Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
29th September 2001
When I first heard this I thought it was quite good, within a week I absolutely I loved it, and a week or so after that it was being hailed as the best pop song in years. Kylie had had strong success with Spinning Around and the rest of the Light Years album, but it was this song that cemented her as one of pop’s biggest icons. Before Spinning Around she was just seen as a legend of the late 80s, but since that song’s release her profile has continually risen until now she is one of the biggest stars on the planet. However, if she hadn’t found a song as great as this to follow up the Light Years album, her comeback probably would have stalled – instead it escalated.
This song has not only become Kylie’s signature tune, but has made heaps of money for it’s writers, who were also former pop stars making a comeback – Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis (guitarist from Mud), and from their involvement in this hit they became 2 of the most desirable pop writers around. CGYOOMH is not a complex song – in fact there is only one verse and a middle 8, the rest is either chorus or “la”s, but it’s that simplicity and especially the “la”s which make this the song with the most appropriate title ever – you really can’t get it out of your head!