Kylie for Jean-Paul Gaultier
Just to cheer everyone up, in this, her 25th year in the music business (or "K25" as she and her marketing team would have us call it), Our Princess Miss Kylie Minogue has released the first of what she promises will be a whole album's worth of specially-recorded versions of her classic pop numbers.
Finer Feelings, a relatively unsuccessful single of hers from 1992, is here given the full sumptuous orchestral treatment (courtesy of a 24 piece string orchestra, led by Welsh music maestro Cliff Masterson):
The release of the video (and thus the full version of the song) was subject to a brilliantly novel twist on people power - for until 25,000 people "tweeted" the website it remained stubbornly pixellated and only finally went live earlier today. You can read all about the "great reveal" on uber-fan Marky Marc's site Shine On And On (of course) - and if you read carefully you'll find the download...
But not content with teasing her queeny fans for hours with her music - Kylie has announced she will be at the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Parade parade on 3rd March! (Her first since 1998). Pause for screams from Down Under.
This could be the start of a great year for Kylie - and I can't wait to hear the rest of her orchestrally-arranged music in the coming months!
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Cheers! Thanks for the shout out. Kylie's vocals have never sounded better...loving this era. Pure class! :)
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Class is most definitely the word - I love it! Jx
ReplyDeleteI think this will be a fabulous year for Kylie fans! Looking forward to it all.
ReplyDelete"Finer Feelings" may not have been a huge hit when it was released, but it remains one of my Kylie faves (and by far the best thing to come out of the "Let's Get To It" album. Of course the single version was a remix, done by the fabulous Brothers In Rhythm).
Very nice version of that song.
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