Kylie is on fire right now. Snoozy album X is behind us (shout out to the amazing, neglected "Speakerphone") and Aphrodite is almost a third full of greatness ("Closer" is almost her "Visitors"), a third full of goodness and a third (and a bit) of shit, an amazing strike rate for a Kylie album. She sounds stronger, feistier, more in control too and it suits her.

With the now now traditional crap first single out of the way Kylie can now get down to business with a proper tour-friendly anthem. "Get Out Of My Way" fits Kylie like a sequined glove and could only have been improved had it been a zeitgeist-shaking duet with the resurgent Dannii - a new aligning of the stars not seen since Dannii donned a black wig to came in (the amazing) "What Do I Have To Do". Still, upstairs at London's G.A.Y. bar in Soho there will be a never-ending rotation of mostly overweight young gay boys and their best friends dancing their little hearts out to this in front of the video wall, pints exploding from the hands of anyone who dares step within arms reach, and it will be messy and tragic and a-mazing.

Doubly amazing is the video which is easily amongst her best without doing anything too particularly new. Directed by Berlin-based British duo Alex & Liane (Ting Tings "Not My Name", La Roux "I'm Not Your Toy", Cheryl Cole "Parachutes", Scissor Sisters "Laura") it almost gives "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", by expert Kylie-wrangler Dawn Shadforth, a run for its money in the Kylie canon - but that's probably because the Joseph Kahn directed (insert first single name I can't even remember here) was so unfortunate.

Like Aphrodite itself there are moments of Impossible Princess-era Kylie here - the 'light gloves' a reminder of the glowing Stéphane Sednaoui photos for that album. No bad thing. And does anyone roll on the floor as well as Kylie? What about as much? She's like a sexed-up version of Pat from We Can Be Heroes...

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Amazing (minus the red boots).