Kylie Minogue poster article
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Kylie Minogue – Some Kind of Bliss
By JP Webber, Music on Posters editor.
Well, I bet that’s disappointed a lot of you guys expecting
the usual view of Kylie’s posterior. This is actually the
only poster of her I could find that isn’t of that ilk, so
just try and see it as a rarity.
So why this break with the Kylie tradition? The poster is promoting the release of a single called ‘Some Kind of Bliss’, does this give us any clues? Now I’m not aware of ever having heard this record, so I’m in the same boat as someone looking at this poster in advance of the single being released. One thing I do know is that Kylie’s music is usually fairly bouncy, sexy pop; the record title would seem to fit with this, but, for once, the picture of Kylie definitely doesn’t.
It reminds me a bit of what was called ‘heroin chic’ in the fashion world, where the models would make themselves up to look like they’d been on drugs. Here we have a very dark eyed Kylie staring out at us with a rather haunted expression, she appears to be on the street, peering into the camera from night time shadows. If I didn’t know better, I’d think this single was something to do with drugs, or the seedier side of sex, and that the record’s title is an ironic one. Surely not. I guess I’ll just have to buy the record to find out….
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