Kylie Minogue song about a typeface

Sometimes we invite artists, writers, and other friends to take over our newsletter and write about fonts from a cultural perspective. And this time, New York-based writer and editor Whitney Mallett took a deep dive into the 1997 Towa Tei track GBI (German Bold Italic), for which Kylie Minogue sang from the perspective of a typeface. Whitney is the editor of The Whitney Review of New Writing , a biannual print bulletin of new criticism, and she was also the co-editor of Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey . Below, she enlightens us on the highly under-appreciated history of Towa Tei’s data-track font release. “I Contrast, It’s Cool”: When Kylie Minogue Was German Bold Italic Video is loading ... Kylie Minogue announces “I am a typeface” in a 1997 song she made with producer Towa Tei. As this lyric suggests, the techno-pop track in question, “GBI (German Bold Italic)”, is delivered from the perspective of a font. Minogue’s breathy, almost robotic vocals bring the absurdist pr ... Read full article.