TRAVEL IN LIGHT YEARS
And so a deal was done with Parlophone and EMI, Kylie stayed with Mushroom Records Australia (since 1987). The direction and the influence would be disco and dance. Kylie continued to write and input on the album and she also worked with long time writer friend Steve Anderson. Her most publicised work though was with Robbie Williams who had the duet "Kids" which reached No.2 with the camp anthem "Your Disco Needs You" and "Loveboat" included. It was though "Spinning Around" which debuted at No.1 in Australia and the UK which gave Kylie her 6th number one and a return to high sales as Light Years also entred the charts at No.1 (Aus. No.2 (Uk). It went on to sell well over 2 million and confirmed to all the critics the loosely named comeback queen was on top of the pop throne again. More press pages were granted to Kylie's gold hotpants that anything else, even though they are a well known piece of wardrobe for our little minx. Men weer drooling and MTV could not get enough of the videos. The album was also a great reason to launch a huge European and Australasian tour. "On A Night Like This" broke all records in Sydney and infact all records for any tour ever in Australia. No other act in history to date has played as many shows. The show also toured the UK and Europe and it was the first time for many to witness Kylie live, since 1991. Many of her newer and revisiting fans had not witnessed Intimate and Live so when they did attend, they were blown away. The tour won Kylie awards and also crtitical acclaim. It seems in a world where many artists mime to backing tracks, Kylie professional approach was now seen to be something to admire.
Welcome Aboard KM-AIR
Light Years produced four top 10 UK singles in total and kept Kylie busy up until Spring 2001. The momentum was in full motion and the writing for her 8th Studio album had commenced nicknamed "Coming of Age", "Fever" was to be a journey through the early electronic period in the 80's. Kylie's early recollections of Grace Jones, Synthesiser fuelled disco. The tour was a great arena for her to showcase a new song "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". The reception was great but who knew that this song would launch kylie into the biggest stage of her career to date? I thought it sounded great and her vocals delivered perfectly but America, the country which rarely listen to anything foreign. a country where theres 17 lookalikes and soundalikes Britneys launched every day. Well it is about time that they got the opportunity to hear Kylie and I have a feling that in 2002 The whole world will be taken over by Miss Minogue. The strangeness to it all though does not make me happy for this. In a business sense it is wonderful, but in a selfish way saving Kylie for so long in a smaller world was quite superb. Kylie may now just become a prescence on my television screen, however I wish and hope that the world can finally enjoy and get to know Kylies wide talents. |
