From Wrong To Right

Kylie Minogue “Love At First Sight”

My two favorite Kylie Minogue songs are about finding a profound connection with someone via music. In “Love At First Sight,” it’s falling in love with the taste of a DJ. In “Sweet Music” it’s about the intimacy of collaborating with someone on creating music. I’ve felt different ways about this sort of thing through my life – around the time these songs came out, this was the dream. Then I went through a long phase of thinking this sort of thing was actually sort of shallow. Then I found out that from experience that was actually very false, and now bonding over a deep love of art feels incredibly important to me again, something I would never want to live without. It’s the least superficial thing, really – it’s shared values and aesthetics, it’s emotional resonance and soul.

“Love At First Sight” doesn’t need lyrics to get across this feeling. It’s built to convey a feeling of sudden clarity, and joy washing over you as complications seem to completely disappear from your mind. It’s like this simple emotional arithmetic where everything adds up to YOU no matter how you run the numbers. The best part of the song dramatizes two beautiful moments in sequence – that dawning realization, and the euphoria of KNOWING and FEELING it all. They replay it a few times as part of a standard pop structure, and just getting to feel a special moment a few times over right there reminds you of how wonderful pop music can be.

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