DMed’s Video of the Week: Kylie Minogue, “Wow”
Note to Gwen Stefani: This is what your solo records should sound like.
Note to the United States: What the fuck is wrong with you?
Kylie Minogue has gone to Number One in every major country in the world…except for the US. Here, she has two Top Ten singles (which are also her only two Top 20 singles). In England, she has seven Number One singles, 30 Top Tens, and 40 Top 20 singles. Forty. Here, two. Jesus.
We really want to think that she notches her third Top 20 hit with “Wow,” from her upcoming album X. This is catchy as all hell, and Idolator summed it up perfectly when they described the style as stormtrooper chic. Was Daft Punk involved with this song? That EQ fade-out at the end certainly sounds like something from their Alive 2007 set. Give it to me, baby. Uh huh, uh huh.
As I told David the other day, the first time I put this on, my 2-year-old daughter and I danced our respective arses off. Kylie’s definitely made a fab post-cancer comeback, and I for one couldn’t be happier.
As far as her lack of Stateside success, I think that’s called “Cliff Richard Syndrome.” Status Quo suffered from the same malady, as did Take That (and, for that matter, Robbie Williams).