Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

Australian rock musician Nick Cave was known to a rather narrow circle of fans. He was popular with his harsh tunes with heavy and gloomy lyrics. True fame came to him in 1995, when the world charts conquered the ballad "Where the Wild Roses Grow", which he performed in a duet with the mega-popular Kylie Minogue.

Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave in a joint video

The song was included in the album "Murder Ballads" by Nick Cave. The rather gloomy title of the album was justified, almost every song was sung about murder, death or untimely death. The oppressive impression of the collection was diluted with the only song sung by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue.

The ballad "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is sung about the maniacal love of a man for a young girl who kills her, so that the beauty of her beloved does not have time to fade. This song deservedly entered the 100 best songs of the 90s, pulling out a deliberately floppy album of the rocker and almost instantly making it popular in the broad masses.

The clip for this ballad was filmed by a well-known video clip producer working with world celebrities. The video is depicted in pastel pink-gold tones with streaming sunlight. Close-ups of soloists, beautiful views of nature - it all decorates and contrasts with the gloomy meaning of the text. Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave, whose video turned out to be gothic-romantic, first met while working together on the song. According to the story, the singer lay in a quiet backwater with water lilies, the water in which was golden, in fact it was a pool filled with real champagne, according to the director, it was champagne that created the effect of golden water.

What were the relationships between Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue?

The rock musician has long dreamed of singing with the miniature Australian Kylie after hearing her song "Better the Devil You Know" and saw the clip, but then he noticed that she would have had better lyrical ballads. Long six or seven years the singer was ripe with the idea of ​​a joint duet, and finally Nick turned to the singer with a proposal for cooperation. She agreed to the surprise quickly, the proposal was actually interesting, as it led her beyond the usual repertoire. Nick Cave and Kylie organically merged in a melodic duet.

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Later, the musician said that the song "Where the Wild Roses Grow" was written in inspiration from the image of Kylie Minogue.