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Hmmm, I'll really need to think about this one.

 

However, I do know that 'Silence' (B-side to 'Put Your Hands Up)' is truly the most underrated of all!

I’ll revisit this - there are a few that are underrated IMO.

 

I feel like I need to go back and have a listen to the album (I haven’t streamed it fully in a while and have cherry picked tracks onto my KM streaming playlist)

Better than today, I think fans may have had more time for it if it wasn't a single.

'Better Than Today' is like the '2 Hearts' of this era.

I’ll never forget the BTT XF performance and how she managed to save herself from stacking it in her stilettos (2.34 in the video) :lol:

 

Struggled between 'Closer' and 'Cupid Boy'! Both very underrated :wub:

 

EDIT: Opted for 'Closer' in the end.

Voted Aphrodite. Should have been a single.

I love that better than today x factor performance of better than today plus the montage on the intro though it does remind me it was the start of kylies downturn in the singles chart. So many good songs on aphrodite. Its a very cohesive album and many great songs.

Voted Aphrodite. Should have been a single.

 

I really think it would have made an ideal 3rd single, the X-Faxtor performance was the only thing going for BTT and this could have made for a bold and vivacious performance.

Closer

 

The way it builds and crawls along.

My heart wants to say 'Illusion' as I find myself going back to it a lot these days, but I'll ponder some more.

Went with BTT in the end - I hated that they chose it as a single at the time so that overshadowed my enjoyment of the song, it was only in later years that I realised I really like it - I think the fact fans didn’t want it as a single and it underperformed in the charts has led to it being largely forgotten and/or disliked.

From the first time listening to the album better than today was a song i wanted as single, i was so disappointed it didnt work out as it should have and despite loving the x factor performance of it i was like what the fcuk when kylie didnt mention its release after the performance.

I wouldn't say 'Better Than Today' being a single made me dislike it more, my opinion of it has remained the same from the beginning - it just felt to me that a completely random album track standard song had been picked as a single and that's what it was for me from the moment I heard it on the album. That's not to say it's necessarily bad or anything.

Edited June 6, 20232 yr by Jessie Where

I get what you are saying, Aphrodite has so many great songs and its a huge shame the singles didn't do better or maybe that was down to the choices along with a rapidly changing market at that time. Aphrodite started off so strong on the back of All the Lovers which smashed it but after that it was a struggle in many ways but its great to see that album has easily made platinum.

My heart wants to say 'Illusion' as I find myself going back to it a lot these days, but I'll ponder some more.

I've ended up going for 'Illusion', I was stuck on a few choices but this is one that once upon a time I would have placed last on my rank of the album, yet I feel has just got better with age.

HEARTSTRINGS! :D

Closer - should have been a single. Missed opportunity.