Just a guess, but her musis is/was mostly dance music, so outside of the clubs it probably wasn't heard very much.
She's not American. She hit it big in the UK for various reasons (Neighbours, Stock Aiken Waterhouse productions) and because the UK has an affinity for Australian influences.
In the US though, they tend to favour home grown talent over international talent. There are some exceptions such as Adele, but mostly they stick to their own.
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3 years ago
I think there’s a lot of truth to what you say. There’s a long list of European / Australian artists who have been very successful in many territories but never cracked the US.
The odd thing about Kylie and America is that the US is surrounded by countries who love her. She’s had success on the Canadian charts, she’s massively popular in South America… it’s like the USA never knew quite what to make of her!
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Cognoscente (2778)
3 years ago
The Street Fighter movie didn't exactly give her the career boost that she wanted.
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3 years ago
Indeed 😆
Neither did Bio-Dome. She visibly cringes every time either one is mentioned in interviews. It’s a shame her first film The Delinquents did nothing outside of Australia and the UK, it really showed her potential as an actress, which you’d be forgiven for thinking she had none if you’d only seen her abysmal performances in those two train-wrecks.
https://youtu.be/a4PnXeb7G3Q
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TMC-4 (20491)
3 years ago
TV Tropes in their "Americans Hate Tingle" category, has a write up about Kylie Minogue:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AmericansHateTingle/Music
This dissonance may be explained by how, while Europe remained friendly to pop through the early 1990s (the years when Minogue's career was just starting to take off), the US flat-out revolted against it during the same time period. When she first hit the scene in 1987, Minogue was merely a manufactured bubblegum pop artist in a market over-saturated with such. With Rhythm of Love in 1990 and Let's Get to It in 1991, she took creative control of her career and image, broke from the Stock Aitken Waterman team, and redeemed herself as a mature, credible artist while most of her peers fell into obscurity. However, Rhythm of Love suffered the worst possible timing: it was released on November 12, 1990, just two days before Milli Vanilli's manager/producer Frank Farian admitted that the duo never sang the music on their records. This created a huge backlash against bubblegum pop in America that fueled the rise of Grunge, Hip-Hop, R&B, and adult alternative, and killed the careers of just about every American pop artist who wasn't playing a more R&B-inflected sound like Mariah Carey or Michael and Janet Jackson (save for the "Queen of Pop" Madonna, and even she went through a Dork Age around this time). By the time the backlash subsided in the late '90s, Minogue's disco and Synth-Pop-flavored style had diverged far from the new wave of American pop, which was influenced by R&B and hip-hop. Even after the internet exposed Minogue to a wider American audience, she's still seen as more of a niche artist popular among gay men rather than an international juggernaut. She's probably better known for her roles in So Bad, It's Good films like Street Fighter, Bio-Dome, and Doogal than she is for singing among Americans.
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