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My Name Was Eliza Day
Finally in 1995 Kylie met Nick Cave, he became the "someone" that
lifted her spirits and with his own song written specifically for
Kylie a duet was on the cards. A murder ballad, a dark mysterious
song which saw Kylie's character killed by the end, "Where The Wild
Roses Grow" was about to shake every kylie fan and even the "cool"
people could not believe the power and the emotion from these two
Aussie's. It peaked at No.11 in the UK, went top 5 in Australia and
went top 10 all over Europe, the video was so popular on MTV that
it made their top 5 European countdown chart. During this period
Kylie also attended the poetry olympics held at the Royal Albert Hall,
London and Nick managed to get Kylie to read "I Should Be So Lucky"
in poem format. Kylie always remember's this period with fondness
because it was with this new confidence that she credited herself
with the influence and also the past which at least gave kylie some
calm and room to explore a new album direction. Kyli enever
stopped working with long time partner Steve Anderson throughout the
mid 1995/6, they were working eithe rin the studio or attending chairty
gala's just to keep people known Kylie was still here. It was her
gay fans that got to see her mostly and its a relationship which carries
through to today. It was also during this period that William Baker(Kylie's
current creative Director and Stylist) managed to meet Kylie and have
a coffee. They shared idea's and a friendship was born, but
most importantly a working relationship which has developed into the
2000 awad winning "On A Night like This" tour. Kylie's duet
with Nick cave gave her a 23rd UK top 20 single, of which 4 were No.1's
and a further 11 were top 5 smashes.
Gay Icon?!
A surburban Aussie, a neighbour by any other definition is a Gay icon
world wide. Gay culture world-wide are a kin to knowing her
lyrics and the 3 minute bursts of pop, from Soho to Sydney, Paris
to New York. At just 5ft1" Kylie is positively delicate and
angellic in her prescence, alittle sister amongst her gay family.
Kylie's fashion knowledge and her apparent gift to be dressed in the
right thing at the right time combined with her doll like size, makes
her the perfect puppet for a gay man's bedroom. In the seeking of
creative and musical freedom the social struggle fought by Kylie was
close and resembled a gay man's fight to admit the issues surrounding
sexuality and in her three minute bursts, Kylie helped somewhat to
make everything seem okay. If the titles of the songs were illustrations
of a gay lyric then we need look no further than "Better The Devil
You Know", What Do I Have To Do" and "Confide In Me". Kylie's close
relationship with her fans and her overwhelming support towards them
travelled hand in hand, all in a time when the pink pound was nothing
more than hear'say. In the straight world Kylie was neglected and
cast aside, chastised and mocked so rightfully just that the gay men
planted her within their world and gave the chance to bloom once more.
There may not be alot of tragedy to her life as with former gay icon's
but the unique aspect to Kylie is the angellic nature and complete
lady like qualities that shine through. Lyrics from "Cowboy
Style".."Found my voicve to have my say, you take me close to far
away, and now i find and now i feel, the ordinary is surreal, peace
and terror all in one, my future life has just begun".
Kylie appeard in early 1997 as a cameo in an independant film "Diana
and Me" the story revolved around one fan's fondness towards Princess
Diana, ironically and sadly Diana was tragically later that year to
be killed in Paris, and cause more problems for Kylie than could be
imagined. A delay on her second album release with Deconstruction
was prompted and the l title of "Impossibe Princess was deemed innapropriate
and was change to "Kylie Minogue (1997)"
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