Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
If you don’t know Towa Tei, you might recognise him from Deee-Lite (“Groove is in the Heart”). Personally, I prefer his side project Sweet Robots Against the Machine. But he’s also an excellent DJ, YouTube throws up a load of clips of him having fun on the decks.
1. I find the actual typeface made for the track rather pretty. Definitely of an era, but given how in that era's graphic design is right now I'm surprised I haven't seen more of it out and about
2. Sadly the article neglects to mention Haroumi Hosono, whose vocals are also on the track. If you haven't checked out his work, either solo or with YMO, it's well worth a listen.
(1) My respect towards Kylie Minogue, who I don't remember ever listening to, just got a boost. Maybe I should check out her other songs!
(2) The page has the most playful "Accept cookies?" control of what I've encountered so far.
Never thought I would see Kylie Minogue on HN; what a nice surprise.
I have a friend that's a retired music industry exec, and he loves it when I send gems I get from here, to him.
Sharing it.
Papyrus (SNL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
Papyrus 2 (SNL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0
Maybe one day she’ll be moved to sing by the simple elegance of my take on the classic 3278-2 terminal font.
And then there are the similarities, both video and song, between Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious from the UK musical/movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang… There was a mashup floating around somewhere, years ago. Probably lost.
Google hits for last-century-modern.ttf appear completely unrelated. But I guess that album/track name is a bit self referential? (there's also a remix LCM following the pattern of the earlier GBI)
This reminds me of the tweet where someone said their favourite font was "Ariana Grande".
I thought of The Concretes song, Fiction. The only song I knew that referred to a font ("This font should be bold.").
This song is in my library, completely forgot about it, thanks for bringing it back to me.
Some other artists I can recommend with similar specific Japanese vibes, Denki Groove and Yellow Magic Orchestra are really good.
great subject let down by an annoyingly weak article that focuses on memes for whatever reason.
another great unexpected music x font crossover is gucci mane tweeting about "Times New Roman"
"Whitney Mallett on That Kylie Minoque x Towa Tei Track"
Has the author misspelled Kylie's surname in the article heading or am I missing something?
an absolute classic... love towa tei <3
I had no idea a song like GBI even existed, let alone that it came with its own font!
Product market fit. Kylie has it.
This title really sounded like it was going to be about Suno.
[dead]
[flagged]
A Japanese house producer ex-member of Deee-Lite making a house track about a techno typeface sung by Kylie Minogue is the most late 90s thing I can imagine. It's like a rave flyer spontaneously gained sentience.