Kylie Minogue (album)
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Studio album by Kylie Minogue | ||||
Released | 19 September 1994 | |||
Recorded | 1993–1994 | |||
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Genre | Dance-pop | |||
Length | 57:12 | |||
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Kylie Minogue is the fifth studio album recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. Deconstruction released it in the United Kingdom on 19 September 1994, while a release was issued through Mushroom Records in Australia on the same date. After leaving Pete Waterman Entertainment, Minogue wanted to establish her credibility and signed with the independent record label Deconstruction in early 1993. She became involved with a diverse group of collaborators in order to experiment with different sounds. After generally unsuccessful sessions with Saint Etienne and The Rapino Brothers, Minogue collaborated with new producers including Brothers in Rhythm, M People, Farley & Heller, and Jimmy Harry.
Musically, Kylie Minogue is a dance-pop album containing elements of dance, R&B and adult contemporary music. Lyrically, the album touches on themes of love, seduction and womanhood. Music critics praised the production and Minogue's vocals, while observing the start of a new phase in Minogue's career. The album peaked in the top five in the United Kingdom and Australia, alongside being certified gold in both countries. It attained top 40 positions in Switzerland, Sweden and Scotland. Minogue received three nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 for her work on Kylie Minogue, winning Best Video for "Put Yourself In My Place".
To promote the album, a limited edition coffee-table book photographed by Ellen von Unwerth and Katerina Jebb was released to highfliers. Three singles were released—"Confide in Me", "Put Yourself in My Place" and "Where Is the Feeling?"—each of which peaked inside the top 20 in the UK; the first two reached the top 20 in Australia. Minogue was involved with two film projects at the time Kylie Minogue dropped, which delayed the promotional process several times. The album was re-issued in Europe in 2018 and returned to the UK Albums Chart and the Scottish Albums Chart.
Background[]
"There was this great misconception, she was far from a puppet in any meeting I had with her. She's a very driven individual, very creative, very aware of imagery [...] But it struck me that for her to modernize and move on she had to take some risks musically and show her more creative side."
Deconstruction founder Pete Hadfield commenting on the acquisition of Minogue.[1]
In 1991, Minogue released her fourth studio album under Pete Waterman Limited (PWL), titled Let's Get to It.[2] The album was recorded after songwriter Matt Aitken had left Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) earlier that year,[3] which left Pete Waterman and Mike Stock to write and produce the album.[4][5] Minogue, who co-wrote six tracks with the producers for the album, was disappointed with the output. She felt SAW had reverted to "formulaic tunes" and by the time Let's Get to It came out, "the magic [had] gone and the record sank quickly".[1] By the end of 1992, PWL did not renew their contract with Minogue, believing the singer "was [not] moving in a direction that was going to be successful", according to PWL co-owner David Howells.[6] Minogue's final release under PWL was Greatest Hits (1992), which debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and reached number three in Australia.[7][8][9]
After the split, Minogue wanted to establish her credibility and refused to fall back into the same market as PWL.[10] "I wanted to break free of the chains binding me. I was tired of being the SAW popstrel", Minogue said.[11] She turned down several major record labels, among them EMI and A&M, and subsequently signed to indie label Deconstruction in early 1993.[12] Deconstruction was known for being an innovative part of the dance scene, but it was unusual for a mainstream pop artist to sign an indie label contract.[13][14] "I was aware that it was being perceived as a bit of a radical move, which I loved", Minogue recalled.[15] The label promised creative freedom, both musically and artistically, which persuaded Minogue.[16] "I liked [Destruction's] attitude, I quite liked their arrogance, and I liked the vision they had. [...] There wouldn't be much point in leaving PWL and going somewhere exactly the same, so it was a big change", Minogue said.[10]
Recording and development[]
1993: Early sessions[]
