RSSKylie Minogue Spins a Remix Album
Jan 27
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Kylie Minogue has never been a household name in the U.S. and her new remix album, Boombox, isn’t going to change that. There are some decent cuts on the disc that might find their way into the club scene. Here’s the problem. While Minogue is clearly molded in the pop music genre, it’s just nothing like American pop music (the Madonnas or the Britneys or even the Mileys). It’s so clearly pop music from another country, and never it that more clear than on this album. So while there are some bad mixes here (2 Hearts), there are also some downright just bad songs (Giving You Up), and the combination makes for a rough time.
Fortunately (I suppose) Boombox is frontloaded with the best tracks. Songs that are great anytime (Can’t Get You Out of My Head) and remixes that are great (Wow). But by the time you get to Love at First Sight, you start to feel like the producers should have been more selective. There’s nothing wrong with the mix but there’s also almost nothing that reminds you of the original. Your Disco Needs You is a pure pop track straight out of the Abba generation (and kind of out of place on this album no matter how you look at it). The Chemical Brothers mix of Slow will remind you so much of Madonna’s Give It 2 Me that you will think you’re listening to the wrong cd. And the butchery of the usually blissful pop track Come Into My World is criminal.
If you’re already a Kylie Minogue fan, I think this album will fit pretty well in your collection. But this album, yeah I know it’s a remix collection, isn’t making new fans. But that’s too bad because she’s at least as good as the Madonnas, Britneys and Mileys. But she’s going to go unappreciated in the U.S., at least for one more release.
