"All the Lovers" is the scheduled lead single from Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue's eleventh studio album Aphrodite.[2] The track was written with Kish Mauve near the end of the sessions for what would become Aphrodite and produced by Stuart Price. Kish Mauve previously wrote and produced "2 Hearts", the lead single from Minogue's preceding album.[3] The song was released to radio on May 14, 2010.[4]
Background and release
"All the Lovers" was announced on 20 April 2010 via a teaser video uploaded to Minogue's official website, and is scheduled to be released on 28 June 2010, one week prior the album's release.[5] The song had its official premiere worldwide on 14 May 2010. The digital download was pushed forward to 13 June with a physical release to follow on 28 June 2010.[1]
Reception
Digital Spy described it as a "classy, danceable and effortlessly elegant electro-disco-pop tune - in other words, A Proper Kylie Single".[6]Attitude Magazine said "it is the best thing we have ever heard. You will dance. You will weep. You will weep while you dance."[7]Popjustice named the single "song of the day" on 14 May 2010 and said: "As well as being the sound of dancefloor stampedes from now until the end of time All the Lovers is also the sound of a million Kylie fans breathing a collective sigh of relief. It's grown up but carefree, bombastic yet delicate, sober in spirit and drunk on love. [...] It is very hard not to listen to this song on repeat."[8]Entertainment Weekly described the single: "[...] it’s not entirely clear that All the Lovers [...] is actually a full-on dance track, musically speaking. Despite Minogue’s enticing lyrical invitations to get down, the song’s sound is less in line with the urgent robo-rhythms of her 2007 hit Speakerphone than with the earnest dream pop of 2004′s I Believe in You, right down to their copycat basslines. Translation for the non Minogue-ophiles out there: it’s a head-bopper, not a hip-shaker. [...] It’s got an addictive groove, those famously breathy vocals, and a climax of soaring, tangled synths that would’ve been the perfect main-menu soundtrack for an Atari game of Studio 54. The dance floor can wait; we’re too busy enjoying this to get up right now."[9] A positive review came from The Village Voice where Rob Harvilla said that: "Kylie's at her best with just a slight element of menace/sleaze (2 Hearts, say), and this don't exactly qualify, but if you're 55 minutes into a spin class this'll still push you toward the summit.[10]Yahoo! Music UK said about the single: "Things look very different on Planet Pop since Kylie Minogue last strutted about the place, but All the Lovers has just the right mix of glitterball style and '80ssynth euphoria to suggest Lady Gaga's world domination is very far from a done deal."[11]
Music video
Joseph Kahn directed the music video for "All The Lovers".[12] The video was shot on May 8 and May 9, 2010 around the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[13]. The video will be premiered on May 28th. On May 25, 24 seconds preview of the video leaked on YouTube. The following day the video was removed by IFPI request.
