Dannii Minogue’s 10 best singles

Dannii Minogue has often been overshadowed by older sister Kylie in the pop stakes, but real ones know that Minogue junior is the connoisseur’s choice when it comes to having a gay old time on the dancefloor (we do love an underdog, don’t we).

After transitioning from Australian soap opera Home & Away to music in 1989, Dannii went on to release five albums and 18 UK Top 40 singles during the ’90s and noughties, with regular appearances at London’s G-A-Y nightclub and a headline performance at Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras (which she returned to for an epic comeback set in 2017).

Whether she’s working as an ambassador for HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust, campaigning for equal marriage Down Under or simply outraging the tabloids in 2007 with a supposedly ‘lesbian lap dance’ on a night out, Dannii has always been a fiercely vocal ally: there’s a reason she’s hosting BBC Three’s upcoming gay dating series, I Kissed a Boy.

For now though, it’s all about the music, and we’ve cast our eye over Dannii’s back catalogue to celebrate her 10 best singles to date…

Baby Love (1991, No. 14)

Silk Hurley remixes were all the rage back in 1991 and Dannii, with an ear for what was hot, snapped him up to twiddle some knobs on this fab Italo house ’80s cover. Still sporting raven black locks (scraped back one minute, tousled the next), she sexes it up big time, with a trio of dancers who seem to have a rather irritating habit of rubbing their butts in Dannii’s face. Poor love.

This Is It (1993, No. 10)

Newly trimmed down and super sassy, Dannii ran a bleach streak through her barnet, chucked on a Carmen Miranda bra top and wrap around skirt and star-jumped around a beach like a deranged six-year-old. Watch out for a cameo from her then-husband (and now occasional Hollywood star Julian McMahon) who spends most of his time sniffing her neck and looking embarrassed in an acid lime green blouse.

Get Into You (1993, No. 36)

Although this was a bit of a chart flop for Dannii, the growling R&B tune packs a punch. Clad in a tight white top and blue jeans, Dannii looks her most pared down and stylish. Even her dance routines aren’t as crazy as in previous videos, although she does dare to play air guitar at one point – before some long-haired larakin kicks off his lengthy electric guitar solo (on a Minogue track of all things!)

All I Wanna Do (1997, No. 4)

Dannii gets sexy, y’all. With her luscious black locks given a peroxide makeover, and her bosoms a fresh lick of paint, she oozes her way through this technicoloured saucefest, spilling out of her dress as she drapes across a bed, wearing leathers on a moped, seranading a couple of forgetful goldfish and stroking her surprisingly furry pussy in an armchair! All while some dubious man in the dark sits behind his computer doing whatever lonely boys do when the lights go out.

Everything I Wanted (1997, No. 15)

This breakbeaty kinda track from her Girl album is a bit more subdued than you’d expect from La Minogue – but it’s still a corker. The vid is well classy like, as it’s all shot in black in white and she looks supersexy in two plaited pigtails.

Disrememberance (1998, No. 21)

Bathed in shadow, Dannii bangs out this anthemic mid-90s dance joy from her brilliant Girl album! It’s all very Alejandro-era Gaga as a bunch of dancers splish-splash around her and keep an eye out for Fame Academy’s choreographer Kevin Adams looking pretty scary as he slides up and down a pole.

Put the Needle on It (2002, No. 7)

Early noughties Dannii equalled bad girl Dannii. Sporting a new cropped do and getting her face splashed around the tabloids for alleged sapphic trysts with female strippers, she made a musical comeback in late 2002 with this sexually-charged, innuendo-laden disco number.

I Begin To Wonder (2003, No. 2)

When Dannii’s not strutting toward the camera like an Amsterdam lady of the night, she’s looking gorge in a flimsy red dress whilst clutching a pair giant scissors and drying her pits with a hand dryer that looks very much like the one from the now-closed Edge Bar in London’s Soho. Sensational!

You Won’t Forget About Me (2004, No. 7)

In the vid for this dance anthem, Dannii has a whale of a time as she and some gal pals get ready for a date, downing champers, bopping to her own songs and snogging a dark-haired hunk. Sounds like a Saturday night for us. Except, Danni, you’d never catch us spilling a drop of bubbly on the floor like you do in this. Although, we can tell you were only acting, you clever thesp you.

Perfection (2005, No. 11)

The mid-noughties saw Dannii plundering loads of ’70s disco hits for inspiration. This one samples ‘Turn The Beat Around’ and is so frantic, those with shortness of breath should be advised to listen with caution..