"Your Disco Needs You" is a song by Australian singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue, taken from her seventh studio album Light Years (2000). The song was written by Minogue, Guy Chambers and Robbie Williams and produced by Chambers and Steve Power. Lyrically, "Your Disco Needs You" talks about the power of disco music.

The song peaked inside the top forty in Australia, Switzerland and Germany. Hugely popular as an album track, it was never released as a single in the United Kingdom because the song was considered "too gay" and "too camp", but charted at number 152 on the basis of import sales. Minogue has also performed the song on most of her 2000 and onward tours, including On a Night Like This Tour, Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour, KylieX2008, For You, For Me Tour, Kiss Me Once Tour, and most recently on her Kylie Summer 2015 Tour.

Background and composition

The lack of a single release for the track in the United Kingdom caused controversy among fans there, sparking protests outside her UK record company lobbying for this to happen. When considering the fourth single to be released from Light Years, Minogue's record label chose the Latin-sounding "Please Stay" instead of "Your Disco Needs You", due to the song's campness and to avoid Minogue being further stereotyped, although remixers Almighty had remixed the song and this version appeared on the UK CD single of "On a Night Like This". Heather Phares from AllMusic described the "German Almighty Radio Edit" song as a "Four-on-the-floor beat" and said that "Your Disco Needs You" was a surprisingly good "dance-oriented song". NME compared the song to the Pet Shop Boys' "Go West".

Reception

Critical response

"Your Disco Needs You" received critical acclaim from most music critics. Heather Phares from AllMusic gave the song a separate review, while giving it 3/5 stars. She described "Your Disco Needs You" as “glittery charm as well as a fun hidden song that's arguably more enjoyable than the title track.” Nick Levine from Digital Spy said if the song "doesn't put a smile on your face you need a new shrink". The song appeared on a compilation titled Rainbow Love Boat, which was reviewed by AllMusic, with Bradley Torreano writing that songs like "Your Disco Needs You" are “genuinely fun, exciting songs that may not be lyrical triumphs, but that fact is of little importance in the genre.”

Chart performance

"Your Disco Needs You" had limited success, due to being released in Germany and receiving a limited release in Australia. The song debuted at number twenty on the Australian ARIA singles chart, becoming the second-highest debut of the week, before descending to number forty-five the next week.

  1. "Your Disco Needs You" – 3:34
  2. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty radio edit) – 3:30
  3. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty remix) – 8:20
  4. "Your Disco Needs You" (Casino radio & club mix) – 3:40
  5. "Your Disco Needs You" (German album version) – 3:31
  6. "Password" – 3:49

Personnel

Your Disco Needs You

  • Backing Vocals – Kylie Minogue, Robert Williams*, Tracey Ackerman*
  • Bass Guitar – Phil Spalding
  • Choir [Male Choir] – Andy Caine, Carl Wayne, Clive Griffith, Dan Russell, Jon Savannah, Lance Ellington, Mick Mullins, Pete Howarth*, Rick Driscoll Tony Walthers
  • Drum Programming – Andy Duncan
  • Keyboards, Piano – Guy Chambers
  • Mixed By, Engineer – Steve Power
  • Producer – Guy Chambers, Steve Power
  • Programmed By – Steve McNichol
  • Written-By – Guy Chambers, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams
  • European CD single and digital download 1
  1. "Your Disco Needs You" (Casino radio & club mix) – 3:40
  2. "Your Disco Needs You" (UK album version) – 3:31
  3. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty remix) – 8:20
  4. "Please Stay" (7th District Club Flava mix) – 6:32
  • Digital download 2
  1. "Your Disco Needs You" – 3:34
  2. "Your Disco Needs You" (German Almighty radio edit) – 3:29
  3. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty mix) – 8:20
  4. "Your Disco Needs You" (German version) / "Password" – 8:49

Charts

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!scope="row"|Croatia International Airplay (HRT)

|7

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!scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)

|97

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!scope="row"|Poland (Music & Media)

|7

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!scope="row"|Poland (Polish Airplay Charts)

|30

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!scope="row"|UK Singles (OCC)

|152

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Sales

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Release history

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| 22 January 2001

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| Parlophone

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Cover versions

Russian-Bulgarian singer Philipp Kirkorov used the music for his song "Моя песня" (My Song), but with different lyrics.

In 2008, the Randy Jones cover was released on his album Ticket to the World.

References