I've got a promo where it says 'includes the singles Spinning Around and Under the Influence of Love". There's a press release from the time as well that mentions it as a single.
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I've got a promo where it says 'includes the singles Spinning Around and Under the Influence of Love". There's a press release from the time as well that mentions it as a single.
It's not a comeback single, but it's easily one of the best on the album. Simple straightforward boppery.
I think it’s on a radio promo CD I’ve got
Yes, there's a promo interview CD for Light Years and there's some audio clips of her introducing songs and there is one for Under the Influence:
Why is Impossible Princess the perfect January album?? I always seem to come back to it this time of year.
Oh well, straight from the horses mouth, so to speak. That settles that discussion.
"Under the Influence" is a much snappier title than the full line to be fair. I wonder if it was considered a Plan B if the heavier, clubbier "On a Night Like This" hadn't landed well. Also, there's every possibility that Chrysalis hadn't settled on "Kids" being a single for Robbie yet, so maybe they were keeping their options open - those interview discs are recorded around the same time the interviews are done for the monthly magazines published before the album is out.
It does seem bizarre that they would risk doubling-down on the retro sound and throwing out a Barry White cover version as a single while they were aiming to update Kylie for 2000, especially when "Disco Down" was right there.
Things really could have been so different!
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Under The Influence is on par with Please Stay though in terms of basic bop. Can’t imagine the campaign being too different.
Under the influence would have needed a hefty remix to be a single. I did imagine it being a single when I first played the album though.
I always thought Under the Influence would be fun to see Kylie perform live. I prefer it to Please Stay to be honest.
All this talk of Light Years has got me listening to the album and the On a Night Like This remixes...
I love the unexpectedly sad banger turn that the Motiv8 remix takes
I forgot how good the mixes are!
I still think Please Stay is one of Kylie's all time underrated singles. Probably my 2nd favourite these days of all the Light Years singles. Love the Metro remix of it too:
I love "Please Stay", especially the slightly-beefier single mix that they used on Ultimate Kylie.
It gets so much dismissal largely because of the foreign-market-single that came out there and didn't come out here in the UK, which really isn't fair. People forget that the UK music scene in 2000 only allowed one person to be knowingly winking and unapologetically camp and that person was Robbie Williams who'd released a single interpolating "I Will Survive" the same week.
"Please Stay" just needed more of the first half of the video (where it was doing a servicable Austin Powers pastiche) and less of the second half (Poundland "Don't Tell Me" at the employee hangout bar from Jaws 3D) to not feel like it was a bit of an afterthought single to hit the Christmas market following the 1-2 punch of "On A Night Like This" and "Kids" in quick succession that Autumn. "Disco Down" shoulda been the Christmas single, then "Please Stay" as a fifth one at the time of the tour the following spring.
It gets so much dismissal largely because of the foreign-market-single that came out there and didn't come out here in the UK, which really isn't fair. People forget that the UK music scene in 2000 only allowed one person to be knowingly winking and unapologetically camp and that person was Robbie Williams who'd released a single interpolating "I Will Survive" the same week.
"Please Stay" just needed more of the first half of the video (where it was doing a servicable Austin Powers pastiche) and less of the second half (Poundland "Don't Tell Me" at the employee hangout bar from Jaws 3D) to not feel like it was a bit of an afterthought single to hit the Christmas market following the 1-2 punch of "On A Night Like This" and "Kids" in quick succession that Autumn. "Disco Down" shoulda been the Christmas single, then "Please Stay" as a fifth one at the time of the tour the following spring.
I never got the "Your Disco Needs You was too gay to release as a single" argument when Geri Halliwell was scoring massive #1 hits with It's Raining Men and Bag It Up at the same time.
I like Please Stay but never seemed like an obvious single choice for me.
Yes, often wonder had if Please Stay was released say early 2001 than opposed to the Christmas market, if it would have peaked higher. Still, #10 not too shabby and the Light Years singles run gave Kylie her best back to back run of top 10 hits Rhythm Of Love a decade before.