[HN Gopher] Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
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Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
Author : fauverism
Score : 139 points
Date : 2025-03-25 16:51 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| surfingonthenet wrote:
| an absolute classic... love towa tei <3
| nine_k wrote:
| (1) My respect towards Kylie Minogue, who I don't remember ever
| listening to, just got a boost. Maybe I should check out her
| other songs!
|
| (2) The page has the most playful "Accept cookies?" control of
| what I've encountered so far.
| striking wrote:
| Just be warned. You might find you can't get her out of your
| head.
| bernds74 wrote:
| You should be so lucky.
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| It's a song lyric joke.
| thih9 wrote:
| Both are:
|
| - Can't Get You Out of My Head: https://en.m.wikipedia.or
| g/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_He...
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| - I Should Be So Lucky:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Should_Be_So_Lucky
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Oh damn. Haha.
| Eduard wrote:
| Gut ja
| iechoz6H wrote:
| AKA The stalking song
| thih9 wrote:
| Fun fact, if you recognize Nick Cave's "Where the Wild Roses
| Grow", then you have heard Kylie Minogue - she sang in the
| duet[1][2]. I remember being surprised when I learned about it.
|
| This is also the "murder ballad" that the article refers to.
|
| > In 1995 she collaborated on a murder ballad duet with Nick
| Cave
|
| [1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE
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| [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Roses_Grow
| stavros wrote:
| The album was also called "murder ballads", as it contained
| murder ballads.
| hnlmorg wrote:
| Great song though I'm surprised you didn't immediately
| recognise her voice in it.
|
| There's a few an interesting tracks on that album. I quite
| liked "Death is not the end", which I think was the last
| track on Murder Ballards and also features Kylie (amongst a
| few others).
| _whoDis wrote:
| Nick Cave encouraged Kylie to read hear lyrics at a public
| poetry reading. She got up and read I should be so lucky. I
| respect her for that
| sho_hn wrote:
| Kylie Minogue is, as far as pop music goes, awesome. Her stage
| shows are fantastic, and you should see the massive mobile
| server park and crew of nerds that runs it all. Pushing the
| envelope of stage shows as a product for sure.
| bigiain wrote:
| If anybody now anybody, summoning someone on her tech team to
| tell us about what goes on would be really great.
| ruuda wrote:
| Kylie Minogue is the only female artist who had a #1 album in
| the UK in five consecutive decades (!), something even Madonna
| didn't manage to.
|
| Edit, the article says "across", not a #1 album in every
| decade. In the 90s she only reached #4.
|
| https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/thats-crazy-kylie-...
| toast0 wrote:
| In the 90s she was busy being in movies and video games
| (including the acclaimed Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game)
| havblue wrote:
| And in 2007, a Doctor Who episode featuring the Titanic...
| In space!
| bee_rider wrote:
| Too bad the playful "Accept cookies" button didn't have a "no"
| option.
| bigiain wrote:
| I just used the reader mode button...
| petercooper wrote:
| Her music video directed by Michel Gondry is worth a look:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ
|
| For 2001 it has a rather striking effect. Kylie is walking
| around a circular area in Paris over and over and everything
| multiplies each time she completes a loop. It's a very clever
| effect given the technology of the time. By the end of the
| video there are five Kylies walking around loosely interacting
| with each other and the world in odd ways.
| romanhn wrote:
| Wow. I know the song but have never seen the video. So
| creative and mesmerizing.
| zem wrote:
| chances are you have at least heard "the locomotion" without
| knowing who sang it - I remember that song being played
| everywhere!
| dylan604 wrote:
| To the point King Charles is a fan
| LeonB wrote:
| King co-wrote the song!
|
| (Carole King that is)
| wewtyflakes wrote:
| Never thought I would see Kylie Minogue on HN; what a nice
| surprise.
| xnx wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41562904
| imp0cat wrote:
| Same for Towa Tei.
| celticninja wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fw2Labli4k
| robin_reala wrote:
| If you don't know Towa Tei, you might recognise him from Deee-
| Lite ("Groove is in the Heart"). Personally, I prefer his side
| project Sweet Robots Against the Machine. But he's also an
| excellent DJ, YouTube throws up a load of clips of him having fun
| on the decks.
| larodi wrote:
| Both Towa Tei and Minogue super futuristic if not cyberpunk
| before it even was a thing.
