Let's Get to It

Let's Get to It
Studio album by Kylie Minogue
Released 14 October 1991 (1991-10-14)
Recorded 1990-1991
Genre
Length 39:04
Label
Producer
Kylie Minogue chronology
Rhythm of Love
(1990)		 Let's Get to It
(1991)		 Kylie Minogue
(1994)
Singles from Let's Get to It
  1. "Word Is Out"
    Released: 28 August 1991
  2. "If You Were with Me Now"
    Released: 21 October 1991
  3. "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
    Released: 13 January 1992
  4. "Finer Feelings"
    Released: 13 April 1992

Let's Get to It is the fourth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue, released on 14 October 1991 by PWL Records. Like the majority of her previous recordings, production credits and creations were handled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, but also featured other writers and producers for the works of the studio album.

Critically, the album received mixed reviews from music critics. Most critics noticed a musical and symbolic change towards Minogue's image, but criticized most of the input of the record. Let's Get To It remains Minogue's least successful studio album to date, missing the top ten in both her native Australia and United Kingdom. Nonetheless, the album was certified gold in Australia.[2] A promotional tour, entitled Let's Get to It Tour managed to have success around Europe.

Background

Club music was the main inspiration for Minogue during the time working on the album.

In Minogue's interview on the December/January 1991 issue of Follow Me, she was said to be recording her new album in a studio in Los Angeles. She said to the reporter she was feeling the "adrenaline rush" involved in taking some control of her artistic output for the first time.

Half of the album she recorded as usual with her long-time collaborators, the English songwriting and record producing trio, Stock Aitken Waterman, but for the other half, she went to Los Angeles to seek out her own producers and co-writers.[3] However, during this time, Matt Aitken left the trio, because he felt he was "burnt out." "People say all our records sound the same, but it came to a point where they started sounding all the same to me," he said.[4]

Smash Hits said she told them how a lot of her new songs are "pretty different." "Everything from big band swing stuff to a more soulful kind of thing," they stated.[5] Minogue also said that she hoped to find time to do some more recording that year. "I may do some more writing in America which may lead to another recording there," she told.[6]

During this time, Minogue was fascinated by club music. Although her music was always played in commercial clubs, but the pop element of her earlier works made the "cooler clubs" tend to "frown upon." Minogue then created an alias for herself as "Angel K," set about releasing white label promotional vinyl's of tracks included "Do You Dare" and "Closer", both of the songs later appeared as B-sides on "Give Me Just a Little More Time and "Finer Feelings", respectively.[7]

Composition

Janet Jackson appeared on the album as one of the interpolations for "Too Much of a Good Thing."

Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the album her most "diverse set of songs yet."[8] In Social Theory in Popular Culture, Lee Barron noted her significant musical differences from her "initial formula" of the early works in the album and the previous, Rhythm of Love, with the latter has "a sound even flirting with R&B influences."[1]

The first track of the album, "Word Is Out", is a new jack swing[8] and R&B[9] track, with "swingbeat big band sound."[10] "Too Much of a Good Thing" is a house track which contains interpolations from Janet Jackson's "Control" and "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.[8] "If You Were with Me Now" was compared by to "Disney duet balladry." The techno-pop[8] "I Guess I Like It Like That" includes a stadium keyboard part that lays the foundation of the song—which Chris True from AllMusic called it one of album's "noticeable missteps", an interpolation of "I Like It Like That" by Salt-N-Pepa and a sample from "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited.[11]

"I went to bed, and, and I literally was in bed thinking of all these records that I had in my life [...] I was going through the library mentally thinking, what song would she never have done that we could do that was just a great song. And one of my favorite songs was Chairman of the Board's 'Give Me Just a Little More Time.'"

http://louderthanwar.com/interview-pete-waterman-with-kylies-first-four-albums-getting-the-deluxe-reissue-treatment-we-talk-to-the-producer-behind-them/

Release and packaging

The artwork was photographed by German fashion photographer Jürgen Teller. "The album cover will worry fans the most," said Minogue. "I like it, but it's black and white and there are three men with me. You don't realise they're men until you look at it carefully - you think they're just shapes around the edge. You wonder what I'm thinking because I've got this weird expression on my face which people haven't seen before. [...] It's going to be interesting to see what people make of the album cover."[12] Chris True from AllMusic said the cover is "kind of creepy."[11] In the cover, she wore a dress which was designed by Nobuhiko Kitamura for Japanese fashion brand Hysteric Glamour, was described as a mini dress with "stretch lycra, multi-coloured green, yellow pink vanity print, sleeveless, shoe string shoulder straps in same fabric." The dress was later donated to the Cultural Gifts Program of the Arts Centre Melbourne by Minogue herself in 2004.[13]

