Kylie Minogue

kermit_the_frog

kermit_the_frog

Juango said:
What I love about Deconstruction is that they made some very expensive decisions that had no chance of being a hit. They could easily have done a single edit of the Bish Bosh remix of Where Is The Feeling with Kylie dancing about in a video clip and it would have done well. And I love that they went for the talking remix with Kylie swimming about in a pool instead.



I think there are very few examples of really good campaigns from Deconstruction. The quality is there though, but it's not surprising they went bankrupt.

I think Surrender would have made a good single.
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I’m not sure whether this is an unpopular opinion or not but I think that KM94 is Kylie’s only 10/10 album (once you’ve deleted the M People B-Side tacked on at the end that’s completely incongruous with the rest of the album, obviously - so a 9/10 and I’m in denial, I guess!?)

Agreed that Deconstruction seemed to have great budgets but confused marketing for their acts - with hindsight I think that M People had both a clear direction and clear identity, which helped them overcome the label’s lack of positioning.
 
elektroxx

elektroxx

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kermit_the_frog said:
I’m not sure whether this is an unpopular opinion or not but I think that KM94 is Kylie’s only 10/10 album (once you’ve deleted the M People B-Side tacked on at the end that’s completely incongruous with the rest of the album, obviously - so a 9/10 and I’m in denial, I guess!?)
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I'm with you in that I agree that KM94 is the closest that Kylie has come to releasing a perfect album and had she scrapped "Time Will Pass You By," it would've been a perfect album.
 
SloMover

SloMover

I guess I understand why Time Will Pass You By made the cut but considering what was left on the cutting room floor... At The End of the Day, Our Lovin', Living for Your Loving - whew.
 
heartmightmelt

heartmightmelt

Vasilios said:
Yeah we need to remember how the whole industry / scene was back then, it was 2000, straight after the pop boom when even pop bands started to change their sound and look because pop became attached to kids, labels didn't what acts to become too gay because this was the era of Grammys, NME, Radio 1, Q Magazine, old straight white men were calling the shots, on what gets released, what gets stocked, what gets played, what gets awarded, what gets the big budget - kids and gays didn't have the voice and power they have now (or they did but labels scoffed at that because straights also bought music). So pop music was straight-washed a lot. We had the last laugh though!
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Also, a few 80's female artists attempted to engineer a comeback by doing disco without an understanding of why Kylie's comeback worked for her and thought it would be/or were convinced it would be as simple as just making a straight forward retread with no winking, no embracing and no narrative. Releasing "Your Disco Needs You" would have been very risky as it could have put her into a box along with Lulu and Sheena Easton that she could've struggled to get back out of. Had the Fever album and singles not came along, Kylie might've been a one-and-done comeback.

Had "Your Disco Needs You" been released as Robbie with Kylie on backing vocals it would've been a smash. He could make all the queer-bait comments and raps at the time and the press just lapped it up.
 
elektroxx

elektroxx

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Vasilios said:
Kylie was promoted like a new act - like they did not want her old fanbase along for the ride.
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I've always felt like that that was more Kylie's decision than Deconstruction's. I'm sure that the label would've loved to capitalize on and leverage Kylie's existing fanbase, but Kylie seemed to want to disassociate from her PWL past.
 
Vasilios

Vasilios

Yeah I'm including Kylie in 'them'. She prob wanted a new start - esp after the diminishing returns of Let's Fulfil It and her career everywhere that wasn't UK or OZ.
 
Anjoel40

Anjoel40

Wasn't KM94 recording paused while she went off to film 'Streetfighter'? That time away might have made a difference to what was included. M People were riding high in the charts then. We may have got a different end result if she hadn't done that film.
 
moorje

moorje

kermit_the_frog said:
I’m not sure whether this is an unpopular opinion or not but I think that KM94 is Kylie’s only 10/10 album (once you’ve deleted the M People B-Side tacked on at the end that’s completely incongruous with the rest of the album, obviously
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Is it though? It’s pretty much cut from the same cloth as Where Is The Feeling.
 
kermit_the_frog

kermit_the_frog

moorje said:
Is it though? It’s pretty much cut from the same cloth as Where Is The Feeling.
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I was being dramatic - yes, both are early 90s house through a UK filter… but Where Is The Feeling is immense, whereas Time Will Pass You By reeks of “advert wants to use Movin’ On Up without paying licence fees for Movin’ On Up”… M People were definitely keeping their best songs for themselves…
 
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