Kylie

OK, everyone needs to go out and buy Kylie's new album!!! It is absolutely brilliant! And it is loaded with tracks just begging to be performed by drag queens. Check it out!

**The Fabulous Miss Helen Jones**

I finally bought Kylies's latest creation, "Body Language" and am loving it. She is blowing away Britney, Beyonce, and whatever other dance music pop queens there are these days whilst referencing Lisa Lisa, Chaka Kahn and Prince...nice.

Not only do I love Kylie because she has been bubble gum-a-liscious for over a decade but also for all her tiny/quirky projects. The latest, "Copacabana," a collaboration with Nick Knight and Liz Neal, can be seen at:

http://www.showstudio.com

(select "Lyric" from the menu)

Kylie has contributed to this fascinating new multimedia project entitled 'Lyric', whereby each of the 12 artists involved was given a Motorola video call handset and asked to make a series of short films to illustrate the song of their choice.

Twelve leading creatives from the fields of fashion, music and image-making have come together to produce eight distinct projects under this umbrella project that pioneers creative ground using the latest 'third generation' mobile-imaging technologies. Each contributor, or creative pairing was issued with a 'Motorola' handset with video call facility on '3's video mobile network, and asked to make a series of short films or 'motion clips' that visually interpret the song lyrics of their choice - producing one clip for each lyric line.

The contributors have produced a clip for each lyric line, and each lyric and clip is released one by one over a month-long period, gradually revealing the visual interpretations of each maker in numerous audacious, provocative outcomes On completion, each song sequence imparts a sense of the personality of the practitioners.

(From kylie.co.uk) May just be perfection:

Kylie recently spent three days in the studio writing and recording with band-of-the-moment Scissor Sisters. Said lead singer Jake Shears: "We were really collaborating and it went really well and I'm happy because I think she had a really good time. I think we made some really good stuff. We just got down to business. We were down there (in the studio) for long days so I feel like we got to know each other quite a bit which was pretty fun."

In my opinion has smacks of the "Impossible Princess" era when Kylie enlisted then band of the moment, The Manic Street Preachers and other notables such as Nick Cave. Of course it led to her biggest commercial failure yet greatest artistic achievement. Other than the shining moment that is "Slow," "Body Language," at least in its production, is much to geared towards an American market. Personally I would love to see Kylie videos in which she ceases to parade like every other pop strumpet and return to videos of yore - floating dead in a stream after having her head bashed in by a rock - beautiful, genius.

I went to see Kylie's "Showgirl - the Greatest Hits" Tour last week. It was perfection. I just heard on the news that she has cancelled the Australian leg of the tour as she has breast cancer. Very sad.

Oh my gawd am so shocked... Kylie has breasts! well i would never have knows!

Joking aside I think the only silver lining of this is that a young, mainstream and yes, small breasted star having cancer is unexpected and will really promote awareness. The news programmes here are giving out lots of information in relation to the Kylie cancer story. I'm just waiting to cringe as the news stories give way to an uniformed and misinformed vox pop "Chavalanche."

Very sad indeed!

Hope everything goes well for her!

I was really surprised about her attitude. Either she's an extremely positive person, or putting on a brave face, because every story I've seen, she's talking about getting back on tour as quickly as possible.

I keep thinking "Slow down and rest up girl, it's not a cold."

Here's to a speedy recovery!

Kylie's new SHOWGIRL DVD is slated for release November 2005. Let's just hope that the boy background dancers in this one are just as great as they were in Kylie's last live DVD BODY LANGUAGE.

Kylie--can't get her out of my head! Love her!!!! Just as good as Madonna and Cher, but more understated. Her sonds are great and I can shake my ass all night long to her beats!