She had dropped off the radar in the United States but was still charting highly in the musical metropolis that is Belgium.

As a teenager living in Europe in the mid-'90s, I heard a lot of Kylie Minogue. She had dropped off the radar in the United States but was still charting highly in the musical metropolis that is Belgium. Perhaps it was her stint on the most ridiculous soap opera of all time, Neighbours - one of the few shows that I used to be able to watch in English while living in Belgium, so I must admit to that vice as well - or her ability to bounce back from life-threatening illnesses with a fashion-forward Mia Farrow-style pixie cut, but Kylie Minogue is 5 feet 0 inches of Australian magic. While neither her singing nor her dancing is independently outstanding, she somehow still manages to produce songs that are catchier than syphilis. | Leslie Wilson