Kylie (song) explained

Kylie
Cover:Akcent Kylie Cover.png
Alt:The heads of Akcent's members on a black background which has red and black dotted edges.
Caption:One of the various covers used to commercialize "Kylie".
Type:single
Artist:Akcent
Album:S.O.S.
Released:28 January 2005 ("Dragoste de închiriat")
13 June 2005 ("Kylie")
Studio:Win Production
Genre:Dance
Length:4:06
Label:Music Company Nordic
Producer:
  • Sebastian Barac
  • Radu Bolfea
  • Marcel Botezan
  • Viorel Şipoş
Chronology:Akcent
Prev Title:Spune-mi (Hey Baby)
Prev Year:2004
Next Title:Jokero
Next Year:2005

"Kylie" is a song by Romanian group Akcent from their fourth studio album, S.O.S. (2005). It was written by two of the group's members, Adrian Sînă and Marius Nedelcu, alongside its producers Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan and Viorel Şipoş. The track was initially released as "Dragoste de închiriat" (Romanian: "Love for Rent") on 28 January 2005, before being re-released in June in English under its current title. "Kylie" is a dance track which describes the group's fondness of Australian singer Kylie Minogue.

Reception towards the group's association with Minogue was mixed, two reviewers were critical of it, while one considered that it made the group stand out. Commercially, "Dragoste de închiriat" reached number two in Romania, while "Kylie" entered the charts in several European countries, including Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the Netherlands. A music video, directed by Iulian Moga, premiered on MTV in April 2005. It depicts the group's members engaging in suggestive actions with one woman separately. The group performed both versions of the song on various occasions.

Background and release

Adrian Sînă founded Akcent in February 1999 originally as a duo, alongside Ramona Barta. In 2000, the duo released their debut album titled Senzatzia, with "Ultima vară" as the lead single.[1] Although the single received major radio airplay, the two parted ways in 2001.[2] Subsequently, in the same year, Sînă invited Sorin Brotnei, Mihai Gruia and Marius Nedelcu to repurpose Akcent as a four piece group.[3] The lead single off their second studio album, "Ți-am promis", peaked at number five on the Romanian Top 100.[4] Their second album, În culori, was released in January 2002, and received a platinum certification from the Uniunea Producătorilor de Fonograme din România later that year.[5] "Prima iubire" served as the second single, reaching number two on the native chart.[6] In 2003, the group released their third album, 100 bpm, with one of its singles, "Suflet pereche", peaking within the top 10 on the Romanian Top 100.[7] [8]

"Dragoste de închiriat" was released on 28 January 2005. In June of the same year, it was re-released in English as "Kylie" and was played for the first time under its new version on the Dutch radio station SLAM!. "Kylie" was released for digital download on 13 June in various countries by Music Company Nordic. On 28 January 2006 the track was added to American radio station's playlist at their discretion.[9]

The song was written by Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan, Marius Nedelcu, Adrian Sînă and Viorel Şipoş. Barac, Bolfea, Botezan and Şipoş produced and mixed the track, which was recorded at Win Production. The original version was released as the lead single from the group's fourth studio album S.O.S. (2005) while the English version was included on their fifth album French Kiss with Kylie (2006). The dance track details the group's admiration towards Australian singer Kylie Minogue.[10] [11] Jaap Bartelds of Winq noted that the track begins with a sound similar to Minogue's "Spinning Around" (2000) and further references Minogue's single "I Should Be So Lucky" (1987) in the lyrics.

Reception

Bartelds included the song in Winq "Quirky Corner" which includes "nicely wrong" songs; songs which have a good sound but convey a bizarre message. Bartelds claimed that the track "quickly turns into a Balkan entry for the Eurovision Song Contest", and was critical of the reference to Minogue, stating "will that poor woman be spared nothing?".[12] Jurnalul Cătălina Iancu considered the group's association with Minogue to be a "cheap stunt".[13] Conversely, Florin Grozea argued that the association made the group "stand out from the crowd" in the book Hit Yourself. 100 Ideas for a Successful Career in Music.[11] Additionally, SLAM! called the track "[the] hit of the summer".[14] Commercially, the song peaked at number two under its Romanian version for five weeks on Romanian Top 100.[15] "Kylie" reached the top ten in Finland and the Netherlands, while also selling 5,000 first-day copies in the latter. It further reached number eighteen in both Denmark and Sweden, and the top thirty in Flanders and France.

