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Add Coldplay's rendition?

I read WP:COVERSONG, and it's a WikiProject's unofficial guideline, not official. I found USA Today and Rolling Stone mentioning Coldplay's 2005 rendition of the song and DailyMail mentioning the band's duet with Kylie herself in 2014. Shall this be (re-)included? --George Ho (talk) 08:00, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

C major - nonsense

"According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by EMI Music Publishing, the song is written in the key of C major, with Minogue's vocal range spanning from C₄ to D₅."

If somewhere the actual score (as opposed to the webpage on which it is presented) explicitly labels it as C major, then something is wrong. Clearly the score is of the song in D minor, but for some odd reason it has been notated without a key signature, and Musicnotes accordingly has it mislabelled as C major. I have seen several instances of key mislabelling on Musicnotes under various circumstances. The other scores of the same song on Musicnotes have it at the exact same pitch, with the appropriate D minor key signature and correctly labelled as such by Musicnotes. — Smjg (talk) 13:54, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've occasionally played it at open mic nights (and recorded my own version last night for the hell of it) and IMHO it's in A minor. Most of the track consists of repeated plagal cadences. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 12:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Subject

The lede says:

written ... by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis ... Its lyrics are about Minogue's obsession with her love interest

Why would Dennis and Davis write about Minogue's obsession? Especially in a song that was offered to offered it to S Club 7 and Sophie Ellis-Bextor ahead of Minogue.

The body text says:

"Can't Get You Out of My Head" is about an obsession with an unknown person...

which is more plausible, and more likely supported by sources.

And the former is currently on our main page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:28, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

She does sing like she means it, doesn't she... even if that person is unknown to us? But yes, the lyrics are about "the narrator's obsession with their love interest". Martinevans123 (talk) 15:46, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Boombox Remix album

I am surprised that the remix "I Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head" of the article subject on the above album is not mentioned. The wikilink of the track in the listing directs back to this article. I recall it being one of the early mashups to get major coverage in music media, and further critical acclaim for the artist. I should have thought there were sufficient souces to add a sub section for the article (and, no, I am not the content creator to do it...) LessHeard vanU (talk) 16:25, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]