X - Kylie Minogue Album Review
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Album Review
Princess of Pop's crown loses its shine.
Kylie has always lived in the shadow of Madonna. X further proves why she's called the princess and not the queen of pop. Madonna mutates to sustain her career in addition, in most cases, writing her own material.
When Kylie tries to reinvent, it hasn't been that great, and again on this album things haven't moved on in the shiny world of Kylie. Behind all the CD's glittery imagery we get more of the same, though in this case the songs are substanially weaker. The album's unimaginative title, matches the equally unimaginative writing. If you're not the best of writers, which kylie ain't, then leave it totally to others to help you make a proper comeback. It's as if there been a bit of a rush job going on, and it shows at every level. The are numerous songwriters who've helped the Sugababes, Britney, Jamelia, Spice Girls, including Robbie' old cohort Guy Chambers, who still fails to save the day. Basically, there's too many cooks. It boasts she's been a co-writer on seven of them (3,6,7,8,10, 11,13) but we don't exactly know what she's, sort of, done really. Considering its been four years since her last, not much thought or effort has gone into this. There seems to be more emphasis on sound effects (instrumentally and vocally ) than real (universal) pop songs. Unlike some previous singles, there isn't a killer track, with 2 Hearts being the worst. Much of what's going on here is poor : Wow and Nu-di-ty being prime examples of pathetic efforts at 21 century disco.The voice, as ever, is equally as thin (in a teenage way) and weak. On Speakerphone, she dares to imitate Madonna, with voice altering F/X, like something from Madge's Music album. Heart Beat Rock is a disjointed attempt at R'n'B, wheras The One tries to copy classic Spinning Around and fails miserably. Stars is surely destined to be the next single - full of dance formula without Spinning's hot chorus.
Balladeering effectively shows her weaknesses, and this is confirmed by the saccharine-like Cosmic. For once, just maybe, and it's probably way beyond her smiley Kylie credentials, it would be really something to hear some genuine emotion in her singing instead of the robotic and clinical delivery she's made her millions from.
When Kylie's on song - Spinning Around, Can't Get To get You Out Of My Head etc, she's hot pop, but the song isn't here. When she drifts from the biggies and tries to be clever or even remotely arty, she stumbles at the first block. One occasion on a Princess Trust slot made Kylie look embbarrasing. She was shown up by a much better singer - Christina Aguilera, who will always be ahead of Kylie in terms of credibility alone.
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