Kylie Minogue
Timebomb

THE REVIEW

Kylie Minogue returns to the top of the European charts with a clever yet brilliant move: a single, a unique project, to properly celebrate her K25, that is, her 25 years of career as the absolute princess of world pop.

Like "can’t get you out of my head" did in 2001, “timebomb” (the bomb dropped by Kylie on May 25, 2012) has all the requisites to become the single of 2012, a gay anthem, a summer hit, and especially a song to once again make Madonna tremble (who already is struggling with Lady Gaga). “Timebomb” is released only in digital form but immediately becomes a hit, where Minogue returns to the sound of her 2007 album, “X,” mixing house and disco sounds with electro and pop. With cunning and cleverness, she returns to the sensuality and hot pants that made her famous in 2000. The video for the new single makes Kylie look thirty even though she turned 44 this month. Upcoming surprises of K25 for her fans include a new "Best of" and an album of hits in an acoustic version, as well as a DVD of her latest Anti tour.

Not only does 2012 have many lives in store, like on June 4th for the queen Elizabeth’s jubilee concert and in September a Kylie live at Hyde Park.

But returning to the single, after the third listen it gets stuck in your head: if in the 80s it was lucky, lucky, lucky and in 2001 it was la la la, la la la la la, this time we'll have a blast doing as Kylie does: whoo whoo, whoo whoo whoo whoo, with a chorus a bit less simple but still utterly catchy, danceable but not banal; in fact, Timebomb is a real bomb, released in the right place at the right time. Let's hope a new album comes out this way as well.

Welcome back to the one who is perhaps the real Queen of pop.