album Kylie Minogue - 'Tension'

[Abracadabra]

Make my eyes roll back when I feel that VEGAS HIGH

[Minogue]

Great album. Kinda like a better kiss me once

 

i do wish it was more similar to the singles, the only album tracks I would put on a fictional album that’s more in PP and T vein is Hands, GL and even HOTN at the end of the album for the emotional moment and the rest of album would have more experimental dance  tracks.
 

But nonetheless it’s a great pop album I’m sure I’ll use most of it. 
Somebody to Love is better than more of the album not sure why they placed it at the bottom of the deluxe edition.

 

Also, she should come out of her shy shell and offer Doja Cat to jump on Hands it would smash hard.

[Junlin]

4 min left for the US 

[Junlin]

She shot some vidualizers on her YouTube 

[Junlin]

 

[rmmas]

100 out of 10 devours most of the tracks on standard album 

[Rocket]

 

 

 

[Minogue]

3 minutes ago, Junlin said:

 

You asked for the visuals, you CALLED for the queen 

[VENUSWAVE]

1 minute ago, rmmas said:

100 out of 10 devours most of the tracks on standard album 

but ppl are not ready for THAT conversation 

 

[Rocket]

the COLLAPSE

 

 

[Junlin]

3 minutes ago, Rocket said:

the COLLAPSE

 

 

[stephen1108]

The Green Light visualizer is so good

[VENUSWAVE]

12 minutes ago, Junlin said:

 

i cannot stress how MOTHER she is for this

[Junlin]

“Padam Padam”
“I heard the demo and loved it. I thought, ‘This is amazing.’ And then once I’d self-recorded my vocals and put them in, I thought, ‘What’s more, this is amazing for me.’ I really felt like I was almost fused to this song, and we became greater than the sum of our parts.”

 

“Hold on to Now”
“I deeply, deeply love this song. The ‘na-na-na’ melody is from a voice note I sent to Biff [Stannard] in 2021, and a few months later we built it up from there. Sonically, I think it’s beautiful. I heard it on some amazing speakers recently and I was fully transported—it felt connected and ‘other’ to me. I just really allowed myself to swim in it. I love that I feel like I’m asking the existential and immediate questions in one. But it’s about searching—when you’re so busy searching for answers, you forget being in the present. That’s why that speaks to me. I’m really very fond of it.”

 

“Things We Do for Love”
“The word this song brings to mind is ‘cardio.’ It’s got a bit of a Footloose feel. There’s no respite, it just keeps going and going, and the energy builds. ‘Things We Do for Love’ was written on the same day as ‘Tension,’ when [UK songwriters and producers] Kamille and Anya [Jones] came in. It took quite a bit of time at the back end in finishing the song, working out how to shape it so that the drive keeps going. It’s a weird structure, but I think it worked out really well.”

 

“Tension”
“The initial version was really out of place, and I wasn’t sure it would make the album. The lyrics were pretty edgy, the robo-voice was much more exaggerated—it just sounded very deep club. As it evolved, it was softened and finessed. Again, it was the shaping of the song that really stood out to me—it’s like a roller coaster ride, there are little diffusers that balance the song. You get on in the intro, with the piano stabs, it takes you up and up, closer and closer to the climax, it gets so edgy…then it drops. The bass comes in and you fly down that first big dipper. Then the second time it’s about to happen, you know what to expect, and your excitement level is even higher, because you know how thrilling it was.” 

 

“One More Time”
“This started as another song. We parked it, but I really liked the track and I didn’t want to waste it. The week we were in Surrey [for a writing camp with Minogue’s ‘bezzies’ Duck Blackwell (Halsey) and Jon Green (Paloma Faith)] I had another idea—the ‘Slow down/Work it on out’ part—which was opposite to what we had already written. Jon came in with ‘I know your star sign/What’s on your bedside’ and there was a real cute attitude with it. It’s light and fun. The lyrics are revisiting, if not a relationship, at least a dalliance—it may or may not be romantic. There’s nothing deep in there, but it’s got a freedom to it.”

 

“You Still Get Me High”
“This started with Biff and Jon Green, and it was slower, more indulgent. I wanted to see if there was any potential with it, so I mentioned it to Duck one day and said, ‘I’d love you to be part of it and get your take on it.’ I think the combination of Biff, Duck, Jon, and myself—we just enhance each other. A lot of the euphoria comes from Jon, who is ‘the feels’; Biff’s got his pop brain permanently on. Then Duck brought it into line with what the album was becoming. It’s a bit of a split-personality song—I particularly love the end, with all the ad-libs.”

