The album was retitled "Kylie Minogue" in the UK following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and became the lowest-selling album of her career. At the end of the year, a campaign by Virgin Radio stated, " We've done something to improve Kylie's records: we've banned them.
Kylie's Intimate and Live tour in was extended due to demand. In April of , Kylie signed with Parlophone Records, which wanted to re-establish Minogue as a pop artist. In September of , she released her seventh studio album " Light Years ".
The album was a collection of dance songs, influenced by disco music. The lead single " Spinning Around " became Kylie's first number one in the United Kingdom in ten years and its accompanying video featured her in revealing gold hot pants, which came to be regarded as a " trademark ". The tour incorporated Burlesque and theatre and cited the style of Broadway shows such as 42nd Street, films such as Anchors Aweigh, South Pacific, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the s and the live performances of Bette Midler as inspiration.
Kylie was praised for her new material and her reinterpretations of some of her greatest successes. In October of , Kylie released her eighth studio album " Fever. The album contained disco elements combined with s electropop and synthpop.
The album's lead single, " Can't Get You Out of My Head " became the biggest success of her career, reaching number one in more than forty countries and selling over 5 million copies. Following extensive airplay by American radio, Capitol Records released the song and the album " Fever " in the US in The album debuted on the Billboard albums chart at number three and "Can't Get You out of My Head" reached number seven on the Hot The subsequent singles " In Your Eyes ", " Love at First Sight " and " Come into My World " were successful throughout the world and Kylie established a presence in the mainstream North American market, particularly in the club scene.
She followed the success of the album by touring the United States with the Jingle Ball festival. In April , Kylie embarked on the KylieFever tour which became the biggest production she had put on to date. Later that year, she worked in a voice role on the animated film "The Magic Roundabout" which was released in in Europe. The sales of the album were lower than anticipated after the success of "Fever" even though the first single, " Slow " was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Two more singles from the album were released: "Red Blooded Woman" and "Chocolate". Body Language achieved first week sales of 43, and declined significantly in the second week. In November of , Kylie released her second official greatest hits album entitled Ultimate Kylie. After performing in Europe, she travelled to Melbourne where she was diagnosed with breast cancer which forced her to cancel the tour. In November of , Kylie resumed the tour with a performance in Sydney. The media reported that Kylie performed energetically with the Sydney Morning Herald describing the show as an " extravaganza " and " nothing less than a triumph ".
In November of , her released her tenth and much-discussed "comeback" album " X. It also received some criticism for the triviality of its subject matter in light of Kylie's experiences with breast cancer.
The album and the lead single " 2 Hearts " entered at number one on the Australian albums and singles charts respectively. In the United Kingdom, "X" initially attracted lukewarm sales, although its commercial performance eventually improved. As part of the promotion of her album, Kylie was featured in "White Diamond" a documentary filmed during and as she resumed her Showgirl Homecoming Tour.
The episode was watched by The tour was generally acclaimed and sold well. She was then appointed a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the junior grade of France's highest cultural honour. She was also featured in the Hindi movie "Blue" performing an A. Rahman song. The album featured new songwriters and producers including Stuart Price as executive producer. The album received favourable reviews from most music critics; Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone labelled the album Kylie's " finest work since 's underrated Impossible Princess " and Tim Sendra from Allmusic commended her choice of collaborators and producers, commenting that the album is the "work of someone who knows exactly what her skills are and who to hire to help showcase them to perfection".
The album debuted at number-one in the United Kingdom, exactly twenty two years after her first number one hit in the United Kingdom. Kylie recorded a duet with synthpop duo Hurts on their song "Devotion" which was included on the group's album "Happiness.
She was then featured on Taio Cruz's single " Higher ". The result was successful, peaking inside the top twenty in several charts and reaching number one on the US Hot Dance Club Charts. At the time, Kylie also held the third spot on the chart with "Higher", her collaboration with British recording artist Taio Cruz, becoming the first artist to claim two of the top three spots at the same time in the American dance chart's history.
With a stage set inspired by the birth of the love goddess Aphrodite and Grecian culture and history, it was greeted with positive reviews from critics, who praised the concept and the stage production. In , Kylie began a year-long celebration for her 25 years in the music industry, which was often called " K25 ".
The anniversary started with her embarking on the Anti Tour in England and Australia, which featured b-sides, demos and rarities from her music catalogue. The tour was positively received for its intimate atmosphere and was a commercial success, grossing over two million dollars from four shows. The album contained reworked and orchestral versions of her previous songs. The album received favourable reviews from music critics and debuted at number-two in the United Kingdom.
