[15][16] According to BBC Radio 2, the song's composition is "deceptively simple, but its veins run with the whole history of electronic music". Though some stitches on such a vast canvas are inevitably dropped Thatcher gets a pretty easy ride, and Muellers evidence of Russian election meddling gets brushed aside as a conspiracy theory its a tangled web which Cutis weaves like a master. [65], On 2 September 2001, Minogue performed "Can't Get You Out of My Head" at the BBC Radio 1 One Big Sunday show in Leicester, UK. It "explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power". Men? Which explains cancel culture and the divide between men and women. In 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', Curtis melds political history with pop culture (Photo: BBC) Can't Get You Out of My Head began as his response to the upheavals of 2016. [25], In 2012, The Guardian critic Everett True defined "Can't Get You Out of My Head" as "one of those rare moments in pop: sleek and chic and stylish and damnably danceable, but with a darker element hidden in plain sight". [50], The song was also certified Gold in Belgium, and New Zealand, Platinum in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland; and two-times Platinum in Italy. Premiering February 11, Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional Hi It is always exciting to be in receipt of the product of a single vision. ", "Can Kylie Minogue crack the US with her Disco album? The setting changes to a room where Minogue, now with straight hair and crimson lipstick, and wearing a white jumpsuit with a neckline plunging down to her navel, is striking poses. Whether you are convinced or not by the working hypothesis, Cant Get You Out of My Head is a rush. By Corey Seymour. [12], Instead of specially composed music, which Curtis has said "creates a sort of monoculture", he uses tracks from a variety of genres, decades, and countries, as well as sound effects that he discovers on old tapes. [45] As of 2021, it has sold over 1.53million copies,[46] and by 2013 it was the country's 75th best-selling single of all time. [18] True also said while Minogue's earlier work presented an optimistic romantic future, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" focuses on an unhealthy and potentially destructive obsession. The rather windy historical framework is familiar too. Originally titled What Is It That Is Coming?, the series was inspired by the rise of populism in 2016. This page was last edited on 31 March 2023, at 17:34. (Admittedly, only four episodes were available in advance, but Im guessing the series wont end on a note of good cheer.). 29 March 2021. In Germany, he hones in on the Baader Meinhof gang, destined to repeat the crimes of the Nazis they thought they were rooting out of society. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex "real world" and built a simpler "fake world" run by corporations and kept stable by politicians. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.. [17], "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is about an obsession with an unknown person, who according to The Guardian's Dorian Lansky could be "a partner, an evasive one-night stand or someone who doesn't know [the song's narrator] exists". [85] An acoustic-guitar-driven version of the song was performed on the Golden Tour (20182019). It also topped the Australian Singles Chart and received a three-times Platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association. The Gadfly: The revolutionary best-seller which inspired Adam Curtis's Can't Get You Out of My Head ISBN 9781922491268 1922491268 by Voynich, Ethel; Boole, Ethel Lilian; Voynich, E L - buy, sell or rent this book for the best price. The six hour-and-bit long documentaries set out to tell no more and no less than how we got from there to here. Likewise, his series shows the ever-changing nature of politics juxtaposed with its lasting effect on history. To do so, it takes in the scope of centuries, the influential stories of lesser-sung players and the ever-shifting tides of human psychology and how the worlds power structures have, throughout generations, sought to bend it to their will. As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. [33] In Australia, the song entered the singles chart at number one and remained there for four consecutive weeks. [15] In 2006, he was given the Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution to Television at the British Academy Television Awards. [17] The writer described the song's bassline as "pulsing" and influenced by the music of English rock band New Order and German electronic music band Kraftwerk. Its lyrics are about obsession with a love interest. 