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| Kylie Minogue's first album was released 4 years after
| Neuromancer was published.
| re wrote:
| You might also recognize a few samples from/shared with "Groove
| is in the Heart" (at 0:30 and 3:39) in "GBI (German Bold
| Italic)" (at 0:25 and 3:19). (Timestamps are for the YouTube
| music videos, which have short introductions not found on the
| album tracks)
|
| https://www.whosampled.com/sample/8483/Towa-Tei-Kylie-Minogu...
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| https://www.whosampled.com/sample/426057/Towa-Tei-Kylie-Mino...
| type0 wrote:
| Papyrus (SNL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
|
| Papyrus 2 (SNL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0
| bigiain wrote:
| Helvetica - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zis-1z8jc60
|
| Sadly, that live version is the only one I can find streaming
| anywhere. The album version (which I have on CD) uses a sample
| of a dot matrix printer to play the part that the brushed snare
| does on that live version.
| andrewinardeer wrote:
| "Whitney Mallett on That Kylie Minoque x Towa Tei Track"
|
| Has the author misspelled Kylie's surname in the article heading
| or am I missing something?
| omnimus wrote:
| It's the submitted title on HN. Her name is correct in the
| article itself.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I have a friend that's a retired music industry exec, and he
| loves it when I send gems I get from here, to him.
|
| Sharing it.
| ac50hz wrote:
| And then there are the similarities, both video and song, between
| Can't Get You Out Of My Head and Doll on a Music Box/Truly
| Scrumptious from the UK musical/movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...
| There was a mashup floating around somewhere, years ago. Probably
| lost.
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| I will find this for you if it takes me a year. Bookmarked this
| comment.
| trollied wrote:
| It'll be on soulseek. Most forget it exists.
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| I'm hitting up all my sources and activating my music-
| finding sleeper agents. Soulseek as a last result but it's
| probably there.
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| How is it possible that I can't find this. I found my dads
| highschool friends garage band from eastern europe from
| 1960 on my trackers but can't find this.
| nluken wrote:
| 1. I find the actual typeface made for the track rather pretty.
| Definitely of an era, but given how in that era's graphic design
| is right now I'm surprised I haven't seen more of it out and
| about
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| 2. Sadly the article neglects to mention Haroumi Hosono, whose
| vocals are also on the track. If you haven't checked out his
| work, either solo or with YMO, it's well worth a listen.
| bee_rider wrote:
| The site is too hard to navigate (I couldn't find the reject
| cookies button, so there was a giant hand taking up half my
| screen). Do you happen to recall what the actual typeface was
| called?
| crtasm wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBI_(German_Bold_Italic)
| aizk wrote:
| This song is in my library, completely forgot about it, thanks
| for bringing it back to me.
|
| Some other artists I can recommend with similar specific Japanese
| vibes, Denki Groove and Yellow Magic Orchestra are really good.
| rbanffy wrote:
| Maybe one day she'll be moved to sing by the simple elegance of
| my take on the classic 3278-2 terminal font.
| nimish wrote:
| Product market fit. Kylie has it.
| munificent wrote:
| A Japanese house producer ex-member of Deee-Lite making a house
| track about a techno typeface sung by Kylie Minogue is the most
| late 90s thing I can imagine. It's like a rave flyer
| spontaneously gained sentience.
| thomastraum wrote:
| great subject let down by an annoyingly weak article that focuses
| on memes for whatever reason.
|
| another great unexpected music x font crossover is gucci mane
| tweeting about "Times New Roman"
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