 

“Hands”
“My A&R manager Jamie Nelson prefaced sending me the demo of ‘Hands’ with, ‘I know you’re not a rapper, but I’ve got this idea…’ And of course, I’m way too curious and willing to give it a try, but I had to work a lot on trying to morph it to be ‘me.’ I wish I’d known earlier that the vocal [on the demo] was a male voice pitched to be in a ‘woman’s’ register, because that made me feel a bit better about how I couldn’t quite access the start of it. So the very beginning of the first verse is not me—we just left [the demo vocal] on the track—but the rest is, and I think I got my syncopation down fine. It’s the kind of fun, sunny-day song where, if anyone starts singing one segment, you have to keep going. You really can’t stop. I first listened to the demo in the car with my friend—windows down, sun shining—and it made perfect sense.”

 

“Green Light”
“‘Green Light’ is quite surprising to me. I think it might be a cousin to ‘Spinning Around’—it’s not as overt, it’s quite breezy and chill. But I did a listening party in a club in New York and before we played this song I said, ‘There aren’t that many relaxed, chill moments on the album, but this might be one of them.’ I couldn’t have been more wrong. Sometimes you don’t know. ‘Green Light’ slapped, as I believe they say. It definitely sits in the groove.”

 

“Vegas High”
“I knew I was doing the Vegas residency, so I went with Biff and Duck to meet [artist and writer] Gerard O’Connell for the first time, and the four of us squashed into this tiny little studio to do a song related to Vegas. That was the mission for the day. We were talking about a romanticized, cinematic version of Vegas—driving to Vegas, when the roads get a bit more dusty and there’s a glimmering, almost like an oasis, or if you’re flying in at night and it’s much of nothing, and then there’s that little wonderland of Vegas—and the story unfolded really quickly. ‘Capture the magic and hold it in your hand.’ I recorded it there and then.”

 

“10 Out of 10” (Oliver Heldens feat. Kylie Minogue)
“This was originally just going to be for [Dutch DJ] Oliver. His team randomly reached out to my team and I thought, ‘This is fun, I can see people strutting along to this track.’ It’s another one that was quite difficult for me to get access to. The girl who did the demo has a wild voice—very different to mine—and a natural attitude. I never want to sound like a bad carbon copy, but because I can self-record now, I often will. I’m free to be a bad carbon copy and take on the best of what they’ve done, then wean myself off and find out where I fit. It wasn’t intended for my album, but we embraced it and I think it’s a nice addition.”

 

“Story”
“It meant so much to me to write this song. I don’t get into what the difficulty was, but I had to overcome some things and get through a difficult period, and I’m acknowledging that for my sake. There’s something about the dichotomy of the aloneness you feel and the help you get from people who will support you through any difficulty that I can’t put in words as well as I put it in the lyrics. Once you get through it, you appreciate that the people who were helping you will never know how much they are part of your story and how much they have helped you, in ways that you can never repay them. I was so delighted by the number of people who came up to me at the listening parties to say that they love ‘Story.’ I felt so moved, and vindicated really, that it’s not just speaking to me and the people I love, but to others as well. And they’ll take from it what they will.”

[Rocket]

This Things We Do For Love visualizer is arguably one of the greatest pieces of work she's done.

 

[ToMmY]

OMG, the bonuses!

 

 

I'm in love. This is possibly the best album of 2023 so far.

[stephen1108]

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So the very beginning of the first verse is not me—we just left [the demo vocal] on the track—but the rest is, and I think I got my syncopation down fine.

I stand corrected

[Iceland]

This and The Loveliest Time are the best albums of this year 

[Junlin]

omg just watched This Things We Do For Love it made me so happy and emotional 

[Achilles.]

This whole album has an insane flow to it.

 

Not sure how many of the songs I’d use on their own, but I mostly listen to whole albums these days so all that really matters is having one that’s strong start to finish, and this definitely is. 

[Harrier]

This album is excellent. I would say it easily clears KMO and Golden and is competing with Disco to be her best recent album. Could even be in her career top 5

[ToMmY]

Don't kill me but this is her first album without a single filler.

[Archetype]

She deserves all of the Oscars for this 

 

[khalyan]

I’m unfortunately not loving it as much as I expected.  The album is on shuffle but Hold On to Now and Things We Do For Love were both forgettable. 

[Achilles.]

Somebody to Love is the instant standout for me. It’s perfect.