'Kiss Me Once' Makes You Want to Kiss More
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| Kiss Me Once (2014) |
Details
Album artist: Kylie Minogue
Label: Parlophone, Warner Bros.
Release date: March 14, 2014
Genre: Pop, Britpop, Dance
Tracks: 11
Length: 38:46
This is my second album review post, which I dedicate to the pop princess Kylie Minogue. Her long, long career in music industry has been attracted many fans around the globe and has also made a huge success as well. The original pop princess's latest album, Kiss Me Once, so far has gained a good responses both commercially and critically. Personally, I labelled this album as Miss Minogue's most interesting record since her 90's indie album, Impossible Princess and that also showing Kylie as a more and more established pop singer.
Mainly, Kiss Me Once packs some love anthems while the rest speaks about sex. Opened with a catchy pop song which depicts classic Kylie Minogue pop tune, "Into the Blue", to a near perfect bookend for an an album celebrating love and more than that with "Fine". Kylie successfully keeps listeners on their audios enjoying each song, even though Beautiful might be the moment to skip. But, still for sure, the album has a winning formula to make it such a precious recording of glossy and mesmerizing pop songs. Most of the songs are undeniably catchy as a club-ready anthems. And while Kylie's vocals are somewhat clingy.
"Into the Blue" and "Fine" may be two great examples of power pop that really works. While, "Sexy Love" and "Kiss Me Once" may be some perfect songs telling how love is great. "Feels So Good" may be the album's most interesting and luxurious track, it presents a light modern pop song that Kylie does so well in some airy vocals. Other interesting track would be "I Was Gonna Cancel" which stands as a funky and disco ready song and "Sleeping with the Enemy" which again stands as a light pop song with Kylie's airy vocals.
Kiss Me Once obviously has done a great job in providing such great examples of what singers today should do with their music. And the best of the album would be "Les Sex", and it's already a fan favorite, it's hard to describe how damn catchy this song. "Les Sex" not just stands as a catchy song but also stands as a rare type of pop songs today, definitely great to listen.
However, some of the album's tracks fail to entice, "If Only" and "Beautiful" may be those tracks, they actually fit to the album but don't sound to fit in. "If Only" sounds too much and "Beautiful" actually sounds not really bad, but it makes us easy to press skip to the next track.
Clearly, Kiss Me Once has more character and proves more memorable than her previous album, Aphrodite. Kylie kindly reflects her true talent and proves herself as a rare diva. Overall, Kiss Me Once shows pop that did well and admirable. It stands as an up-to-date record but rarely done.
Rating: A
