20041123
". . . a long, long time ago"
Kylie Minogue voted into Hall of Fame: "Kylie Minogue voted into Hall of Fame:
[Hollywood News]: Sydney, Nov 22 : Aussie singing Kylie Minogue has been voted into the Hall of Fame at the Smash Hits Poll Winners' Party, in London, according to the Age.
''I would like to say that my first Smash Hits photo shoot was in 1988, which was a long, long time ago,'' the pop diva was quoted as saying.
Boy band Busted's release Thunderbirds was voted Best Single and Favourite Ringtone while Westlife won the Favourite Download category.
In the movie category Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom was named Best Movie Star and the animation comedy Shrek 2 won the Best Movie award. (ANI) "
Don't worry Kyles. I'm a lot older than you.
Kylie Minogue: Kylie Minogue Breaksdown After MTV Awards: "Kylie Minogue Breaksdown After MTV Awards
November 22, 2004, 10:52:00
MINOGUE'S MTV BREAKDOWN
Pint-sized beauty KYLIE MINOGUE broke down in tears and fled the MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS on Thursday (18NOV04) because she is love sick for her boyfriend OLIVIER MARTINEZ.
The CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD singer forced herself to pose for pictures before presenting an award, but once her job was done she broke down and left the Tor Di Valle venue in Rome, Italy.
An onlooker overheard the Australian's managers telling her at the start of the evening, 'You have to do this, you know you do, otherwise people will begin to think that there is something wrong.'
Minogue heeded her management's advice, but she could only keep a brave face on matters for so long, with friends saying that the 36-year-old's behaviour was simply linked to missing her 38-year-old French lover.
An insider says, 'Kylie loves Olivier a lot, but because of their careers it is difficult for them to find time to be together. They spend a lot of time on opposite sides of the world and that's hard for her to deal with.'
Minogue has not been seen in public with Martinez since August (04)."
[One must always take these speculations with a grain of salt. They prove untrue more often than not.]
November 22, 2004, 10:52:00
MINOGUE'S MTV BREAKDOWN
Pint-sized beauty KYLIE MINOGUE broke down in tears and fled the MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS on Thursday (18NOV04) because she is love sick for her boyfriend OLIVIER MARTINEZ.
The CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD singer forced herself to pose for pictures before presenting an award, but once her job was done she broke down and left the Tor Di Valle venue in Rome, Italy.
An onlooker overheard the Australian's managers telling her at the start of the evening, 'You have to do this, you know you do, otherwise people will begin to think that there is something wrong.'
Minogue heeded her management's advice, but she could only keep a brave face on matters for so long, with friends saying that the 36-year-old's behaviour was simply linked to missing her 38-year-old French lover.
An insider says, 'Kylie loves Olivier a lot, but because of their careers it is difficult for them to find time to be together. They spend a lot of time on opposite sides of the world and that's hard for her to deal with.'
Minogue has not been seen in public with Martinez since August (04)."
[One must always take these speculations with a grain of salt. They prove untrue more often than not.]
Natasha finally gets her revenge
Kylie Minogue - Ultimate Kylie (Parlophone)
UK release date: 22 November 2004
musicOMH.com | albums | Kylie Minogue - Ultimate Kylie: "This double disc album is, as its title suggests, the ultimate retrospective of the Australian pop pixie formerly known as Charlene from Neighbours. Containing all her single releases to date, from her years as head girl at the Stock, Aitken and Waterman hit factory through to her current status as undisputed queen of the dancefloor, Ultimate Kylie covers the entirety of her sixteen-year pop career, and still manages to find room for the obligatory couple of new tracks.
There's no getting round the fact that disc one is pretty much pure processed cheese. The Locomotion, Better The Devil You Know -- they're all on here in their tinny, synthy, ever-so-80s glory. What's most surprising is the speed with which they churned these things out. In just two years (from first number one I Should Be So Lucky in 1988 through to the iffy cover of 1958's Tears On My Pillow in 1990) Kylie had nine singles in the upper end of the top five, back when that actually meant something. Quality control never seems to have been a priority though: the turgid Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi and the God awful duet with Jason Donovan Especially for You stand out as particular low points.
While disc one is likely to appeal only to diehard Kylie worshippers and those in need of an espresso-strong nostalgia fix, the second CD is a different prospect. Her voice has not exactly matured, but it's become a more polished instrument, and it's easy to underestimate just how many hits she's amassed over the years until you hear them grouped together. I never realised that the breezy On A Night Like This was a Kylie track until now, though it's probably a small mercy I missed out on her cover of Celebration the first time around.
