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Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 04/09/2002
In 1998,
Kylie Minogue was dropped by dance label
DeConstruction, and some thought she had committed career suicide. Obviously the backlash of 1997's Impossible Princess taught the diminutive Aussie one important lesson. Sometimes you have to just go with what you know -- go back to basics. And that's just what
Minogue has done with 2000s
Light Years. Symbolically dropping her last name from the cover, she re-enters the territory that made her great. Granted, with the
teen pop movement at its strongest, one could say she just has good timing, but this work is leaps and bounds better than her
Stock-Aitken-Waterman work.
Light Years is not just another
Minogue dance-pop record, but a great collection of
disco stylings and
Europop kitsch.
"Spinning Around" is a fun and string-laden declaration that she may have made a mistake back in 1997, and the
Robbie Williams-/
Guy Chambers-penned
"Your Disco Needs You" is probably one of the best dance songs of the last ten years. Arguably one of the best
disco records since the '70s,
Light Years is
Minogue comfortable with who she is and what she's good at.
~Chris True, All Music Guide
;)
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