Stock, Aitken & Waterman
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I'm So Beautiful is the best Divine single! The chorus is massive.
I like to think Kylie was "inspired" for the Hand On Your Heart video by this...
I like to think Kylie was "inspired" for the Hand On Your Heart video by this...
Rick's best song! I didn't know until recently it was apparently written as a response record to Whitney's I Wanna Dance With Somebody but I can hear it now.
As alerted to by @nanafan in the Bananarama thread, this great unloved album turned 30 today!
Such an enjoyable record for me personally.
I'll throw Please Yersen some love too. I only really recall flop single More More More from the time, but got it in the mid 00s and loved it. I can see why it flopped though. Highlights for me are Give It All Up For Love, Is She Good To You and I Could Be Persuaded (the male vocalist doing the "the taxi's waaaaaaaaaiiiiiting" bits reminds me of the man who does the backing vocal warbly bits on Kylie's Where Has The Love Gone.
If only it had been! I’m almost willing to bet Hand On Your Heart was the video which the lovely stylist meant a couple of episodes back in the podcast. @SmashHitter She was talking about the styling of ”one recent video” having not been as good as what it should’ve been, and thus getting the chance to style a future video herself – which just happened to be Wouldn’t Change A Thing.
She was super nice and polite and didn’t want to shade anyone, bless her, but I recall how strange Kylie’s styling on Hand On Your Heart felt back in the day! Those heart dresses (aprons?) in different colours were a far cry from looking trendy or even youthful, not even when worn by an actual 20 (or so) year old, and the peculiar hair style straight from World War 2 era didn’t exactly help matters. The look might be considered cute now, sure, but those days it felt like a disaster. It really wasn’t what it should’ve been, she looked just… naff.
I do get what you mean by that, more so on other shoots, but if that’s what they were going for here I think they failed quite badly. Yazz and others were clearly always cool, these dresses with their matching colour shoes were just not it. She didn’t look even like a rip-off clubber, unless it was a club for 50’s housewives.
Well Kylie was Kylie in 1989 so they did her version of that cool vibe dd. She wasn't ready yet.
80s dance pop bop bliss!!
he/him
Do the members of this thread consider a song to be a S/A/W song if “only” two of them are listed in the credits? I’ve been trying to build the ultimate playlist and want to respect whatever is canon.
That wasn’t the styling Shazza was referring to, but I agree it was a miss.
I distinguish between SAW, SW and SA (and then post-SAW PWL, like Steps is a whole other thing).
But SW is basically a continuation of SAW. The SA stuff felt like a fresh start and went in a covers-heavy direction.
Lord knows what my Spotify Unwrapped will be like this year
I've pretty much had Ten Good Reasons, Everybody Knows and Rhythm of Love on repeat for the past month
I've pretty much had Ten Good Reasons, Everybody Knows and Rhythm of Love on repeat for the past month
Partying like it's 1990
I don't really know what's canon, but I am building a chronocial playlist of whatever's available on Spotify with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_produced_by_Stock_Aitken_Waterman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_produced_by_Stock_Aitken_Waterman
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Agreed...if she'd have teamed up the dress with Red or Dead style shoes/trainers, a bomber jacket and a better hairstyle she actually would've looked quite cool at the time!
Probably the only thread I started that’s still active on this forum (R.I.P. Kylie Christmas, now we don’t have separate album threads).Happy 100 pages to the SAW thread!