Promotion

The music video was directed by Iulian Moga and it premiered on MTV in April 2005.[14] [16] The video begins with Sînă in a car with a woman next to him, being driven to a club. Upon their arrival, Akcent's other members are shown separately dancing among a group of women from the club. Sînă follows the woman with whom he arrived until she decides to go in a secluded room away from him, where she meets Gruia, then the two begin to undress each other. The woman is next seen with Nedelcu in another room arguing, before hopping on a pool table to take each other's clothes off. Thereafter, she is in a lift with Brotnei and as the lift crashes, they start making out. Interspersed shots of Sînă singing in the club are shown whenever the woman is engaging with a group member. The woman returns to Sînă in the car in which they arrived and the two start performing foreplay. Lastly, the video ends with Sînă leaving the car.[17]

The group performed both versions of the song on several occasions. Their first performance of the Romanian version of it was in a club in Pitești on the day of the song's release. As part of Akcent's Finnish tour in June 2006, they performed "Kylie" in club Raatikellari.[18] "Kylie" was one of the three tracks that the group sang at Hity Na Czasie, an event hosted by Polish radio station Radio Eska in July 2007.[19] In December 2010, while performing in Pakistan, Akcent performed the song in Lahore.[20] The song was reworked and released as a single by Dutch DJ Mike Williams alongside Dastic in 2019, and was featured on the former's setlist at Belgian music festival Tomorrowland.[21] [22] In July 2021, Sînă performed "Dragoste de închiriat" at Romanian radio station Kiss FM with Romanian singer Olivia Addams.[23] In the same year, the song was performed at Polsat's New Year's Eve event.[24]

Track listing

  1. "Kylie (Radio Edit)"4:09
  2. "Kylie (Black Sea Remix)"4:36
  3. "Kylie (DJ Win's Remix)"4:42
  1. "Kylie (Radio Edit)"4:09
  2. "Kylie (Black Sea Remix)"4:36
  3. "Kylie (DJ Win's Remix)"4:43
  4. "Kylie (Very Long Orgasm Extended)"6:11
  1. "Kylie (Very Long Orgasm Extended)"6:11
  2. "Kylie (Black Sea Remix)"4:36
  3. "Kylie (DJ Win's Remix)"4:43
  4. "Kylie (Original Radio Edit)"4:09
  1. "Kylie (Original Radio Edit)"4:09
  2. "Kylie (Black Sea Remix)"4:36
  3. "Kylie Video"4:09
  1. "Kylie (Original Radio Edit)"4:11
  2. "Kylie (New Radio Edit)"3:36
  3. "Kylie (Black Sea Remix)"4:38
  4. "Kylie (DJ Win's Remix)"4:44
  5. "Kylie (Very Long Orgasm Extended)"6:12
  6. "Kylie (Instrumental)"4:06
  1. "Kylie (Original F. Edit Mix)"3:32
  2. "Kylie (Black Sea Remix)"4:33
  1. "Kylie (Original Radio Edit)"4:09
  2. "Kylie (Pulsedriver Remix)"5:07
  1. "Kylie (New Radio Edit)"3:37
  2. "Kylie (Very Long Orgasm – Extended)"6:14
  3. "Kylie (Black Sea Remix)"4:38

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of S.O.S. and French Kiss with Kylie.[25] [26]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2005–2006)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Romania (Romanian Top 100)[27]
"Dragoste de închiriat"		2

Year-end charts

Chart (2005)! scope="col"
Position
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[28] 32
Netherlands (Dutch Top 100)[29] 45
Romania (Romanian Top 100)[30]
"Dragoste de închiriat"		26
Russia Airplay (TopHit)[31]
Black Sea remix		29

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–2009)! scope="col"
Position
Russia Airplay (TopHit)[32]
Black Sea remix		179

Release history

Region! scope="col"
DateFormatLabel
colspan="5"
Romania28 January 2005N/A[33]
colspan="5"
Various13 June 2005Music Company Nordic[34]
Netherlands15 July 2005N/AN/A[35]
18 July 2005CD singleDigidance[36]
Twelve-inch single[37]
Belgium13 September 2005Enhanced CDARS Entertainment[38]
United States8 November 2005Roton[39]
24 January 2006CD singleUltra[40]
France2005ToCo International[41]
GermanySony Music[42]

