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(1) My respect towards Kylie Minogue, who I don't remember ever listening to, just got a boost. Maybe I should check out her other songs!

(2) The page has the most playful "Accept cookies?" control of what I've encountered so far.

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Her music video directed by Michel Gondry is worth a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ

For 2001 it has a rather striking effect. Kylie is walking around a circular area in Paris over and over and everything multiplies each time she completes a loop. It's a very clever effect given the technology of the time. By the end of the video there are five Kylies walking around loosely interacting with each other and the world in odd ways.

Wow. I know the song but have never seen the video. So creative and mesmerizing.

That's Gondry at his most Gondryesque. There are connected themes in some of his other music videos:

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0

Daft Punk - Around The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HSD_i2DvA

The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE

> The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE

(it's my birthday today, so I think I'm allowed to post a)

'Simpsons did it': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUx3kDnT-p8

Kylie Minogue is, as far as pop music goes, awesome. Her stage shows are fantastic, and you should see the massive mobile server park and crew of nerds that runs it all. Pushing the envelope of stage shows as a product for sure.

If anybody now anybody, summoning someone on her tech team to tell us about what goes on would be really great.

Could you please provide some examples about this?

There's a documentary called "White Diamond", filmed alongside her prep for her "Showgirl: Homecoming" (the previously-cancelled leg of her "Showgirl" tour, after she had to interrupt it for cancer treatment). Much of it is of course focused on Minogue herself and her battle with the disease & return to form, but it also has behind the scenes content on how the show itself is put together, including some footage in the server room.

I've seen similar reporting here and there in TV coverage of her show prep and so on, after an accidental viewing of "White Diamond" made me an interested party.

Kylie Minogue is the only female artist who had a #1 album in the UK in five consecutive decades (!), something even Madonna didn't manage to.

Edit, the article says “across”, not a #1 album in every decade. In the 90s she only reached #4.

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/thats-crazy-kylie-...

In the 90s she was busy being in movies and video games (including the acclaimed Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game)

And in 2007, a Doctor Who episode featuring the Titanic... In space!

That Doctor Who episode was my introduction to the serie. <3

Fun fact, if you recognize Nick Cave’s “Where the Wild Roses Grow”, then you have heard Kylie Minogue - she sang in the duet[1][2]. I remember being surprised when I learned about it.

This is also the “murder ballad” that the article refers to.

> In 1995 she collaborated on a murder ballad duet with Nick Cave

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Roses_Grow

The album was also called "murder ballads", as it contained murder ballads.

Great song though I’m surprised you didn’t immediately recognise her voice in it.

There’s a few an interesting tracks on that album. I quite liked “Death is not the end”, which I think was the last track on Murder Ballards and also features Kylie (amongst a few others).

Nick Cave encouraged Kylie to read hear lyrics at a public poetry reading. She got up and read I should be so lucky. I respect her for that

I could imagine how surreal that would be, having the neighbours soap star turned #1 music star, reading at your local poetry jam.

Just be warned. You might find you can't get her out of your head.

You should be so lucky.

It's a song lyric joke.

Both are:

- Can't Get You Out of My Head: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_He...

- I Should Be So Lucky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Should_Be_So_Lucky

Oh damn. Haha.

I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now.

You can confide in me.

Gut ja

AKA The stalking song

As an Australian I've have repressed childhood trauma from being forced to dance to Kylie's "The Locomotion" over and over again in Primary school, it was the Macarena of it's time...

She collaborated with Nick Cave in the mid 90's which was a massive hit, it was all over radio at the time.

Too bad the playful “Accept cookies” button didn’t have a “no” option.

I just used the reader mode button...

That was a cool button though

Confide in Me is one of her best, but she has quite a few reliable pop hits. She also did a song with Nick Cave that is worth a listen.

chances are you have at least heard "the locomotion" without knowing who sang it - I remember that song being played everywhere!

To the point King Charles is a fan

King co-wrote the song!

(Carole King that is)

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