Kylie’s X Flops in America

The numbers are in, and it comes as no surprise that Kylie’s latest album X is an American failure.

Kylie Minogue’s X has debuted on the Billboard album charts at #139.

The record sold a very disappointing 5,500 copies. OUCH.

While there were some major misteps with her Aussie invasion this time around (awful performances, no supporting video to the single ‘All I See’, and just overall bad styling), she deserved so much better then #139. Those Americans don’t know what they are missing out on. Le sigh.

Kylie Wow’s Me!

Here is the BRAND NEW video for Kylie latest single (and my fave from the album “X”) “In My Arms”.

Update: Here is also the new “Wow” video. Have I died and gone to Kylie heaven?

Both of these videos are everything you want a Kylie video to be… pop, electro, and cutting edge. She is putting a new spin on the ironic 80’s vibe many artist have been trying to do lately (read: Kanye, Fergie)

Kylie Xposed: The Interview

Herald Sun, Australia: January 17, 2008

KYLIE Minogue took a realistic approach to her breast cancer diagnosis, manages to treat with grace the paparazzi who shadow her daily. But one thing’s got her stewing. When dozens of work-in-progress songs from her X album leaked online en masse last May, Minogue found herself in an unfamiliar mood: livid. “Absolutely livid,” she clarifies.

Sources believe someone in a recording studio swiped three discs of demo tunes for X and posted them online.

Conspiracy theories suggest Minogue HQ may have leaked the songs as some kind of superhighway road test.

Minogue nearly chokes at the claim.

“No! No no no no no. No!”

That’s a no then.

Some of the leaked songs wound up on X despite many Minogue fans enjoying them (illegally) for months before their official debut.

One of her collaborations with Scottish dance producer Calvin Harris, In My Arms, was among the leaked tracks — as well as album tracks Stars and Sensitized, the latter written by Guy Chambers.

Based around a sample of Serge Gainsbourg’s Bonnie & Clyde, Chambers originally wrote the song for his former partner Robbie Williams, then roped in Cathy Dennis (who wrote Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head) to Kylie-fy the song.

Other leaked songs — Lose Control, Fall for You and I Am Ready — have been selected by fans as preferable to some chosen for the album. Indeed, some particularly devoted fans have made their own videos for the unreleased songs and posted them on YouTube.

“A lot of those songs were just demos,” Minogue says, “and then I see these kids making videos for them and putting them up (online) and I’m going, ‘No! That’s not right! Those songs aren’t finished!’

“I think any artist would be annoyed with that. It wasn’t just the trust factor of the leaks — because none of us really knows how it happened — but it takes up everyone’s time trying to work out what went on. Still, it was a lesson learnt.”