See also

Notes and References

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  2. News: Cum arăta Adi Sână la debutul trupei Akcent. How Adi Sână looked like when Akcent debuted. Chelu, Gheorghe. 7 November 2015. Click!. ro. 27 April 2022. 29 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220429010633/https://click.ro/vedete/vedete-romanesti/cum-arata-adi-sana-la-debutul-trupei-akcent-139380.html. live.
  3. News: Romany Tunes. 5 December 2010. The Indian Express. Ramanathan, Kartikeya. 27 April 2022. 27 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427195220/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/romany-tunes/. live.
  4. News: Ediția 6, săptămâna 11.02 – 17.02, 2002. Romanian Top 100. Edition 6, week 11.02 – 17.02, 2002. ro. 11 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20050514151312/http://www.rt100.ro/editie-top-100_x10007.html. dead. 14 May 2005.
  5. News: Pop-Rock Romanesc: Akcent. Romanian pop-rock: Akcent. Agerpres. 6 October 2014. 28 May 2018. Romanian. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20141211145028/http://www.agerpres.ro/flux-documentare/2014/10/06/pop-rock-romanesc-akcent-10-11-48. 11 December 2014.
  6. News: Ediția 19, săptămâna 13.05 – 19.05, 2002. Edition 19, week 13.05 – 19.05, 2002. Romanian Top 100. ro. 11 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20050514151003/http://www.rt100.ro/editie-top-100_x10020.html. dead. 14 May 2005.
  7. 100 bpm. Akcent. 2003. Roton/NRG!A. 5948204340841. Booklet.
  8. News: Topul anului 2003. 2003 year-end chart. Romanian Top 100. ro. 18 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20050319004259/http://www.rt100.ro/topul-anului-2003.html. 19 March 2005. dead.
  9. News: Dupa succesul american al trupei O-zone, urmeaza cel al trupei Akcent. After the American success of O-zone, Akcent's is next. 31 January 2006. Ghidul Romanilor. ro. Sava, Bogdan. 2 May 2022. 18 February 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060218162408/http://www.ghidulromanilor.com/Divertisment/articol049.html. dead.
  10. News: Dupa Akcent, Crush cucereste Olanda. 26 January 2006. After Akcent, Crush takes over the Netherlands. MusicXpress. ro. 1 May 2022. 17 February 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060217091902/http://www.musicxpress.ro:80/noutate/637/dupa-akcent-crush-cucereste-olanda/index.html. dead.
  11. Book: Grozea, Florin. Hit Yourself. 100 Ideas for a Successful Career in Music. Polirom. 2016. 978-9734636723. 23.
  12. News: Lekker foute muziek: wat zongen de Cheeky Girls ook alweer voor moois?. Nicely wrong music: what did the Cheeky Girls sing again?. Bartelds, Jaap. 4 June 2019. Winq. nl. 27 April 2022. 10 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210510042819/https://winq.nl/articles/230069/corny-en-quirky-clips/. live.
  13. News: Minciunele – Ce vrajeli a mai facut trupa Akcent. Little lies – What tricks has Akcent pulled once again. Iancu, Cătălina. 28 January 2007. Jurnalul. ro. 27 April 2022. 28 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220428205248/https://jurnalul.ro/timp-liber/monden/minciunele-ce-vraj-el-i-a-mai-facut-trupa-akcent-3298.html. live.
  14. News: Piesa trupei Akcent – hitul verii in Olanda. Akcent's song – hit of the summer in the Netherlands. Dinulescu, Gabriela. ro. 10 June 2005. România liberă. 26 April 2022. 26 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220426123416/https://romanialibera.ro/special/piesa-trupei-akcent-hitul-verii-in-olanda-25233/. live.
  15. News: Akcent a tras un Joker(o). Akcent has pulled a Joker(o). Naie, Mihai. 4 March 2006. Jurnalul. ro. 27 April 2022. 27 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427191002/https://jurnalul.ro/cultura/akcent-a-tras-un-joker-o-26480.html. live.
  16. News: MTV difuzeaza in exclusivitate noul videoclip Akcent. MTV plays Akcent's new music video for the first time. 12 April 2005. MTV. ro. 2 May 2022. 13 April 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050413001033/http://www.mtv.ro/stiri.php?stire=40. dead.
  17. News: Akcent – Kylie (Official Video). YouTube. 30 July 2007. 11 June 2022. 15 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170215024225/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOem06X3uVo. live.
  18. News: Akcent a concertat in Finlanda. Akcent performed in Finland. 14 June 2006. Telegraf. ro. 27 April 2022. 20 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131020220854/http://www.telegrafonline.ro/1150232400/articol/2347/akcent_a_concertat_in_finlanda.html. dead.
  19. News: Akcent are succes si in Polonia. Akcent has success in Poland. Stoica, Cristina. 15 July 2007. Curentul. ro. 27 April 2022. 27 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427190957/https://www.curentul.info/monden/akcent-are-succes-si-in-polonia/. live.
