wasn’t feeling it.
I think I’d rather have quality before anything else.
Considering the majority of the general public probably think she’s bounced from WoW to All the Lovers, to Dancing, to Padam during the last almost 20 years and not acknowledging anything in between it and yet still letting her practically sell out one of her biggest tours to date, then I can see why it’s a release whatever approach and see what sticks.
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I doubt it. Parlophone were so utterly useless that they'd have squandered whatever progress was made due to their handling of Kiss Me Once.