In January of , Kylie and her manager Terry Blamey whom she had worked with since the start of her singing career parted ways. The following month, she signed to Roc Nation for a management deal.
The show opened with 9. It accumulated an estimated 8. Kylie's judging and personality on the show were singled out for praise. Ed Power from The Daily Telegraph gave the series premiere 3 stars, praising her for being " glamorous, agreeably giggly [and] a card-carrying national treasure ".
In November, she was hired as a coach for the third season of "The Voice Australia. It peaked at number one in Australia and number two in the United Kingdom.
In August, Kylie performed a seven song set at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, donning a custom Jean Paul Gaultier corset. Dance Chart on April 18, The same month, she parted ways with Roc Nation "to take more control over her career. Garibay and Giorgio Moroder served as producers for the extended play. This became her thirteenth chart topper on the U. S Dance Chart, lifting Kylie's position in the list of artists with the most U. Dara Hickey reviewed her studio album "Aphrodite" and wrote that she is " singing in her highest vocal range ever.
In musical terms, Kylie has worked with many genres in pop and dance music. However, her signature music has been contemporary disco music. Her first studio albums with Stock, Aitken, and Waterman present a more bubblegum pop influence with many critics comparing her to American recording artist Madonna. Chris True from Allmusic, reviewed her debut Kylie and found her music " standard late-'80s Stock-Aitken-Waterman bubblegum ", however he stated that she presented the most personality of any s recording artist.
He said of Kylie's third album "Rhythm of Love" from the early s, " The songwriting is stronger, the production dynamic, and Kylie seems more confident vocally. From Kylie's work on her sixth studio album "Impossible Princess" her songwriting and musical content began to change.
She was constantly writing down words, exploring the form and meaning of sentences. She had written lyrics before, but called them " safe, just neatly rhymed words and that's that ". The album in musical genres varied from her previous efforts as it incorporated " dance-pop " and " trip hop " music. He said that she took inspiration from " both the Brit-pop and electronica movements of the mid-'90s", saying that "Impossible Princess is the work of an artist willing to take risks ".
Her next effort "Light Years", he said was " worked up by the renaissance of pure dance-pop that was the order of the day at the onset of the 21st century. Kylie's ninth album "Body Language" was quite different from her musical experiments in the past as it was a "successful" attempt at broadening her sound with electro and hip-hop for instance. In a press interview for the promotion of the album, she stated that the album was " mainly electropop " and was a " celebration for me to be back working.
However, he said her eleventh album "Aphrodite" " rarely strays past sweet love songs or happy dance anthems " and " the main sound is the kind of glittery disco pop that really is her strong suit. Tim Sendra from Allmusic stated, " The various producers keep their eyes on the dancefloor throughout, crafting shiny and sleek tracks that sound custom-built to blast out of huge speaker columns " and found "Aphrodite" " One of her best, in fact.
Kylie's efforts to be taken seriously as a recording artist were initially hindered by the perception that she had not " paid her dues " and was no more than a manufactured pop star exploiting the image she had created during her stint on Neighbours. Kylie acknowledged this viewpoint, saying, " If you're part of a record company, I think to a degree it's fair to say that you're a manufactured product. You're a product and you're selling a product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented and that you don't make creative and business decisions about what you will and won't do and where you want to go.
Stern photographed her in Los Angeles and comparing her to Monroe , commented that she had a similar mix of vulnerability and eroticism. Kylie and Paul were first linked in April of The singer confirmed their romance one month later when she posted a photo of the couple kissing at her birthday party.
Of the year. And some. She was previously engaged to British actor Joshua Sasse, but the pair split in early Kylie has previously admitted that marriage is not for her.
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Turning her back on the crowd to compose herself, Kylie then continued: "In I was meant to be here on this very stage. I was watching in Australia wishing things had been different but life is what it is. Kylie is dating Paul Solomons - the creative director of GQ magazine. He was introduced to Kylie in February through mutual friends and partied with her on her 50th birthday. In April , The Sun exclusively revealed that the pair were growing close.
Kylie became engaged to Joshua after just six months, but they split in , following cheating allegations. After the split , there were rumours that Kylie got back with her former boyfriend - and Halle Berry's ex husband - Olivier.
In March , Kylie exclusively told The Sun that she was better off on her own , and that she and Joshua were "just not meant to be together.
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