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Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by nine_k on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:30PM (#43473770)
(1) My respect towards Kylie Minogue, who I don't remember ever listening to, just got a boost. Maybe I should check out her other songs!

(2) The page has the most playful "Accept cookies?" control of what I've encountered so far.

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by thih9 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:46PM (#43473945)
Fun fact, if you recognize Nick Cave’s “Where the Wild Roses Grow”, then you have heard Kylie Minogue - she sang in the duet[1][2]. I remember being surprised when I learned about it.

This is also the “murder ballad” that the article refers to.

> In 1995 she collaborated on a murder ballad duet with Nick Cave

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Roses_Grow

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by hnlmorg on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:10PM (#43474691)
Great song though I’m surprised you didn’t immediately recognise her voice in it.

There’s a few an interesting tracks on that album. I quite liked “Death is not the end”, which I think was the last track on Murder Ballards and also features Kylie (amongst a few others).

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by stavros on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @02:59PM (#43474598)
The album was also called "murder ballads", as it contained murder ballads.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by _whoDis on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:01PM (#43475926)
Nick Cave encouraged Kylie to read hear lyrics at a public poetry reading. She got up and read I should be so lucky. I respect her for that
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by worthless-trash on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @09:01AM (#43481799)
I could imagine how surreal that would be, having the neighbours soap star turned #1 music star, reading at your local poetry jam.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by sho_hn on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:48PM (#43473976)
Kylie Minogue is, as far as pop music goes, awesome. Her stage shows are fantastic, and you should see the massive mobile server park and crew of nerds that runs it all. Pushing the envelope of stage shows as a product for sure.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by bigiain on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:56PM (#43476448)
If anybody now anybody, summoning someone on her tech team to tell us about what goes on would be really great.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by emchammer on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:57AM (#43483599)
Could you please provide some examples about this?
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by sho_hn on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:54PM (#43485562)
There's a documentary called "White Diamond", filmed alongside her prep for her "Showgirl: Homecoming" (the previously-cancelled leg of her "Showgirl" tour, after she had to interrupt it for cancer treatment). Much of it is of course focused on Minogue herself and her battle with the disease & return to form, but it also has behind the scenes content on how the show itself is put together, including some footage in the server room.

I've seen similar reporting here and there in TV coverage of her show prep and so on, after an accidental viewing of "White Diamond" made me an interested party.

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by striking on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:34PM (#43473817)
Just be warned. You might find you can't get her out of your head.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by bernds74 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:46PM (#43473941)
You should be so lucky.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:48PM (#43473963)
It's a song lyric joke.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by thih9 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:51PM (#43473995)
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @02:04PM (#43474097)
Oh damn. Haha.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by twic on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:29PM (#43477203)
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by partomniscient on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:35AM (#43478919)
You can confide in me.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by iechoz6H on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @04:05PM (#43475316)
AKA The stalking song
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by Eduard on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:02PM (#43474618)
Gut ja
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by ruuda on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @02:01PM (#43474070)
Kylie Minogue is the only female artist who had a #1 album in the UK in five consecutive decades (!), something even Madonna didn't manage to.

Edit, the article says “across”, not a #1 album in every decade. In the 90s she only reached #4.

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/thats-crazy-kylie-...

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by toast0 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:27PM (#43474905)
In the 90s she was busy being in movies and video games (including the acclaimed Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game)
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by havblue on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:45PM (#43475072)
And in 2007, a Doctor Who episode featuring the Titanic... In space!
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by Foobar8568 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:26AM (#43479363)
That Doctor Who episode was my introduction to the serie. <3
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by bee_rider on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:37PM (#43474997)
Too bad the playful “Accept cookies” button didn’t have a “no” option.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by bigiain on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:57PM (#43476452)
I just used the reader mode button...
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by chriscrisby on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:14PM (#43477501)
That was a cool button though
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by petercooper on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @04:31PM (#43475606)
Her music video directed by Michel Gondry is worth a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ

For 2001 it has a rather striking effect. Kylie is walking around a circular area in Paris over and over and everything multiplies each time she completes a loop. It's a very clever effect given the technology of the time. By the end of the video there are five Kylies walking around loosely interacting with each other and the world in odd ways.

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by twic on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:28PM (#43477195)
That's Gondry at his most Gondryesque. There are connected themes in some of his other music videos:

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0

Daft Punk - Around The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HSD_i2DvA

The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by aequitas on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @05:28AM (#43480312)
> The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE

(it's my birthday today, so I think I'm allowed to post a)

'Simpsons did it': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUx3kDnT-p8

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by romanhn on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:29PM (#43476753)
Wow. I know the song but have never seen the video. So creative and mesmerizing.
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by zem on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:33PM (#43476228)
chances are you have at least heard "the locomotion" without knowing who sang it - I remember that song being played everywhere!
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by dylan604 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:48PM (#43476367)
To the point King Charles is a fan
Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by LeonB on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:58PM (#43476979)
King co-wrote the song!

(Carole King that is)

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by bigger_cheese on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:33PM (#43478271)
As an Australian I've have repressed childhood trauma from being forced to dance to Kylie's "The Locomotion" over and over again in Primary school, it was the Macarena of it's time...

She collaborated with Nick Cave in the mid 90's which was a massive hit, it was all over radio at the time.

Re:Kylie Minogue song about a typeface by gadders on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @08:26AM (#43481439)
Confide in Me is one of her best, but she has quite a few reliable pop hits. She also did a song with Nick Cave that is worth a listen.