I Should Be So Lucky

December 29, 1987 (Australia) January 2, 1988 ( GB)

I Should Be So Lucky is a pop song and the international debut single of Australian singer Kylie Minogue. She appeared on December 29, 1987 in Australia ( on January 2, 1988 worldwide) and became the number -one hit in at least seven countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Ireland and the UK. In other countries, the song reached the charts in the Top Ten, as number 4 in Austria. In the U.S., the song reached number 28

History

After Locomotion, a cover of The Loco -Motion, already in Australia had been successful, Kylie Minogue I Should Be So Lucky took, which was written by Mike Stock Aitken Waterman of Stock, when the singer was already in place, in less than an hour in London. The production team had the then internationally unknown Minogue have to wait 40 minutes because they had forgotten their arrival and wrote the song during this time. Then flew Minogue returned to Australia to continue to work on the soap opera Neighbours.

The bubblegum -like song, which was mainly, played with drum machines and synthesizers in part with guitars is held in a medium tempo of 120 beats per minute.

Reception

PopMatters wrote that song, " on almost frightfully perky tale of Romantic frustration, contains Practically every '80s dance music cliché. Numerous from the orchestra hits to the uncomfortably thin sounding drum machine "

Music Video

The music video was produced by Chris Langman and, taken in November 1987 in the Channel 7 studios in Melbourne, Australia. It shows how Minogue seems to walk through their homes, in other scenes she is shown against a background of a similar painted with color chalk board. Ins British and international music television came the video for the first time in January 1988.