Thursday, December 19, 2002
17. "can't get you out of my head"/"can't get blue monday out of my head," kylie minogue
yeah, it's kinda cheating, but it's my list. if the sugababes' "freak like me" didn't show how much bootleg culture was impacting the pop world in '02, then this sure as hell did. kylie performed "can't get blue monday" at the brit awards after hearing freelance hellraiser's boot mashing her smash up with new order's classic "blue monday." it breathes new life into the "la, la, la" song, underpinning it with something at once so familiar and yet, in this context, somewhat foreign. the clincher is when kylie starts singing "how does it feel?" near the song's end. she gets it. like getting chocolate in your peanut butter, this is a match made in heaven. [btw, this is the first of three kylie tracks in the top 20.]
yeah, it's kinda cheating, but it's my list. if the sugababes' "freak like me" didn't show how much bootleg culture was impacting the pop world in '02, then this sure as hell did. kylie performed "can't get blue monday" at the brit awards after hearing freelance hellraiser's boot mashing her smash up with new order's classic "blue monday." it breathes new life into the "la, la, la" song, underpinning it with something at once so familiar and yet, in this context, somewhat foreign. the clincher is when kylie starts singing "how does it feel?" near the song's end. she gets it. like getting chocolate in your peanut butter, this is a match made in heaven. [btw, this is the first of three kylie tracks in the top 20.]
# posted by Thomas : 4:22 AM