Deconstruction founder Pete Hadfield saw Minogue as a "potential radical dance diva",[13] with him intending to push her towards a more unconventional approach to dance music.[1][14] As work began on her new music, an early meeting with Deconstruction took place to discuss which direction Minogue intended to pursue. She decided to experiment with different sounds rather than record more pop songs.[17] Minogue told Select magazine about the change: "My leanings are less pure pop, and hopefully you can hear in my music that it's going slowly that way."[18] Minogue took an active role in planning for the album and sought a diverse group of collaborators to work with, including both mainstream and underground talents.[1][13] She was flattered and felt fortunate to have such support for her work.[17] Hadfield referred to the process as "the re-engineering of Kylie Minogue".[1] Quentin Harrison of PopMatters said that this attempt suggested Minogue was to be "[rebranded] as a pop savant".[13]
Early recording sessions for Kylie Minogue took place in 1993, with help from Saint Etienne and The Rapino Brothers.[19] In an interview with NME, Keith Cameron wrote that Minogue "talks in the amazed tones of a blind child who has just rediscovered the gift of sight", with regard to the making of the album.[20] However, most of the tracks were deemed to be taking Minogue in the wrong direction and were scrapped.[21] Some tracks were subsequently used as B-side singles and bonus tracks for different editions of Kylie Minogue.[13] Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne later remarked that the singer's camp "had no idea what they wanted, apart from being different from the SAW stuff", though he expressed his amazement at her powerful voice that SAW's double tracking had masked.[20] The first recording Minogue did after she signed with Deconstruction was a new version of Saint Etienne's third single "Nothing Can Stop Us" (1991).[22] Minogue recorded an original song, "When Are You Coming Home?", but scrapped the song because it was "too pure pop".[22] Minogue had written eight songs with the Rapino Brothers; all but one–"Automatic Love"–were scrapped. "Automatic Love" ended up on the tracklist of Kylie Minogue and was the only song to list Minogue as a songwriter.[17]
Several songwriters and producers unsuccessfully approached Minogue to work with them during the production process.[17] American singer-songwriter Prince invited Minogue to his studio for a social visit after she met him backstage at Earl's Court, London.[22][23] She handed him some lyrics she had written for a song entitled "Baby Doll"; Prince managed to finish the song and record Minogue's lyrics on a cassette tape but never properly recorded it.[22][23] Minogue did suggest it to the label, but they were not into the track.[23] Minogue and Lenny Kravitz had talked about working together, but he was busy making his fourth studio album Mama Said (1991), and composing Vanessa Paradis's 1992 self-titled album.[24] The singer and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream had talked about working together in 1992, before two other band members discussed doing a different version of "Don't Fight It, Feel It" (from Screamadelica, 1991) with Minogue, but their record label wanted the band to finish their 1994 album first.[25] British groups the Beloved and the Auteurs wrote at least one song for Kylie Minogue, but the material did not work out.[22] Nick Cave had talked about a song written especially for Minogue to sing from the point of view of a murdered woman.[22] The song, "Where the Wild Roses Grow", was released as a single in 1995 and later appeared on Cave's Murder Ballads album in 1996.[26]
1993–1994: Later development[]
Hadfield and fellow Deconstruction co-founder Keith Blackhurst were friends with Steve Anderson and Dave Seaman, an electronic duo known as Brothers in Rhythm.[18] Brothers in Rhythm had been involved with Minogue on a remix of "Finer Feelings", a single taken from Let's Get to It.[17] When they heard Minogue had signed with Deconstruction, the duo called Blackhurst and asked to collaborate, despite having no prior experience writing for others.[18][14] Minogue met Brothers in Rhythm at DMC Studios in Slough, where they had a meeting and set up the original sessions.[27] Anderson said that Minogue was "immediately so inspiring" and open to trying out different sounds, while the label "had tremendous faith" in them and did not want to limit creativity.[18] Minogue's stylist William Baker found her to be the "perfect vehicle" for the duo's hybrids: "Her vocal range and willingness to experiment musically meant that Steve and Dave could push the envelope further."[1]
