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Minogue's tenth album arrives on the heels of her battle with breast cancer; thankfully, the experience hasn't made her music discernibly deeper. X compiles wall-to-wall club thumpers — the clomping electro-pop single "2 Hearts" has been a dance-floor smash for months — and songs about sex, dancing and sexed-up dancing. In "Nu-Di-Ty," one of two buzzing, percolating tracks by Swedish beat wizards Bloodshy and Avant (Britney Spears, Madonna), Minogue commands her man to perform a striptease: "Just pop that zipper for me/And work that thing out."
Minogue has a pipsqueak voice to match her diminutive frame, and she wisely cedes the musical spotlight to her producers, allowing her vocals to be processed and thoroughly T-Pained. But she permits herself the occasional moment of subtle diva hauteur. "Wow" opens with perky house-reminiscent keyboard chords that nod to her big hits of twenty years ago — like Madonna, she has stuck around long enough to revive her own Eighties sound.
(Posted: Apr 17, 2008)
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- 2 Hearts
- Like A Drug
- In My Arms
- Speakerphone
- Sensitized
- Heart Beat Rock
- The One
- No More Rain
- All I See
- Stars
- Wow
- Nu-di-ty
- Cosmic
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zanes1 writes:
Kylie Minogue was been absent...from the music scene for a while. After her breast cancer, she FINALLY comes out with her 10th album, but the results have to be mixed. It's good that she's not singing about bad things, as she's trying to get back to her roots, and not be such a buzz-kill. But if she's going to return, she's going to have to scrap songs out of her album, such as "Heart Beat Rock," "Sensitized" and "Stars." Then there's mediocre tunes like "All I See" and "Nu-Di-Ty," then there's the best tracks, like "2 Hearts," "Speakerphone" and "Wow." The good tracks triumph the bad ones, but the most memorable are the most rare.
Apr 2, 2008 17:19:38
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