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MUSIC: Queerty’s Top 10 Favorite Kylie Minogue Videos

By John Russell June 20, 2012 at 4:12pm · Updated on November 19, 2012
    This week sees the release of The Best of Kylie Minogue, celebrating the Australian pop star’s 25 years in the music business. In honor of the occasion, we’re sharing our our ten favorite Kylie videos of all time. Of course, in the past quarter-century there’s been a lot of Kylie songs so we couldn’t include other hits like “Spinning Around,” “I Should Be So Lucky,” “Kids,” “Put Your Hands Up” and “Loco…” (Sorry we just can’t bring ourselves to write that one down.) Do you have a favorite Kylie jam you can’t get out of your head? Share it in the comments! Click through for more of Kylie’s greatest videos  
Timebomb Kylie’s latest  is definitely at the top of our list—maybe just because it’s brand new and still in our head all the time. Our immediate reaction: We just really wanted to high-five Ms. Minogue!  
“Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” Fever You can’t really talk about Kylie without mentioning  this one. Released in stateside in 2002, it was her first Top Ten single in the U.S. since “Locomotion in 1988.  If “Head” didn’t make Kylie a household name in the States, at the very least it introduced her to a whole new generation of adoring American gays.
“Where the Wild Roses Grow,” Murder Ballads We’re sure Kylie put out some really fantastic material between 1988 and 2002, but we’ve gotta be honest: that whole era of her career is kind of a blind spot for many of us here in the U.S. The one exception we have to make is her 1995 duet with Nick Cave off of his album Murder Ballads. It’s a creepy ode to a doomed love, with Kylie singing the role of a woman whose lover bludgeons her to death so her beauty will never fade. The contrast of her sugary sweet vocals and Cave’s violent lyrics is haunting and a big change of pace for the Aussie pop star.
“Love At First Sight,” Fever Though less than a decade old, “First Sight” is already a classic:  Coming on the heels of “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” this effervescent ’80s-tinged track was a mainstay on gay dance floors in the mid-Aughts. If you can listen to this song and resist dancing around your apartment, there’s something not right.
“All the Lovers,” Aphrodite When this song was released in June 2010, it felt like the moment summer actually arrived. written by English electro-pop duo Kish Mauve, “Lovers” may not have reached the level of cultural saturationyou’d expect of a full-blown “song of summer,” but its breezy optimism and easy sensuality were like a breath of fresh air—and certainly an invitation to the dance floor for many of us.  
http://youtu.be/OgvhvaSQZeE “Better the Devil You Know,” Rhythm of Love Kylie wasn’t always the sex goddess we know her to be now: When the video for “Devil” dropped in 1990, fans were shocked (shocked!) by its presentation of squeaky-clean Minogue in a more mature and suggestive light. Watch closely and you’ll see Kylie and her dancers voguing. Hey, Truth or Dare was out and everybody was voguing.  
http://youtu.be/iPAziQTu09E “Aphrodite,” Aphrodite If “Lovers” was easy breezy, “Aphrodite” was fierce. With a beat that feels like it could shake the Earth, it’s a track worthy of a pop goddess.
Your Disco Needs You, Light Years Sure, every Kylie song is a gay anthem, but “Disco” announces itself as such: “So lets dance through all our fears/ War is over for a bit/you’re a slave to the rhythm to your heart/You’re a lonely heart.” With Village People-style backing vocals, an army of goosestepping Kylie clones and Minogue swapping into a variety of campy outfits, “Disco” defies you to not go running to your nearest dance floor.

“Get Outta My Way,” Aphrodite

As much as we love this song, we might love the video more. Eschewing tits-out teen-queen sexuality for a more mature retro style—hot blond clones, dazzling costumes and incredible chair work— “Outta My Way” is “a video that just makes you smile,” as Entertainment Weekly wrote when it debuted in 2010.   Not too shabby for what’s essentially a break-up song.

