"Spinning Around" is the lead single from Light Years (2000), Kylie Minogue's seventh studio album. The disco-influenced dance-pop song addresses the theme of reinvention, with Minogue (pictured performing the song) claiming that she has changed as a person and learned from the past. Released in June 2000, it received favourable reviews from music critics, who regarded it as one of the album's highlights and praised Minogue for returning to her signature musical style. The song was a commercial success and became Minogue's "comeback" single following the critical and commercial disappointment of her sixth studio album Impossible Princess (1997). It entered the Australian Singles Chart at number one, becoming the singer's first chart-topper since "Confide in Me" (1994). The song also debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, and was her first UK number-one single since 1990. The accompanying music video features Minogue dancing and enjoying herself in a disco. It became popular for the gold hotpants she sported in most of the scenes and led to a media "fetish" regarding her bottom. "Spinning Around" has been performed by Minogue during most of her concert tours.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1907:
Brazil became the third country in the world to start construction on a dreadnought battleship (pictured), sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_dreadnought_race
1942:
World War II: Captured French General Henri Giraud escaped from German captivity in the Königstein Castle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Giraud
1969:
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan
1975:
The Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot captured Phnom Penh, ending the Cambodian Civil War, and established Democratic Kampuchea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War
1984:
British police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London's St James's Square, resulting in an eleven-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
kasha: A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kasha
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We designate by the term "State" institutions that embody absolutism in its extreme form and institutions that temper it with more or less liberality. We apply the word alike to institutions that do nothing but aggress and to institutions that, besides aggressing, to some extent protect and defend. But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. --Benjamin Tucker https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tucker