The industry that surrounds sports sells us things that are cheaper and more easily manufactured than the finer feelings the games give up so readily.
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There can't be many finer feelings in the world than excelling at what you love and beating every other person on the planet to claim gold on the world stage.
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"Finer Feelings" is a song by Kylie Minogue. It was the final release from Let's Get to It and was actually planned as the follow-up to "Word Is Out", but was held back after the release of "If You Were with Me Now". "Finer Feelings" finally appeared in April 1992, remixed by Brothers in Rhythm (whom Minogue would continue collaborating with throughout the 1990s, and continued with Steve Anderson into the present), and narrowly missed out on the top ten, peaking at number eleven on the UK charts. In Australia, "Finer Feelings" became her lowest-charting single at that point, reaching number sixty on its debut in the ARIA top 100 singles chart for the week ending 5 July 1992.
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Other than a re-release of "Better the Devil You Know" in 1998, "Finer Feelings" remained Kylie's only single to miss the top 50 in Australia until her 2010 single "Get Outta My Way", which peaked at number sixty-nine. "Finer Feelings" remains a fan favourite and Minogue has performed excerpts of the song during her KylieFever2002 and Showgirl Homecoming tours although it was not included on her hits compilations, Ultimate Kylie, The Best of Kylie Minogue or Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection. The B-side "Closer" is different from the song of the same title that would appear on her 2010 album Aphrodite. The song was re-recorded in 2011 and posted onto Kylie Minogue's official YouTube channel on 25 January 2012.
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Of the Distinct Objects of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Kant states that feelings of enjoyment are subjective. In this book, he describes his observations. His interest is not in coarse, thoughtless feelings or in the other extreme, the finest feelings of intellectual discovery. Instead, he writes about the finer feelings, which are intermediate.
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African Negroes possess no finer feelings. North American Indians, however, have a feeling for the sublime in that they are adventurous, honorable, truthful, proud, brave, and valorous. In antiquity, the ancient Greeks and Romans had remarkable feelings for both the beautiful and the sublime. However, with the Caesars, this decayed into a love of false glitter.
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The subsequent barbarian Gothic civilization had an overpowering feeling for the grotesque. Kant claimed that his time witnessed "the sound taste of the beautiful and noble blossoming forth both in the arts and sciences and in respect to morals." He declared that it is necessary to educate the younger generation so that they will have noble simplicity, high morals, and finer feelings.
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"Finer Feelings" was originally planned as the second single but was replaced with "If You Were with Me Now". It was finally released in April as a 12" remix by Brothers In Rhythm, who later became her collaborator throughout the 1990s. It is nearly seven-minutes long, and later became the 7" radio version as well. "Closer" was also released as the B-side single.
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In Japan Alfa Records also issued it on Laserdisc.Music review Although they appear on the set list of the tour, "Hand on Your Heart", "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi", "Enjoy Yourself", "Secrets" and "Tears on My Pillow" were cut from the VHS release of the tour. "Got to Be Certain", "Finer Feelings" and "I Guess I Like It Like That" were all edited for the video release. The editor was Gareth Maynard.
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It was not as successful as Minogue's preceding releases. After debuting on the chart early with album downloads, it peaked on the UK Singles Chart at number 32, making it her lowest placing since "The One" in 2008. The single was released in Australia on 28 February 2011. It debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at number 55, making it her third single to miss the top-fifty, after "Finer Feelings" in 1992 (number 60) and "Get Outta My Way" in 2010 (number 69).
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Minogue's signing with Deconstruction Records in 1993 marked a new phase in her career. Her fifth album, Kylie Minogue, was released in September 1994 and was a departure from her previous efforts as it "no longer featured the Stock-Aitken-Waterman production gloss", with critics praising Minogue's vocals and the album production. It was produced by dance music producers the Brothers In Rhythm, namely Dave Seaman and Steve Anderson, who had previously produced "Finer Feelings", her last single with PWL. As of 2015, Anderson continued to be Minogue's musical director.
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With the Rapino Brothers, Kylie had written eight songs and all but one–"Automatic Love"–were scrapped. The song was then passed to Brothers in Rhythm to rework in their style, giving Kylie her only writing credit on the album. Brothers in Rhythm, a duo consisting of Steve Anderson and Dave Seaman, were previously involved with Minogue through a remix of "Finer Feelings" from Let's Get to It (1991). When word came that Kylie had parted ways with PWL, the duo phoned Deconstruction co-founder Keith Blackhurst–despite no prior experience writing for others.
