So Under Pressure
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| Single by Dannii Minogue | ||||
| from the album Club Disco and The Hits & Beyond | ||||
| B-side | "Feel Like I Do" | |||
| Released | 12 June 2006 (UK) 29 July 2006 (Australia) |
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| Format | CD single, digital download, 12-inch single | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
| Length | 3:52 | |||
| Label | All Around the World, Universal, Central Station | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dannii Minogue, Lee Monteverde, Michael Ward, Terry Ronald | |||
| Producer(s) | Lee Monteverde for LMC Productions | |||
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"So Under Pressure" is a dance-pop song performed by Australian singer Dannii Minogue. The song was written by Minogue, Terry Ronald and LMC, and produced by Lee Monteverde for Minogue's fifth album Club Disco (2007) and was also used as the lead single for her greatest hits compilation The Hits & Beyond (2006). The song's lyrics discuss the cancer diagnoses of Minogue's sister Kylie.
The song was released as a single on 12 June 2006 in the United Kingdom. It entered the top forty in Australia, Ireland and the UK and became Minogue's tenth consecutive Upfront Club Chart number one. The song's music video, directed by Phil Griffin, features Minogue in a variety of high pressure situations. She has described it as "the hardest video I've ever done".
In 2005, Minogue began writing and recording material with longtime collaborator Terry Ronald and British dance group LMC. During one of their sessions, they penned "So Under Pressure", which was inspired by the cancer diagnoses of her sister Kylie as well as that of an unnamed friend. Minogue has described the recording of "So Under Pressure" as a "real achievement" as she was "brave enough to put all [her feelings] into words".Allmusic reviewer John Lucas called the track one of "Minogue's more inventive moments".
"So Under Pressure" was officially released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 12 June 2006. The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart on 19 June 2006 at number twenty. The following week, "So Under Pressure" fell to number sixty and exited the chart in its third week of release. The track became Minogue's seventh consecutive Upfront Club Chart number one in the UK. In Ireland, the song reached number thirty-one, remaining on the singles chart for one week. "So Under Pressure" proved popular in Irish dance clubs where it reached number six on the Dance Singles Chart.
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