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Impossible Princess esce nel 1997 e già la collocazione temporale scelta per l'uscita del disco nutre di per sè un baro destino: coincide infatti con il periodo conseguente alla morte della Principessa Diana Spencer e di Dodi Al-Fayed. Il titolo, controverso se riaffora alla mente quel tragico evento, viene mutato in Kylie Minogue, nonostante la precedente release avesse già ricevuto tale denominazione. Ma il successo è scarso e scarno: poche top-ten, poche certificazioni, destinazione dimenticatoio mentale e fuoriuscita dagli scaffali dei grandi successi. Uno smacco per la povera Kylie la quale prenderà la seria decisione di abbandonare la sperimentazione sonora applicata a questo album per dedicarsi alla dance floor music, scelta sicuramente più redditizia a livello commerciale (basta menzionare Can't Get You Out Of My Head e Spinning Around per farsi anche una blanda idea).
Ma si parlava di sperimentazione. Cosa contraddistingue questo lavoro? Una ricchezza ed una vastità di sonorità, di stili musicali, uniti e fusi insieme in un grande connubio: Pop, Hip-Hop, Rock, Elettronica, Indie, Trip-Hop, sounds che riassumono in una manciata di tracce buona parte degli esperimenti che, dopo una lunga maturazione underground e non solo, si stavano spingendo verso il mondo mainstream. E la Signora Minogue ha colto la palla al balzo, forse un po' troppo presto, anticipando di pochi mesi la rivoluzione elettronica - commerciale di Ray Of Light, masterpiece made in Madonna.
L'album si apre con l'inquietante Too Far, in cui un oscuro sottofondo classico-elettronico entra in simpatia con la tonalità di Kylie, la stessa che si immerge in voluttuosi e estatici orgasmi vocali. Una traccia sperimentale, un'autentico alternarsi di un ritmo Trip-Hop pulsante ed energetico e sonorità ambient cupe e dark, il tutto condito dai già citati orgasmi kyliani. Elettronica, beat decisi, sintetizzatori, espressione di una certa e sicura ispirazione da Prodigy e Chemical Brothers, solo per citare due nomi importanti dell'ambiente elettronico-Trip-Hop underground, sono gli ingredienti perfetti per Say Hey, Jump e Limbo, brani nei quali questi sounds e la suadente vocina di Kylie si riconoscono, si sposano, si elevano.
In un contesto più rock si collocano Through The Years e Breathe, mentre la finale Dreams conclude degnamente le danze con un mix irripetibile di ambient, sonorità naturali, elettronica e Trip-Hop, in una sinusoide di momenti calmi, pacati e tranquilli alternati a tratti di inquietudine e oscurità.
Purtroppo alcuni tentativi di apertura a sonorità più rock non hanno avuto effetti positivi degni di nota: l'eccessivamente country Cowboy Style e la "Cranberries inspired" (che ricorda alcune melodie dei "Cranberries") Some Kind Of Bliss affievoliscono, anche di poco il lavoro, rendendololo tuttavia ancora più eterogeneo.
Sono certo che moltissimi conoscono e apprezzano la Minogue per le varie dance-tracks, per i gustosi e sensuali sculettamenti di Spinning Around e Can't Get You Out Of My Head & co., tuttavia ritengo che l'indiscussa bravura di questa performer, piccola (di statura) ma dalla grande e dolce voce, possa essere racchiusa anche all'interno di melodie meno "dance-floor addicted", ma non per questo fonte di apprezzamenti e riconoscimenti.
Kylie Minogue, Impossible Princess
1 Too Far
2 Cowboy Style
3 Some Kind Of Bliss
4 Did It Again
5 Breathe
6 Say Hey
7 Drunk
8 I Don't Need Anyone
9 Jump
10 Limbo
11 Through The Years
12 Dreams
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01 Too Far (04:43)
Caught up in this house
Trapped my very own self in the snare of my mind
No more space than a slither
What I'd give for a deep breath inside
Where the chaos has my captive
Where there's no exist sign
Where I fuel the stupid fire with these feeling of mine
Lured into this den, it's bitter and I want sweetness again
A taste that I agree with
Get me past these perils and to my eden
Where the silence is a comfort
Where there is no-one else
Where I'll be up from under can uncurl my selfToo many, too much, too hard
Help me
This time I went too far
Too many, too much, too hard
Help me
This time I went too far
Can I smash all of this open
Can I pass the hurt with a little pain
I wanna see all of it crumble and start afresh all over agin
My eyes are wide open
But I can hardly see
Will laughter find a way around these silent tears
Too many, too much, too hard
Help me
This time I went too far
Too many, too much, too hard
Help me
This time I went too far
02 Cowboy Style (04:44)
Shed my skin since you came in,
where do you end and I begin?
