Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World [Full HD Remastered]

NOV 11 2002 · 12:00

Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World [Full HD Remastered] (2002) Director: Michel Gondry Era: Post-Millennial Pop Auteurism (2002) - Fourth single from Kylie Minogue's global breakthrough album Fever; peak of the early-2000s dance-pop era defined by Parlophone's international pop expansion and art-directed music video culture Tier 1 artefact of early-2000s pop video culture. Directed by Michel Gondry at the height of his music video career, the clip is a technically and conceptually exceptional example of motion-control photography and compositing deployed in service of a mainstream pop single. Its critical reception, including top placement on Slant Magazine's decade-best list and #14 on Pitchfork's Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s, confirms its canonical status. Essential for any archive covering music video craft, European pop production, or the Gondry filmography. Context: Released in October 2002 as the fourth and final single from Kylie Minogue's globally successful Fever album (2001), 'Come Into My World' arrived at the apex of early-2000s European dance-pop. The video exemplifies the era's investment in concept-driven music video auteurism, with Gondry applying experimental loop-multiplication techniques to a mainstream pop context. The song subsequently won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, Minogue's first Grammy, cementing the Fever campaign's cultural legacy. The video's Parisian setting and practical-yet-digital approach reflect a transitional moment between the analogue effects tradition of 1990s Gondry work and the compositing capabilities of early 2000s digital post-production. Director notes: Directed at the intersection of Rue du Point du Jour and Rue de Solférino in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, on 8 September 2002. Shot using a Milo motion control rig on a fixed track to allow identical camera moves across four separate passes. Rotoscoping and compositing were led by Gondry's brother Olivier Gondry, whose company Twisted Laboratories handled post-production. The concept updated a technique Gondry had previously used for Neneh Cherry's 'Feel It' (1997). Gondry requested the song be restructured into four loops of approximately one minute each to support the visual conceit. Fifteen days of post-production were required to composite four distinct iterations of Minogue and all background extras into a single escalating scene. The video took #1 on Slant Magazine's Best of the Aughts: Music Videos list and #14 on Pitchfork's Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s.