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Kiss Me Once ● album discussion

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'Sleeping With The Enemy' is a beauty though! It's the only song that's up there with the quality of 'Into the Blue' for me, although 'If Only' and 'Kiss Me Once' are very good too.

 

I think the outtakes from the album, particularly the songs Kylie did with Fernando Garibay, are so much better and it's the direction I wish she pursued for the album.

Maybe I need to listen to this one again! I was losing focus by the very end and didn't return to them like I did with the main album tracks while compiling this list.

 

Also Garibay <3 would love a full album between the pair with the extravagence and grandeur of the Born This Way album!

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My 'Kiss Me Once' Ranking:

01. Into the Blue
02. Les Sex
03. If Only
04. Sleeping with the Enemy
05. Kiss Me Once
06. Million Miles
07. Feels So Good
08. Mr President
09. Sexy Love
10. Fine
11. I Was Gonna Cancel
12. Sexercise
13. Beautiful

1 Into the Blue

2 Kiss Me Once

3 Fine

4 If Only

5 Feels So Good

6 Million Miles

7 Les Sex

8 Sexy Love

9 Sexercize

10 I Was Gonna Cancel

11 Beautiful [i'd likely have it higher if it had better production choices]

 

I've just ranked the standard tracks. For some reason Sleeping with the Enemy never sticks in my mind, so I'll have to revisit that one. I do remember Mr. President and let me tell you, that would be ranked last x - it's something of a fan favourite from this era, I don't get why.

 

 

The two main clunkers on the album are I Was Gonna Cancel and Beautiful. I don't think the former song suits Kylie very well, it kind of feels a bit try hard and like a failed experiment. I'll always find it strange that it stood out to them as the second single choice. To be fair it does stick in the mind, but maybe not in the right way... it's quite grating. Beautiful could be... beautiful! That production, and the vocoder... oh dear. It zaps the song of any emotion found in those lyrics, and results in making it sound really sterile rather than emotive. There's zero connection between Kylie and Enrique. A misfire, but it had potential. I think the fact it disappoints me more than I Was Gonna Cancel is the reason why I put it last.

 

Otherwise, I think it's the trio of Sex titled songs that are responsible for letting the album down slightly. I find Les Sex to the stronger 'sex track' of the three, melodically speaking. I really like the various "We could-" lyric parts, it sounds good. The chorus is kind of silly, but it feels quirky enough to be enjoyably silly. Sexy Love is listenable, but it's definitely the song on this album that is most guilty of being "Kylie on autopilot". For that I find it slightly inessential. Sexercize... I go back and forth on how I feel about this one. It's a daft song (but is it knowingly so, or was the main intention to be sexy? I don't find it to be!!). It veers a little too close to cringeworthy.

 

 

I genuinely think Fine/If Only/Feels So Good are interesting songs - the direction she went in on these tracks helps Kiss Me Once stand out as being an album that is far more worthwhile than a lot of fans are willing to give it credit for. Million Miles is close behind them - this song feels more "typical Kylie" then the other three, what with it sounding like a bit of a throwback to previous Parlophone eras, but it's great!

 

Into the Blue/Kiss Me Once are the two epic moments on the album - I wish the latter could have been a single :cry:

 

 

I believe I Was Gonna Cancel being chosen as a single and it subsequently bombing really put a sour taste in the mouths of some fans. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this album didn't get such negative critiques until the era went wrong. When it was newly released and went in at #2, the general mood was positive. The critics were just as complementary of the album as they were with any other Parlophone album. I think there's more than enough good songs on Kiss Me Once to make it a worthwhile era, so it becoming the "black sheep" of her catalogue is strange, to me at least.

I'd love to know what kylies take is on the album now and what are her own highs and lows from the album,, equally I'd love to ask her if she had her time again would she still have followed fever up with body language.
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A Sia demo titled 'Kyliewood' that was intended for 'Kiss Me Once' has leaked:

 

 

Produced by Diplo and the instrumental was later used for Madonna's 'Veni Vedi Vici'. This doesn't sound like a Kylie song AT ALL, although I guess could slot well next to 'Sexercize'.

Well, the best thing about that demo is basically the title Kyliewood.
A Sia demo titled 'Kyliewood' that was intended for 'Kiss Me Once' has leaked:

 

 

Produced by Diplo and the instrumental was later used for Madonna's 'Veni Vedi Vici'. This doesn't sound like a Kylie song AT ALL, although I guess could slot well next to 'Sexercize'.

 

Like most things KMO related I like it, would have worked well on the album

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It feels strange to me that 2014 in general is 9 years ago! Like, my life is just slipping away at rapid speed :lol:

 

^^ This :cry:

 

 

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Another KMO sessions leak ‘Beat Of My Heart’

 

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It's ok - obviously very demo but very much ground she's covered before; I can see why it was passed over if they wanted some more diversity to the album (but I think part of the issue is that they never really decided where they were going with that album in the first place).
^^ As you’ve said offers nothing new and certainly not a ‘why didn’t they include that’ moment but always find it interesting to hear the ideas and songs that they felt good enough at one point to demo.
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