It is the better song and at the time it was released I loved it and wanted it to be a single. Looking back its prob best it wasnt as I dont think it would have done any better than celebration.
I prefer the very much forgotten Where in the World.
This was a catchy number but listening to it now it lacked what would have been needed for a big hit.
Where in the World lacks the magic needed to be a single...so Celebration edges it. By this point her PWL career was dead and buried. The GP were not interested in WKOF onwards.
If Kylie had renewed her PWL contract, do you think the singles to promote the original Greatest Hits would have been stronger?
It does, on reflection, appear that PWL were losing their way with Kylie and didn't know how to progress her career.
They did it brilliantly with her first 3 albums, but thereafter, it was like they hit a stumbling block.
I also feel PWL didn't have the team to bring Kylie and her career to the next level.
Celebration is such a meh song for me anyway that Kylie’s version didn’t make me love it anymore. I was disappointed that compared to her previous PWL success it was essentially a flop for her at the time but looking back it performed like it deserved too - I don’t think WITW even though I really like it would have performed any better.
As a side note the artwork for Celebration was much better for the Australian release too!
The UK sleeve was extremely dull.
Celebration, as an original isnt a song i have ever truly enjoyed, very meh as you say.
Celebration was a nod to "celebrating" the Kylie and PWL years but it was also a complete your contract recording.
Def a complete your contract job and wrap things up release but kylie really seems to enjoy performing it.
Kylie must have great love for the song when we consider how many performances she has delivered of the song since she released it.
Once again, Celebration also made the track listing of yet another Greatest Hits.
Where in the world is a better song. It’s not a cheap cover and quite a nice tune but I still don’t think it would have done great and would have missed the T10.
I really could not have seen Where in The World performing much stronger than Celebration.
At most it may have equaled the chart performance of What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before).
I pretty much loved almost everything in her SAW days, but wasn't mad about What Kind Of Fool, though bought it on cassette single. The B side (Things Can Only Get Better) being a million times stronger than the A side and far more single worthy in it's own right ,maybe had an effect on my feelings for it.
Celebration is such a well known Kool & The Gang hit that her version sounded so weak by comparison. I bought it on cassette single too, but it got chewed up.
After not loving those singles, WITW showed that she wasn't heading 'for the dumper'. I was sure it was gonna be a single, and it showed that she could still make fabulous songs if she really tried.
WITW has been my all time fav Kylie song from that day to this !
I still like where in the world but loved it at the time and I was sure it was going to be a single, was it planned as a single as I have something telling me that at the time there was rumour it was going to be a single. I still think it's a far far better song than New York city, I just cant get into that song at all.
Kylie's version of 'Celebration' is rather uninspired but I don't mind it. Out of this and 'Where in the World', it's the better closing single for her PWL days.
'Where in the World' is okay but doesn't pack the punch needed to be a single.
It does lack punch but then again so does New York city boy and it was still a single.
New York City is bland and forgettable, i remain of the same thoughts as when i initially heard it, it was a worse promotional/bonus track than Celebration.
The song wasn't good enough for Golden as an album track so upgrading it to the single to promote SBIT was a terrible choice.
It really should never have been considered for a single let alone become one.
I forgot both kylie and Jason released the same week but after the performance of Jason's previous single mission of love ( really Like that song) his performance was no surprise. Many of the songs above kylie were huge hits so she def got lost in that and fair point the fact it was a cover of a well known song probably slightly helped her which where in the world wouldnt have had the advantage of. Kylies original greatest hits had a short chart run but does anyone know its sales for the week it was number 1?
80% of the songs above Kylie on that chart are big selling singles, with Celebration, not one of Kylie's best singles and her popularity on the decrease, making it to the top 20 with a poor cover version was a good result when we examine it.
Ya looking at it from that way, where in the world may have went worse but looking at this songs i thing at best 18 would have been its highest.
Where in the World would never have became a big hit although at the time, cover version songs used to do good business in the charts so i thought Kylie may have done better with Celebration. With it not the strongest or most innovative cover didn't help the cause.
WITW is definitely better, although I probably would have just not released either of them.
Celebration was still a top 20 hit so in a way it was worth it, how happy we would be now to see kylie in the top 20 again.
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