Kylie Minogue: Can't Get You Out Of My Head at 20 - here's the story behind the star's biggest hit

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Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out Of My Head was released in the UK 20 years ago. Sky News has spoken to Rob Davis, one of the songwriters behind the hit, for a look back at how the star's biggest track was created and how it changed her career

It started in a garage-turned-studio at Davis's then home in Epsom, Surrey. Davis - who includes Spiller's huge summer 2000 hit Groovejet , featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and dance classic Toca's Miracle, also released in 2000, on his CV - co-wrote the track with Cathy Dennis, another former pop star turned acclaimed songwriter. It was the first time they had ever worked together.

Eschewing the traditional verse-chorus-verse pattern, Can't Get You Out Of My Head has an unusual structure."It's funny because at the time one of my publishers said to me, 'where's the chorus?' because it comes in with different hooks... this was almost chorus-bridge-chorus. But there's no rules, really. It's a good example, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, that you can go anywhere.

Davis says he and Dennis had a good feeling about the song, knew that in the right hands it could do very well."But there's other songs I've been excited about that haven't done as well," he says. So he didn't let himself get too excited. The song was originally sent to Ellis-Bextor's team, who reportedly passed, and S Club 7 were said to have been in the running at one point, too. Ellis-Bextor, says Davis, is a friend and"always has a grin" when it comes up; the song that got away.

"I don't think it could have been as big with anybody else," he says."It just worked for her brilliantly." Minogue's A&R representative wanted it immediately and, according to a 2012 interview with The Quietus, it took just 20 seconds of hearing the demo for the star herself to be hooked. She went to Davis's garage studio to record it.

 

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