Slow (Synth City Remixes)
Kylie
(Parlophone)
Reported Monday, January 12 2004
Courtesy of Jonty_Adderley @ www.skrufff.com
Ever since she left TV soap show Neighbours 15 years ago for a life of manufactured pop and cunningly contrived fame and fortune, Kylie Minogue has epitomised modern celebrity culture, both developing and defining today's manufactured (pop) world.
Inoffensively pretty and phenomenally willing, her blank canvas blandness has allowed a never-ending succession of svengalis and stylists to constantly mould her to popular tastes, until today, she's the unequivocal British equivalent of the similarly fabricated Madonna. That she's proudly Australian and unremittingly foreign, merely serves to emphasise the point- Kylie is anything and everything, anyone wants her to be.
New single Slow, then, is both irrelevant and vital, as much musical wallpaper to showcase her bum as a statement of intent for Kylie's latest model (version 9, if you're counting albums). Electro based and surprisingly club angled, the track comes in several variations from name tastemakers like the Chemical Brothers, Medicine 8 and Radio Slave, plus a leftfield italo-disco style version from unlikely contenders Synth City (aka Alex Silverfish, DJ Rok and Electrobelle- friends of Skrufff, we should declare). While Medicine 8's version is minimal and even trancey, Synth City go straight for the 80s jugular, turning up the synth stabs and restructuring the somewhat formless main version with choruses, verses and Kim Wilde style vocals.
Like Madonna, Kylie has the luxury of being able to select the best talent to colour in her ever-changing template and Slow looks certain to sustain her dominance, both chart-wise and in cultural icon terms. Whether, like the pop of old, it actually means anything to anyone or touches them, is (sadly) probably the wrong question. Whatever happened to Debbie Harry?
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