"Your Disco Needs You" is a disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 song written by Australia

Australia

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n singer Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

, Guy Chambers

Guy Chambers

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 and Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

 for Minogue's seventh album

Album

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 Light Years (2000). It was produced

Record producer

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 by Chambers and Steve Power.

The background vocals are by Tracy Ackerman and Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

.

Song information

The song was released as the fifth single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 in the beginning of 2001 (see 2001 in music

2001 in music

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) in select territories and was a top twenty hit in Australia

Australia

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, peaking at number twenty.

The release of the song outside the UK

United Kingdom

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 angered many of Minogue's fans and sparked protests outside her UK record company from fans lobbying for its release. When considering the fourth single to be released from Light Years, Minogue's record label chose the Latin sounding "Please Stay

Please Stay

"Please Stay" is a song by Australian singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue, for her seventh studio album Light Years . The song was written by Minogue, Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher and John Themis, while it was produced by Stannard and Gallagher. The song was chosen as the fourth single off...

" instead of the fan favourite "Your Disco Needs You", due to the song's campness and to avoid Minogue being further stereotyped.

Although the song did not have the same chart performance as many of Minogue's previous and later singles, it became a classic performance piece and also a club hit in Europe including the United Kingdom and Eastern/Baltic European states.

In March 2008, SameSame.com.au listed the song at number five in "The 50 Gayest Songs Of All Time".

Various language versions

The original album version contains four lines spoken in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. During the same session, Minogue recorded versions with these lines in other languages including German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, Spanish

Spanish language

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, and Japanese

Japanese language

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.

French verse: Vous n'êtes jamais seuls / Vous savez ce qu'il faut faire / Ne laissez pas tomber votre nation / La disco a besoin de vous!

German verse: Du bist niemals allein / Du weisst was du tun musst / Lass dein Volk nicht im Stich / Deine Disco braucht dich!

Spanish verse: Nunca estás sola / Sabes lo que tienes que hacer / No le falles a tu pueblo / ¡Tu discoteca te necesita!

Japanese verse: Anata wa keshite hitori ja nai / nani wo subeki ka sitte iru hazu / karera wo uragira nai de / Disco wa anata wo matte iru!

English translation: You're never alone / You know what you must do / Don't let your country down / Your disco needs you!

Music video

The accompanying original music video was filmed in 2000 in Los Angeles and does not feature on any of the video graphical DVD's released by Minogue. A bone-fide gay anthem, the video pays homage to the discothèques of the 1970s featuring an array of Kylie clones, inviting the viewer to dance whilst doing the goosestep. Throughout the video Minogue wears a variety of different wigs/outfits such as an uncle Sam American inspired stars and stripes outfit and black leather cane/whip, a black and white striped dress matched with a leather black bondage cap.

An alternative video was released to the Germany market using the Casino Radio & Club Remix. The alternative video featured newly recorded clips of Minogue against a back drop of balloons, gold streamers a podium stand sporting the Your Disco Needs You t-shirt which she wore on the singles CD cover. The alternative version was filmed due to Minogue’s/Parlophone Records dissatisfaction with elements of the original version.

Cover versions

In 2007, the song was covered by Tru Calling

Tru Calling

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 and was set for release in 2008, though the track failed to materialise. This was later said to be due to legal reasons when a former management of Kylie's contacted Tru Calling advising them that covering this song could get them into legal dispute.

Russian-Bulgarian singer Philipp Kirkorov

Philipp Kirkorov

Philipp Bedrosovich Kirkorov is a Bulgarian-born Russian singer and producer living and working in Moscow.-Biography:Philipp Kirkorov was born on April 30, 1967 in Varna, Bulgaria. His father is Bulgarian singer of Armenian and Belarusian ethnicity Bedros Kirkorov. His mother, Victoria, is...

 used the music for his song "Моя песня" ("Moya Pesnya"), but with different lyrics.http://kirkorov.ru

In 2008 Almighty

The Almighty (band)

The Almighty are a hard rock/heavy metal band, from Glasgow in Scotland who formed in 1988. They have released seven studio albums, two anthologies and one live album.-1988-1993:...

, who had originally remixed the track as part of the Light Years

Light Years

Light Years is the seventh studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It was released on 25 September 2000 by Parlophone and Mushroom Records. The album's style was indicative of her return to "mainstream pop dance tunes"....

album promotion, released We Love Kylie, an album of Kylie's own hits remade in the Dance/Pop

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 genre. One of the tracks was the same "Your Disco Needs You" with different vocals.

In 2008 the Randy Jones

Randy Jones (singer)

Randy Jones is an American disco and pop singer and was the original cowboy from Village People.As of 2006, he currently lives in New York City....

 cover was released on his album Ticket to the World. Randy Jones was one of the original members of the Village People

Village People

Village People is a concept disco group that formed in the United States in 1977, well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American cultural stereotypes, as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics....

 and releases "camp" versions of songs.

Live performances

Minogue included the song on the set list of her 2001 On a Night Like This Tour

On A Night Like This Tour

On a Night Like This Tour is a Kylie Minogue concert tour in support of her seventh studio album Light Years that began in March 2001. Having hit the headlines around the globe for her hugely successful performance at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and having subsequently performed again at the...

, 2005's Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour and added the song to the 10 May 2008 performance in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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 on her KylieX2008

KylieX2008

KylieX2008 was the tenth concert tour by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue, in support of her tenth studio album, X . Originally announced as just a European tour, rumors of Minogue taking the tour to Australia, Asia, and America had surfaced in the international media...

 tour where it remained for the remainder of the tour. There was an impromptu a Capella performance of the song during her Chicago stop on her For You, For Me Tour

For You, For Me Tour

The For You, For Me Tour was the ninth concert tour by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. This is Minogue's first concert tour in North America. The concert has received very favorable reviews from music critics...

as technical difficulties were being sorted out on-stage. The song was performed again, but with full instrumentation, in Toronto.
Kylie later performed the song during her Aphrodite Tour in Munich (request section), 5 March 2011 and in Glasgow on her debut night, 28 March 2011.

Formats and track listings

• German CD single one

1. "Your Disco Needs You" (3:33)
2. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty Mix Edit) (3:29)
3. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty Mix) (8:22)
4. "Your Disco Needs You" (German Version) (3:33)
5. "Password" (3:49)

• German CD single two

1. "Your Disco Needs You" (Casino Mix) (3:38)
2. "Your Disco Needs You" (3:33)
3. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty Mix) (8:22)
4. "Please Stay" (7th District Club Flava Mix) (6:33)

• Australian CD single

1. "Your Disco Needs You" (3:33)
2. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty Mix Edit) (3:29)
3. "Your Disco Needs You" (Almighty Mix) (8:22)
4. "Your Disco Needs You" (Casino Mix) (3:38)
5. "Your Disco Needs You" (German Version) (3:33)
6. "Password" (3:49)

Official versions and remixes

1. Album version (French version) (3:33)
2. German version (3:33)
3. Spanish version (3:33)
4. Japanese version (3:33)
5. Almighty Mix Edit/German Almighty Edit (3:29)
6. Almighty Mix (8:22)
7. Almighty Definitive Mix
8. Almighty 2008 Mix (6:50)
9. Almighty 2008 Radio Edit
10. Casino Club and Radio Mix (3:38) [This version was performed on Kylie's concert tour KylieX2008]
11. Casino Club Mix (6:15)

Charts

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Chart (2001)	Peak position