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Joseph Ryan-Hicks delves into some future nostalgia with Madame Padam aka Kylie Minogue’s glorious 2000 comeback album,Light Years
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In every pop diva’s career comes an album that changes everything thereafter. For Madonna, it wasRay of Light; Cher,Believe. At the turn of the millennium, Kylie Ann Minogue was at her own crossroads. After ditching the brand of bubblegum pop that had made her a star in the 1980s, Minogue radically reinvented herself for the 90s and began to explore a more alternative sound. It was a bold but brave move. The press dubbed it her ‘indie’ phase, but it would fail to eclipse the success of her earlier hits with super-producers Stock Aitken Waterman (‘I Should Be So Lucky’, ‘Better the Devil You Know’). Following the lukewarm success of 1997’sImpossible Princess, the singer took a hiatus. She had a choice: reinvent once again or leave the music business indefinitely.