Friday, 25 November 2016
Kylie Minogue - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)
30 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!
Pre-order Kylie Christmas-Snow Queen edition here (Amazon UK)
Kylie Christmas is the album that just keeps on giving. A whopping sixteen tracks were compiled with loving care last year, delighting fans who reveled in Ms Minogue making their season as bright as the shiniest bauble on the tree. The Albert Hall concert proved to be the best festive party thrown; even those who couldn't get tickets were glued to Sky Arts when it aired on there. And, as if that wasn't enough, in addition to a pre-Christmas S/A/W remix of Every Day Is Christmas we were also treated to a post-New Year revival of It's Still Disco To Me. I was enchanted, enraptured and smitten - it cast a spell over me that has taken all year to break. Luckily there is more Kylie Minogue seasonal shenanigans to come - for which we can all be grateful because Christmas isn't Christmas til she gets here. There are two more Albert Hall shows, a new version of the album (Snow Queen edition no less, with a whopping six new songs) and - the reason we are gathered here today - a Boots Christmas TV Ad. The theme of the commercial is to celebrate the women who work on Christmas Day, providing essential services across the land. Kylie sings the Rozalla classic, Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) - and it gives us just the briefest 30 second peek into the finished product (I must confess that when I first saw the tracklisting for Snow Queen, I got a bit confused and wondered why/how Kylie was going to cover the Baz Luhrman classic - oops). Now, of course the Rozalla song isn't a traditional Christmas number but if anyone can make the everyday seem doused in festive glitter and sparkle then Kylie can (and of course she's ably aided by Steve Anderson and Cliff Masterson who turned Susan Boyle's A Wonderful World into one of the musical delights of this Yuletide). Two important elements of the song are revealed in the video above - the string laden, Abbey Road inspired score that gently cocoons Kylie's achingly exquisite vocal whilst piano cascades like intricate icicles around her singing; then it crescendos like the bubbles in a flute of Bucks Fizz to ascend as a sumptuous, horn laden, orchestra driven wall of sound - an upshift in tempo thanks both to a percolating percussion and Kylie's euphoric singing. It becomes a swirling, funk ridden, disco extravaganza that is not only the perfect companion piece to It's Still Disco To Me (and Step Back In Time, Your Disco Needs You, Night Fever, Off With His Shirt et al) but also an exhilarating, soul soothing, spirit lifting addition to any Yuletide playlist. All hail the Snow Queen - long may she reign...
(Now I know it is only 2016 and we have yet to immerse ourselves fully in the Snow Queen experience but I'm already thinking ahead to the Kylie Christmas campaign for 2017. A Blu-Ray of the 2015/16 concerts is going to be essential. And how about a remix CD of Kylie Christmas? Some 12" mixes of the more uptempo tracks - I'm particularly longing for an extended Christmas Isn't Christmas Til You Get Here. Think the 12" mix of EFY b-side, All I Wanna Do. Only drunk on mulled wine. With party poppers. And fairy dust everywhere. And talking of Especially For You-All I Wanna Do, how about putting new Steve Anderson produced versions on this remix album but as duets with Joshua Sasse? That would all be just dandy. Thank you)...
**Ghosts of Christmas past**
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