The post SAW wilderness years saw Kylie produce some of her most interesting material. Confide In Me is a sexy, sitar-peppered track that saw her successfully put to bed the girl-next-door image and display the first glimmer of her Madonna-like talent for trend-spotting and reinvention.
Did It Again reminds you of her valiant but wildly misjudged attempt to morph into Indie Kylie circa 1997, only really serving to highlight the limitations of her voice in the process. And hidden away at the end of disc two is probably her most unusual release to date: Where the Wild Roses Grow is a warped, breathy ballad with fellow Australian Nick Cave muttering darkly that “all beauty must die” before dashing her head in with a rock.
There’s nothing quite so dark anywhere else in this collection. Spinning Around and the Cathy Dennis penned Can’t Get You Out Of My Head are hugely catchy tracks and only the most hardened cynic would argue otherwise.
Recent releases Chocolate and Red Blooded Woman have a rather anonymous feel but the new track, I Believe In You, co-written with The Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears and Babydaddy, provides the sultry disco strut you would expect from such a collaboration. Giving You Up, the second new song, isn’t quite up to the same standards but it won’t do her any harm chart-wise.
Pitched firmly at the pre-Christmas compilation market, this is the definitive Kylie collection and what you make of that really depends on how you feel about the diminutive antipodean. Even the most ardent Kylie fan will probably recognise that the first disc has novelty appeal only, however the second disc contains some of the best examples of slick, easy on the ear post-millennial pop around.
- Natasha Tripney
TRACK LISTING:
Disc 1
1. Better The Devil You Know
2. The Locomotion
3. I Should Be So Lucky
4. Step Back In Time
5. Shocked
7. Wouldn't Change A Thing
8. Hand On Your Heart
9. Especially For You - With Jason Donovan
10. Got To Be Certain
11. Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
12. Give Me Just A Little More Time
13. Never Too Late
14. Tears On My Pillow
15. Celebration
Disc 2
1. I Believe In You
2. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
3. Love At First Sight
4. Slow
5. On A Night Like This
6. Spinning Around
7. Kids - With Robbie Williams
8. Confide In Me
9. In Your Eyes
10. Please Stay
11. Red Blooded Woman
12. Giving You Up
13. Chocolate
14. Come Into My World
15. Put Yourself In My Place
16. Did It Again
17. Breathe
18. Where The Wild Roses G
We've seen this rumor before. Looking for musical confirmation
Kylie Minogue's good at jazz!: "Kylie Minogue's good at jazz!:
[Hollywood News]: London, Nov 21: Pop is not the only forte of Kylie Minogue who is equally good at jazz and has recorded several jazz tracks.
'I don't think I would retire from pop. I honestly don't know. I'm not good at projecting the future. There are a lot more pressing matters in the meantime, but when I reach that stage, that's what inspires me: the unknown. What will I do? But I enjoyed (jazz) and it is the most unlikely thing for me to do, but when I did it, it was received really well. And because it's so unlikely, it worked,' the Melbourne Sun-Herald quoted her as saying.
Kylie performed jazz songs at a party for fashion label Chloe in Paris and has recorded a handful of jazz standards. 'I had no intention of talking about it but they are done, just as demos. A lot of research has to go into recording any of those standards and in the process of doing that I felt really challenged, really inspired and,surprisingly, some songs I thought would suit me didn't and others I hought 'Hmm' worked really well,' she added. (ANI) "
Kylie kalling. Kay?
::ULTIMATE KYLIE MOBILE::
A nice large kollection of Kylie ring tones for your Euro cell phone.
If anyone knows how to make these work in the US on Verizon phones, please advise.
To help celebrate the release of Ultimate Kylie which is out today, for the first time ever you can get official Kylie ringtones for your phone. Just follow the instructions below!
To TEXT for your ringtone
Simply text your order in the following way: KYLIE (ORDERCODE) (MAKE) (MODEL) to 80880 and you will be sent your chosenringtone or realtone optimised for your phone. Be sure to use spaces between words.
For example, to receive the 'Breathe' ringtone on a Nokia 3650, text KYLIE 11563 NOKIA 3650 to 80880. A text message will be sent to you allowing you to download the ringtone. For a 'Kids' realtone on a Sharp GX20, text KYLIE 14013 SHARP GX20 to 80880.