  20. News: Akcent win kudos in Lahore. Usman, Ali. Taha, Hani. 6 December 2010. The Express Tribune. 27 April 2022. 23 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170123120249/http://tribune.com.pk/story/86599/akcent-win-kudos-in-lahore/. live.
  21. Web site: Mike Williams & Dastic present 'Kylie' . Prichea . Iuliana . 27 July 2019 . EDM Nations . https://web.archive.org/web/20190807132120/https://edmnations.com/2019/07/27/mike-williams-dastic-present-kylie/ . 7 August 2019 . 7 August 2019.
  22. News: Akcent & Sierra revin cu o nouă colaborare pentru piesa 'Without You'. Akcent & Sierra return with a new collaboration for 'Without You'. Trașcă, Silvia. 8 August 2019. Un site de muzică. ro. 27 April 2022. 28 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220428205253/https://www.unsitedemuzica.ro/stiri/Akcent-Sierra-revin-cu-o-noua-colaborare-pentru-piesa-Without-you-p7988. live.
  23. News: Olivia Addams şi Adrian Sînă, în duet live la matinalul Kiss FM. Olivia Addams and Adrian Sînă, singing together live at Kiss FM's morning show. Trașcă, Silvia. 6 July 2021. Un site de muzică. ro. 27 April 2022. 28 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220428205252/https://www.unsitedemuzica.ro/special/Olivia-Addams-si-Adrian-Sina-in-duet-live-la-matinalul-Kiss-FM-Am-cautat-ceva-puternic-care-sa-socheze-p13129. live.
  24. News: Sylwester Polsat 2021 – gwiazdy: Akcent od hitu Kylie wystąpi w Chorzowie!. Polsat New Year's Eve 2021 – celebrities: Akcent's hit Kylie will be present in Chorzów!. 27 December 2021. Radio Eska. pl. 27 April 2022. 28 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211228181325/https://www.eska.pl/news/sylwester-polsat-2021-gwiazdy-akcent-od-hitu-kylie-wystapi-w-chorzowie-aa-MiRU-sKpr-k2sc.html. live.
  25. S.O.S.. Akcent. 2005. Liner notes. Roton/NRG!A. 5948204375423.
  26. French Kiss with Kylie. Akcent. 2006. Liner notes. Magic Records. 6 02517 09777 3.
  27. News: Ediția 23, săptămâna 13.06 – 19.06, 2005. Edition 23, week 13.06 – 19.06, 2005. Romanian Top 100. ro. 11 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20050617030122/http://www.rt100.ro/editia-curenta.php. 17 June 2005. dead.
  28. News: Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 2005. Dutch Top 40. nl. 26 April 2022. 2 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220102020704/https://www.top40.nl/bijzondere-lijsten/top-100-jaaroverzichten/2005. live.
  29. News: Jaaroverzichten – Single 2005. MegaCharts. nl. 26 April 2022. 21 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170721051229/http://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=2005&cat=s. live.
  30. News: Topul anului 2005. 2005 year-end chart. Romanian Top 100. ro. 18 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20060410152756/http://www.rt100.ro/romanian-top-100-2005.html. 10 April 2006. dead.
  31. Web site: Top Radio Hits Russia Annual Chart: 2006. TopHit. 25 April 2024. 25 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240425163344/https://tophit.com/chart/top/radio/hits/ru/annual/2006. live.
  32. Web site: Top Radio Hits Russia Decade Chart: 00s. TopHit. 1 May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240421192151/https://tophit.com/ru/chart/top/radio/hits/ru/decade/2000. 21 April 2024.
  33. News: Noua piesa Akcent, 'Dragoste de închiriat' a incins atmosfera din club, aseara in Pitesti. Akcent's new single, 'Dragoste de închiriat' lit up the club atmosphere, last night in Pitesti. 29 January 2005. ro. Akcent.rol.ro. 26 April 2022. 12 February 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050212031432/http://akcent.rol.ro/ianuarie2005.htm. dead.
  34. Citations regarding the release of "Kylie" in various countries:
  35. News: Trupa Akcent concerteaza la Plaza Romania. Akcent will hold a concert at Plaza Romania. 12 August 2005. România liberă. ro. 26 April 2022. 26 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220426143809/https://romanialibera.ro/special/trupa-akcent-concerteaza-la-plaza-romania-30807/. live.
  36. Kylie. Akcent. 2005. CD single. Digidance. Netherlands. 8 714866 650034.
  37. Kylie. Akcent. 2005. 12-inch vinyl. Digidance. Netherlands. 8714866650-12.
  38. Kylie. Akcent. 2005. Enhanced CD. ARS Entertainment. Belgium. 740967-5.
  39. News: Kylie – EP by Akcent on Apple Music. 8 November 2005. iTunes Store (US). 26 April 2022. 19 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210119121141/https://music.apple.com/us/album/kylie-ep/84993747. live.
  40. Kylie. Akcent. 2006. CD single. Ultra Records. United States. 1357-2.
  41. Kylie. Akcent. 2005. CD single. ToCo International. France. 3297750020113.
  42. Kylie. Akcent. 2005. CD single. Sony Music Entertainment. Germany. 828767415727.

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