Kylie's secret sounds
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June 3, 2007


Kylie Minogue.
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AdvertisementONE song leaked online looks like carelessness, but when up to 10 demos linked to Kylie Minogue's new album are circulating in cyberspace, it feels like marketing.

Minogue's post-cancer comeback project has been a leaky vessel since November 2004 when a song she wrote with New York glam pop act the Scissor Sisters appeared online.

But in the past fortnight, five new songs have been uploaded onto file sharing sites, while fan sites are claiming that a three-CD set of 49 demos exists for those canny enough to track them down.

It adds up to an audio scrapbook of works in progress, including a song written for Kylie by Boy George and a rumoured cover of Culture Club's 1980s hit Victims.

But should we think we're so lucky? More likely we're just being had, by a cunning cyber age twist on the old record company ruse of manipulating what gets played where.

Leaking online might not be as obvious as bribing disc jockeys to play songs, but it might be just as effective.

"She and her record company leaked the tracks deliberately," said music industry analyst Phil Tripp, who runs Australian music consultancy Immedia!

"It's the newest gimmick in the industry, the leaking of tracks. It's the new marketing black. It's at a time when she needs as much positive press as she can get. Not just her, but everyone in the industry. You need as much exposure as you can get, and you need as much advance publicity as possible."

The music blogs agree. "We don't really approve of leaked tracks flying around the web before an album's even been completed," said British music site Pop Justice but, in the case of Kylie Minogue, the constant, relentless barrage of leaked material seems suspiciously intentional.

Minogue's not the only leaky act. Two songs from the endlessly delayed Guns N' Roses CD Chinese Democracy have been circulating since late last year.

Nine Inch Nails also had to tell their record company to back off recently, when downloads of their CD Year Zero became available.

Minogue's latest leaked demos coincided with her 39th birthday, and the reports that she was involved with a married Mexican director Alexander Dahm, reports she denied.

Although YouTube has already pulled many of the fan-made videos for the demo songs, at the insistence of the record label, and some of the file-sharing sites have blocked the pirate downloads, the songs have already been widely distributed by Minogue's active online fan base, through forums and blogs.

Kylie impersonator Lucy Holmes, the singer in tribute band 100%Kylie, discovered new tracks Stars, Fool For You and Sensitized more than a week ago on one of the fan sites.

"It's classic Kylie pop," says Holmes. "She's staying true to her pop roots." Holmes doesn't think the leaks will hurt future sales. "Not many people get to hear them," she says. "They just get to hear about them. It's just a little entree, a little tease."

Source: The Sun-Herald

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I can't find ANY of the songs...can someone help ?
the songs leakes I believe are :

Stars
In My Arms
Sensitzed
Fall For You
Loose Control

diarhhea leaks as well although it doesn't stink as bad as her music.

Was their really any reason for you to respond to the question if you were just going to make a metaphor no one older than a fifth grader would laugh at ? I just don't see the point in responding if you have nothing of value to add

hahahahaha

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Karmi .....

If it's half as good as Let's Get To It, I won't be buying it.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

49 tracks?
Huh What?

I want to hear them, or any of them. Does anyone have them?

I assumed you were a fifth grader judging by your musical tastes is all

An album called Kylie X has leaked and it's getting pulled from file sharing sites left and right. The tracks are really good pop and dance tracks. I'm so going to burn in hell.
Tracks:
01. Excuse My French
02. Fall For You
03. In My Arms
04. Stars
05. (Everything) I Know
06. When The Cats Walk
07. Sensitized
08. Lose Control
09. Feels So Good
10. White Diamond (Ellectrika's Burning Radio Remix)
11. White Diamond (Live)
12. Lose Control (Anthony Lago's Lost Soul Mix)
13. Lose Control (Anthony Lago's Spiral Tide Mix)
14. Lose Control (Anthony Lago's Turning Faster Mix)

An apology for Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi? But it's one of her best songs!

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

I want them all!

Too many remixes. On a studio album?! Reminds me of a cassette I had as a 9 year old. "The Kylie Collection". Far from being a Greatest Hits, it was her first album, a few remixes, and a new song. Woah.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

a few of these were meant for inclusion on body language and ultimate kylie as well. and some of them are pure crap. also:
10. White Diamond (Ellectrika's Burning Radio Remix)
11. White Diamond (Live)
the remix is a fan mix made by some girl named Elle who regularly leaks tracks given to her from the record company/engineers/whoever. her remix is using vox taken from the live version.
the live version of white diamond is from Showgirl Homecoming Live, a 2-cd live album released earlier this year. it's not rare and that song may not even end up on the finished album, rather ending up as a teaser single and also shares the title of a documentary due out later in the fall, about kylie's comeback.
the lose control remixes are more fan mixes of a leaked demo.
i don't think anything leaked will actually end up on whatever comes out.

-andy