The Future Sounds Of Los Angeles

Kylie Minogue “Boombox (LA Riots Remix)”

You know what’s weird? I don’t think twice about Kylie singing about a boombox, but for some reason, when she sings the words “give me your cd,” that’s the thing that strikes me being somewhat anachronistic. I guess I’m just not used to hearing people romanticize cds in song just yet. Obviously, the lyrics of “Boombox” have a nostalgic quality, but not in a fuddy duddy sort of way. It’s essentially a song about wanting to hear new, exciting music, and desiring the immediacy of blasting it out of portable speakers. The music is very pumped-up and frenetic, even by Kylie remix standards — aside from a lovely, relatively mellow bridge, every other part of the song seems locked into a “maximum bounce” setting. There’s something sort of ruthless about this music, as if it’s just hell-bent on exhausting the listener with pleasure, but hey, that’s why we listen to Kylie in the first place, right?

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