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A new Kylie and a new sound
Well, her first four albums with Stock-Aitken-Waterman represented one phase of her career. With her self-titled album, Kylie Minogue found herself in a transition period that included this and her next album, Impossible Princess. It's not at all bad, showing her trying new sounds and pop other than the bubblegum she felt had lost its flavour and had thus spat out, and some of Kylie's sensitive and nurturing side comes out as well.

The mid-paced "Confide In Me", the first single, sports a mournful violin, later strings, which then gains a backbeat of an industrial-type drum machine. As a prelude to the title, she sings, "We all get hurt by love, and we all have a cross to bear, and in the name of understanding now, a problem should be shared."

"Surrender" and "If I Was Your Lover" have the similar sound but without the strings. The latter incorporates a more funky soul sound and backup singers. Given the rest of the songs, these are filler.

Stylistically, the near-7 minute happy "Where Is The Feeling" is the closest to the disco Kylie cut her teeth on, but the fresh style of Brothers In Rhythm's production, the bass rhythms, and some of the keyboards puts it above the S-A-W's bag of tricks. "Everytime you want me too, I can make you happy" she avers.

The soulful "Put Yourself In My Place" is another great ballad sporting airy keyboards and thumping drums, and asks for some kind of empathy "before saying you won't be mine." Another standout cut.

Another standout cut, the contemplative, melancholy and dominant strings ballad "Dangerous Game," and the name of the game is love, of course. Only Mariah Carey and Kylie Minogue can make the lonely waiting game so poignant, as well as falling under "the power to make or break my day." The emotion in her voice has improved since "If You Were With me Now": "I'm so alone/I feel so lonely/here on my own/I've lost my way" she sings in the chorus.

The lush "Automatic Love" is proof enough that drum machine ballads were done way before Dido hit big with "Here With Me."

"Where Has The Love Gone" asks Kylie in a near eight-minute dance opus with a steady drum machine and piano-synths. Her voice nears Madonna's and as for its similarity to "Deeper And Deeper" by the latter, well, Kylie scores head over heels by having better instrumentation, the soulful backing vocals, and to keep the energy going with that piano.

"Falling" was written by Tennant/Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys and it's another filler track, bad considering the talent involved in the songwriting.

Kylie always was a present-oriented gal and that's proved here in the affirmative thumping disco of "Time Will Pass You By," which seems a template of the material she would in her second disco era, starting with Light Years. She offers people to take her hand, showing them how to live, to give themselves a better chance. A great track to end the album. Despite the obvious filler, Kylie Minogue is a brave step in moving away from the S-A-W playroom.

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Grown up pop from Aussie pop princess
After 4 proper albums, a greatest hits package and endless remixes, Kylie Minogue finally settled down and decided to grow up a bit. It seemed like the only logical step, since insisting on lyrical input on "Let's Get To It," it did seem like it would give Kylie the credibility she was looking for. "Confide In Me" set the album off, being hailed as one of her best tunes. So, in hindsight, what went wrong? Really, this album just sinks under bland adult-oriented pop that no self-respecting pop singer would choose to cover. Not to say that she hasn't done songs that were, well, just plain annoying. "Confide In Me," starts off the album, touching and friendly, but earnest and heartwarming. Simplistic lyrics accompanied with a mirage of strings and infuriating guitar parts, just gorgeous. "Falling" demonstrates Minogue's ability to deliver wispy harmony among a simple melody. A radio edit would have sufficed here. But it's not enough to save this record. She gets worse with Carnival cruise line sounding songs that weigh in at nearly seven minutes sometimes. Others, try to approach club-land, but gothic sounding piano parts and endlessly repeating lines tend to weigh the listenablility down. "Where has the love gone?" she repeatedly asks. Well, listen for yourself?

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Kylie Makes You Happy!
This CD started a new kylie season. The tracks are more like adult music than the three first albums "Kylie", "Enjoy Yourself", and "Let's Get to It". Of course the tracks are good like Kylie always makes good music but this time I have to say they are too long. "Where Is the Feeling" is over 6 minutes and "Where Has the Love Gone" is over 7 minutes. However, the tracks are good and my favourites are "Put Yourself in My Place", "Confide in Me", "Where Is the Feeling"...but my greatest favourite track is "Time Will Pass You by". I think it's one of the best tracks ever Kylie has made. There is some a little bit boring tracks: "Dangerous Game", "Falling", and "Automatic Love". They don't light up my light. The other tracks, especially "Surrender" are refreshing and very good material. This album is quite similar to "Impossible Princess".