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Sometimes, music hits you sideways. That is, a song that you connect with comes from an unexpected, left-of-field source. It is almost as if the ambassador has offered up a tasty musical morsel that you are completely unprepared to deal with, and leaves you flailing around until the melody gnaws into the base of your skull, up through the brain stem and turns you into a pod-person.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Kylie Minogue.
"Two Hearts" is possibly one of the best pop songs written in recent memory. That it is performed to perfection is merely the icing on the veritable cornucopia of cake that embodies it. It is an astonishing track, and shame on you if you haven't really listened to it properly yet.
"I'm in love. Woo."
Starting off simply with a bass riff and compressed-to-within-an-inch-of-recognisability handclaps, it immediately seduces us with its sultry intentions. One regimented 6-beat snare fill-in and Kylie's vocal hits us in a plaintive, seductive, half-whispered and matter-of-fact vocal... "You make me invisible...".
You fall hook-line and sinker. Astonishing. Every vowel is enunciated with precision and detachment. Shivers.
And then the chorus hits.
"Is this for ever and ever..?"
Sometimes, complexity is a losing proposition. This is not a complex song. But out of simplicity, a delicious, heady aural assault is formed. From the staccato, driving piano, to Kylie's ice-cold lyrical delivery -- matter-of-fact, driven and confident -- its distilled audacity never fails to disappoint.
"Oh-a-oh, don't let go."
And then it is gone. Three minutes of furtive, clandestine pop mainlined into your musical carotid artery.
Breathtaking.