The next logical step is of course to add the actual video for On A Night Like This, the second single from Kylie's "comeback album" "Light Years" (2000).
The song has been recorded by two other artists besides Kylie. Once by Swedish performer "Pandora" in 1999, and by Greek performer Anna Vissi in early 2000. Kylie's version was released September 11th, 2000 and went to #2 in the UK charts behind Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)". However the single did initially go to #1 in the Australian music charts upon it's first release, slipped down to the #5 position and jumped back up to #1 following Kylie's performance of the song during the closing ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The track subsequently holds the record for biggest jump back to number 1.
The video (as mentioned below) was shot in Monte Carlo and features actor Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) as Kylie's sugardaddy.
Gone were the hoop earrings, big hair, and cute clothes of her 80's girl next door image, Kylie graced the screen with slick figure revealing clothes, dark eye make-up and a new sense of freedom. The music also changed from infectious bubblegum pop, to a more stylized dance sound.
Better The Devil You Know was released April 30th, 1990, debuting at the #5 position on the UK charts but then moved up to the #2 spot, becoming Kylie's 10th top five single release in Britain. The video features her in different dance club scenario's (a staple for dance pop music video's of the early '90's) and being held in the arms of her lover.
Many felt (and Kylie agreed) that Kylie's image change was due to the influence of her then boyfriend Michael Hutchence, who publicly claimed that one of his favorite hobbies was "corrupting Kylie".
Jason just announced that his first sexual experience with Kylie was at a Travelodge Budget Hotel in Sydney.
I really hope you enjoy watching this concert, and I hope some of you are lucky enough to see it in person.
Not to be confused with the "Love At First Sight" which appears on her first album "Kylie". I think she is one of the only artists (that I know of), who has two completely different songs with the same title.
One of the two songs on the album that references the time of her battle with breast cancer, the lyrics were formed from Kylie's dreaming of performing in front of her fans when she was well again. My personal favorite song from this record.
It's songs like this (from Light Years 2000), that make Kylie one of the biggest gay icons in the world. It's seriously over the top, over dramatized, cheesy, campy, gay as hell, fun. The fact that she appears as a general leading her troop of dancers and sings an aria at the end...hello!?!
Her dancers perform a modern type waltz, while she sings "On A Night Like This" (Light Years 2000) in full on general threads complete with riding boots and tails.
No big light show is needed for this portion. Her voice is sublime on it's own. To think she was once labelled as a "singing budgie" because the critics believed that she lipsynched during her performances. Bite your tongue.
Kylie appears in a romantic blue satin gown and serenades the audience with the second currently unreleased song from the "X" recordings to be premiered on the tour, called "Flower". Another great song which will hopefully see the light of day as a b-side.
Look at how acrobatic her male dancers are, climbing all over and hanging on that cage. I can't even imagine how much strength you would have to have to hold your entire body up and out like that while holding on to a poll. Madness.
I enjoy the fact that the front "extention's" part of her hair is simply a headband with hair pieces attached to it, while her real hair is in an updo in the back. Way to save time. Notice the Manga girl on the screen in the background?
The theme for this section has Kylie and her dancers dressed up as Japanese Manga characters. Manga is a form of Japanese comic artistry (similar to the idea's of Anime).
Kylie performs a big band inspired version of her lead single from X, "2 Hearts". Her stamina is pretty impressive considering her cancer ordeal in 2005/2006, and the fact that she's 40.
The first song for this section is the electro twinged "Like A Drug" where Kylie appears singing atop a giant floating disco skull, admitted imagery of cheating death after her battle with breast cancer.
The projection screen floor is really effective in this portion of the show. Bring on the footballers.
The reworked lyrics "Hey Minnie, you're so fine..." is in dedication to her nickname Minnie, which is a cutening of Minogue and for the fact that she is so tiny.
I love that she doesn't overdo her movements to the point where her singing voice suffers for it. She moves around enough to keep your focus and let's her dancers do the rest of the work. I think Madonna should learn from that, sometimes.
Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi (which is French for "I Don't Know Why") was written by Stock, Aitken, & Waterman, and it spent 3 weeks in the #2 position on the UK billboard charts.
The video features her in a 1950's inspired sweater set waiting around (In Paris) and daydreaming about dancing with her loved one.
The song was written by Jonas Jeberg, Mich Hedin Hansen, and Edwin "Lil' Eddie" Serrano, and the black and white video was directed by Kylie's long time creative director William Baker.
It was shot in three hours while Kylie was taking a break from her rehearsals for the X tour, and features Kylie and dancer Marco da Silva dancing in front of a white background. Kylie also released an acoustic performance of the song through her 
It's been written that Mike Stock wrote the lyrics to the song because he believed that although she was a successful soap star in Australia, there must be something wrong with her and he figured that she must be unlucky in love. Kylie recorded the song in under an hour and returned to Australia to continue filming episode's of Neighbours.
The song was released in December of 1987 and went to #1 in both the Australian and UK charts.
The video was directed by Chris Langman and shot at Channel 7 Studio's in Melbourne, Australia. It features Kylie walking and dancing around her house and making cute faces to the camera, as well as images of her standing in front of green screen images of chalkboards and other wholesome images. In other words, being presented as the girl next door.
The song reached number 11 in the UK and Australian charts, and the music video which was made in homage to the Jane Fonda film Barbarella was directed by Kier McFarlane.
The video was so well received in Australia that it won the award for best Australian video at the Australian music awards in 1995.
Back in the summer of 1987, then 19 year old Kylie Ann Minogue was starring as tomboy motor mechanic Charlene Mitchell on the long-running Australian soap opera "Neighbours". When she and her fellow castmates were invited to perform at the Fitzroy Football Club Charity Gala, Kylie suggested that they all perform The Loco-Motion impromptu. The audience fell in love with the performance, and Kylie was approached by a representative from Mushroom Records to record the song as a single. The single went straight to number 1 in Australia upon it's release and remained there for a remarkable 7 weeks, becoming the top selling Australian single of the 80's.
The video was shot at Essendon Airport and ABC Studio's in Melbourne, Australia. It's camptastic!