Minogue traveled from her residence in Chelsea and tried songs out at DMC Studios for months.[28] The producers initially had their work cut out for them because of Minogue's nasal vocals, while she gained confidence in her vocals throughout the course of recording Kylie Minogue.[18] Their first efforts resulted in "Confide in Me", a song that came together within an hour.[28] Minogue recorded the original demo in one take, which ended up being used on the final recording.[29] The producers were pleased with the result, calling it "without a shadow of doubt the best [Minogue track] we were involved with".[29] A cover version of Prefab Sprout's "If You Don't Love Me" was recorded in only one take,[30] as the producers wanted to experiment with Minogue's musical boundaries.[14] Brothers in Rhythm was enlisted as the album's chief producer and produced four of the tracks:[18] "Where Is the Feeling?" (originally recorded by Within A Dream in 1993),[31] "Automatic Love" (a rework from material with the Rapino Brothers),[17] "Confide in Me" and "Dangerous Game" (both songs written and produced by the duo). In London, the songs were recorded in Sarm West Studios.[32]
Jimmy Harry wrote and produced "Put Yourself in My Place", written specially for Minogue, and "If I Was Your Lover".[32][33] These songs, recorded in New York City at the Axis Studios, Power Station and Whorga Musica, were the only tracks recorded outside the UK.[34] Minogue said, "I was feeling a bit like a ping-pong ball for a while, with the American and English both wanting different things."[22] Minogue recorded a song entitled "Intuition" during these sessions, which was shelved until 2019, when Harry gave the demo to American singer Liz for her album Planet Y2K.[35][36] Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, better known as Pet Shop Boys, were approached by Minogue's camp after the pair finished work on Very (1993).[37] They declined initially, but Lowe came up with a set of chords that Tennet found similar to Minogue's previous work with SAW and suggested they turn it into a song for her.[37] The demo for "Falling" was sent to Deconstruction, where it was reworked by Fire Island, an English music duo made up of Pete Heller and Terry Farley. Tennet found the result very different from the original demo, saying, "It doesn't really have the same tune in it, for instance, and they haven't put the chorus in, but I suppose that's very modern."[37] Minogue's label mate M People produced "Time Will Pass You By" for Kylie Minogue but could not commit to do more because of a busy schedule.[38] Gerry DeVeaux, songwriter and Kravitz's cousin, produced and co-wrote "Surrender" with composer Charlie Mole.[38] Three of the songs on the album are cover versions of largely unknown tracks: "Where Has The Love Gone?", "Time Will Pass You By" and "Where Is the Feeling?".[21]
Music and lyrics[]
Kylie Minogue is primarily a dance-pop album that integrates elements of R&B and adult contemporary music.[13][39] Chris True of AllMusic wrote that the album is a remarkable change from Minogue's previous teen pop material with an "atmosphere and style in the songs that wasn't there on Let's Get to It".[39] In the biography Kylie: Naked (2012), Nigel Goodall and Jenny Stanley-Clarke describe the album as a collection of "upbeat dance tracks, lightweight funky numbers and smoochy ballads".[21] Music critics extensively commented on the album's musical diversity.[40][41] Paul Bowler of Record Collector noted the album "frolics gaily amongst the myriad contemporary dance styles of '94".[42] Ian Gormely of Exclaim! found influences from house, techno and new jack swing,[41] while an editor of Be With Records pointed out the ambient, Balearic and R&B elements.[43] Portions of hip hop, acid jazz and club music were also listed by Harrison.[13] Nick Levine of Digital Spy described Kylie Minogue as an sophisticated dance record with tracks that "regularly test the six-minute mark".[44] Similarly, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine highlighted the album's embracement of club music that emulates classic 12" house records with songs that "run about two minutes too long".[45]