Please check that your handset can receive ringtones and realtones before placing your order. Ringtones cost £2.50. This is billed to your phone via two reverse charge text messages. Realtones cost £3.50. This is billed to your phone via three reverse charge text messages. Sent texts and GPRS downloads are charged at your service provider's normal rate. 16 years and over only. Please ask the bill payer's permission before ordering. Pay As You Go mobile customers; please ensure you have enough credit to pay for each ringtone.
To CALL for your ringtone
Call the ULTIMATE KYLIE mobile order line service on 0906 570 6446.
Follow the simple instructions and make sure you have the order code to hand. You will need to know the network you are on, the make of your phoneand the type of tone you wish to order (e.g. polyphonic ringtone or realtone). Please check your handset compatibility (i.e. that it can receive ringtones or realtones) before placing your order.
Calls to this service cost £1.50 per minute and last approximately 150 seconds. The cost of calling from a mobile may vary depending on your service provider. Please ask the bill payer's permission before ordering.
TRACK
BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
THE LOCOMOTION
I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
STEP BACK IN TIME
SHOCKED
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?
WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING
HAND ON YOUR HEART
ESPECIALLY FOR YOU
GOT TO BE CERTAIN
JE NE SAIS PAS PORQUOI
GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME
NEVER TOO LATE
TEARS ON MY PILLOW
CELEBRATION
I BELIEVE IN YOU
CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (CHORUS)
CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (VERSION 2)
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (CHORUS)
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (VERSION 2)
SLOW
ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS
SPINNING AROUND (CHORUS)
SPINNING AROUND (VERSION 2)
KIDS
CONFIDE IN ME
IN YOUR EYES
PLEASE STAY
RED BLOODED WOMAN
GIVING YOU UP
CHOCOLATE
COME INTO MY WORLD
PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE
DID IT AGAIN
BREATHE
WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW
To preview the ringtones before you buy, please visit www.kylie.com/mobile
FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT PLEASE CALL THE NEW VISIONS SUPPORT LINE ON 0870 240 0263
OR EMAIL SUPPORT@NEW-VISIONS.CO.UK
For all of the above ringtones and realtones you can also text to access the Kylie WAP shop or visit the webshop online. For the UK service, simply text KYLIE SHOP to 80880. Or, if you are outside of the UK, text KYLIE SHOP to +44 7797 805 806 Please ensure your handset is WAP enabled and that your handset is set to receive WAP push messages. Or visit the website at www.kylie.com
Terms & Conditions
In order to download your polyphonic ringtone or realtone, your handset must be WAP compatible and your WAP service activated. Please check before placing your order. A WAP push, bookmark or text URL will be sent direct to your phone to enable you to download polyphonic ringtones or realtones. Sent texts/GPRS download charged at your normal operator rate. For customer support call our customer support line on 0870 240 0263 or email support@new-visions.co.uk Your mobile number will be added to the ULTIMATE KYLIE mobile database and you may receive messages from EMI Music, at no cost, that are relevant to you. If you do not want to receive these messages please either: i) E-mail optout@new-visions.co.uk quoting your mobile telephone number and the keyword KYLIE STOP in the subject field or ii) Text KYLIE STOP to 80880 (text message charged at your normal network rate). Most items will be delivered within minutes of ordering, although items can experience delays of up to 24 hours. This is usually caused by delays in the network. Your order can be cancelled if the product has not been delivered within 24 hours. Refunds will be in the form of a cheque. If the product/wap push/text url has been delivered and has been received by the handset, then no cancellation of payment can take place.
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Kylie posed for photogrqphers in front of her hotel during a cold Valentines Day visit to NYC in 2004
Herald Sun
ENTERTAINMENT
Cameron Adams
18nov04
EVEN Kylie Minogue still has embarrassing Kylie moments. The most recent was when she sat down to watch all her old videos in order to compile a DVD companion to her new greatest-hits set.
"I braced myself," Kylie says, "but strangely enough it was quite compelling viewing. I thought I wouldn't last, but I managed to. But it's so long ago now."
Still, her cringe-o-meter definitely had a solid work out.
"It peaked with the hairdo in the Locomotion video," she jokes.
"The cringe-o-meter was in the red at that point, believe me.
