"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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Around>
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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>
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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>
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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>