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EMI announced this week that they’re releasing a new Greatest Hits compilation for former Australian soap actress turned British national treasure Kylie Minogue, marking 25 years since her first Pete Waterman produced hit The Loco-Motion.

Tracks for the CD were reportedly ‘chosen by the fans through extensive market research conducted by EMI late last year’ and include all the obvious choices such as her two best tracks ‘Better The Devil You Know‘ and ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’.

Almost continually at the top of the British pop charts throughout her career (apart from a near disastrous indie reinvention that saw her signed and rapidly dropped by Deconstruction) she also became a firm favourite of electroclash pop stars in the early noughties, including Fischerspooner and Scissor Sisters.

Discussing both Scissor Sisters’ (and Kylie’s) failure to crack America despite being huge in the UK several years ago, Jake Shears suggested it was due to their unexpectedly wholesome personas.

“If there’s one thing I can think of, and it applies to both Kylie and Scissor Sisters, it’s that our sexuality isn’t dark,” he told the Metro newspaper.

Casey Spooner from Fischerspooner, who delivered a fantastic electro-clash remix of Come Into My Life in 2004, also owned up to being a massive fan, in an interview with Skrufff also several years ago.

“When we worked with Kylie I was coming out of a really obsessive phase because I just loved her album “Fever” and I thought “Can’t get you out of my head” was a really amazing song, it was a pinnacle for her,” he recalled.

“I remember being in Spain at the time and buying a CD Walkman in order to listen to the CD while I was travelling; that tells you how long ago it was and how obsessed I was with her and her voice,” he admitted.

He also hilariously brushed off comparisons between Kylie and Paris Hilton (made by Paul Oakenfold during Hilton’s pop-princess phase), hailing Kylie’s incredible work ethic.

“I remember when I worked with her, she landed from Australia and went straight to rehearsal and worked her butt off and then went straight to the BBC television headquarters. When we taped our television performance together, she taped three more programmes that day. And they were all for completely different shows,” said Casey.

“She’s not just lying around watching TV and being rich. She’s also very talented, she can dance, sing, writes songs, she’s not like Paris Hilton. OK, Cathy Dennis helps but hey, there’s nothing wrong with being collaborative.”

EMI Catalogue will release ‘The Best of Kylie Minogue’ on June 4th.

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