"There were definitely a few moments . . . but it is time to throw them all together and enjoy them for what they were."
Which, in case you've been living under a rock -- or perhaps just for rock music -- are some of the simplest but most effective pop songs of the past 15 years.
Though Kylie has been a serial offender when it comes to releasing compilations (there have been more than 10 between her various record labels), Ultimate Kylie is the first to showcase her entire career to date.
The title is misleading: not every single is included, though surely there will be a box set down the line for that. But Kylie says the songs that are missing (Some Kind of Bliss, Finer Feelings, If You Were With Me Now, Where is the Feeling, What Kind of Fool and Word is Out -- her first dabble with R&B) are absent for a reason.
"Well, there are different reasons," Kylie says, though space isn't one of them. The Stock, Aitken, Waterman songs are so concise they'd all fit on one CD and rumours persist that her old record label thought that giving all her SAW hits on one disc would effectively stop sales of previous compilations.
"I know there'll be trainspotters and superfans out there going, 'Why isn't that song on there?'" Kylie says.
"We tried to have a formula where we had some kind of logic to hang it all on, as in, 'These are all Top 15 or Top 20 hits'.
"The list of songs went around and around, and we ended up deciding to put together an album that covers the scope of my career.
"It's a strange thing to put that many songs together so you try and make it run in the most pleasant form."
The back-to-back hits from Stock Aitken Waterman's self-proclaimed hit-factory production line can, with the benefit of hindsight, be seen as a feat few could achieve now. The statistics are impressive (19 consecutive UK Top 20 singles in her first four years) and the songs are even more so: Kylie points to Better the Devil You Know, Step Back in Time, What Do I Have to Do and Hand on Your Heart as her personal favourites.
"It's very peculiar for me to hear those early songs," Kylie says.
"It's because of my voice: it's like listening to someone else."
Then there is Kylie's difficult period in the '90s -- moving from classy dance (Confide in Me) to indie pop (Some Kind of Bliss) to an unlikely duet with Nick Cave on Where the Wild Roses Grow, for which the shady singer murdered Kylie in song and continued the bodycount in the video.
IT WAS 2000's Spinning Around that returned Kylie to pop and the No.1 spot. Her first UK No.1 in 10 years also put her in the same league as Madonna for notching up chart toppers in three consecutive decades.
Since then Kylie's pop second wind has stretched to 11 more hits, most notably Can't Get You Out of My Head, officially her highest-selling single to date. Pleasingly, it is also her finest single to date.
Ultimate Kylie also serves up two new songs: Giving You Up (written with Xenomania, hitmakers for Sugababes) and I Believe in You, another unlikely collaboration, this time with New York '70s-styled band Scissor Sisters.
"I love it," Kylie says. "It does everything it's meant to do and then some. When the idea of working together came up I thought, 'Well, I love their album but that is not the music I make'. However, we got on immediately; we were on the same wavelength."
It's a deliberate return to pure electro-pop after Kylie's previous album, Body Language. The follow up to Fever, the biggest-seller of her career, Body Language became one of the lowest-selling albums of her career.
Many fans felt the album's leanings to R&B (Kylie even rapped on one song) was not the direction they wanted her to move in.
How does Kylie herself see the record?
"Well, this whole 'greatest hits' period is forcing me to look at my career and it has been really good. It is a real trip down memory lane. And I've been looking at the overall view; the highs and lows. Body Language wasn't a low, it just wasn't as high as Fever. That's more than OK. I think it's actually necessary.
"It's impossible to stay in the red zone all the time. Not only from an artistic point of view, but from an audience point of view. You can't have things that are like, 'Great, great, great, gotta have it' all the time. It's a chance for people to chill out and hopefully the energy will come back with the greatest-hits album and the tour.
"I think the front cover and the look was probably a bit too fashion, too much of a look. That's OK, we did it. I thought it looked great.
"Sometimes it takes a while for something you've done to really find its place. The way people respond to Impossible Princess now is amazing. The way I respond to it . . . I look back and see the lyrics I wrote -- I'd never done anything like that before . . . I might never do anything like that again."
Earlier this year a rumour surfaced that Kylie had recorded a jazz album, the theory being that she was bored with pop. Then there's another theory that after her greatest-hits album and tour, she will close off the pop chapter of her career and move into a more mature genre such as, yes, jazz.
Kylie Minogue: discuss.