 

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22 Comments*

  • Seth

    Love her. After Madge she’s prob my 2nd fav female dance artist. How she hasn’t had GaGa size success in the US is beyond me. She’s a great live performer, constantly delivers ear candy singles and actually sounds just as good live as she does in the studio

  • Johnny

    What about “The One” from X fantastic deco style. LOVE KYLIE

  • Dave

    Epic die hard Kylie fan here. I can tell you this list is wrong. Two of the songs don’t even HAVE videos at all…

  • Darin

    Misquote on ‘Your Disco Needs You’- it should read: “…you’re a slave to the rhythm, do your part, cure a lonely heart”.

  • Mark

    The title states fave videos, but it seems like they’re listing fave songs. Slow should’ve been on the list for the eye candy and sensuality alone. “Did it Again” should be on the list as a great video, even if the song was only OK. And even though “Love at First Sight” is one of my fave songs, I must admit the video doesn’t deserve mention as something great.

  • Hank

    Can’t say I like her voice much. Then again, I don’t dance. I’m sure it’s great dance music.

  • Cesar Silva

    Well, one of my favorite music videos is “Slow” it’s pretty sexy…

  • No

    I personally always liked Dannii’s video’s better.

  • PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID

    most of her oeuvre is fun and throwaway like all best pop music is, “better the devil” being pretty near perfection in this regard; but it’s the videos where she, or her people, really bring the magic.

    re-watching, i feel many of them, from the 2000’s, have dated quite a bit.

    my favourite kylie track, “confide in me”, has the rare distinction of also being quite decent. and for pop, a bit dark and spiky (well, for kylie!) and the video, back in the day, was sick.

    and, of course, “can’t get you out of my head” is a pop masterpiece(ish), but ‘ve never watched the video cuz i have my own one in my head which is much better.

    also, “german bold italic” video is, err…. wonderfully bonkers.

  • Dixie Rect

    ‘Did it Again’ is one of her best, 4 Kylie’s in a police line up, then they all fight. It’s great – cute Kylie, sex Kylie, indie Kylie, all fighting! The song is kinda blah, but the video is awesome.

  • Triple S

    Finally, a post about my lovely Kylie that isn’t slandering her wonderful name! I feel special to be Australian for many reasons, but she’s one of my strongest! I only wish more guys my age would like her (17).

    Ah well, she will always be mine! 😀

  • issues of the day

    How is “Confide in Me” not on here? Raging!

  • Missing one....

    Wait, where’s the absolutely delightful mindfuck that is “Come Into My World” music video?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ

  • Andrew

    I still remember back in 94, before the net and Kylie had left the bubble gum of SAW behind, I was watching Rage when this new track came on, it sounded graet so I recorded it, next thing I know it comes up with Kylie – Confide in Me. I wil always remember the new amazing sound and video. Number 1 for 5 weeks in Oz.

  • Rory

    @Missing one….: YES! Was just about to say that one deserves a place on the list!

  • Bobster

    Where’s “Come Into My World”, one of the coolest videos ever?!

  • Motard

    ‘I Believe in You’ anyone? Anyone?

  • Sarina

    How could “Confide in Me” be ignored?

  • Jon

    Is she still trying to break into the U.S. market? She really doesn’t give up. Good for her.

  • JB

    How on earth is this a selection of “Kylie’s top ten videos” when:

    1) two of these songs don’t even have videos

    2) the justification written for each selection describes the song, and not the video

    Case-in-point: selection #6, Speakerphone, never had a video, and Queerty meagerly offers that “It’s one of Kylie’s hottest songs ever”. Um, okay, great…but what does that have to do with it being chosen as a “top video”??

    Sorry, Queerty…you get a major “Fail!” on this one. Next time, try not to be so lazy.

  • redcarpet

    HOW IN THE EFF CAN YOU NOT INCLUDE SPINNING AROUND?!?!?!?!

    Here ass won awards for that video!

  • Graeme

    Better The Devil You Know – This video was out a good six months before Truth or Dare, but came out around the same time as Madonna’s Vogue video.

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