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Mar 17, 2014Despite this one skippable moment ["Beautiful"], Kiss Me Once is a glittering, fun, and surprisingly powerful album that's classic Kylie through and through.
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Mar 17, 2014In terms of the number of classic, summer-ready Minogue singles on hand, Kiss Me Once is pretty much par for the course. But there's an element of that that makes it better than your typical Minogue album, in that it's not content with pleasing the people on the dance floor.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2014The 11-song set is drizzled with plenty of that Minogue jus. [Apr 2014, p.117]
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Mar 21, 2014It may not be quite up there with fan favourites ‘Fever’ and ‘Light Years’, but proves a lot more memorable than ‘Body Language’ or her previous studio set, 2010’s ‘Aphrodite’, were.
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Mar 20, 2014There’s more than enough in this album to keep her in that position--so, come for the gay brostep, stay for the songcraft and character.
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Mar 18, 2014“Sexercize” could be the worst song the singer’s put out in well over a decade. It’s the album’s only genuine misstep, but it’s still perplexing, hearing a Minogue that can do wrong.
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Mar 18, 2014Kiss Me Once isn’t a game-changing album, but it should churn out enough hits to secure her place on the pop culture radar until her next offering.
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Mar 17, 2014Kiss Me Once proves that after 26 years in the business, Kylie can still pull off a very modern pop album.
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Mar 13, 2014There are the irretrievably cheesy moments.... [But] Therein lies the strength of Kiss Me Once: Minogue's ability to turn any contrived situation into something positive, magical, and utterly her own.
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Entertainment WeeklyMar 18, 2014Dodgy songs abound, but so does Kylie's plucky charm. [21 Mar 2014, p.62]
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Mar 25, 2014es. A cheesy jam called "Sexercize" and an Enrique Iglesias duet aside, most of the production has a respect-the-goddess quality befitting an icon of her status.
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Mar 17, 2014It's contemporary enough for the 2014 marketplace, but classy enough to maintain the clout of an improbably evergreen pop diva.
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Mar 14, 2014This isn’t a bad collection overall, if less than the expected redesign.
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Mar 13, 2014Full of sparkling hooks, the results do a good job of melding Minogue’s effervescent pop grooves with the dense, heavily treated vocals and deep sub bass of modern electro dance trends.... Subject matter and delivery are strained by coquettish pandering.
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Mar 13, 2014A handful of great moments, a bunch of filler, some excruciating lyrics about sex: you could use that to describe countless other Kylie Minogue albums.
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Mar 20, 2014A booming, fun pop record that is refreshing by not attempting to be anything other, though that same inessentialism keeps the record from reaching transcendence.
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Mar 18, 2014Kiss Me Once is a disappointing record that tries too hard to mold Minogue into something she’s not.
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Mar 14, 2014She is far, far too good to be fronting songs which sound ‘current’ only in the sense that you can imagine them ending up on Rihanna‘s rejection pile.
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Mar 13, 2014The album starts strong with classic Kylie banger Into The Blue, but it suddenly succumbs to faddishness on nondescript disco tune Sexy Love and the weirdly dated dubstep track Sexercize.
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Positive: 144 out of 181
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Mixed: 23 out of 181
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Negative: 14 out of 181
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