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Kylie Minogue

Fever

Capitol Records

Where has…

Kylie Minogue

Fever

Capitol Records

Where has Kylie Minogue been since I was six years old?

I know Australia is 6,000 miles from Pennsylvania, but did she have to just disappear after “Locomotion?” I would have stuck by her through both of her groundbreaking self-titled dance albums and her edgy, indie Impossible Princess days, when everybody wanted to bust on her.

After all that time, Minogue’s grown from a poufy-haired 19-year-old into a sassy, cheeky, intelligent, Blahnik-wearing dance queen with chops to spare.

Astute dance-pop consumers will recognize a name in Fever’s production credits: Cathy Dennis. Remember her? What dance compilation is complete without her trampy “All Night Long (Touch Me?)” Dennis seems to believe that the last half of the ’70s was the golden age of dance music, because “Dancefloor,” a Fever track she co-wrote, sounds like it could have come straight from the Gloria Gaynor songbook.

Minogue herself has an ear for a hook, too, though. Of course I’m talking about Fever’s lead single, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.” It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy