Dax Diameter

My CD finally arrived. I didn’t realize when I ordered from her site that I was paying £8 for her autograph (my CD cost £21). Now the autograph copies have run-out, the non-autograph copies from her site are selling for only £13 (minus shipping + handling).

Psychological thriller apparently.

I finally got around to ordering the CD. I almost ordered the vinyl as well but decided to wait.

He might not have been the “only person skeptical Kylie could make a comeback” but he was the only person launching a a Spice Girls clone on the exact same release week Kylie returned to actual Pop and therefore had an entire investment to lose and more skin in the game than most! Simon was never in the correct executive position with RCA to have any dominion over Kylie’s career whilst she was at Deconstruction. He was never in any position of authority or influence over her and for the record she was already on Parlophone by the time she recorded and released “Spinning Around” (zero to do with Simon or the RCA imprint that Kylie was never even on). To either not realise this or to accept the reality of this is to be obtuse. So who cares what was happening at any iteration of a label between 2004 - 2008 that Kylie had already exited in 1999 ? Over the years, I have found many of your posts elsewhere to be fanciful and I also find you to be very naive if you believe for one second there are no shifting tectonic plates between imprints. Simon was desperate to pull various Kylie singles towards Sinitta on his Fanfare label back in the day and was prepared to do some very undignified things to make that happen! A while later he signed Sonia to his IQ label (when it still looked like she had a shot of being Kylie’s rival). By the 2000’s his failure to get anywhere close enough with Kylie contractually to have her answer to him (business wise) had turned to bitterness! So keep talking that talk as though you think you are talking to someone who was only aware of Simon from the point in time he attained a public profile! His prior history of trying to get close to Kylie in context of his failed efforts to contractually attach himself to her success and to ride off the back of her essence goes way back!

I still can’t believe this actually happened. When I heard about the application for the marriage license I never quite believed it was for an actual real marriage. I thought it was something to do with an up coming portion of media for the album.

They could record shit 250 years ago? 🫠

I have a couple of the largest iPods that were manufactured (256 gb). In the years since, I adapted to having Spotify on various iPhones. I didn’t realise there are people out there who modify iPods or that their use (as a separate entity from the iPhone line) is still even a thing in the 2020’s. Dependent upon your taste I’d be curious to know what CDs you are thinking of ripping.

Kylie has announced a 15 date North American Tour.

Today marks the re-release of what in spiritual terms marks the blueprint of Steps, containing the original Lisa (who went on to marry then later divorce Ant McPartlin of Ant and Dec fame). If you were a twink then, this is your day to light a candle, resurrect your best sting vest/ silver trousers combo and rejoice in that moment in time.

Her albums always go to No.1 in the U.K. (traditionally her main market) on release week. In the case of “Disco”, a lot of people were very unhappy about that (namely Little Mix fans of which there were many, but also certain industry professionals working behind the scenes). The Little Mix “Confetti” album was not only presented via all forms of media (both digital and traditional) and perceived by a youth audience (who traditionally represent pop culture), as being very much more representative of that moment in time and way more relevant to pop culture than “Disco” was, yet “Confetti” lost the race and “Disco” won. This was not supposed to happen when singles by the winner of the eventual race were/ are essentially banned from AirPlay exposure by the main national Radio Station with the widest possible reach to a youth demographic. Also, going much further back (and for reasons that pertain to this now largely forgotten Sony single), Kylie will never sign to that label. In context of background, Simon Cowell had been offered Spice Girls prior to Simon Fuller (and his company 19) and in a landscape then dominated by Boy Bands he felt Spice Girls were not commercially viable. His bitterness at watching them subsequently prove the exact opposite (without him benefiting financially in any way), ate him up inside and he retroactively tried to undo his judgement error by requesting the creation of rival group Girl Thing with the intention of them replicating (and Sony benefiting from) the equivalent success of Spice Girls. At the precise moment in time when Simon Cowell (in his role as a high ranking Sony executive) truly believed this was what was going to happen, Kylie came along in the exact same release week with “Spinning Around” (which would prove to be her comeback after several years in the commercial wilderness). In the days just shy of that weeks chart data coming in, Simon had slagged Kylie off in the press claiming she was a “has been” and a blast from the past who was embarrassing herself by not accepting her time was over, that her single would flop (consigning her to the history books once and for all) and that Girl Thing were the future, destined to enter that week’s charts at No. 1 and would replace Spice Girls in the public’s affections. It never happened the way Simon planned and Girl Thing were the ones effectively consigned to being a footnote. Both Girl Thing and Little Mix were Sony acts (regardless of the latter switching imprints part way through their tenure) and Simon always stood to benefit financially from both in some way regardless of the exact route of administration that money came down. Both Simon (and Sony, culturally as an institution) cannot stand Kylie and even at this stage in her career when it would be impossible to undo her status as a pop icon, both he and Sony would still relish and try the opportunity to do so (given another chance). Kylie has long since known this and will never walk directly in to that line of fire. It is not a secret that Simon was determined to fuck Dannii as a means of getting as close as possible to asserting his ego over the Minogue family in any way he could (in a way not dissimilar to how Scooter Braun later used any point of access that he could to assert his dominance over Taylor).

In the U.S. the 2023 physical deluxe CD was originally a “Target” exclusive. Apparently Target never shifted much of that stock and gave the residue back to the U.S. arm of BMG who proceeded to remove the Target sticker - thus BMG U.S. are now attempting to re-sell that previously Target only version from ANY U.S. retailer (both physical and online). The (previously) Target only (for U.S. customers) physical deluxe track-list is exactly the same as the international physical deluxe track-list that was sold in all Non U.S. markets (where Target is not a thing). Basically Americans are no longer restricted to Target being the only source of the physical deluxe in that region. This version. BMG U.S. are in the process of trying to offload all existing unsold stock of the deluxe via any outlet they can and the 23rd August release date merely signifies the end of Target’s exclusivity with regard to the physical deluxe in the U.S. market. Kylie’s team are not going on record with any of this as it does not paint a positive PR spin - as initial 2023 sales projections indicated all this stock would have sold out in Target stores by now. To me, the “Tension” album era has felt over since just after the HOTN single and I personally have moved on. So going forward, it will be interesting to see if BMG feel they can justify an actual re-package with additional tracks (as they originally intended). .. and if certain folks will take the hint and leak the final (and in HQ version) of “Love Unlimited” (AKA “To Be In Love) .. or at the very least “Holding On” (supposedly from the “X” sessions) . . and stop listening to the fools who wanted what turned out to be a crappy song called “Attention Seeker” to leak just because some delulu’s thought the title was an indication that the track would surely be a bop (it wasn’t).

The “Edge of Saturday Night” video is finally here:

Nineties girl/ boy group Deuce who were a precursor and forerunners to Steps (yet never held on long enough to rival them 😢), have now reformed and are currently undergoing a revival due to the upcoming re-pack of their 1995 album “Deuce On The Loose!”. The original lineup of Kelly, Craig, Lisa and Paul will be together live for the first time in 29 years with a live appearance in London on Saturday 7th September consisting of a conversation, Q&A and photo opportunities to celebrate the re-release of their album. Steps would shortly go on to recycle the video treatment from Deuce’s “On The Bible” video (with their “Tragedy” cover video) and borrow elements from the “No Surrender” video (in the video for “One For Sorrow”).

EOSN has now premiered officially. After hearing the final mix, the leaked versions sound like drafts in comparison with the vocals also re-done. Interesting that Raye wasn’t on it. (Perhaps they will work it out on the Remix later on .. or maybe it’s a “Chocolate”/ Ludacris situation).