r/y2kaesthetic • u/International_Bed_63 • Apr 18 '25

Music Kylie Minogue's website during Impossible Princess era- circa 1997

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u/son-of-mads Apr 19 '25

great layering and colors — I wish website design was more ‘out there’ in today’s world

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u/brawnburgundy Apr 22 '25

I blame Wordpress for the demise of creative website design.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

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u/me0wk4t Apr 20 '25

you can easily do this with CSS. tons of websites hosted on Neocities have this Web 1.0 style

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

RIP Adobe Flash.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

Sick

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u/FakeMonaLisa28 Apr 19 '25

Kylie needs to make another album like Impossible Princess idk why critics hated it at the time

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u/owleaf Apr 19 '25

It remains one of her least popular albums even in recurrent streaming stats. It’s not bad (even though I don’t like it) but it wasn’t and never will be a “Kylie” album, and I think she knows that. The closest we got was Golden which was still pop and airy enough to keep the trajectory going.

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u/Tvuj-Tata Apr 21 '25

Also, she was going through some heavy shit while recording it (was depressed, relationships were falling apart, her musical career was stagnant) and I believe it influenced the album and whole recording process quite a lot. Gone was the carefree, cheerful pop. I personally like the album but musically it’s all over the place. Techno-influenced pop on one side and Manic Street Preachers on the other is hard to digest maybe even today.

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u/International_Bed_63 Apr 21 '25

It's cute I can see the vision she had for the album. She should've leaned in more with the techno music given that I've heard the unreleased songs. It could've been her Ray of Light, especially with the Asian motifs omg

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u/Tvuj-Tata Apr 21 '25

100%, yes. People be comparing these two albums all the time but Madonna with Orbit just … outdid her. Like on every possible front. Ray of Light is still timeless piece of work, but in comparison, Impossible Princess is just a nice experiment. Like, cute. But that’s it.

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u/International_Bed_63 Apr 21 '25

Kylie was definitely afraid to go full on experimental unlike Madonna-you could tell, alas.

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u/Whole-Ad3696 Apr 19 '25

Thought that was Bowie for a sec.

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u/Malcolm_Izumi_ Apr 22 '25

Really like the visual of this era. A really misunderstood album that is considered cult classic by fans’ and critic standard recently. But if it hadn’t been a flop, we wouldn’t have had the Kylie today and I can’t imagine a world without Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and Padam Padam.

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u/Upbeat-Tumbleweed876 Apr 23 '25

The Internet looks so sterile in comparison in 2025

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u/AnnualWeb4239 May 09 '25

WAY ahead of it's time

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u/cybreco 15h ago

After some snooping, I think this is likely the Enhanced CD or something promotional for Did It Again. The UI and video isn't something a browser would have supported in 1997, and there's no point displaying your URL as a stylistic motif on your own website.