Lyrically, the album touches on themes of love, seduction and womanhood.[46][1][13] Robbert Tilli and Machgiel Bakke of Music & Media compared the sensual tone throughout the album to Madonna's Erotica (1992).[40] Minogue adapted more breathy and resonant vocals on the album.[47] She sings in a wide range of notes while adding sighs, murmurs, and whispers on several tracks. The album also features sitars and subtle backing vocals.[48] John Mangan of The Age felt that her vocals are different and "more breathy, more swooping, more assured than ever".[47] Levine opined that the "early critics [of her vocals] will have spat out their cappuccinos when they heard the way she grandstands on 'Automatic Love'".[44] Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian wrote that the frailty of her vocals "impart a more appealing vulnerability."[48] While praising the improvement over Minogue's vocal delivery, Jon Casimir of The Sydney Morning Herald noticed her Mid-Atlantic accent on the album, with the exception of a monologue on "If I Was Your Lover", which he thought "sounds more American than [Madonna] does".[49]
Song analysis[]
Kylie Minogue opens with "Confide in Me", a song incorporating elements of indie pop and Middle Eastern instrumentation like strings and percussion.[30][50] The opening part of the track features an arrangement by musician Will Malone and a piano section by Anderson, which was performed on a Bösendorfer.[30] English musician Edward Barton is credited as a co-writer under the name Owain Barton, along with Anderson and Seaman, because of the interpolations from his song "It's a Fine Day" (1983).[32][51] Lyrically, the content talks about Minogue's earnest seduction and manipulating people to confide into her.[1] "Surrender" is a seductive slow jam track, with Balearic pop, jazz and R&B-influences,[13][43][44] which Cinquemani compared to a less sensual rendition of songs recorded by Tia Carrere for Dreams (1993).[45] Levine felt that the slinky mid-tempo pop-funk "If I Was Your Lover" showcases Minogue's "genuine strength in depth".[44][52] Frankie Knuckles and David Morales' classic musical elements influenced Anderson when he produced Minogue's cover of "Where Is the Feeling?".[14] The producers added live piano, guitar and percussion to the album's version of the song.[14] The disco and acid jazz-based track was compared with the work of British acts such as The Brand New Heavies, Jamiroquai and Incognito.[14]
"Put Yourself in My Place", a melancholy quiet storm power ballad with trip hop beats,[43][44][53] is a plaintive appeal to a former lover who had fallen for someone else.[54] The downtempo track resembles late 1980s American R&B tracks.[43] Cinquemani felt Minogue showcases her voice on the string-laden "Dangerous Game" and "Automatic Love".[45] The latter track is a chilled-out track that contains technology references. Minogue sings "I didn't feel you enter / In my main menu / But every time I touch the key / The screen is showing you."[44] Harrison felt "Automatic Love" is one of the ballads that show Minogue yearning for "her burgeoning womanhood", while noting tempestuous uptempo tracks like "Where Has the Love Gone?" and "Falling" veered from the traditional length, which let the arrangements to breathe–each track runs over six minutes.[13] Minogue whispers the lyrics on "Falling", a house slow-burner with the bass-heavy rhythm and high backing vocals.[55] "Where Has the Love Gone?" contains dainty lines like "I'm a woman and I've got my vanity".[13] Bowler felt "Where Has The Love Gone" and "Falling", both produced by Heller and Farley, are "Larry Heard-inspired dance bangers par excellence".[42] The closer track, "Time Will Pass You By", is a sophisticated, grinning piano-house song that encapsulates Minogue's trademark joie de vivre message: not taking life for granted and enjoying it to its fullest.[13][44]
Artwork and title[]
British photographer Rankin shot the artwork for Kylie Minogue, with the assistance of British stylist Katie Grand.[56][57] Mark Farrow was selected to design the cover.[58] Deconstruction paid for Rankin and Grand to fly to Los Angeles and do a photoshoot with Minogue for Dazed & Confused, a British fashion magazine that Rankin founded in 1991.[56][57] Grand took part in directing and styling fashion shoots for the magazine during the time.[59] The shoot for an inlay section called "Kylie Bible" lasted for around six or seven hours outside a film studio. Grand tried to make Minogue's image more androgynous.[56][57] Deconstruction approved the photographs and kept one image for later use on the album cover. Rankin met Minogue for the first time at the photoshoot and described her as "delightful", adding Kylie Minogue "was quite different for her".[56]
