20 Landmark Songs Of The 2000s

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8. Kylie Minogue - Can€™t Get You Out Of My Head

Kylie Minogue went through many different transformations in her journey from soap star to pop diva. She tried girl next-door, SAW puppet and bad ass rock chic, but €˜Can€™t get you out of my head€™ was where she found her niche. The song was unbelievably futuristic; Madonna would have literally killed for this tune. It€™s the sort of song you can imagine David Bowie releasing if he was in his 30€™s at the start of the century. Interestingly however, it was apparently rejected by the not so mighty S Club 7, which was just as well, because this was the song that was made for a true pop diva. Kylie€™s Eve finally met her Adam. Whilst the video would be notorious for its glorification of her derrière, the song gave Kylie Minogue a sensuality that she just didn€™t have before. A perfect narration of the confusion that sets in when lust starts to grow into romantic attachment, this is the sound of the itch that just can€™t be scratched. It adopted the simplicity of the greatest Motown tunes to magical effect and added a wonderfully contemporary soundtrack. Revolving around two motifs €˜I just can€™t get you out of my head€™ and €˜Na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na€™, this has one of the catchiest choruses ever written; surely the title is a reference to the song itself. And with it Kylie finally took her place in pop royalty.