Promotion

Reception

Critical responses

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[11]
Digital Spy[8]
PopMatters[14]
Select[15]

Chris True from AllMusic gave the album two and a half stars, called the album is "certainly as danceable" as her previous work Rhythm of Love but "not her most solid release, but fans of her early work will enjoy it."[11]

Joe Sweeney from PopMatters the album's musical styles make it "sound more dated by half than Rhythm of Love."[14]

Digital Spy claimed their readers not to let the Stock Aitken Waterman fool them.[8]

Nick Griffiths from Select

Nathan Wood from Foxtel's MaxTV called the album "a musical exploration"[16]

Minogue had also received a nomination for Best Female Artist category at the sixth ARIA Music Awards in 1992 for her work on the album.[17] [18]

Commercial performance

Let's Get to It is Minogue's least successful album to date.

After the success of "Give Me Just a Little More Time", which released in January 1992, the album got back on chart at number 68 in January 11 then went off. Three weeks later, the album went back with number 50 in February 1.

Track listing

All songs written and produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman, except Credits adapted from the liner notes of Kylie.

("Right Here, Right Now" below is entirely unrelated to the better-known song of the same name Minogue recorded in 2015).

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Word Is Out"  
 3:35
2. "Give Me Just a Little More Time"  
  • Ronald Dunbar
  • Edyth Wayne
 3:08
3. "Too Much of a Good Thing"  
 4:24
4. "Finer Feelings"  
  • Stock
  • Waterman
 3:54
5. "If You Were with Me Now" (duet with Keith Washington)
  • Minogue
  • Stock
  • Waterman
  • Keith Washington
 3:11
6. "Let's Get to It"  
  • Stock
  • Waterman
 4:49
7. "Right Here, Right Now"  
  • Minogue
  • Stock
  • Waterman
 3:52
8. "Live and Learn"  
  • Minogue
  • Stock
  • Waterman
 3:15
9. "No World Without You"  
  • Minogue
  • Stock
  • Waterman
 2:46
10. "I Guess I Like It Like That"  
  • Minogue
  • Stock
  • Waterman
 6:00
Total length:
 39:04
Notes

Release formats

Other releases

Charts

Charts (1991) Peak
position
scope="row" Australian Albums (ARIA)[19] 13
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[20] 37
scope="row" UK Albums (OCC)[21] 15
Charts (1992) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC)[22] 50

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[23] Gold 35,000

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Let's Get to It.
  • Leroy Osbourne – backing vocals
  • Miriam Stockley – backing vocals
  • Mick Wilson – backing vocals
  • Dave Ford – mixing
  • Peter Day – engineer
  • Gordon Dennis – engineer
  • Matt Le Flem – assistant engineer
  • Jason Barron – assistant engineer
  • Dean Murphy – assistant engineer
  • Dillon Gallagher – assistant engineer
  • Chris McDonnell – assistant engineer
  • Les Sharma – assistant engineer
  • Juergen Teller – photography

Notes

  1. 1 2 Barron 2012, p. 65
  2. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  3. ↑ "Kylie Vamps Up". Follow Me. 1990–1991. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "Kylie Interview: "Sexbomb!!? Never call me that!"". Smash Hits. Emap Metro. 1991. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Kylie says: 'I love them!!'". Smash Hits. Emap Metro. August 25, 1991. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ Staff writer(s) (August 3, 2002). "Kylie Minogue Special". Rage. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nick Levine (May 22, 2010). "Music The Sound - Kylie: Revisited #4: 'Let's Get To It". Digital Spy. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  9. ↑ Robert Copsey (February 8, 2013). "Kylie Minogue signs to Roc Nation: What does it mean?". Digital Spy. Hearst Corporation. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ Eggar, Robin (August 25, 1991). "Kylie: The word is out". Sunday Mirror Magazine. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Chris True. "Let's Get to It - Kylie Minogue". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ "I look weird on my new album". Big!. 1991. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  13. ↑
  14. 1 2
  15. ↑ Griffiths, Nick (December 1991). "Reviews: New Albums —- Let's Get to It - Kylie Minogue". Select. Emap Metro. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  16. ↑
  17. ↑ "Winners by Year - 1992". ARIA Awards. Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  18. ↑
  19. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Kylie Minogue – Let's Get to It". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  20. ↑ "カイリー・ミノーグ – あなたもＭ？". Oricon.co.jp. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  22. ↑ "1992-01-26 Top 40 UK Albums Archive". Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  23. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1991 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.

References

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