Elly Roberts reviews
Kylie Minogue: Ultimate Kylie
Distributed by
Parlophone (EMI)
- Cert:
- Cat.no: 5443629
- Running time: 130 minutes
- Year: 1989-2004
- Pressing: 2004
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Sound: Dolby Stereo
- Languages: English
- Widescreen: 1.78:1 & Fullscreen: 4:3
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £17.99
- Rating: 8/10 (Music); 6/10 (DVD)
- Booklet : Chronology / credits / colour pics
- Extras:
I Believe In You video, On-screen lyrics,
Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head at The BRIT Awards
We all know Kylie can’t sing; the songs aren’t too bad,
particularly the latter ones - so we might just as well look at her.
And that’s what this DVD is all about, as the pint-sized Pop Princess
releases a visual companion for
Ultimate Kylie CD.
There’s never been anything spectacular about Kylie’s music, and this DVD of
her promotional videos is no exception. It’s not groundbreaking or even
influential – but very entertaining. The visual content adequately follows
the styles of the day in terms of production through to hair and clothing.
Initial video shoots were filmed in Australia.
Waterfronts, skylines and
scrapers, supposedly show her indigenous surroundings. These early
encounters have a distinct lack of camera chemistry, though later, probably
as she had more artistic involvement, she becomes a master at it. Her girlie
Neighbours
persona took some time to shake off. The turning point appears
around the time she hits our shores. The transformation from pussycat to sex
siren happens almost overnight between January and May 1990.
She perilously tried the Pre-Raphaelite on Where The Wild Roses Grow, and
vamping it up on Did It Again, which didn’t work during her mid 90’s slump.
As we know, it was spectacular return to form in 2000 with those famous gold
hot pants on Spinning Around, and she continues to go forward. The camera
chemistry has now brought a renewed sexuality and style, which she uses to
her commercial advantage which can be seen on the 2002 BRITS performance.
The much anticipated new single, I Believe In You, released Dec 6th,
is a rather insipid effort which will probably bolster the sales of this DVD
in the Christmas run in.
As more and more nightclubs veer towards the use of rolling video images to
match the music, this is perfect DJ fodder. Then there’s the kids part to
think about - and maybe a few dads as well!
The full list of tracks included are :
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