Kylie & Dannii Minogue
The Winner Takes It All

THE REVIEW

Within the compilation "Beautiful People," a successful program in America, Kylie & Dannii Minogue delight fans with a duet, choosing the Abba cover "The Winner Takes It All." We are in the year 2008, and for Kylie, cancer is fortunately a thing of the past. After releasing her tenth album "X" in 2007, she calls Dannii, her little sister who, in the meantime, is a superstar as a judge on UK's X Factor, and decides to record a track together.

Maybe it worked well for Madonna in 2006 with "Hung Up," maybe Abba has always been a legend for both of them, but this duet, without a video, and without a single format, did not make much noise in terms of charts and notoriety.

The Minogues are no strangers to family duets; at the start of their careers, they performed together in "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves," a beautiful early '80s pop song sung by Annie Lennox. In the X tour 2008, the sisters invented a new performance of "Kids," a 2000 track by Kylie & Robbie.

In 2012, it seems they will be in the studio for a real duet that will be released as a single with a proper video to celebrate the 25 years of Kylie's career.

Returning to "The Winner Takes It All," they both sing one verse each and the chorus together. Dannii seems to have the upper hand in singing, hitting the high notes well. Kylie doesn't seem as reactive at first glance (in my opinion); the piece transitions from pop to pop-dance, fairly accelerated and modified thanks to the BBC orchestra for such an important event, the Minogue sisters' duet.