The black-and-white cover shows a barefoot Minogue, licking her lips and crouching low, with her hair brushed back behind her ears.[57] She wears a dark Paul Smith trouser suit and a pair of glasses.[60][61][62] In the biography Kylie (2014), Sean Smith says Minogue posed "like a leopard sizing up her prey" while wearing "Clark Kent glasses", further writing that the cover is "startlingly different" from her previous album covers.[57] Writing for Idolator, Robbie Daw described Minogue as a "sexy '90s nerd".[60] Goodall and Clarke feel the cover reflects Minogue's "chameleon quality" showing a "demure and restrained" new image of her, which they compare to the character of Miss Moneypenny.[21] Christian Guiltenane of Classic Pop comments that Minogue's image had changed considerably in just five years, saying the shots are a mix of "sultry poses, avant garde styling and sex".[61] A replica of the green taffeta suit that Minogue worn for the cover shot was donated to the Cultural Gifts Program of the Arts Centre Melbourne.[62]
Kylie Minogue is the second studio album named after the singer, following her debut Kylie in 1988.[63] Minogue said that the album was named after her because she wanted to introduce her new sound "that other people might copy".[63] Smith feels the simple title might seem to be "singularly lacking in imagination", but it shows Minogue eager to "[start] over and [reintroduce] herself to the public: this is my name and this is me".[64] Australian programme Rage wrote that the title completes "the 'rebirth' feel [that Minogue] had established by leaving PWL".[65] Bowler commented that by subtly adding Minogue's surname to the title, as well as her formal outfit and lascivious pose on the cover, she successfully announced "the arrival of a more sophisticated artist... [who] wanted to be taken seriously."[42]
Release and promotion[]
Kylie Minogue was released on 19 September 1994 in the UK and other European countries by Deconstruction,[32] and in Australia simultaneously by Mushroom Records.[66][67] In Japan, it was released on 21 October 1994 by the former of the two labels with two bonus tracks: "Love Is Waiting" (written by Tracy Ackerman, Mike Percy and Tim Lever of Dead or Alive) and "Nothing Can Stop Us".[68][69] Deconstruction issued the album in Canada in 1995, featuring an alternate artwork and a franglais version of "Confide in Me", known as "Fie-toi à moi".[70]
Minogue failed to find an audience in the United States following the release of her second studio album Enjoy Yourself (1989), with Geffen Records dropping her as an artist.[71] Subsequently, Minogue's last two studio albums under PWL could not find a distributor in the US.[72] American independent label Imago Records intended to release Kylie Minogue there, with a commercial release of "Confide in Me" in November 1994.[73] However, within days of releasing the single, the label was facing serious financial problems and quickly parted ways with BMG in 1995. Imago withdrew all current releases, including the album, which was scheduled for Spring 1995.[74]
Kylie Minogue was re-released in Australia in 1998 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mushroom Records.[75] BMG and Mushroom released a special edition of Kylie Minogue with remastered tracks in May 2003, which contains remixes, B-sides, and a previously unreleased track, titled "Dangerous Overture".[76][77] The album was later reissued on vinyl for the first time, as a double vinyl, by Be With Records in 2016 in the UK,[43][78][79] and in 2018 by BMG as a white vinyl exclusively through Sainsbury's supermarket chain in European countries.[80] Several album tracks and two unreleased tracks ("Gotta Move On" and "Difficult by Design") from Kylie Minogue appear on Hits+ (2000), which was released in Europe.[81]
Minogue promoted the album with a limited-edition coffee-table book that was not commercially available but was sent to highfliers in October 1994.[72] Ellen von Unwerth shot the photographs in New York City while Minogue recorded there.[72][82] "It wasn't my choice to get down to a négligé but that's the way Ellen shoots", Minogue said.[82] Photographer Katerina Jebb and Baker, Minogue's frequent collaborators, met for the first time and came up with a Debbie Harry-themed photoshoot for the book.[83] Baker provided many old punk-style costumes for Minogue. Among them were a pair of ripped tights and a 1970s sleeveless Marilyn Monroe T-shirt that once belonged to a staff member at Andy Warhol's the Factory studio.[57] The collection of images of Minogue in seductive poses and see-through costumes was compared to Madonna's highly controversial Sex book (1992).[84] Minogue defended herself by claiming that she had plans to do a coffee-table book before Sex came out.[72] She said: "It would be incredibly foolish of me to try to copy Madonna. I'm just trying to fight through and find out who I am. That was the idea of putting the book together."[11] Promotional photographs for the album are mostly black-and-white, depicting a stripped-back Minogue. The singer wanted to "pull everything back a bit" with the album, saying "The photographs, the images–they're beautiful but they're quite minimalist. They're not flashy and crowd-pleasing."[85]
