From Gold Hot Pants To Glastonbury... 10 Times Kylie Minogue Redefined Pop Music After over 30 years of bothering charts around the world, Kylie Minogue is one of those rare things: a pop star with longevity. By Matt Bagwell - HUFFINGTONPOST.CO.UK
Key to her ongoing success is her constant reinvention, which has helped her clock up 50 UK Top 40 singles, bag multiple awards from Brits to Grammys, sell out tours across the globe and earn National Treasure status in the process. Not bad considering she’s not even a Brit. But when it comes to her musical output, Kylie often doesn’t get the credit she really deserves. Her triumphant Glastonbury set - in front of a record crowd - was testament to how much love there is for the 51-year-old star. But it also illustrated just how many pop bangers she’s gifted us over the years - and how she’s pushed pop’s boundaries - which is why she’s still topping charts three decades since her first hit. Here’s 10 times Kylie reinvented herself - and redefined the pop genre.
the-girl-everyone-wished-livednext-door, thanks to a seriously sexed-up image overhaul. Kylie has credited her relationship with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who she had begun dating, as being hugely influential in giving her the confidence to take more control of her image and music. The result saw (ahem) SAW up their game with what is arguably Kylie’s best collection of singles from one album. « Rhythm Of Love » spawned « Better the Devil You Know », « Step Back In Time », « What Do I Have To Do » and « Shocked ». What a time to be alive.
ment Kylie was embraced by the cool kids and fashion mags. 3. Where The Wild Roses Grow
Aussie goth rocker Nick Cave has always been a huge fan of Kylie (or to quote the man himself, he’s « obsessed »), so all of his Halloween’s came at once when she agreed to duet on « Where The Wild Roses Grow » in 1995. The « murder ballad » is essentially a dialogue between a killer (Nick) and his victim (Kylie) and culminates with her getting her head bashed in by a rock. « Spinning Around » it is not. They continue to be great friends, with Nick declaring Kylie 2. Confide In Me as « the greatest thing that has After enjoying years of success happened to Australian music », as part of PWL’s Hit Factory pop as well as joining her on stage at conveyor belt, Kylie craved more this year’s Glastonbury to duet on creative control and credibility. this very song. Chills. When she signed to dance label 1. The " Rhythm Of Love " Deconstruction, she got both, and 4. Impossible Princess Kylie’s « difficult second album » singles gifted us with the stone cold clasWith her « Neighbours » charac- sic « Confide In Me » in the pro- (for Deconstruction at least) is by far her most daring and experimenter Charlene having upped sticks cess (UK No.2, 1994). to Brisbane, Kylie became a fullThe first single from her epo- tal. There’s rock, there’s trip hop, time proper pop star in 1988. nymously titled fifth studio album there’s electronica, there’s even After two mega-selling albums was a huge departure from her flippin’ drum and bass. Portishead, Bjork and Massive penned entirely by Stock Aitken previous Stock Aitken and WaterAttack were all enjoying huge sucand Waterman, the 20-year-old man-penned hits, both musically Kylie went from girl-next-door to and visually, and signalled the mo- cess when this was released in 62 www.kylie-world.com
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