"Well, I might. I find it comforting that I have options. There are a lot of things I'd love to do and before people say, 'Like what?' I don't really know yet.
"I've done some different jazz and cabaret recordings, which I know sounds terrible when you say it . . ."
She previewed her jazz flirtations at a party for fashion label Chloe in Paris, performing cover songs including Peel Me a Grape.
Pushed, she admits to wanting to take an extended break, but not retire.
"I don't think I would retire from pop. I honestly don't know. I'm not good at projecting the future. There are a lot more pressing matters in the meantime, but when I reach that stage, that's what inspires me: the unknown. What will I do?
"But I enjoyed (jazz) and it is the most unlikely thing for me to do, but when I did it, it was received really well. And because it's so unlikely, it worked."
Kylie recorded a handful of jazz standards to see how they went.
"I had no intention of talking about it but they are done, just as demos. A lot of research has to go into recording any of those standards and in the process of doing that I felt really challenged, really inspired and, surprisingly, some songs I thought would suit me didn't and others I thought 'Hmm' worked really well.
"I had the internet going, books going, piles of CDs and DVDs -- you need to respect that genre and do your homework. I know there's a stigma attached to doing that kind of music, I'm sure some jazz purists would be up in arms, but I've had challenges and obstacles like that all along. I've just dabbled in it. It might lead nowhere, but at the time I had a week and thought that's what I would do.
"I mean, I know it's trendy now and you don't want to look like you're getting on a bandwagon. But even back to interpreting I Should Be So Lucky as a torch song or Better the Devil You Know as a big swing tap number, it started then.
"It's a strong a reference as rock and roll or dance music. As a vocalist it's so challenging to take a standard that's called a standard for a very good reason -- you don't want to veer off too much from it -- and yet the point is that everyone has to interpret it in their way.
"There's a contradiction there that is really compelling."
Until then, Kylie will get her hits out for a tour next year.
"At the moment we're faced with the problem that I've had so many hits you can't physically do them all in a two-hour show. But that's a great problem to have."
Ultimate Kylie (FMR) out Sunday.
ENTERTAINMENT
Kylie Minogue, queen of charts
Cameron Adams
18nov04
EVEN Kylie Minogue still has embarrassing Kylie moments. The most recent was when she sat down to watch all her old videos in order to compile a DVD companion to her new greatest-hits set.
"I braced myself," Kylie says, "but strangely enough it was quite compelling viewing. I thought I wouldn't last, but I managed to. But it's so long ago now."
Still, her cringe-o-meter definitely had a solid work out.
"It peaked with the hairdo in the Locomotion video," she jokes.
"The cringe-o-meter was in the red at that point, believe me.
"There were definitely a few moments . . . but it is time to throw them all together and enjoy them for what they were."
Which, in case you've been living under a rock -- or perhaps just for rock music -- are some of the simplest but most effective pop songs of the past 15 years.
Though Kylie has been a serial offender when it comes to releasing compilations (there have been more than 10 between her various record labels), Ultimate Kylie is the first to showcase her entire career to date.
The title is misleading: not every single is included, though surely there will be a box set down the line for that. But Kylie says the songs that are missing (Some Kind of Bliss, Finer Feelings, If You Were With Me Now, Where is the Feeling, What Kind of Fool and Word is Out -- her first dabble with R&B) are absent for a reason.
"Well, there are different reasons," Kylie says, though space isn't one of them. The Stock, Aitken, Waterman songs are so concise they'd all fit on one CD and rumours persist that her old record label thought that giving all her SAW hits on one disc would effectively stop sales of previous compilations.
"I know there'll be trainspotters and superfans out there going, 'Why isn't that song on there?'" Kylie says.
"We tried to have a formula where we had some kind of logic to hang it all on, as in, 'These are all Top 15 or Top 20 hits'.
"The list of songs went around and around, and we ended up deciding to put together an album that covers the scope of my career.
"It's a strange thing to put that many songs together so you try and make it run in the most pleasant form."
The back-to-back hits from Stock Aitken Waterman's self-proclaimed hit-factory production line can, with the benefit of hindsight, be seen as a feat few could achieve now. The statistics are impressive (19 consecutive UK Top 20 singles in her first four years) and the songs are even more so: Kylie points to Better the Devil You Know, Step Back in Time, What Do I Have to Do and Hand on Your Heart as her personal favourites.
"It's very peculiar for me to hear those early songs," Kylie says.