Singles[]
"Confide in Me", the lead single from Kylie Minogue, was released in August 1994.[86][87] Her covers of "Nothing Can Stop Us" and "If You Don't Love Me", alongside a 10-minute remix by Brothers in Rhythm, were included on the single's B-side.[86] In the US, Phillip Damien remixed the single, titled the "Confession Mix", featuring his signature "twisted loops and forceful beats".[88] Fire Island featured on a remix of "Where Has The Love Gone?" on the B-side.[89] Black-and-white promotional photographs for "Confide in Me" saw Minogue sporting an afro.[61] In the music video, directed by Paul Boyd, Minogue plays six different versions of herself, filming a commercial for a phone number and inviting viewers to call and reveal their secrets.[90] "Confide in Me" was Minogue's biggest international hit of the decade,[86] debuting at number two in the UK,[8] while reaching numbers 10 and 39 in France and on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, respectively.[91][92] In her native Australia, it spent four weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart.[9]
After the release of "Confide in Me", Minogue was busy promoting Street Fighter (1994), her first Hollywood-funded project since The Delinquents (1989).[93] The second single, "Put Yourself in My Place", was released in November.[33] Rankin photographed the cover art featuring Minogue posing with headphones, to represent a "serious" approach to her music.[1] Directed by Kier McFarlane, the music video recreates the opening sequence of the classic Jane Fonda film Barbarella (1968), while Minogue performs a slow striptease inside a spacecraft.[94] "Put Yourself in My Place" narrowly missed the top 10, reached number 11 in both Australia and the UK.[8][9][33]
"If I Was Your Lover" was intended as the follow-up single after "Put Yourself in My Place" in the US, but the plan was scrapped.[13] "Where Is the Feeling?" was released as the third and final single in July 1995, seven months after the release of the second single.[13] "Where Is the Feeling?" was planned initially as the follow-up single to "Confide In Me", before being scheduled for release in April 1995 but was delayed again when Minogue was filming Bio-Dome (1996) in the US.[31][95] Brothers In Rhythm handled the remix for the single release, replacing the "bright and breezy vocal" of the album version with a murmured verse and a bass heavy backing track.[96] Mixes by Felix da Housecat and Morales were also included.[97] Minogue appeared with red hair, which was dyed specially for her role in Bio-Dome, during the promotional process for "Where Is the Feeling?".[95] The music video, also directed by McFarlane, saw Minogue being pursued through the water by an ominous figure.[95] The single only reached number 16 in the UK and number 31 in Australia.[8][9] Minogue once considered "Time Will Pass You By" as the concluding single; instead, she worked with Cave on the single "Where the Wild Roses Grow" and released it in late 1995.[13]
Reception[]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [39] |
Digital Spy | [44] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [98] |
The Guardian | [48] |
Record Collector | [42] |
Kylie Minogue was met with generally positive reviews from music critics.[21][41] Sullivan wrote that although multiple producers were involved, the album is "absolutely cohesive, excellent dance-pop". She cites "Falling" and "Where Is The Feeling" as the "uncomplicated 'handbag-house' opuses" and the best moments of the album.[48] Writing for Playboy, Marc Andrews found the album mature enough, but commented the producers tried too hard to push Minogue's limited vocal range "into soul diva or Mariah Carey territory".[99] Writing for Music & Media, Tilli and Bakke praised the overall quality and compared the album favourably to Janet Jackson's Control (1986).[40] In a mixed review, Casimir felt that the album is tailored made for the "slickness-loving US market", and it is one of the records that "doesn't have anything conspicuously wrong with it, but lacks anything conspicuously right either."[49] Jonathan Bernstein of Spin called it a "high-gloss affair" and "Confide in Me" a career highlight for Minogue.[100]
