Enjoy Yourself (Kylie Minogue album)
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| Studio album by Kylie Minogue | ||||
| Released | 9 October 1989 | |||
| Recorded | February–July 1989 | |||
| Genre | Dance-pop, Doo-wop | |||
| Length | 32:56 | |||
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Enjoy Yourself is the second studio album by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by PWL on 9 October 1989. In the United States, it was released in 1990 by Geffen Records and was Minogue's last album released in the region until her eighth studio album Fever (2001). The album was produced and written by , with the exception of "Tears on My Pillow". It has been noted that the album is very similar to Minogue's debut album, Kylie.
There were four singles released from the album. The debut single was "Hand on Your Heart", which had charting success, peaking at number four in Australia and number one in the United Kingdom. The album also spawned the singles "Wouldn't Change a Thing", "Never Too Late" and a cover "Tears on My Pillow", which was featured on the soundtrack from Minogue's debut film The Delinquents.
Enjoy Yourself received mixed reviews from music critics, who regarded the album as "catchy" but criticised its similarity to Minogue's debut release. The album had commercial success, peaking in the top ten countries including Ireland, UK, Greece, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand. Following its initial success, the album was promoted through Minogue's first world tour, the Enjoy Yourself Tour. Beginning in 1990, the tour traveled to Australia, Britain and Asia.Enjoy Yourself reached number one in the United Kingdom, and produced two number one singles. In January 1990, the album was certified four times platinum in the UK, and sold over one million copies within the first ten weeks of its release.
In 1979, an 11-year-old Kylie Minogue was established as a child actress, appearing as a cameo actress in the TV series The Sullivans and Skyways. Both Minogue and her sister Dannii Minogue were child stars trying to achieve success in the TV industry of Australia, but Dannii received better opportunities as a TV actress than Kylie. At the time, Kylie became jealous of Dannii's new found success in Australia. In 1985, Kylie was cast as one of the lead roles on TV soap The Henderson Kids but her role only lasted one season, and was completed after two seasons. Interested in following a career in music, she made a demo tape for the producers of the weekly music programme Young Talent Time, which featured Dannii as a regular performer. Kylie gave her first television singing performance on the show in 1985 but was not invited to join the cast. Dannii's success overshadowed Kylie's acting achievements, until Kylie was cast in the soap opera Neighbours in 1986, as Charlene Mitchell, a schoolgirl turned garage mechanic. Neighbours achieved popularity in the UK, and a story arc that created a romance between her character and the character played by Jason Donovan, culminated in a wedding episode in 1987 that attracted an audience of 20 million British viewers.
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