Kylie Minogue – “All The Lovers” Video Premiere
Published June 01st 2010
Filed under Videos
The music video for All The Lovers, Kylie Minogue’s upcoming lead single, premiered today. It’s quite a strange video since it looks more like an advertisement for underwear than a music video.
The concept includes people dropping items they’re carrying and stripping to their underwear in the street before running towards Kylie to form a mountain of lovers which lift her to the top. The video is quite uneventful as it continues with similar scenes of the mountain of lovers, which keeps growing higher and higher throughout the video.
All The Lovers was shot around the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. It’s a very simple video, much like the song itself but it’s edited nicely and it looks very sleek and polished. It will also catch people’s attention as the mountain of lovers is quite unusual.
All The Lovers will be released on June 28th through Parlophone Records.
Kylie Minogue – “All The Lovers”
Published May 15th 2010
Filed under Reviews
I was reluctant to write about Kylie Minogue’s new single All The Lovers from her forthcoming album Aphrodite when it premiered yesterday as the song didn’t grab me as fast as a lead single should. After a lot of listening, the song has started to grow on me and I’ve made up my mind about it.
All The Lovers is a mid-tempo, electro-pop ballad and very coherent to Kylie’s sound. While the melody and production are both very good, All The Lovers just doesn’t sound like a lead single. Nice is the only way to describe the song. It sounds more like a third or fourth single from an album campaign because it’s not all the things a lead single should be. It’s not instantly grabbing, it’s not pushing any boundaries and it doesn’t get stuck in your head. Having listened to the song multiple times, if I was asked how the song goes, I would have no idea how to sing it.
The song sounds like it could have been released anywhere between 2005 and now. It’s not a fresh sound but it’s more powerful than most mid-tempo ballads. I wouldn’t describe All The Lovers as anthemic, but it does sound very strong and melancholic. The production, by Kish Mauve, is very polished but it’s almost more crucial to the song than the melody or the vocal.
Lyrically, All The Lovers is nothing new. The most interesting piece of writing is probably in the chorus where Kylie metaphorically talks about her ex-lovers as if they’ve passed away. Elsewhere in the song, she generically talks about dancing and being with the person she loves.
For the middle-eight, the track gets completely stripped back to just Kylie’s vocal and a piano before launching back into quite a hypnotic instrumental, the only experimental and refreshing part of the song, before reaching the final chorus.
All The Lovers is a nice song but that’s about all there is to it. It would make a very strong album track but as a lead single, it doesn’t make much sense. It should have been left to become one of those songs like Speakerphone, a standout album track which the fans can appreciate but nothing more.
Kylie releases All The Lovers on June 28th followed by her eleventh studio album Aphrodite on July 2nd.
Sugababes – “Wear My Kiss” Video Preview
Published January 09th 2010
Filed under Videos
The Sugababes new video for upcoming contingency single Wear My Kiss from their delayed album Sweet 7 was premiered previewed today. Although originally it was meant to premier in full today, team Sugababes couldn’t even get that much right.
The “preview” which is apparently unfinished, looks very low budget and a cross-between Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer and Kylie’s Love At First Sight, if the latter had no budget.
Not only does the entire background look cheap, the editing looks very poor and the video has no reflection on the lyrics of the song at all.
Wear My Kiss is scheduled for release on February 22nd through Island Records followed by the album Sweet 7 on March 5th but these dates could change again.