Levine wrote in his retrospective review that the record is cohesive and "remarkably unmarked by the passing years", while praising Minogue's vocals.[44] Echoing the same sentiment, Oliver Hurley of Classic Pop deemed the album "a confident rejoinder" to her previous albums and concluded by calling it "a sophisticated collection that has aged well".[52] In 2018, Cinquemani wrote the album is a "creative rebirth", whose mid-tempo material is the biggest surprise, adding Minogue delivers a "sensual and understated performance". He ranked it Minogue's ninth-best studio album.[45] In a review of the 2016 reissue of Kylie Minogue, Bowler wrote that besides the SAW-filler "Time Will Pass You By", the album is a "pop perfection" record that still sounds "fresh as a daisy over 20 years later". He further commented that the reissue was especially apposite in the contemporary well-crafted pop scene by the likes of Taylor Swift and Carly Rae Jepsen.[42] The album was Minogue's only studio album, apart from Let's Get to It, to receive a two-star rating from British writer Colin Larkin in the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2011), who classified it as "disappointing", "week or dull and not recommended".[98]
True interpreted the album as a "mature and stylish" statement for the second phase of her career, when Minogue "wanted to sound grown-up, and she pulls it off with ease".[39][101] Harrison deemed Kylie Minogue a "stratospheric leap of progress", which allowed the singer to "walk into her future with the skills, confidence and control necessary to set her own artistic agenda as she saw fit".[46] He compared Kylie Minogue with Madonna's Bedtime Stories. Both singers released their albums in the fall of 1994, they were at "a creative impasse" and had to change their familiar dance-pop style to a more mature approach to emphasize their music and they both followed the "transformative pop model" of Donna Summer's eighth studio album The Wanderer (1980).[13] Harrison concluded that the records have "rippled through Madonna and Minogue's legacies, career-wise and artistically".[13] Minogue received three nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 for her work on Kylie Minogue: Best Female Artist, Highest Selling Single for "Confide In Me" and Best Video for "Put Yourself In My Place", winning the latter category.[102][103]
Commercial performance[]
Kylie Minogue experienced moderate worldwide success.[13] The album debuted and peaked at number four in the UK, becoming her fifth top-10 entry on the UK Albums Chart.[8][104] It fell to number 13 the following week and spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart.[8] The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified Kylie Minogue gold within a month of the album's release for selling over 100,000 copies in the UK.[105] In 2016, the reissue of Kylie Minogue sold out 500 copies on its initial pre-order run.[42] Two years later, the 2018 reissue peaked at number 67 on the UK Albums Chart and number nine on the separate UK Independent Albums Chart on 28 September.[106][107] The 2018 reissue also appeared on the Scottish Albums Chart, reaching number 30—Kylie Minogue had previously peaked at number 15 there after its original release in 1994.[108][109] The album had sold 124,806 copies in the UK by October 2020.[110]
In her native Australia, Kylie Minogue debuted at number three and spent 11 weeks on the ARIA Albums chart.[67] It was the 84th best-selling album of 1994 and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for selling over 35,000 copies in Australia.[111] Kylie Minogue also peaked at number 39 in Sweden,[112] number 33 in Switzerland,[113] and number 78 in Germany during its 1998 release.[114] In Japan, the album peaked at number 54 on the Oricon Albums Chart and had sold 23,440 copies by 2006.[68][115]
Track listing[]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Confide in Me" | Brothers in Rhythm | 5:51 | |
2. | "Surrender" |
| 4:25 | |
3. | "If I Was Your Lover" | Jimmy Harry | Harry | 4:45 |
4. | "Where Is the Feeling?" |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 6:59 |
5. | "Put Yourself in My Place" | Harry | Harry | 4:54 |
6. | "Dangerous Game" |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 5:30 |
7. | "Automatic Love" |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 4:45 |
8. | "Where Has the Love Gone?" |
|
| 7:46 |
9. | "Falling" |
|
| 6:43 |
10. | "Time Will Pass You By" |
