Picture this. The VERY late 90s. Kylie, without a label, is shopping around new music. She plans to call it Not Kylie Minogue, a pun on the fact that her last two albums have been self-titled. She signs with Parlophone, and that material is put to the side as both she and the label agree that she needs to return to pure pop.
Across the globe, Paula Abdul is getting her life back together. She just starred in a TV movie, in which she gave a truly terrible performance. She meets young, hungry and awful songwriter Kara Dioguardi. They bond, and write a song about Paula's (hopeful) comeback. They record it ...
... somehow it lands in the hands of two other songwriters, who extensively rewrite it. It's sent to Parlophone's A&R, and is played for Kylie.
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Originally posted by Kylie Minogue
When we started talking about making the album, I met with different writers, producers, and I spent a fare bit of time with my two A&R men Miles and Jamie. [...] The song [Spinning Around] was found as a demo by Jamie Nelson, one of my A&R guys in New York, so there's a New York story. He went over there, arrived home waving his arms about saying "I've got this great song here, I think it'd be perfect for you." And we all listened to it, and loved it straightaway even in demo form, it had something.
Kylie records it, selects it as first single, dons a pair of gold hotpants in the music video, and the rest is history. It was as if she never left at all.
The first POP STAR to work with Calvin Harris, the results of which were In My Arms. Her many labels made the smart decision to release this as the second X single in Europe; it gave her her biggest hit since the Fever era.
Interestingly, it also gave her her last top ten single in the UK, topping off a sixteen single streak. This was the SECOND time she had sixteen consecutive top ten singles in Great Britain. Legend.
