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"Some Kind of Bliss" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, for her sixth studio album ''Impossible Princess'' (1997). The song was released as the lead single from the album on 8 September 1997 through BMG, Deconstruction and Mushroom. Minogue co-wrote the track with James Dean Bradfield and Sean More while Bradfield and Dave Eringa produced it. Backed by guitar and drum instruments, "Some Kind of Bliss" is a pop rock track in which Minogue sings about feeling happy while away from family and friends. Critical response to "Some Kind of Bliss" was mostly mixed; earlier reviews were critical towards her image and sound transition to rock music, while retrospective reviews are positive towards her songwriting and sonic experimentation. "Some Kind of Bliss" performed poorly on international charts peaking at number twenty-seven on the Australian Singles Chart and charted inside the top fifty on the UK Singles Chart and the New Zealand Singles Chart. To promote "Some Kind of Bliss", she performed the track on ''Top of the Pops'', MTV Australia live and the Australian TV series ''Hey Hey It's Saturday''. It was later included on her 1998 concert tour Intimate and Live Tour. David Mould directed the music video to the single, featuring Minogue and actor Dexter Fletcher robbing a gas station. The song was later included in the track list of Minogue's compilation albums including ''Confide in Me'' (2002), ''Kylie Minogue: Artist Collection'' (2004), and ''Confide in Me: The Irresistible Kylie'' (2007). ==Background== After releasing the single "Where the Wild Roses Grow" with Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on 2 October 1995, Minogue received acclaim from critics for her experimentation with rock music, who praised her transition from being the once-dubbed "singing budgie" to a mature woman. Because of this, Minogue, with the support of her then boyfriend Stephane Sednaoui, decided to experiment with her music for the upcoming album.〔 Welsh musician James Dean Bradfield contacted Minogue's A&R Pete Hadfield, asking him what their current project was where Hadfield replied "Kylie Minogue's new album". He asked Hadfield if he could work with Minogue and was approved. After Bradfield sent her a demo of the album track "I Don't Need Anyone", Minogue was dissatisfied with the lyrical content and re-wrote the track herself. Despite this, Minogue found it "difficult" to write the song so Bradfield had taken pieces of the original demo lyrics and mixed them with other lyrics she had written to create the finishing product of "I Don't Need Anyone". She found this method of writing "intriguing" and wanted to do it again, so she decided to do this with "Some Kind of Bliss", writing it alongside Bradfield and Sean Moore. Minogue commented about this method, saying "He took one half of one set (lyrics ) and took another half from another set of lyrics and merged them together, which I found interesting because it was something I wouldn't have done because, in my mind their two separate things." She later commented that she felt it worked together. Lyrically, the song is about her being happy and said "To me the song is about being able, not necessarily shut your eyes and feel that someone is there but they way where you are close to someone () the ability to feel like they're with you even if they are a million miles away."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Some Kind of Bliss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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