20050311
Mon: 03-03-07
Kylie Minogue: "Giving You Up"
genre: pop
Shame to say most of the stuff on this Ultimate Kylie comp thing hasn't held up nearly as well the cake on her face or my glossy mom crush (some like em hot, some like em cold, I like em fifteen years older ok?). The two new singles on the comp are aces though-- "I Believe In You" ya heard last year, and this one "Giving You Up" has a few weeks before the five or six people who still care about Kylie go total batshit (ScottPl and Dleone excluded). The song's a return to big sound Fever electro, but with subtler production: all the hacksaw synth is pushed back and sanded off, so Kylie's head voice doesn't have to go through eight additional filters to compete with the bristle. Straight fours and minimal syncopation make "Giving You Up" way simpler dancefloor fodder than any of Body Language's offerings, but that's probably better for most of us.
Oh, and this song's totally about me. Just when I'm about to bail on Kylie, she's all, "I can't start giving you up/ I'm lost without you". That's not telepathy but I'm willing to play along, at least until this verse: "She finds a man and she makes it her passion/ I'm happy trying all the time with a boy like you." See you in the supermarket. [Nick Sylvester]
Kylie Minogue: "Giving You Up"
genre: pop
Shame to say most of the stuff on this Ultimate Kylie comp thing hasn't held up nearly as well the cake on her face or my glossy mom crush (some like em hot, some like em cold, I like em fifteen years older ok?). The two new singles on the comp are aces though-- "I Believe In You" ya heard last year, and this one "Giving You Up" has a few weeks before the five or six people who still care about Kylie go total batshit (ScottPl and Dleone excluded). The song's a return to big sound Fever electro, but with subtler production: all the hacksaw synth is pushed back and sanded off, so Kylie's head voice doesn't have to go through eight additional filters to compete with the bristle. Straight fours and minimal syncopation make "Giving You Up" way simpler dancefloor fodder than any of Body Language's offerings, but that's probably better for most of us.
Oh, and this song's totally about me. Just when I'm about to bail on Kylie, she's all, "I can't start giving you up/ I'm lost without you". That's not telepathy but I'm willing to play along, at least until this verse: "She finds a man and she makes it her passion/ I'm happy trying all the time with a boy like you." See you in the supermarket. [Nick Sylvester]
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