Kylie - Disco (album 15) (3 Viewers)

That's as good as could possibly have been expected for SEB really!

Can't see her hanging onto the top ten, but we live in hope...
 
That's really good isn't it? Little Mix are at #8 so I assume that means Sophie has at least done 6-7k so far which is more than I ever imagined she would do in total.
 
Did Sophie re-record all the Kitchen Disco songs or are they literally just the same versions on a greatest hits? I may add a steam if it's the former
 
Eddie said:
Isn't she on Strictly this week or did I completely make that up?
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I believe Sophie is on Strictly... It Takes Two this week yes. Billy Ocean gets the Sunday performance spot.

Iguana said:
Did Sophie re-record all the Kitchen Disco songs or are they literally just the same versions on a greatest hits? I may add a steam if it's the former
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Groovejet is a re-record, that's it.
 
Another HOLEY DRESS:

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Turns out my bloat theory wasn’t so far fetched. Apparently she went up a dress size in lockdown.
 
Did we see the rather brutal review in Pitchfork?

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kylie-minogue-disco/

The Australian pop icon has made several decades’ worth of great disco—yet her new album is a polyester-thin fabrication that sounds as if she’d only just heard of it recently.

Among the many perversities of 2020 is how much disco there’s been for a year without discotheques. From Róisín Murphy to Jessie Ware to Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga, musicians collectively longed for the unattainable dancefloor. Most of it is quite good, and none of it needs to advertise itself, with pay-attention ALL-CAPS, as DISCO. The idea of Kylie Minogue “going disco” is more than a little redundant: She’s made several decades’ worth of the stuff, including several modern classics. She has recorded (excellent) tracks called “Disco Down” and “Your Disco Needs You.” Kylie claimed in a recent interview that she never envisioned the album as “a concept”—dubious, since her next words were about how she imagined the title as DISCO from the start. But she built a home studio, immersed herself in deep cuts, leveled up her production skills, and engineered for the first time, all to prevent the album from becoming “a tribute record.”

Whatever the album was that she conceived, the album she recorded is just that: a polyester-thin fabrication that sounds as if she just learned of disco’s existence during quarantine. While making the album, she redirected her producers to Earth, Wind & Fire YouTubes whenever the record started sounding like “electro-pop”—i.e., like herself. The lyrics drop names like Wikipedia: Studio 54, “I Will Survive,” the Electric Slide. Kylie works against her voice, trying to studio-contort her vocal into a dancing-queen diva or multitrack herself into a gospel chorus. If Golden sounded like Kylie LARPing country music, DISCO frequently sounds like Kylie LARPing dance—which shouldn’t happen. No one better expresses the record’s essential uncoolness than Kylie herself: “Gramps is on the dance floor. It makes me picture David Brent busting out his dad moves.”

Uncool is not bad, and if anything, DISCO could stand more of it: to evoke actual disco in all its frisson and desperation, rather than the remembered-40-years-later version, full of kitsch and clip-art disco balls. The album, with a couple exceptions, has two modes: overly tasteful cruise-ship programming, and gauche rehashes. Kylie front-loads the weakest material—maybe passable in a set, but fatal in an album, where there’s no club to leave. “Magic” has a fizzy, sparky chorus, the sinuous melody of “Miss a Thing” has a little “Confide in Me” to it, and “Real Groove” pulls Kylie’s voice into rubber and sends it ricocheting, but none of the tracks go anywhere, and lose their energy less than halfway. “Monday Blues” doesn’t bring up energy so much as yank it back, coating its spangles in flop sweat. A “Celebration” remake that’s lawsuit-level blatant, it’s so studied it forgets to celebrate.

Not everything is so doomed by comparison. “Last Chance” is also an obvious homage, this time to Donna Summer’s “Last Dance,” but the scenario comes with its own urgency, and while Kylie isn’t quite transcendent, she fills the role well. The album’s requisite appeal-to-deejay song, “Where Does the DJ Go?” is ridiculous (where does the DJ go after last call? Home, usually), but it’s an authentic kind of ridiculous, akin to the urgent, emotionally frantic, and absolutely real crises of raining men or blowing up a building with boogie. The overclocked “Voulez-Vous” arrangement helps; it’s brittle and a little too fast, sounding like stretching the night past its limits. On “Supernova,” Kylie’s voice has more bite and life than all the above tracks combined, even before the ecstatic soprano swoops toward the end. (It’s one of the few places on the album she works with her voice, not against it.) The metallic robo-chassis vocal effects, the intergalactic metaphor collision, and the desperate, high-key lust memorably evoke ’70s space disco novelties like “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper.”