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Waterman and his label started to import songs from foreign acts like 2 Unlimited into the album, whose song "Get Ready for This" (1991) was heavily sampled in "I Guess I Like It Like That". Their intention was to buy these songs cheaply and make a profit out of it. Stock felt uninspired by this and the mostly sample-based album, saying "There's no point having an artist like [Minogue] or a writer like me there if the rule is [buying] cheap from abroad." He composed "Finer Feelings" with Waterman as Minogue wanted to put more sexual content in the album.
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Of National Characteristics, so far as They Depend upon the Distinct Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Here Kant describes the different ways that various people have finer feelings. He qualifies his remarks by stating, "[W]hether these national differences are contingent and depend upon the times and the type of government, or are bound by a certain necessity to the climate, I do not here inquire." The Italians have a strong feeling for the beautiful with some mixture of the thoughtful sublime. The French have mostly a feeling for the beautiful, but with the addition of the joyful sublime.
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This then leads into a new remix of "Spinning Around", where Kylie and the dancers are dressed to resemble characters from A Clockwork Orange. The Crying Game begins with an interlude of "Where Is the Feeling?" before the left screen rises to reveal Minogue in a black ball gown singing Boy George's "The Crying Game". She then goes onto perform a medley of three of her own songs: "Put Yourself in My Place", "Finer Feelings" and "Dangerous Game" before returning to "The Crying Game" and closing the act. Streetstyle begins with an interlude of "GBI: German Bold Italic".
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This proved to be her third single to miss the top-fifty along with "Finer Feelings" (1992), which peaked at number 60, and "Get Outta My Way" (2010), which peaked at number 69. In a March 2011 interview with Perth Now, Minogue expressed disappointment with the commercial performance of her singles from Aphrodite. Minogue said, Consequently, after acknowledging that both "Better Than Today" and "Get Outta My Way" charted poorly across the world, she announced there would be no more singles released from the album. However, "Put Your Hands Up" was released in late May 2011 following a press release from Astralwerks, Minogue's North American record label.
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To give herself more credibility, Minogue created an alias for herself as "Angel K" and released several white label promotional vinyls. Those tracks included "Do You Dare" and "Closer", which later appeared as B-sides on singles "Give Me Just a Little More Time" and "Finer Feelings", respectively. Waterman also wanted to produce more "cutting edge dance music" for Minogue to fit in his show The Hitman and Her, which he considered was "a very hip and trendy show" back then. Minogue suggested that she hoped to find time to do more recording that year, telling Smash Hits in August that she "may do some more writing in America which may lead to another recording there," but it was never materialize.
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This version was sung as one of the opening tracks of her 2001 On a Night Like This Tour, and was included on the live DVD of the show. On her KylieFever2002 concert tour, the single was included on Minogue's "The Crying Game" medley which also featured the titular track, "Finer Feelings", and "Dangerous Game". The single's next appearance was on her 2005 Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour, where it appeared on her Minx in Space segment and served as one of the encore tracks. The song was not performed for thirteen years, until Minogue sang an acoustic version during her Kylie Presents Golden promotional tour in 2018; writing for the Manchester Evening News, Katie Fitzpatrick praised the performance for being "beautifully stripped back [...] with some fabulously confident backing vocals coming from the smitten crowd".
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She had strong political views and concentrated her writings around the anti-slavery movement, her support of the French Revolution and her disapproval of capital punishment. In June 1791, The New York Magazine published Faugères essay Fine Feelings Exemplified in the Conduct of a Negro Slave in which she challenged Thomas Jefferson's claim that slaves lacked "finer feelings", she wrote, > I cannot help thinking that their sensations, mental and external, are as > acute as those of the people whose skin may be of a different colour; such > an assertion may be bold, but facts are stubborn things, and had I not them > to support me, it is probable I should not attempt to oppose the opinions of > such an eminent reasoner. Her support of the French Revolution was probably shaped by her friendship with a French physician, Peter Faugeres, who shared her political views. They were married, in opposition to her father's wishes, on Bastille Day, July 14, 1792.
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