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NEON NIGHTS
(Ultra)
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Dannii Minogue, who is Kylie’s younger sister, has a stronger, richer voice than Kylie’s, a voice that rarely disappoints and sometimes enriches the convention-bound pop occasions of this CD. Best of her 15 songs are its two techno-Eurodisco pieces, the cute "I Begin To Wonder" and the radiant "Who Do You Love Now," which was a huge club hit last year, with Dannii’s full-bodied soprano warming up an all too often icy-cool genre. Almost as lovable is "Creep," in which she fits a husky whisper to the music’s sleazy ooze. Less sublime are Dannii’s too numerous visits to the softened new-jill and semi-hip-hop genres that Madonna and Janet Jackson invented and that Britney Spears and Cristina Aguilera now interpret best. From the Janet-like bop of "Put the Needle on It," "Push," "Don’t Want To Lose This Feeling," and "On the Loop" to "Hey (So What)," "Mighty Fine," the Madonna-styled "Mystified," and "A Piece of Time" (with its echoes of Mary J. Blige’s "No More Drama"), she seems willing to lose herself in imitating other singers’ vocal styles. Not that her "self" (whoever that may be) is the priority of an album in which a twentysomething single impersonates — generically — an MTV kid on the edge of 17.
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