| M People | 5:26 |
Total length: | 57:12 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Love Is Waiting" |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 4:52 |
12. | "Nothing Can Stop Us" | Saint Etienne | 4:06 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Confide in Me" (French version) |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 5:51 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Dangerous Overture" |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 1:20 |
2. | "Confide in Me" (Justin Warfield mix) |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 5:27 |
3. | "Put Yourself in My Place" (Dan's Old School mix) | Harry | Harry | 4:31 |
4. | "Where Is the Feeling?" (Acoustic version) |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 4:51 |
5. | "Nothing Can Stop Us" |
| Saint Etienne | 4:06 |
6. | "Love Is Waiting" |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 4:46 |
7. | "Time Will Pass You By" (Paul Masterson mix) |
| M People | 7:34 |
8. | "Where Is the Feeling?" (West End TKO mix) |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 8:11 |
9. | "Falling" (Alternative mix) |
|
| 8:40 |
10. | "Confide in Me" (Big Brothers mix) |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 10:27 |
11. | "Surrender" (Talking Soul mix) |
|
| 4:26 |
12. | "Put Yourself in My Place" (Acoustic version) | Harry | Harry | 4:46 |
13. | "If You Don't Love Me" (Acoustic version) | Paddy McAloon | Brothers in Rhythm | 2:10 |
14. | "Confide in Me" (French version) |
| Brothers in Rhythm | 5:51 |
- Notes
- "Confide in Me" contains interpolations of "It's a Fine Day", written by Edward Barton. He is credited as Owain Barton.[32][51][117]
Personnel[]
Adapted from the album's liner notes.[32]
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Charts[]
Weekly charts[]
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Year-end charts[]
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Certifications and sales[]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[111] | Gold | 35,000^ |
Japan | — | 23,440[115] |
United Kingdom (BPI)[105] | Gold | 124,806[110] |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Release history[]
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref(s). |
---|---|---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 19 September 1994 | Deconstruction | [32] | |
Europe | ||||
Australia | Mushroom | [66] | ||
Japan | 21 October 1994 | Deconstruction | [69] | |
Canada | 1995 | [70] | ||
Australia | 1998 | CD | Mushroom | [75] |
23 May 2003 | [118] | |||
Japan | BMG | [119] | ||
United Kingdom | [116] | |||
2 February 2016 | LP | Be With Records | [43][78][79] | |
Europe | 2018 | BMG | [80] |
See also[]
References[]
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Media notes[]
- Confide in Me (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue. United States: Imago. 1994. ASIN B004O37SKO. 72787-25083-2. Archived from the original on 17 March 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2021 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Hits+ (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue. UK: Deconstruction Records. 2000. 74321 80275 2. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue. Australia: Mushroom. 1994. 7TVD93415.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue. Japan: Deconstruction. 1994. BVCP-751. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue. Canada: Deconstruction. 1995. ASIN B00000727X. 74321-25831-2. Archived from the original on 2 March 2006. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue. Australia: Mushroom. 1998. ASIN B000007UA3. MUSH32218.2. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue (Special ed.). Australia: Mushroom. 2003. ASIN B01G4CEL3Y. 337332.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue (Special ed.). United Kingdom: BMG. 2003. ASIN B00IAXY14A. 82876 510982. Archived from the original on 8 March 2005. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue (Special ed.). Japan: BMG. 2003. ASIN B01G4CEL3Y. BVCM-37436. Archived from the original on 5 March 2006. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
- Kylie Minogue (Liner notes). Kylie Minogue. United Kingdom: Be With Records. 2016. ASIN B01924FLPS. BEWITH010LP. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Eil.com.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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External links[]
- Kylie Minogue at Discogs (list of releases)
- Kylie Minogue at Kylie.com (archived from 2008)
- 1994 albums
- Kylie Minogue albums
- Mushroom Records albums