“I’ll love you higher once I love myself…”
Calling all freaks: your soiled arms are demanded on the dance flooring as soon as extra.
There are few issues on the earth extra uncommon and sacred to me than a Dannii Minogue launch day.
When she’s not too busy selling her Goal Petites clothes line, judging (“Mother mentioned you had been engaged on a….expertise present“) or serving to gays discover love in an Italian masseria (err, Minogueria), Disco D has ever-so-slowly squeaked out singles over the previous few years – from the Sia-penned “Galaxy,” to her “All I Wanna Do” revisit in 2020, to her I Kissed a Boy theme track, “We May Be the One.”
On Friday (February 2), Danielle Jane, Queen of Golf equipment™ – that’s 9 UK Prime 10s and 17 No. 1 dance singles to her identify, and extra consecutive No. 1s on the chart than some other feminine artist on the earth, thanks very a lot – returned to us a with a model new collaboration: “Pondering ‘Bout Us,” crafted alongside Sydney-based DJ and producer Autone – actually her first correct DJ collaboration since “Contact Me Like That” with Jason Nevins almost 20 years in the past now.
The emotionally mature, unexpectedly uplifting break-up anthem was penned by songwriting duo DNA Songs, who’ve labored with Jessica Mauboy and The Veronicas amongst different Ausssie legends.
It’s all about recognizing that perhaps you’re not absolutely healed and prepared for a relationship in spite of everything, and perhaps it’s really not them, it’s you, successfully stretching RuPaul‘s mantra (“If you happen to can’t love your self, how within the hell you gonna love any individual else?”) throughout a dance floor-ready beat.
“I’ll be again once I’m prepared to like another person / I promise you, in time I’m gonna deal with you so effectively / I’m considering ’bout us,” Dannii guarantees. It’s truly a refreshing twist on the usual break-up blame sport trope: perhaps I’m the issue!
The accompanying video, to be launched on Monday (February 5), was directed by Adrian Spuria and Sean Higgins, and far to my delight, it’s set to incorporate references to traditional Dannii moments from the previous – most clearly the “All I Wanna Do” cellphone to this point. (Taylor Swift, eat your Easter egg-loving coronary heart out.)
“Working with Adrian and Sean from shotography was a dream. They effortlessly introduced our imaginative and prescient to life for the video and it was a pleasure doing this in my hometown of Melbourne,” she says. Whereas it’s not out but, she seems to be completely gorgeous.
“This can be a track that may positively resonate with so many individuals and particularly my followers once they see the video with all of the little references to a few of my earlier music releases. I really like being launched to new thrilling expertise, and Autone is definitely that, I can’t wait to see him spinning this within the golf equipment,” she provides.
Autone says: “That is my first authentic, so it’s like my child, and I’m extraordinarily happy with that. To get to jot down with the boys from DNA Songs and document with Dannii was an absolute honour. One weekend, I used to be simply having a play on the piano, and landed on this nice chord development…inside 24 hours after that we had a recorded demo and knew we had one thing quite particular.”
As a ride-or-die Dannii Stannii from the day I laid eyes on that duplicate of Neon Nights at Spin Road in Mohegan Solar at 16 years previous, it is just too thrilling for me to see Dannii again in motion on the dance flooring, trying unbelievable and sounding superb as ever.
And with a gig lined up once more internet hosting BBC Three’s I Kissed a Lady later this yr, one can solely hope that this isn’t the one musical second we’ll get from her in 2024. (Maybe even some The Hits & Past and/or Membership Disco reissue love, maybe?)
Seize the Neon Nights 20 vinyl reissue proper right here.
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