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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!

 

http://youtu.be/aoXEI4r0DTA
“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.

http://youtu.be/xBq_PSg3vHc
“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.

http://youtu.be/NwWXiUDBOO0
“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.

http://youtu.be/dA-0KY5d9uE
“Speakerphone,” X

Kylie’s always embraced her sex appeal in hits like “Slow” but for our money 2007’s “Speakerphone” is one of the hottest songs she’s ever released

http://youtu.be/frv6FOt1BNI
“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.
http://youtu.be/iqtzMue6Izw

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.

http://youtu.be/BHGaW8lBlSk

“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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