Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, playing tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson. She gained prominence as a recording artist in the late 1980s and released four bubblegum and dance-pop-influenced studio albums produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. By the early 1990s, she had amassed several top ten singles in the UK and Australia, including "I Should Be So Lucky", "The Loco-Motion", "Hand on Your Heart", and "Better the Devil You Know". Taking more creative control over her music, Minogue signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997), both of which received positive reviews. She returned to mainstream dance-oriented music with 2000's Light Years, including the number-one hits "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This". The follow-up, Fever (2001), was an international breakthrough for Minogue, becoming her best-selling album to date. Two of its singles, "Love at First Sight" and "In Your Eyes", became hits, but its lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" became one of the most successful singles of the 2000s, selling over five million units.
Minogue continued reinventing her image and experimenting with a range of genres on her subsequent albums, which spawned successful singles such as "Slow", "2 Hearts", "All the Lovers", "Santa Baby", "Timebomb" and "Dancing". With her 2020 album DISCO, she became the first female artist to have a chart-topping album in the UK for five consecutive decades. Minogue made her film debut in The Delinquents (1989) and portrayed Cammy in Street Fighter (1994). She has also appeared in the films Moulin Rouge! (2001), Jack & Diane, Holy Motors (2012) and San Andreas (2015). In 2014, she appeared as a judge on the third series of The Voice UK and The Voice Australia. Her other ventures include product endorsements, children's books, fashion, and charitable work.
Minogue was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2008 New Year Honours for services to music. She was appointed by the French government as a Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture. In 2005, while Minogue was on tour, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) degree by Anglia Ruskin University in 2011 for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. At the 2011 ARIA Music Awards, she was inducted by the Australian Recording Industry Association into the ARIA Hall of Fame. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2019 Australia Day Honours.
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Studio albums
Kylie (1988)
Enjoy Yourself (1989)
Rhythm of Love (1990)
Let's Get to It (1991)
Kylie Minogue (1994)
Impossible Princess (1997)
Light Years (2000)
Fever (2001)
Body Language (2003)
X (2007)
Aphrodite (2010)
Kiss Me Once (2014)
Kylie Christmas (2015)
Golden (2018)
DISCO (2020)
Tension (2023)
Drunk
Kylie Minogue Lyrics
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I need to save me from myself
I ache for great experience
There's a riot in my senses
Time and space and hurt and tears are not enough
Love and light and faith and words are not enough
Till you take all of me
You put me to the test and I understand
There's more and more and more to know
Don't take me halfway
I won't be contented that way
Time and space and hurt and tears are not enough
Love and light and faith and words are not enough
Time flies like my love for you and
Space grows like my envy for you
Hurt comes like my pain for you and
Tears pour like my lust for you
Love lies like my hope for you and
Light falls like my armour for you
Faith stays like my care for you and
Words wait like my crave for you
I'm not happy drunk till I'm drunken
Till you take all of me
I'm not happy waste till I'm wasted
Till you take all of me
The lyrics to Kylie Minogue's song "Drunk" seem to express an overwhelming desire for a profound connection with someone: the need to be consumed by love so completely that it leaves no room for anything else. The singer describes herself as "suffocated with desire" and needing to be saved from herself, indicating that she feels like her longing for this kind of intense relationship is consuming her to the point of self-destruction.
The chorus expresses this need for completeness even more explicitly, with the repeated phrase "I'm not happy drunk till I'm drunken / Till you take all of me." The suggestion here is that the only way for the singer to achieve true happiness is to lose herself completely in a relationship with someone who can take all of her: her love, her pain, her hope, her lust, and everything else.
The lyrics also touch on the idea that this kind of all-consuming love is hard to find, and that it requires more than just time and space and words. The line "Time and space and hurt and tears are not enough / Love and light and faith and words are not enough" suggests that something deeper and more meaningful is required, though what that might be is left unsaid.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm suffocated with desire
I feel overwhelmed with my longing for something.
I need to save me from myself
I need to protect myself from my own thoughts and feelings.
I ache for great experience
I have an intense yearning to have new and powerful experiences.
There's a riot in my senses
I have strong and powerful feelings that are difficult to control.
Time and space and hurt and tears are not enough
The passing of time, distance, pain, and crying cannot provide me with what I need.
Love and light and faith and words are not enough
Even though I have love, positivity, faith, and use words to express my thoughts and feelings, they are not enough for me.
You put me to the test and I understand
You challenge me in a way that I comprehend.
There's more and more and more to know
There is an infinite amount of information for me to acquire.
Don't take me halfway
Don't make an incomplete effort or incomplete advances towards me.
I won't be contented that way
I won't be satisfied with anything that is incomplete or unfinished.
Time flies like my love for you
The time I spend loving you seems to pass by quickly.
Space grows like my envy for you
The more time and distance there is between us, the more envious of you I become.
Hurt comes like my pain for you
I experience hurt in the same way that I feel pain for my love for you.
Tears pour like my lust for you
I cry in the same way that I deeply desire you.
Love lies like my hope for you
My love for you is as strong as my hope for our future together.
Light falls like my armour for you
I protect myself and you with the same level of strength and intensity as armour.
Faith stays like my care for you
My faith in our relationship is as enduring and strong as my feelings of care for you.
Words wait like my crave for you
My desire for you is as intense and patient as my need to express it in words.
I'm not happy drunk till I'm drunken
I can only be truly happy and free when I am completely intoxicated by my love for you.
Till you take all of me
I need you to fully accept and embrace all of me to reach this level of contentment.
I'm not happy waste till I'm wasted
I cannot find happiness or fulfillment until I have exhausted and invested all of myself in our relationship.
Lyrics © MUSIQWARE PUBLISHING GMBH
Written by: DAVID CHARLES SEAMAN, KYLIE ANN MINOGUE, STEPHEN JOHN ANDERSON
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