Kylie Minogue has been a celebrated LGBTQ+ icon and ally for many years. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage/Getty)
Kylie Minogue’s newest album Stress II (2) has dropped, to rave critiques – with one fan falling calling it “one other masterpiece”.
Final month, the Aussie hit-maker adopted 2023 smash “Padam Padam” by asserting particulars for her Stress tour subsequent yr, in addition to information of recent album Stress II, which was launched on Friday (18 October).
Stress II is hereeeeee 🩶 Completely happy listening Lovers … now I’m going to get again to this cutie …. 😝🐕😝 https://t.co/uAn1Kv5fJP pic.twitter.com/Rhyyln4U2k
— Kylie Minogue (@kylieminogue) October 18, 2024
The album, Kylie’s seventeenth, options 13 songs, together with current collaborations with Tove Lo and Bebe Rexha, “My Oh My”, and with homosexual nation star Orville Peck and Diplo on “Midnight Trip”.
Below the information that the album had arrived, one fan thanked her for “one other masterpiece”. One other mentioned they had been already “obsessed” with it.
Others named “Taboo” as their favorite monitor, which can be Kylie’s in response to an NME interview through which she described it as “if Britney Spears’ ‘Poisonous’ had a sort of a distant cousin”.
Omg ! How cute !!!! Album is wonderful! And #taboo is the perfect track 🎧 on the album and have to be a single!!! 😘😘😘 i can’t cease listening to Taboo … I’ve to be up for work in 3 hours…. 🎧🎧🎧🎧
— 🎀PissedOffPolak🎀 (@KyliesNo1Fan) October 18, 2024
One stan mentioned: “Congrats, Kylie. Had 4 listens and love the entire thing.” One other proclaimed: “Banger, banger and extra bangers,” whereas another person wrote: “It’s unbelievable mom, like, so good.”
One other went with: “Stellar tracks. You probably did it once more, queen.”
The Unbiased’s chief albums critic, Helen Brown, praised the album for being “bolder, harder and extra ingenious” than final yr’s Stress. “Kylie feels like a lady a number of pictures into the celebration, completely proudly owning her place in the midst of the dance ground, pulling a giddy visitor listing of producers and duet companions from their seats to whoop it up in her highlight,” she added.
Brown highlighted “Shoulda Left Ya” as a “gorgeously heart-broken sluggish dance”.
The Stress tour shall be Kylie’s largest since 2011, and can go to North America, Australia, Asia, the UK and Europe.
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