Kylie Minogue – Cant Get You Out of My Head (Live Brit Awards 2002)

True to the title, this is a song you can’t get out of your head. It’s sometimes known as “The La La Song” because the chorus is Kylie singing “La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la” over and over, which combined with the irresistible groove makes it an effective earworm. The song even starts with that chorus.

The verses are an afterthought on this one, there to support the music. The lyric finds Minogue crazy in love, hoping she can spend a lifetime with this lucky guy.

This was written by Cathy Dennis and former Mud guitarist Rob Davis. Dennis had a few hits as a solo artist in the early ’90s, including “Just Another Dream” and “Too Many Walls.” Regarding “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head,” she told Songwriting magazine: “It was organic, we didn’t try and do anything contrived, so when something did spark we were both able to embrace it and jump on it and go with it. I thought the song is very ‘left of center’ for pop.”

Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis originally wrote this for S Club 7 after their manager, Simon Fuller, asked the duo to come up with a song for the British pop group. After Fuller heard the demo, he felt it wasn’t right for S Club 7 and rejected it. It was then offered to Sophie Ellis-Bextor, but she turned it down. Davis then met with Minogue’s A&R executive Jamie Nelson who, after hearing the demo cassette of the song, booked it for Minogue to record

“Can’t Get You Out of My Head” reached number one in 40 countries worldwide. In Australia, the song entered the singles chart at number one and remained there for four consecutive weeks.The Australian Recording Industry Association certified it three-times Platinum, for shipments of over 210,000 copies. In the United Kingdom, it faced competition from Victoria Beckham’s single “Not Such an Innocent Girl” (2001). On the 29 September 2001 UK Singles Chart, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” debuted at number one with first-week sales of 306,000 copies. It spent four weeks at number one and remained for 25 weeks in the UK’s top 40. It was certified three-times Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. As of 2021, it had sold over 1.53 million copies in the UK,  and by 2013 it was the country’s 75th best-selling single of all time. In the United States, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became Minogue’s best-selling US single since “The Loco-Motion” (1987). The Recording Industry Association of America certified “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” Gold for shipments of over 500,000 copies.

At the 2002 Brit Awards, Kylie performed a version of this to the beat of “Blue Monday” by New Order. This remix was released as the B-side of her 2002 hit “Love At First Sight.

“Can’t Get You Out of My Head” – Single by Kylie Minogue from the album Fever
Released 8 September 2001
Songwriters Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis
Producers Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis
Charted No.7 US; No.1 UK; No.1 Sweden; No.1 Australia; No.1 Austria; No.1 Belgium; No.2 Canada; No.1 France; No.1 Germany.

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