The One (Kylie Minogue song)
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"The One" is a song by Australian record artist Kylie Minogue
. It is her fifth and last single from her tenth studio album, X
(2007). "The One" was written by by Minogue, Richard Stannard, James Wiltshire, Russell Small
, John Andersson, Johan Emmoth and Emma Holmgren, the song was released as the album's fifth and final official single
. "The One" is a mid-tempo electropop song, although when the new mix was released as a single, it was a more upbeat dance-pop
and synthpop
song. The song was released as a digital download
, Minogue's second digital single after "Over The Rainbow
". "The One" had received generally positive reviews from music critics. "The One" was originally performed by dance music
group Laid and Emma Holmgren.
The song was a minor hit worldwide, mainly and only because it was released as a digital single. The song reached the top ten on the Australian Dance Charts, top forty in the UK and top five in New Zealand.
(2007). "The One" was originally performed by dance music
group Laid and Emma Holmgren. Their version, titled "I'm the One", was included on the dance compilation Mastercuts: Funky House in 2006. Minogue's version, however, features new verses
. The song had been written by a lot of writers by Minogue, Richard Stannard, James Wiltshire, Russell Small
, John Andersson, Johan Emmoth and Emma Holmgren and was produced by Stannard and Freemasons.
Originally, two official versions were released. The first version was the album version. According to Minogue in her interview, the single wasn't going to be released, until Freemasons had mixed the song.
said "though even that is topped by "The One", which follows in her fine tradition of making songs capable of both breaking your heart and shaking your rump." Giving the song four out of five stars, Nick Levine from Digital Spy
wrote: "This glittery, shimmering techno-pop beauty suits Minogue perfectly, and she responds by investing it with one of her better vocal performances, managing to sound angelic and lusty at exactly the same time. It won't be enough to save X, but 'The One' is a neat reminder that almost nobody beats Kylie when she's on top form."
on 20 October 2008. It didn't manage to peak in the ARIA Charts
, but it managed to peak at number ten on the Australian Dance Charts (ARIA
). It had been released in the United Kingdom
on 28 July 2008 as a digital download and also an exclusive physical release, but was later cancelled. It had entered The Official Charts Company at number thirty-six on 9 August 2008, but fell out on the twenty-three that month. It was released in New Zealand
on 22 September 2008 as a digital download. It didn't manage to chart on the RIANZ charts, but charted on New Zealand Airplay charts at number two, becoming Kylie's most successful single since her 2002 single "Cant Get You Out Of My Head" which charted at number one. It wasn't very successful worldwide, peaking at number 26 in Hungary
, number 38 in Czech Republic, 7 and 15 in Belgium, although in Slovakia became very successful peaking at number 6 and staying for 25 weeks on the chart, in Bulgaria became successful too, peaking at number 10 and staying in the charts for 13 weeks.
for "The One" had been filmed. The video premiered on the website in August 2008 and uses the Freemasons
' edit of the song. It starts off with a male dancer (Jason Beitel) and a female dancer (Nikki Trow) swirling around whilst a kaleidoscopic
effect of lights is in the background, often as produced by a spirograph
. Her first look is a long and straight blond hair. Minogue then appears dressed in a glamorous 1920s-looking outfit and her hair is tightly curled, featuring the spiral
visual motif. Throughout the video we see a continuation of the kaleidoscope effect and Minogue dressed in a long white silk dress, a black tightly cut dress and towards the end the singer is seen with Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses with a short haircut singing the last few lines of the song.
The song itself was not scheduled to be released in Latin America, however the video was delivered to music channels VH1
and MTV Brasil
for promotion.
The song was also performed on:
UK iTunes Single
Australia iTunes EP
European iTunes Single
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
. It is her fifth and last single from her tenth studio album, X
X (Kylie Minogue album)
X is the tenth studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It is her first release since the greatest hits compilation Ultimate Kylie , and her first studio album since Body Language . X was preceded by lead single "2 Hearts" and released worldwide in November 2007...
(2007). "The One" was written by by Minogue, Richard Stannard, James Wiltshire, Russell Small
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...
, John Andersson, Johan Emmoth and Emma Holmgren, the song was released as the album's fifth and final official single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
. "The One" is a mid-tempo electropop song, although when the new mix was released as a single, it was a more upbeat dance-pop
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...
and synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
song. The song was released as a digital download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
, Minogue's second digital single after "Over The Rainbow
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie...
". "The One" had received generally positive reviews from music critics. "The One" was originally performed by dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
group Laid and Emma Holmgren.
The song was a minor hit worldwide, mainly and only because it was released as a digital single. The song reached the top ten on the Australian Dance Charts, top forty in the UK and top five in New Zealand.
Background
"The One" was officially announced that it would be taken as the fourth official single and the last single from Minogue's tenth studio album XX (Kylie Minogue album)
X is the tenth studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It is her first release since the greatest hits compilation Ultimate Kylie , and her first studio album since Body Language . X was preceded by lead single "2 Hearts" and released worldwide in November 2007...
(2007). "The One" was originally performed by dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
group Laid and Emma Holmgren. Their version, titled "I'm the One", was included on the dance compilation Mastercuts: Funky House in 2006. Minogue's version, however, features new verses
Song structure (popular music)
The structures or musical forms of songs in popular music are typically sectional, repeating forms, such as strophic form. Other common forms include thirty-two-bar form, verse-chorus form, and the twelve bar blues...
. The song had been written by a lot of writers by Minogue, Richard Stannard, James Wiltshire, Russell Small
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...
, John Andersson, Johan Emmoth and Emma Holmgren and was produced by Stannard and Freemasons.
Originally, two official versions were released. The first version was the album version. According to Minogue in her interview, the single wasn't going to be released, until Freemasons had mixed the song.
