Aphrodite Review

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From the four corners of the earth they come to venerate this idol; to worship and magnify; to wave a sea of adoring iPhones before her deified presence in order to preserve forever a transient moment of unutterable ineffability.

...Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of beauty and love. Attempts to derive her name from the Greek aphros (meaning ‘foam’) date back to antiquity. On this interpretation, Kylie is ‘she who is born of the foam’, or, as another of her names – Anadyomene – suggests, ‘she who arises from the sea’. And there’s quite a bit of Disneyfied video-projected water and the real thing is also liberally squirted about a bit. Kylie is cast as the ocean-spawned Aphrodite, goddess of fertility and flowers; her audience is the Dionysus of sex, wine and drunkenness.

... Kylie reveals nothing new, but her art speaks to those who yearn for a sense of pop reality. And that’s what sets her apart: in an age of manufactured bands, ubiquitous miming and the ephemeral fame of X-Factor mediocrity, Kylie emerged from the gastropod of Neighbours and is now in her third decade as a global pop diva. Her performance is actressy and raw; there’s even the occasional flat note. But it’s the charming authenticity the people want. And obligingly, the goddess delivers.