"It's because of my voice: it's like listening to someone else."
Then there is Kylie's difficult period in the '90s -- moving from classy dance (Confide in Me) to indie pop (Some Kind of Bliss) to an unlikely duet with Nick Cave on Where the Wild Roses Grow, for which the shady singer murdered Kylie in song and continued the bodycount in the video.
IT WAS 2000's Spinning Around that returned Kylie to pop and the No.1 spot. Her first UK No.1 in 10 years also put her in the same league as Madonna for notching up chart toppers in three consecutive decades.
Since then Kylie's pop second wind has stretched to 11 more hits, most notably Can't Get You Out of My Head, officially her highest-selling single to date. Pleasingly, it is also her finest single to date.
Ultimate Kylie also serves up two new songs: Giving You Up (written with Xenomania, hitmakers for Sugababes) and I Believe in You, another unlikely collaboration, this time with New York '70s-styled band Scissor Sisters.
"I love it," Kylie says. "It does everything it's meant to do and then some. When the idea of working together came up I thought, 'Well, I love their album but that is not the music I make'. However, we got on immediately; we were on the same wavelength."
It's a deliberate return to pure electro-pop after Kylie's previous album, Body Language. The follow up to Fever, the biggest-seller of her career, Body Language became one of the lowest-selling albums of her career.
Many fans felt the album's leanings to R&B (Kylie even rapped on one song) was not the direction they wanted her to move in.
How does Kylie herself see the record?
"Well, this whole 'greatest hits' period is forcing me to look at my career and it has been really good. It is a real trip down memory lane. And I've been looking at the overall view; the highs and lows. Body Language wasn't a low, it just wasn't as high as Fever. That's more than OK. I think it's actually necessary.
"It's impossible to stay in the red zone all the time. Not only from an artistic point of view, but from an audience point of view. You can't have things that are like, 'Great, great, great, gotta have it' all the time. It's a chance for people to chill out and hopefully the energy will come back with the greatest-hits album and the tour.
"I think the front cover and the look was probably a bit too fashion, too much of a look. That's OK, we did it. I thought it looked great.
"Sometimes it takes a while for something you've done to really find its place. The way people respond to Impossible Princess now is amazing. The way I respond to it . . . I look back and see the lyrics I wrote -- I'd never done anything like that before . . . I might never do anything like that again."
Earlier this year a rumour surfaced that Kylie had recorded a jazz album, the theory being that she was bored with pop. Then there's another theory that after her greatest-hits album and tour, she will close off the pop chapter of her career and move into a more mature genre such as, yes, jazz.
Kylie Minogue: discuss.
"Well, I might. I find it comforting that I have options. There are a lot of things I'd love to do and before people say, 'Like what?' I don't really know yet.
"I've done some different jazz and cabaret recordings, which I know sounds terrible when you say it . . ."
She previewed her jazz flirtations at a party for fashion label Chloe in Paris, performing cover songs including Peel Me a Grape.
Pushed, she admits to wanting to take an extended break, but not retire.
"I don't think I would retire from pop. I honestly don't know. I'm not good at projecting the future. There are a lot more pressing matters in the meantime, but when I reach that stage, that's what inspires me: the unknown. What will I do?
"But I enjoyed (jazz) and it is the most unlikely thing for me to do, but when I did it, it was received really well. And because it's so unlikely, it worked."
Kylie recorded a handful of jazz standards to see how they went.
"I had no intention of talking about it but they are done, just as demos. A lot of research has to go into recording any of those standards and in the process of doing that I felt really challenged, really inspired and, surprisingly, some songs I thought would suit me didn't and others I thought 'Hmm' worked really well.
"I had the internet going, books going, piles of CDs and DVDs -- you need to respect that genre and do your homework. I know there's a stigma attached to doing that kind of music, I'm sure some jazz purists would be up in arms, but I've had challenges and obstacles like that all along. I've just dabbled in it. It might lead nowhere, but at the time I had a week and thought that's what I would do.
"I mean, I know it's trendy now and you don't want to look like you're getting on a bandwagon. But even back to interpreting I Should Be So Lucky as a torch song or Better the Devil You Know as a big swing tap number, it started then.
"It's a strong a reference as rock and roll or dance music. As a vocalist it's so challenging to take a standard that's called a standard for a very good reason -- you don't want to veer off too much from it -- and yet the point is that everyone has to interpret it in their way.
