Quivering strings, rejoicing brass, carolling choir – WOW!
Just from the intro of opener It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, we can already tell Kylie’s latest release will save our family Christmas Day celebrations.
Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) is a special 10th anniversary edition of Kylie’s first holiday anthology, 2015’s Kylie Christmas, which contains four new songs: Hot In December – a breathy bop; the catchy, cheeky, self-referential (“Oh, I could be the Princess of Pop…”) Office Party, resplendent with finger snaps and sleigh bells; This Time Of Year – a reflective ballad; and XMAS (pronounced X – M – A – S) – an Amazon Music Original and deadset yuletide banger.
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Our Kyles correctly brings naughty-girl-next-door energy (think: Betty Boop meets Marilyn Monroe) to the OG gold-digger song, Santa Baby.
Her charming Santa Claus Is Coming To Town duet features sonically enhanced, posthumous vocal contributions from Frank Sinatra, which were originally recorded in 1948. Fun fact: Seal released this festive classic, also posthumously featuring Ol’ Blue Eyes, in 2017 – two years after Kylie’s version.
But it’s really all about Kylie and Dannii’s disco duet, 100 Degrees, which evokes Kiki Dee Band’s I’ve Got The Music In Me.
This boogie-friendly number contains delightful, percussive “ha-ha-ha” BVs. All we want for Christmas is for the Minogue sisters to perform this one together live at Carols By Candlelight.
LABEL: WARNER
RELEASE: 5 DEC