The next track, “Say Something,” is the strongest and also the least disco. The track loses its sequencer a third of the way in, and when it comes back it’s left quiet. There’s no real chorus and almost no structure at all. What’s left is a luxuriant amount of space for Kylie to spiral higher, buoyed by rocket-exhaust sighs and airy choirs and zero-irony affirmations: “Love is love,” “Can we all be as one again?” Finishing the track reportedly brought Kylie and longtime cowriter Biff Stannard to tears; they knew they were onto something. Perhaps they got caught up in the moment. Perhaps the lyrics hit a bit different in spring 2020 than fall 2019; Kylie’s said as much. Perhaps they heard the sparkling moment where Kylie stopped being DISCO and resumed being Kylie.

5.6/10
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Monday Blues a rewrite of Celebration? Erm ok.

Also why does it feel as if she hasn’t actually heard the Kylie tracks she name-checks and has just done [ctrl] + F keyword ‘DISCO’ to reference Kylie’s disco outings before?
 
First week comparison to Golden:

DISCO: 54,905 (also 14 copies pre-release)

CD: 27,498
Digital: 6,368
Streaming: 3,040
Vinyl: 13,510
Cassette: 4,503

Golden: 48,032 (also 11 copies pre-release)

CD: 28,152
Digital: 9,010
Streaming: 1,870
Vinyl: 6,398
Cassette: 2,602

DISCO percentage increases/decreases:

CD: down 2.32%
Digital: down 29.3%
Streaming: up 62.6%
Vinyl: up 111.2%
Cassette: up 73.1%
 
Holding at 5 in the midweeks.

Without wishing to sound like I'm moving on from Disco, since there is unlikely to be a tour any time soon, I wonder if we might get a rather quick follow up next year. Apparently she's been recording these last few weeks. That's what you get for being a fully fledged home recording artist I suppose :disco:

Unless it's the Jessie Ware collab.
 
I hope Jessie introduces Kylie to James Ford and her other recent collaborators. A handful of (more sophisticated) new tracks for a Disco super-deluxe next year would be just the ticket.
 
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Has she indicated she has no plans to tour? I was assuming there'd be dates for late next year announced any day now...
 
I'm guessing she was burned by the German cancellation fiasco from a few years ago and given that gigs are likely to be backed up towards the end of next year (and venues fully booked) I can't see her touring before 2022 at the earliest.
 
Jark said:
I hope Jessie introduces Kylie to James Ford and her other recent collaborators. A handful of (more sophisticated) new tracks for a Disco super-deluxe next year would be just the ticket.
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The alternative could happen and Kylie might introduce Jessie to Sky Adams. :zombie:
 
Eddie said:
I'm guessing she was burned by the German cancellation fiasco from a few years ago and given that gigs are likely to be backed up towards the end of next year (and venues fully booked) I can't see her touring before 2022 at the earliest.
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Kylie loons keep using this Germany cancellation as an excuse like it really was a major thing. She probably doesn’t even remember.

She’s expressed a desire to tour and has discussed the concept. But she’s basically come off of two tours two years in a trot so I’d imagine 2022 was always going to be the reality anyway. Every other artist has put dates up for over a year in advance so there’s a chance we’ll get an announcement in the new year.
 
monsta said:
Kylie loons keep using this Germany cancellation as an excuse like it really was a major thing. She probably doesn’t even remember.

She’s expressed a desire to tour and has discussed the concept. But she’s basically come off of two tours two years in a trot so I’d imagine 2022 was always going to be the reality anyway. Every other artist has put dates up for over a year in advance so there’s a chance we’ll get an announcement in the new year.
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That's a LONG time for an album campaign to run for though. There's going to need to be another release sometime next year to drum up interest in tickets, surely?
 
Eddie said:
That's a LONG time for an album campaign to run for though. There's going to need to be another release sometime next year to drum up interest in tickets, surely?
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Dula Peep says HELLO.

Every artist is going to suffer a delay over the next couple of years. We’ll get some additional tracks no doubt but it’ll still be the Disco concept. It’s too good to let go.
 
Oh and @monsta in terms of her losing even the smallest amount of moolah, I'm SURE SHE REMEMBERS.

Didn't she constantly harp on about how her first American tour was losing her money at the time? :D
 
monsta said:
Dula Peep says HELLO.

Every artist is going to suffer a delay over the next couple of years. We’ll get some additional tracks no doubt but it’ll still be the Disco concept. It’s too good to let go.
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I wasn't suggesting anything markedly different. Something more akin to The Fame Monster perhaps.
 
"milky clear" deluxe vinyl going live on Amazon SOON for Black Friday

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also a picture disc coming this Friday apparently
 
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