awoke my senses yet you stopped time,
you took me to a deeper high,
the essence of my hopes and fears,
creation of my muddled dreams
Cowboy Style,
with a peaceful smile,
you are from the temple won't you stay a while
Found my voice to have my say,
you take me close to far away,
and now I find and now I feel,
the ordinary is surreal,
peace and terror all in one,
my future life has just begun
Cowboy style,
with a peaceful smile,
you are from the temple won't you stay a while (x2)
Won't you stay a while
I am frightened I'm aroused,
I'm enlightened to the now
Cowboy style (x2)
Cowboy style,
with a peaceful smile,
you are from the temple won't you stay a while
03 Some Kind of Bliss (04:13)
Shut my eyes
Feel the colour of you
So get to this elation
So high so fast
Shut my eyes
Feel the colour of you
Succumb to this illusion
So strong so deep
Cos everyday is all there is
In my some kind of bliss
Cos everyday is all there is
In my some kind of bliss
Study my reflection
and let the colours fall
Slip into stillness
And be above it all
Good to be here
Time to be alone
I've found a space where I belong
Not succumb to fear
Cos everyday is all there is
In my some kind of bliss
Cos everyday is all there is
In my some kind of bliss
04 Did It Again (04:22)
Clever girl
Think you are but you think too much
Shut down turn around
Don't like that way anymore
Clever girl
Think you know but you don't know much
Try to make a move
Go to a different door
You know it's all in your head
You better put that business to bed
By your fair hands of design
You met the monster in your mind
You did it again (oh-oh)
You did it again (oh-oh)
Won't you listen to me when I'm telling you
It's no good for you
Clever girl
Think you're right but what's right from wrong
Little miss genius
You make it hard on yourself
Clever girl
You've got it all but you're all messed up
Time now turn around
Move on to something else
You know it's all in your head
You better put that business to bed
What you see nobody sees
It only brings you to your knees
You did it again (oh-oh)
You did it again (oh-oh)
Won't you listen to me when I'm telling you
It's no good for you
05 Breathe (04:38)
Don't blame me just because I am bored,
I'm needy I need to taste it all,
don't down me just because I am quiet,
I'm thinking about it all.
I'm helpless about the way of me,
and I'm thinking,
thinking about it all,
I'm sorting everything inside
I'm looking into space,
this time this void,
I'm making my way through the muddy minutes,
the pull is in my muscle,
the ache is in my bones,
Its hard to be alone
Breathe, breathe,
it won't be long now (x3)
Breathe, breathe
See through me when I put up a fight,
I'd like you to see the things I hide,
go deeper than I will let you know,
I'm frightened but I won't let it show,
I'm helpless about the way of me,
and I'm thinking,
thinking about it all,
I'm sorting everything inside
I'm looking into space,
this time this void,
I'm making my way through the muddy minutes,
the pull is in my muscle,
the ache is in my bones,
and it's hard to be alone
Breathe, breathe,
it won't be long now (x3)
Breathe, breathe
Breathe, breathe,
it won't be long now (x12 to fade out)
07 Drunk (03:59)
I'm suffocated with desire
I need to save me from myself
I ache for great experience
There's a riot in my senses
Time and space and hurt and tears are not enough
Love and light and faith and words are not enough
I'm not happy drunk till I'm drunken
Till you take all of me.....
You put me to the test and I understand
There's more and more and more to know
Don't take me halfway (halfway)
I won't be contented that way
Time lies like my love for you and space grows like my envy for you
Hurt comes like my pain for you and tears pour like my lust for you
Love lies like my hope for you and light falls like my armour for you
Faith stays like my care for you and words wait like my crave for you
I'm not happy till you take all of me
I'm not happy till you take all of me
I'm not happy drunk till I'm drunken
Till you take all of me
I'm not happy waste till I'm wasted
Till you take all of me.....
Time lies like my love for you and space grows like my envy for you
Hurt comes for my pain for you and tears pour like my lust for you
Love lies like I hope for you and light falls like my armour for you
Faith stays like my care for you and words wait like my crave for you....
09 Jump (04:03)
If I'm scared let me loose it
If I'm hungry let me have it
If I'm cold, let my skin rise
If I'm wrong let me learn it
If I'm grubby, let the dirt stay and
If I'm tired, let me shut my eyes
I have dread and fear and light and laughter
I know there is an ever after
I'm eager and ready, it only hurts sometimes
I run to the future and jump
If I'm hurt let me feel it
If I'm sad let the tears flow
If I'm stupid, let me be that way
If I'm bored let me show it and
If I'm bad, let me be it
If I'm sure let me have my say
I have dread and fear and light and laughter
I know there is an ever after
I'm eager and ready, it only hurts sometimes
I run to the future and jump
10 Limbo (04:05)
I see them all smiling
Those all around me
Tend to my wounds and alert my senses
It would be nice
I'm not here
I'm dreaming
Holding on
Time has no meaning
All of it wasted
Smothers me till there's no more air
When will it be that I can breathe again
I'm waiting in the void
(Limbo) lost in limbo
(Limbo) limbo, limbo
(Limbo) lost in limbo
(Limbo)
This notion of needing has held me ransom
And all I can do is avoid my mind
Don't make me speak or hear or look
Because I'm hurting
Help me out
(Limbo) lost in limbo
(Limbo) limbo, limbo
(Limbo) lost in limbo
(Limbo) I'm in limbo
Limbo, limbo....
I'm getting tired
I'm getting tired, tired....
Caught in a crossfire
Nobody gets it
I'm finding it hard to contain myself
Take all my trust and faith and hope
Untill I need it once again
(Limbo) lost in limbo
(Limbo) limbo, limbo
(Limbo) lost in limbo
(Limbo) limbo, limbo
(Limbo) lost in limbo
(Limbo) limbo, limbo
(Limbo) I'm lost in limbo
(Limbo) I'm in limbo
(Repeat)
Limbo
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Kylie Minogue rappresenta il punto commercialmente più basso della cantante ma è sicuramente il suo vertice artistico.
Il risultato è certamente spiazzante e diametralmente opposto al pop acqua e sapone dell’epoca.
