Can't Get You out of My Head

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"Can't Get You out of My Head"
Single by Kylie Minogue
from the album Fever
Released	September 2001: Worldwide February 2002: U.S.
Format	CD single: Worldwide Vinyl single: UK & U.S. Cassette single: Australia
Recorded	London, England
Genre	Pop dance
Length	3:51
Label	Parlophone Mushroom Records Capitol Records
Writer(s)	Cathy Dennis Rob Davis
Producer(s)	Cathy Dennis Rob Davis
Chart positions
#1 (Australia Austria, Belgium, Canada airplay, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain & UK) #5 (Japan) #7 (U.S.) #55 (Canada sales)
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"Butterfly" (2001)	"Can't Get You out of My Head" (2001)	"In Your Eyes" (2002)

"Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a pop dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. One of her most critically and commercially successful singles, it was produced by Dennis and Davis and released as the first single from Minogue’s eighth album, Fever, in the third quarter of 2001. In the upbeat eurodance song, Minogue describes how she cannot stop thinking about her lover.

The single sold 306,648 copies in its first week in the UK and sold 1,037,235 copies by the end of the year in the UK alone. The single peaked at number one in forty countries, selling 9.812.000 copies worldwide. The song became Minogue's first hit in the United States in thirteen years, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became a dance club hit in the U.S., peaking at number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

UK CD Single 1

1. Can't Get You Out of My Head
2. Boy
3. Rendezvous at Sunset
4. Enhanced Video Section

UK CD Single 2

1. Can't Get You Out of My Head
2. Can't Get You Out of My Head (K & M's Mindprint Mix)
3. Can't Get You Out of My Head (Plastika Mix)

Maxi Single

1. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Original Radio Edit) – 3:50
2. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Original Extended Mix) - 5:07
3. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (QS Secret Mix) - 6:57
4. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Gary Gees Contact Mix) 6:47
5. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Superchumbo Mix) - 8:50
6. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Charles Hart Mix) - 5:38

Contents 1 Music video 2 Awards 3 Chart performance 4 Live performances and covers 5 Trivia 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Music video

Its accompanying music video showed Minogue driving towards the Stanley Kubrick-inspired city and shows back-up dancers practising taebo. It then went to focus Minogue in a sporty-clad outfit. Minogue was then seen with other dancers in a computer generated futuristic city. Her white, hooded costume with plunging necklines and wide open slits revealing her body figure, was widely discussed both for its fashion style and for Minogue's overt sexual posturing. Lastly, she again appears in a curly hairdo with a metal-like costume which was later used for her back-up dancers' performance in "I Believe in You" on her Showgirl Tour in 2005.

In 2002, the video, directed by Dawn Shadforth, won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography; it was considered largely responsible for the song gaining rapid airplay in each territory in which it was released.

[edit] Awards

Dennis and Davis, as composers, won the Ivor Novello Award for "The World's Most Performed Song" for 2001. It also won Minogue several awards throughout the world, including ARIA Awards for Australia's highest selling single of the year, and "Best Pop Recording". Minogue also received an ARIA Award for "Special Achievement" for her career success during this period, largely attributed to the success of this single.

[edit] Chart performance

The release of the single was considered crucial to solidifying Minogue's success after she returned to widespread popularity in the United Kingdom and Australia the previous year with the album Light Years, her first major success for almost a decade. The single topped the charts of each country for 4 weeks.

It was the top selling single in Europe for sixteen consecutive weeks, and it remained in Europe's Top 10 for almost six months: in Italy the single topped the chart for ten consecutive weeks, spending the most number of weeks at the top of the Italian chart in 2001^[1]. This widespread popularity led to radio in the United States playing the single. It ultimately became Minogue's first American Top 40 single since "It's No Secret" in 1988, when it reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002. It was only her second Top 10 single there, her first being "The Loco-Motion" (which reached a higher peak of number 3), also in 1988. "Can't Get You out of My Head" also reached number one on the American Billboard Magazine Dance and Club Charts. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" was certified gold for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States on 8/15/05.

The United World Chart, a worldwide chart system based on record sales, radio airplay and legal downloads placed the song at number one for nine weeks. Based on a points system it was credited as the world's 3rd most popular song of 2001, and the 10th most popular song of 2002. It should be noted however that the delayed success in the United States led to the figures being split between the two years. The total points awarded to this single, make it the most popular song of the two years combined.