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' suggests our innate flaws are what's holding society back. It attempts to explain how modern society has arrived at where it is today: The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West . [55] The next scene depicts a number of couples dressed in black and white costumes performing a dance routine; they are soon joined by Minogue, who has wavy light-brown hair and is wearing a white tracksuit. [37], "Can't Get You Out of My Head" reached number one in 40 countries worldwide. [80] The following year, Minogue promoted The Abbey Road Sessions by performing at the BBC Proms in the Park at Hyde Park, London. [27] Writing for the Herald Sun, Cameron Adams placed "Can't Get You Out of My Head" at the top of his list of Minogue's best songs and called it "a happy accident". Dont know looms quite loudly on Keir Starmers focus word cloud, though dwarfed by Boring. Well, maybe although one individual who seems to have escaped this fate is Adam Curtis, who makes his assertions with such patrician certainty that it takes a while for us to stop nodding along sagely and go instead for an inward cry of But hold on a minute Is it really true, for example, that Jiang Qing, architect of the cultural revolution, was an advocate of individualism? This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. Anybody whos seen Curtiss previous series (including The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares and The Trap) will know what to expect. ", "adam curtis is making an illuminati-themed entrance into the dance world", "Massive Attack have collaborated with Adam Curtis for their 'Mezzanine' tour", "New Adam Curtis project lands on BBC iPlayer on Thursday 13 October", "Inside the Telluride Film Festival Lineup: "There Will Be Fighting", "BBC One, BBC Wales and iPlayer announce the Way, a new drama from Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis", "Adam Curtis as remixologist: the case for metajournalism as radical practice", Adam Curtis versus Joshua Oppenheimer, or art times journalism, Adam Curtis: "We don't read newspapers because the journalism is so boring", Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot, The Power of Auteurs and the Last Man Standing: Adam Curtis's Documentary Nightmares, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adam_Curtis&oldid=1142943204. [88] Everett True of The Guardian wrote the song continued Kylie's transition from the girl-next-door to "flirtatious, sophisticated persona" that started with the release of "Spinning Around" in 2000. [44] It was certified two-times Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. [8] In the United States, Capitol Records issued a 12-inch vinyl single on 8 January 2002. [79], A rock-oriented version of the song was performed during the Aphrodite: Les Folies Tour in 2011. I cannot sorry, very sorry, again get it out of my head. [13], According to a profile of Curtis by Tim Adams, published in The Observer: "If there has been a theme in Curtis's work it has been to look at how different elites have tried to impose an ideology on their times, and the tragicomic consequences of those attempts". [5] In a 2011 interview Dennis stated, "even though Kylie wasn't the first artist to be offered the song, I don't believe anyone else would have done the incredible job she did with it". "Can't Get You Out of My Head", which was written and produced by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis, is a dance-pop, techno-pop and nu-disco song that is known for its "la la la" hook. [10] In their book The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Nathan Brackett and Christian David Hoard labelled it a neo-disco track. 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' suggests our innate flaws are what's holding society back. [4], Adam Curtis was born in Dartford in Kent,[5] and raised in nearby Platt. A comprehensive investigation into the who, what, and why of the viral movement.N/A, Watch an unlimited TV series. Oh, and by arrogantly assuming in the 1920s that Iraq would function in much the same way as Hampshire, we inadvertently laid the foundations for ISIS. BBC viewers? That's complete rubbish. I cannot - sorry, very sorry, again - get it out of my head. [33] The performance was ranked at number 40 on The Guardian's 2011 list of 50 Key Events in the History of Dance Music. [8], Curtis completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in human sciences at Mansfield College, Oxford. It peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks and was certified two-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Satirical television program aired from November 4 to December 18, 2002. Curtis has plenty of great, hidden stories to tell here. Shooting and F**king are the Same Thing. Curtis cites the U.S.A. trilogy, a series of three novels by John Dos Passos that he first read when he was thirteen, as the greatest influence on his work: You can trace back everything I do to that novel because it's all about grand history, individual experience, their relationship. [17][58] As the video ends, Minogueagain with curly hair and wearing a lavender halter-neck dress with ribbon tile trim, performs a similar routine on top of a building at night. Within these six episodes, each at least an hour long, lie a multitude of revelations. [40][41][42] On the 29September 2001 UK Singles Chart, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" debuted at number one with first-week sales of 306,000 copies. [2], Other creative influences are Robert Rauschenberg and mile Zola. [24] Dominique Leone of Pitchfork wrote that the song "exudes a catchiness that belies its inherent simplicity, so reassuring during an era when chart acts sound increasingly baroque and producers race to see who can ape electronic music trends first". Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker. . He has acknowledged the influence of recordings made by Erik Durschmied and is "constantly using his stuff in my films". Can't Get You Out of My Head was crafted from a massive archive of music and video footage. At the series core, though, is an oh-too-predictable pattern, endlessly repeating. [1] According to Davis, it "breaks a few rules as it starts with a chorus and in comes the 'la's'". The journalistic vagueries of Adam Curtis's archive-trawling six-part series provoke further research but lack conclusiveness and rigour. In 2012, Minogue re-recorded the song for her orchestral compilation album The Abbey Road Sessions. History, wrote Edward Gibbon, is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. In this respect, though, history has nothing on the work of Adam Curtis, whose latest documentary Cant Get You Out of My Head has now arrived on BBC iPlayer all six episodes and eight and a half hours of it. And it's about collage of history as well. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021) HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis . The system-built housing of the 1960s. Composite: Guardian. If youre under the impression that the worlds problems began the day Trump found his caps lock button and ended the moment Joe Biden survived his inauguration with his frontal lobe intact, Adam Curtis has got news for you. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. I have a more libertarian tendency [] What's astonishing in our time is how the Left here has completely failed to come up with any alternatives, and I think you may well see a lefty libertarianism emerging because people will be much more sympathetic to it, or just a libertarianism, and out of that will come ideas. The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, reads the keynote quote from American anarchist David Graeber, and could just as easily make differently. Our innate pessimism amid such an intricate and immutable world order, however, has us leaving Cant Get You Out Of My Head fearing the worst. A six-part BBC documentary series that "tells the story of how we got to the strange days we are now experiencing. It covers a wide rangeincluding the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. Which mightnt matter so much, except for Curtis pretending so hard that they do. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power. But nevertheless, a triumph. Elisions Part 4 2:35 CURTIS: To many liberals in the west, the Communists had been heroes in their fight against America, which meant that the refugees did not deserve to be helped. Inspired by the division between political liberals and populists, filmmaker Adam Curtis demonstrates how all factions in the 21st century have lost the ability to establish a practical vision for the future. [72], In 2001, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" was included on the set list of Minogue's "On a Night Like This tour[73] and the encore segment of the KylieFever2002 tour, which promoted Fever. His earlier, shorter and more coherent series appeared on BBC2. The BAFTA-winning BBC documentarians latest series Cant Get You Out Of My Head the televisual equivalent of David Byrne bawling how did I get here? attempts to unravel the many threads of history that have interwoven into the shit blanket that is 2021. New music from electro noise-tamperers Django Django and the litfest Springsteens that are The Hold Steady. The chance technological solutions to relatively small problems that led to a capacity for mass surveillance and to unimagined power being handed to banks, giving rise effectively to a shadow system of government. 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About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers The idea that we are indeed living, as posited by various figures in the authors landscape and (we infer from the whole) the author himself, in a world made up of strata of artifice laid down by those more or less malevolently in charge becomes increasingly persuasive. Music critics praised the song's production and Minogue's vocals and labelled it a highlight of Fever. Britains modern-day schisms, meanwhile, are found to be rooted in the dented pride and belittlement of the collapse of the empire. [7] It was later chosen as the lead single from Minogue's eighth studio album Fever and Parlophone Records released it on 8September 2001 in Australia[7] and on 17September in the United Kingdom and other European countries. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. Adam Curtis, the critically acclaimed documentary maker, says he began his new film, Can't Get You Out of My Head, for two separate reasons that came together perfectly.The first was aesthetic . People who watch Adam Curtis documentaries?"[9]. (This is not an officially released documentary but "a rough cut". When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. [13] "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is written in the key of D minor. [1], In 2001, Minogue embarked on the On a Night Like This tour to promote her seventh studio album Light Years (2000). Back when he did oppose them, though, he reserved particular contempt for Jim Garrison (as played in the film JFK by Kevin Costner), who argued that the only method for working out what the powerful were up to was noticing coincidences and making links between them to reveal the sinister underlying pattern. Explains cancel culture and the divide between men and women between men and women is written in the key D! 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