My Rant
Fred is in the room next door watching a bloody Kylie Minogue concert on a DVD he has got from someone for Christmas. I bloody hate Kylie Minogue. I can hear her from this room singing "OVER THE RAINBOW" and she is truly pants. The final stanza, "If happy little bluebirds fly above the rainbow WHY OH WHY CAN'T I???" is being slowed way down for dramatic effect and belted out at the top of her tinny, metalic, nasal, doubletracked over reverb and chorus effect untrained voice. No amount of spangly twinkly twangly outfit and "sexy" plastic bottom could dress up this bilge.
Kylie Minogue initially hauled herself up on the back of a very cheap and at the time fairly dodgy Australian soap, nicked all Madonna's stuff and was caught out by the public nearly as quickly as Jason Donovan lost his hair. Her and Jason WERE the essence of dumbed down Britain at the time. However after a few years, music with substance became somehow popular - this was a temporary thing - and Kylie slinked off to Japan and trundled out some shite till she was dumped by her label. Jason joined a west end musical and then seemingly disappeared.
Kylie is now described in the media as making a "comeback" for a good reason. She was abandoned in the mid nineties by her public - she admits this. Britain had remembered albeit only briefly how to have musical taste. Pete Waterman et al stopped releasing crud and quality became miraculously important to British music listeners.
Now for the last three years or so Kylie (and her types) are BACK!! Maybe this is because our taste has got to that stage again. Maybe X factor Britain is hungry once again for production over talent. But don't worry, mainstream good musical taste is also making a comeback - It's true I read it in Vogue....
I would like to ask the question - What point has Kylie Minogue ever made? She has never once "said" anything - never stood up for anything - never declared her hand on any subject. When interviewed it's all about Scott Robinson and Charlene or any subject that doesn't mean anything or have any side of the fence. I think it is part of a celebrity / artist's duty to have a stand on at least SOMETHING otherwise it's a real waste of a public profile. Bland bland bland. Not even a great voice. Does anyone out there have any idea what Kylie Minogue THINKS of anything? It's an honest question - feel free to respond. I can't think of a thing.
Now I don't want to get all "Madonna" on you all, because I know that some of you can't stand her. But Madonna is an artist with many layers not just the spangles. Hell yes - she divides opinion - that's her forte. She deliberately challenges people to at least think about things and at the same time belt out her songs. Her "American Life" song in her last tour was accompanied not by Madonna on stage on a trapese in a twinkly spangly outfit and spotlight (a la Kylie "Over the Rainbow") but rather with Madonna and entourage in full military costume with graphic scenes of people in a war situation on the screens behind her. "I'm just living out the American dream and I've just realised that nothing is what it seems" she screamed at the crowds as the helicopters and missiles roared overhead. It wasn't pleasant to watch. It was however exciting and challenging. This is mainstream music that at least means something.Please spangle away Kylie Minogue but next time make your "come back" for a reason and let's hear what you actually think. Be daring and use your enormous profile to make people think. And if you do have a stand on something - make it a lot louder because I haven't yet heard it.
Labels: X Factor
posted by Freddy @ Wednesday, December 28, 2005
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