Publications
Partners
XX factor: 2 stars
Kylie is not Madonna - reinvention is just not what she's about. Kylie’s album is distinctively Kylie. Calling it new is an insult. It’s really just a continuation of whatever her previous, pre-cancer album was called.
The first track, "2 Hearts" is the kind of song I want to learn the lyrics to and sing at the top of my voice. And it’s also the only song I remember. It’s provocative, but this kitten could put sexy in a Christmas carol. What? Kylie do a Christmas album? Don’t be silly, this is one singer who will unabashedly sell sex until she’s 60.
She's hot, she's knows it, and she wants you to love her. She can also rock a mini skirt like it’s no body’s business. Damn her. She can't sing, but who cares.
- Ashlin Simpson
XY factor: 4 stars
Can Kylie still pull off the sex-poppet spiel at 40-something? Uh-huh. On "2 Hearts" she slips straight into dominatrix disco diva mode, lubricating an erotically charged electro-clash vamp with some glitter-balled glam rock riffs last heard on Bowie's "Jean Genie". She's no one trick tease though.
Mobile phone sex mash-ups of Madonna, Cher and um, Samantha Fox ("Speakerphone"), a locomotive synth-pop spin on her own sterilised Stock, Aitken and Waterman-ned past ("The One") and a freaky electro-hop lap dance ("Nu-di-ty") all milk 80s nostalgia with a flirtatious wink that makes Britney's recent attempt at selling sex sound like panty-flashing posturing.
Elsewhere she easily out-camps cabaret-disco obsessives like the Scissor Sisters and Mika by splicing and dicing samples of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams", Madonna's "Holiday" and Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's "Bonny & Clyde" into pulpy dance floor diversions "Like A Drug", "Wow" and "Sensitized".
- Miles Keylock
Kylie is not Madonna - reinvention is just not what she's about. Kylie’s album is distinctively Kylie. Calling it new is an insult. It’s really just a continuation of whatever her previous, pre-cancer album was called.
The first track, "2 Hearts" is the kind of song I want to learn the lyrics to and sing at the top of my voice. And it’s also the only song I remember. It’s provocative, but this kitten could put sexy in a Christmas carol. What? Kylie do a Christmas album? Don’t be silly, this is one singer who will unabashedly sell sex until she’s 60.
She's hot, she's knows it, and she wants you to love her. She can also rock a mini skirt like it’s no body’s business. Damn her. She can't sing, but who cares.
- Ashlin Simpson
XY factor: 4 stars
Can Kylie still pull off the sex-poppet spiel at 40-something? Uh-huh. On "2 Hearts" she slips straight into dominatrix disco diva mode, lubricating an erotically charged electro-clash vamp with some glitter-balled glam rock riffs last heard on Bowie's "Jean Genie". She's no one trick tease though.
Mobile phone sex mash-ups of Madonna, Cher and um, Samantha Fox ("Speakerphone"), a locomotive synth-pop spin on her own sterilised Stock, Aitken and Waterman-ned past ("The One") and a freaky electro-hop lap dance ("Nu-di-ty") all milk 80s nostalgia with a flirtatious wink that makes Britney's recent attempt at selling sex sound like panty-flashing posturing.
Elsewhere she easily out-camps cabaret-disco obsessives like the Scissor Sisters and Mika by splicing and dicing samples of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams", Madonna's "Holiday" and Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's "Bonny & Clyde" into pulpy dance floor diversions "Like A Drug", "Wow" and "Sensitized".
- Miles Keylock
