| "What Do I Have to Do" | ||||
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| Single by Kylie Minogue | ||||
| from the album Rhythm of Love | ||||
| Released | 21 January 1991 | |||
| Format | CD single 12" vinyl 7" vinyl Cassette |
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| Recorded | London, England | |||
| Length | 3:44 (album version) 3:33 (7" mix) |
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| Label | PWL/Mushroom | |||
| Writer(s) | Stock, Aitken & Waterman | |||
| Producer | Stock, Aitken & Waterman | |||
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"What Do I Have to Do" is a dance-pop song written by Stock, Aitken & Waterman for Kylie Minogue's third studio album Rhythm of Love (1990). It was produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman and received an overall positive reception from music critics. The song was released as the third single in the beginning of 1991 (see 1991 in music), although it was unable to match the success of the album's previous singles the song was still a European chart hit, peaking in the top ten in the United Kingdom at number 6. In Australia the song just missed the top ten, peaking at number 11.
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There are three official promotional mixes of the song. The early unreleased first version is synth orienated and has multilayered vocals. Much of the synth was omitted and the drums, bass and vocals were toned down for the second album version. The third version, the 7" Mix, contains a newer drum track, multilayered vocals in the chorus and relies much less on the synthesizers on the album version. This version of the song also contains some samples, including the stand-up act of American comedian Sam Kinison. Originally planned as the follow-up to "Better the Devil You Know", the track was specially remixed for single release and was accompanied by one of Kylie's most controversial, yet visually stunning, video clips to date. The 1999 biographical book Girl Next Door identified this track as Kylie's favourite to perform live.
The music video for the track was directed by Dave Hogan. The video to the single continued Minogue's transition to "sex siren". The sexual undertones running through the video proved too much for Saturday morning TV shows which aired a censored version of the video.
The music video begins with clips of the dance scene intercut with Minogue emerging from a swimming pool and her love interest seeing her with another man. Minogue then goes out to the balcony overlooking a fairground and the man follows. The video then shifts to the man watching Minogue dancing with a female friend in a club. The next scene is Minogue waking up in her lover's bed as he prepares to leave the bedroom. After this, Minogue singing on the bed is intercut with scenes of her singing and dancing in front of a white backdrop. The video goes back to her and her friend having fun in the club as the man stares at her again. Later, she sits on the bench overlooking the scene and takes a glance at a lookalike of her lover next to her. Following this, she gets up to dance as the man watches. Finally, she gets a tattoo on her back shoulder and shows it to her lover. The video concludes with all of Minogue's performance scenes intercut with her doing the ironing in a French maid's costume and on a date with her lover. The final shot is of Minogue and her lover walking across a bridge.
In relation to this video Kylie is quoted as saying "...how many Hollywood stars can you look like in three and a half minutes...". Kylie loves the glam and glitter of the sirens of the Hollywood age and was nodding her head in respect to them in this video. Her love of this genre was to become apparent and done with great aplomb later in her Showgirl extravaganza. This video was her first homage to her heroines, and remains a firm fan favourite.
(Not available at time of original release. Released for the first time as part of iTunes PWL archive release in 2009.)
Kylie performed the song on the following concert tours:
The song was also performed on:
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