Critical reception
The single had received generally positive reviews from music critics, although some negative as well. Chris True from Allmusic called the song a "cold, calculated dance-pop that is more indicative of her recent work". BBC MusicBBC Music
BBC Music is a team working in the department of Audio and Music Interactive at the BBC. Responsible for the BBC Music website - the portal site to music content across the BBC website....
said "though even that is topped by "The One", which follows in her fine tradition of making songs capable of both breaking your heart and shaking your rump." Giving the song four out of five stars, Nick Levine from Digital Spy
Digital Spy
Digital Spy is a British entertainment and media news website. According to Alexa Internet traffic statistics, as of February 2011, Digital Spy is the 93rd most popular website in the United Kingdom, with an overall Alexa ranking of 2,088....
wrote: "This glittery, shimmering techno-pop beauty suits Minogue perfectly, and she responds by investing it with one of her better vocal performances, managing to sound angelic and lusty at exactly the same time. It won't be enough to save X, but 'The One' is a neat reminder that almost nobody beats Kylie when she's on top form."
Chart performance
The song was released in AustraliaAustralia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
on 20 October 2008. It didn't manage to peak in the ARIA Charts
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
, but it managed to peak at number ten on the Australian Dance Charts (ARIA
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
). It had been released in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
on 28 July 2008 as a digital download and also an exclusive physical release, but was later cancelled. It had entered The Official Charts Company at number thirty-six on 9 August 2008, but fell out on the twenty-three that month. It was released in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
on 22 September 2008 as a digital download. It didn't manage to chart on the RIANZ charts, but charted on New Zealand Airplay charts at number two, becoming Kylie's most successful single since her 2002 single "Cant Get You Out Of My Head" which charted at number one. It wasn't very successful worldwide, peaking at number 26 in Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, number 38 in Czech Republic, 7 and 15 in Belgium, although in Slovakia became very successful peaking at number 6 and staying for 25 weeks on the chart, in Bulgaria became successful too, peaking at number 10 and staying in the charts for 13 weeks.
Music video
After weeks of speculation (and following the announcement that the physical release had been cancelled), it was confirmed on Minogue's official website that a music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for "The One" had been filmed. The video premiered on the website in August 2008 and uses the Freemasons
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...
' edit of the song. It starts off with a male dancer (Jason Beitel) and a female dancer (Nikki Trow) swirling around whilst a kaleidoscopic
Kaleidoscope
A kaleidoscope is a circle of mirrors containing loose, colored objects such as beads or pebbles and bits of glass. As the viewer looks into one end, light entering the other end creates a colorful pattern, due to the reflection off the mirrors...
effect of lights is in the background, often as produced by a spirograph
Spirograph
Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. The term has also been used to describe a variety of software applications that display similar curves, and applied to the class of curves that can be produced...
. Her first look is a long and straight blond hair. Minogue then appears dressed in a glamorous 1920s-looking outfit and her hair is tightly curled, featuring the spiral
Spiral
In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point.-Spiral or helix:...
visual motif. Throughout the video we see a continuation of the kaleidoscope effect and Minogue dressed in a long white silk dress, a black tightly cut dress and towards the end the singer is seen with Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses with a short haircut singing the last few lines of the song.
The song itself was not scheduled to be released in Latin America, however the video was delivered to music channels VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
and MTV Brasil
MTV Brasil
MTV Brasil is the Brazilian version of MTV, owned by Abril Mídia, the nation's largest magazine publisher, under license from Viacom - owned MTV Networks Latin AmericaMTV Brasil is one of two versions of MTV available in free-to-air terrestrial television...
for promotion.
Live performances
Kylie performed "The One" on the following concert tours:- KylieX2008KylieX2008KylieX2008 was the tenth concert tour by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue, in support of her tenth studio album, X . Originally announced as just a European tour, rumors of Minogue taking the tour to Australia, Asia, and America had surfaced in the international media...
:- Original version at the initial concert on May 6 (Paris) and on the 27 June concert (Belfast).
- "Freemasons Vocal Club Edit" in most subsequent dates.
- Impromptu acoustic version on the May 10 and 11 concerts (Oslo and Stockholm, respectively).
- Acoustic version of the first verse and chorus followed by full "Freemasons Vocal Club Edit" on the November 15 concert (Buenos Aires).
- For You, For Me TourFor You, For Me TourThe For You, For Me Tour was the ninth concert tour by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. This is Minogue's first concert tour in North America. The concert has received very favorable reviews from music critics...
: acoustic version of the first verse and chorus, followed by "Freemasons Vocal Club Edit" of the rest of the song. - Aphrodite World Tour: original version.
The song was also performed on:
- The Kylie ShowThe Kylie ShowThe Kylie Show is a one-off television special from Australian artist Kylie Minogue that aired on ITV on 10 November 2007 and was recorded at The London Studios...
2007 TV Special
Track listing
UK Promo CD Single- "The One" – 4:05
- "The One" (FreemasonsFreemasons (band)Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...
Edit) – 3:41
UK iTunes Single
- "The One" – 4:05
- "The One" (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix) – 9:14
Australia iTunes EP
- "The One" – 4:05
- "The One" (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix Edit) – 3:42
- "The One" (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix) – 9:14
European iTunes Single
- "The One" (Edit) – 3:36
Charts
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| New Zealand Airplay (RIANZ) | 2 |
| Russia (TopHit Russian Music Charts The Russian Music Charts are Russian music industry standard popularity rankings compiled weekly by 2M and Tophit . Albums and tracks rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through retail data captured electronically each week from Russian music retailers... ) |
61 |
Release history
| Country | Release date |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| New Zealand | |
| Europe | |
| Australia | |
| United States |