Kylie Minogue
I should be so lucky

THE REVIEW

"I should be so lucky" is to Kylie Minogue what "Everybody" is to Madonna. The first real single is the one you carry with you always, in every concert, in a thousand ways, in a thousand versions.

Dated 1987, "I should be so lucky" is the first single by Kylie Minogue (at that time "The locomotion," a cover of Little Eva, was also released) which preceded the first album of 1988, "Kylie."

The story of Kylie’s first single is very cute and charming. A very young Kylie Minogue had an appointment at the recording studio with three dance producers, Stock, Aitken, and Waterman, who wanted to start working with her for a first single. Unfortunately, when she arrived, the three had forgotten the appointment and had not prepared any song for Kylie, but in the span of 5 minutes, they created the lyrics and music for "I should be so lucky," which in the winter of 1988 became a hit in Australia and Europe, becoming number 1 in the pop dance charts.

Finally, Madonna, who had started 5 years earlier, had a rival.

"I should be so lucky" has simple, direct lyrics, and the song is still danceable even now, 26 years later; just repeat the word lucky a thousand times and you’re done... it gets into your head and doesn’t leave.

The music video for the single shows the pop princess in a bed while she dances, sings, brushes her hair, etc... a girl next door like the beginning of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, but she is still part of the mythical 80s.

Thanks to this single, Kylie entered the studio and worked on her first studio album, "Kylie," containing many dance hits still produced by Stock, Aitken, and Waterman with whom she collaborated until 1992.

Unfortunately, the song doesn’t bring much luck in Kylie Minogue’s real life because she isn’t exactly lucky in love as the lyrics of the song say. After various semi-serious flings in the 90s, for example with Jason Donovan, in the 90s she met the leader of INXS with whom she had a crazy affair, but sadly, a few months after their breakup, he died, and she went through a dark period (impossible princess); in the 2000s, she had longer relationships with actors, photographers, models but always with a cruel fate, the breakup.

Kylie, you should be so lucky! Try again.