Soft Spot TV ep. 7: Kylie's feeling much better, and Mikhail too
It always amuses me when fur lovers tell me they don't like feathers at all - especially as a lot of them don't seem to know the difference, judging by the various upload sites. People, just watch the best version of Kylie's White Diamond, address below, and then let me know what you think.
France
* Lââm - le sang chaud ( feat. Princess Aniès)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbBoCtclO4
French hiphop, but lovely fluffy bits. Note: avoid the low quality version, this is the good one (for youtube standards). Now, fluffy stuff and a good Laam song together, that would be something.
Ex-Yu
* Ana Nikolic - Vatra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUvcgbS00Y
Bad taste alert. Turbofolk (see Wikipedia) as we know it. The formula is: a dumb House beat, sex, some oriental and ethnic influences, sex, bad taste and sex; I love it. :-) Furs, feathers and nationalism and more sex are optional but frequent. Some furry bits in this one, including a classic white fox fur stole (with tail).
* Seka Aleksic - Crno i Zlatno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_aG4_WUCK0
Bad tast alert 2. Turbofolk for the feathery people.
Ayu
* Ayumi Hamasaki - Jewel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhSkjzxfdwU
Lovely fur hood and cuff. Kawaii song too (giggles). HQ vid.
* Ayumi Hamasaki - Bold n Delicious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKFKkgiJWi4
Repost, in case you didn't have it yet. I never leave the house without it.
* Ayumi Hamasaki - My name is woman (Arena Tour '05)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEyT-VA3Xxg
(Possibly a repost, I don't remember.) Ayu acting as domina in white feathers, thankfully the malesubs clear off after a minute. Great feathers - beat that Madonna. Version with subtitles. Video encoding itself LQ-MQ, sadly.
Kylie
Kylie Minogue - White Diamond (live Showgirl Homecoming tour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5-J7BBsHQ
Probably the best feather clip EVER. It's so good it almost makes me weep. The HQ in the Youtube address is probably coincidental, but it is very, very deserved... Kylie iswearing ostrich feather (probably 'virgin', the top quality), costume designed by John Galliano no less, the dancers wear Lido-designed outfits with a lot of marabou feather (the stuff usually taken for fake fur). Now, just lets pray there'll be a DVD...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DE5l85Dkl8
Another version form a different angle, it says HQ in the description, well... HQ for a cell phone, but still nice
* Kylie Minogue - On a night like this (live Showgirl Homecoming)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6_h6_uQM0M
More feathers! Would have been as good as the above (not the cell phone version), but no feathery dancers in it. It still has lovely close up shots though.
The history of this costume is a case of 'every dark cloud has a silvery lining'. In the original Showgirl effect, it seemed the sky was the limit for the feather costumes (I suspect Kylie had been dreaming of doing something like all her livf, and she admitted in the past she likes playing the showgirl persona behind it, also see her performance at the Sydney Olympics), but the designer had to take some limitations in mind - after all, she'd have to move about in it a lot. After Kylie's promise to her Ozzie fans, who had to wait because of her tour cancelation to come back with an even bigger show), this limitation was thrown out of the window - physically, Kylie still had to hold on to the brakes as she's still recovering from her breast cancer. Hey presto, the new huge pink costumes, which I like at least twice as much as the more modest original blue one (which I liked as well).
posted by Eric ForFriends @ 8:54 AM
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