Kylie Minogue celebrates yet another immaculate renaissance.
Lights Camera Action is pretty much the ideal opening number for Kylie’s future live shows, with those rumbling bass moments just begging to be accompanied by Amnesia Ibiza’s dry-ice cannons – detonating on cue. “My armour is by Gaultier” (of course it is!).
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Elsewhere: Taboo gives Boney M. – Rasputin vibes; Someone Like Me playfully addresses momentary lapses in embracing singlehood (“Happy for you but selfishly/ Do you have someone for me?”); and the ‘see ya, sucker!’ Good As Gone is a blissful, hands-in-the-air jam: “Who would think that losing you would be so much fun?” – yep, basically a song for every occasion on here.
“All my friends don’t know about the things you do…” – Hello is a 4am booty-call banger that pretty much describes what would happen if Padam Padam turned into an ongoing fuckbuddy sitch. Shoulda Left Ya (“…on the dancefloor”) – ha! We’ve all been there, right?
Our personal fave On The Edge Of Saturday Night (with The Blessed Madonna) – with its piano-house hook, schweppervescent synths and pounding bass – makes us wanna party like it’s 1999: “Monday doesn’t matter at all” (except if you spent the entire weekend at Revs – iykyk). Gotta love My Oh My’s opening “la-la-la”s, which pay homage to Can’t Get You Out Of My Head as well – very meta.
The universal acclaim 2023’s Tension received should be lavished onto its sequel as well; in fact, Tension II tops its chart-topping, award-winning predecessor. Our girl’s unstoppable right now! A cultural phenomenon doing her best work on the other side of 50. We’re totally here for Kylie’s ageless, saucy minx era.
LABEL: BMG
RELEASE: OUT NOW