[edit] Live performances and covers

A live appearance at the Brit Awards in early 2002, during which Minogue performed the song against the backing track of New Order's "Blue Monday" led to a renewal of interest in the song. Commonly known as "Can't Get Blue Monday out of My Head", this new version was released as a B-side on the "Love at First Sight" single, and gained a second lease of life with renewed nightclub and radio airplay. New Order subsequently also sampled Minogues song in some of their 2005 live performances of "Blue Monday".

When actress Winona Ryder was being accused of shoplifting, a successful parody was made and spread through the Internet, titled Can't Get Her out of My Store. "Can't Get You out of My Head" has also been covered by The Flaming Lips and appears on their Fight Test EP.

During their Beautifulgarbage" tour, Garbage also covered the song.

The Italian songwriter Carmen Consoli also included a cover of the song in her English album Carmen Consoli and in Un sorso in più live album.

On May 18, 2005, the day after Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer, singer-songwriter Tori Amos performed the song at her Melbourne show in honour of Minogue, whom she met and became friends with in 1998. Glastonbury headliners Coldplay and Basement Jaxx also covered the song as part of their 2005 sets, after Minogue's illness forced her to pull out of her headlining appearance at the festival.

"Can't Get You out of My Head" was performed in the reality television program, Hit Me Baby One More Time, by Hazel O'Connor in the UK version, and Missing Persons in the U.S. version.

The song was snippeted by Bono during "Elevation" at U2s November 10 Vertigo Tour show at Telstra Stadium in Sydney, the night before Minogue's comeback show in Sydney. Interestingly, the following night Bono snippeted "Spinning Around" during "Elevation".

Another remarkable cover is the slow, romantic version by Helena Noguerra found on the 2005 album Née dans la nature.[1].

[edit] Trivia

• In his 2003 book I Don't Mean to Be Rude, But...: Backstage Gossip from American Idol & the Secrets that Can Make You a Star, BMG Records executive and Pop Idol/American Idol judge Simon Cowell cites "Can't Get You out of My Head" as one of the five all-time greatest pop records.
• The song set an airplay record in the United Kingdom where it registered 3000 plays in a single week. The record remained until broken by Minogue's "Love at First Sight" which registered 3200 plays in a single week in 2002.
• Indie-pop band The Unicorns were known to cover the song live during the breakdown of their song "The Clap".
• "Can't Get You out of My Head" was released in the United Kingdom on the same day as Victoria Beckham's solo debut, "Not Such An Innocent Girl". The British press publicised both singers and wrote of a supposed feud between the two. Despite selling enough copies to reach number one in most weeks, Beckham sold less than a quarter of the number of copies sold by Minogue. Her single then quickly descended the charts while Minogue spent four weeks at number one.
• Kylie's 4-week run at the top of the charts in the UK kept Michael Jackson's come-back single "You Rock My World" off the number one spot.
• The song was played in a commercial for Toyota automobiles.
• The song was played during the different seasons of the American reality TV series Average Joe. The song was played when the "hunks" were introduced to the group of potential suitors.
• The track also appeared in Series 3 of The Sopranos when one of the show's main characters "Christoper Moltisanti" chats to a friend in the local gym.
• In an episode of The Simpsons called "Mommie Beerest", Moe's Tavern closes down, prompting him to tell his patrons to get their beer from a gay bar across the street from which "Can't Get You out of My Head" is playing. This is a reference to Minogue's status as a gay icon.
• The song reached number one in every single European country - except Finland and Albania.
• The song was performed by the members of Coldplay during the final Sydney concert of the Twisted Logic Tour as a tribute to the Australian music industry.

[edit] References

1. ^ FIMI.it Italian single chart in 2001

[edit] External links

• Worldwide chart positions for "Can't Get You out of My Head", and other singles from the album Fever

Preceded by: "Can We Fix It?" by Bob The Builder	ARIA (Australia) number one single September 16, 2001 - October 7, 2001	Succeeded by: "Because I Got High" by Afroman
Preceded by: "Hey Baby" by DJ Otzi	UK Singles Chart number one single September 23, 2001 - October 20, 2001	Succeeded by: "Because I Got High" by Afroman