A Grind-My-Gears Pop Music Friday

Kylie Minogue's tenth studio album, X, is being released in the US on April 1, four months after its international release. And not being able to...hear it...until...next...week...really...grinds my...gears?

Ah, I done heard it, and the only US addition to the album sounds like a good excuse to just stick with the import.

SOME APPEARANCES BY KYLIE THAT DO NOT GRIND MY GEARS ON THE FOLLOWING U.S. TV SHOWS THAT DO GRIND MY GEARS...NEXT WEEK!

• KYLIE TO APPEAR ON THE TODAY SHOW - MONDAY MARCH 31ST Multi-Platinum Kylie Minogue will visit the U.S. the week of X's release starting March 31st with an exclusive, live, gear-grinding interview with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show at 8:30 am EST (check your local listings for times)
• KYLIE ON ABC'S 'DANCING WITH THE STARS' ON TUESDAY APRIL 1ST! The pop icon will make a very special performance on ABC's hit show Dancing With the Stars, where she will perform "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" and the first single for the US, the gear-grindingly hip-hopified "All I See"!

Until today, I just thought the singles that were coming out were doing so globally, but I guess not. It's not like anyone would notice that MTV wasn't playing the video for "Wow," even if it had been a US single.


Or like that time when Natasha Bedingfield released the US version of her album, but left off the best UK single, or at least the best single about wanting babies. For a while I thought she was saying "I wanna have your babies/I'm serious like rabies" and that was even better. That ground my gears a little bit, too, being wrong about that, but things are better now.