"There's a contradiction there that is really compelling."
Until then, Kylie will get her hits out for a tour next year.
"At the moment we're faced with the problem that I've had so many hits you can't physically do them all in a two-hour show. But that's a great problem to have."
Ultimate Kylie (FMR) out Sunday.
20041114
20041106
Oxford English Dictionary -- new item
NEW EDITION, draft entry Sept. 2004
orbiting, n.
The action of making an orbit. Freq. attrib.
1956 Spaceflight 1 6/2 Whether we can land on all of them is improbable, but orbiting trips will be made to get a closer look. 1967 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Jan. 4/3 The successful weekend orbiting of Intelsat II. 1977 A. HALLAM Planet Earth 30/2 The satellites precess, or progressively change their orbiting path relative to the Earth's axis, due to these broad variations in the gravity field. 1986 Systematic Zool. 35 26/2 Kepler's laws could be derived from a motion picture of planetary orbitings running in reverse.
2000 K. MINOGUE Light Years Rocket into outer space in orbit.
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About the Harry A. Blackmun Papers (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division): "About the Harry A. Blackmun Papers
Harry A. Blackmun was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by Richard Nixon. In May 1997, Justice Blackmun gave his papers to the Library of Congress, where they joined the papers of thirty-eight other justices and chief justices in the Library of Congress. Because an individual's papers can best yield their riches when studied in conjunction with other related collections, Justice Blackmun's decision to place his papers in the Library of Congress should greatly facilitate historical research. At the time of the gift, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington stated, 'The papers of the justices are among our most treasured collections. Our holdings will be considerably enhanced by the Blackmun papers. We are honored that Justice Blackmun has placed his trust in the Library.'
The papers of Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908-1999), lawyer, judge, and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, are housed in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. The collection spans the years 1913-2001 with the bulk concentrated from 1959 to 1994. Although the papers chronicle almost every phase of Blackmun's judicial career, the bulk of the material highlights his service as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1959-1970, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, 1970-1994. There are also a few items documenting Blackmun's early life as a student at Mechanic Arts High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, his undergraduate and law school studies at Harvard University, and his career as a lawyer in private practice and as resident counsel for the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Association. The Supreme Court File, 1970-1994, comprising over ninety-five percent of the collection, documents Blackmu"
Harry A. Blackmun was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by Richard Nixon. In May 1997, Justice Blackmun gave his papers to the Library of Congress, where they joined the papers of thirty-eight other justices and chief justices in the Library of Congress. Because an individual's papers can best yield their riches when studied in conjunction with other related collections, Justice Blackmun's decision to place his papers in the Library of Congress should greatly facilitate historical research. At the time of the gift, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington stated, 'The papers of the justices are among our most treasured collections. Our holdings will be considerably enhanced by the Blackmun papers. We are honored that Justice Blackmun has placed his trust in the Library.'
The papers of Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908-1999), lawyer, judge, and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, are housed in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. The collection spans the years 1913-2001 with the bulk concentrated from 1959 to 1994. Although the papers chronicle almost every phase of Blackmun's judicial career, the bulk of the material highlights his service as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1959-1970, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, 1970-1994. There are also a few items documenting Blackmun's early life as a student at Mechanic Arts High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, his undergraduate and law school studies at Harvard University, and his career as a lawyer in private practice and as resident counsel for the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Association. The Supreme Court File, 1970-1994, comprising over ninety-five percent of the collection, documents Blackmu"
Kylie Launches Sexy Stockings Range
Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Kylie Launches Sexy Stockings Range 3:52pm (UK)
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor, PA News
Kylie Minogue launched her new range of sexy stockings today -- but failed to model them herself.
The Aussie singer covered up in jeans and knee-high boots to promote her hosiery line LK Legs.
It was left to a group of models to show off the Foxy Fishnets and Peek-a-Boo suspenders.
They also wore underwear from Kylie�s best-selling Love Kylie collection.
"LK Legs are for all women, whether it's the sexy secretary or screen icon look you're adopting," Kylie said.
But the 36-year-old preferred to let the leggy models show them off.
While Kylie attended the launch at 5 Cavendish Square in central London, her French boyfriend Olivier Martinez was in the United States working on his latest film.
Their romance is rumoured to be on the rocks and they have not been pictured together for several weeks.
The pop princess releases her greatest hits album later this month and begins a UK tour in March.
