There is room for two Kylies in this world after all.
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The dispute between the two Kylies has been ongoing for almost two years.
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Elsewhere, celebrities have trademarked their own names: Beyoncé did it, and remember that legal battle between Kylies Minogue and Jenner?
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Kylie Jenner was on her way to creating a newer, hyper-femme version of herself with a little army of Kylies to follow.
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Kylie Jenner was on her way to creating a newer, hyper-femme version of herself with a little army of Kylies to follow.
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The Kylies had been fighting over the trademark 'Kylie' in the U.S. but, in the end, Minogue won and blocked Jenner from owning the name.
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Now, it appears that the trademark dispute between the two Kylies is close to being settled, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejecting Jenner's application, according to reports, which are yet to be confirmed by CNBC.
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These weapons, sometimes called "throwsticks" or "kylies", were used for hunting a variety of prey, from kangaroos to parrots; at a range of about , a 2-kg (4.4 lb) non-returning boomerang could inflict mortal injury to a large animal. A throwstick thrown nearly horizontally may fly in a nearly straight path and could fell a kangaroo on impact to the legs or knees, while the long-necked emu could be killed by a blow to the neck. Hooked non- returning boomerangs, known as "beaked kylies", used in northern Central Australia, have been claimed to kill multiple birds when thrown into a dense flock. Throwsticks are used as multi-purpose tools by today's Aboriginal peoples, and besides throwing could be wielded as clubs, used for digging, used to start friction fires, and are sonorous when two are struck together.
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Originally planned as a double A-side with new track "Made in Heaven", "Je ne sais pas pourquoi" was released as the fourth single on 17 October 1988. It was re-titled as "I Still Love You (Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi)" in Australia and the United States. It was Kylies fifth top two single on the UK Singles Chart— Minogue's strongest run of singles from an album. It also reached the top ten in Norway and New Zealand.
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All three publications singled out "Tears on My Pillow" for praise, calling it "substantial" and the "[only] proven hit". In a review in 2018, Slant Magazines Sal Cinquemani wrote that Enjoy Yourself repeats "Kylies sonic template almost verbatim" and criticized "Hand on Your Heart" as the "tonally incongruent lead single". He described it as Minogue's second-worst studio album. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1990, Minogue was nominated for Best Female Artist for Enjoy Yourself while receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award.
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The wood was preferred in the manufacture of kylies, a boomerang-type weapon. The timber's resistance to termites was exploited for fence-posts when European agriculture was expanded into nearby areas, the durability of these is evident in fencing over 100 years old. The conservator of state forests, Charles Lane-Poole, noted the longevity of fence posts in the 1920s, and that colonial farmers also regarded the species and an indicator of suitable land for raising wheat and sheep. Poole remarks on resemblance of the decorative grain to its sister species, Acacia melanoxylon (blackwood).
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Other PWL artists posing with hats using the same strategy can be seen on the covers of Mandy Smith's Mandy (1988), Minogue's follow-up Enjoy Yourself (1989) and Sonia's Everybody Knows (1990). Kylie was first released in the UK on 4 July 1988, and was released in Australia a fortnight later, on 18 July 1988. Similar to other late 80s records, the record company took control of Kylies running orders and pushed future singles to the front. Gudinski stated the producers from PWL were not focused on promoting Kylie in the United States' market.
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During an interview Minogue gave to Jetstar Airways magazine, journalist Simon Price stated that the four different Kylies were "brilliantly" satirised in the video. Costumes from the video, along with accessories spanning Minogue's career, became part of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Australia, during May 2005. They were also displayed in another exhibition with the same theme in February 2007. A still with the four Kylie's, standing together, was drawn by Jill Lamarina and added into the comic book Female Force: Kylie Minogue, published by Bluewater Comics.
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In Noongar language, kylie is a flat curved piece of wood similar in appearance to a boomerang that is thrown when hunting for birds and animals. "Kylie" is one of the Aboriginal words for the hunting stick used in warfare and for hunting animals. Instead of following curved flight paths, kylies fly in straight lines from the throwers. They are typically much larger than boomerangs, and can travel very long distances; due to their size and hook shapes, they can cripple or kill an animal or human opponent.
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Its surfaces are therefore symmetrical and not with the aerofoils that give the returning boomerang its characteristic curved flight. The most recognisable type of the boomerang is the L-shaped returning boomerang; while non-returning boomerangs, throwing sticks (or kylies) were used as weapons, returning boomerangs have been used primarily for leisure or recreation. Returning boomerangs were also used to decoy birds of prey, thrown above the long grass to frighten game birds into flight and into waiting nets. Modern returning boomerangs can be of various shapes or sizes.
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While at its simplest the throwing stick is just a heavy club thrown at the game, a well-designed throwing stick uses the principles of an airfoil shape and gyroscopic stability; the oldest of these dates back 200,000 years to ancient Poland.How Boomerangs Work, HowStuffWorks.com The kylie, for example, Australian hunting boomerang in use into modern times, uses the bent shape and a symmetric airfoil cross-section to provide stability and low drag for long, accurate throws. Kylies do not return (a good thing, since they are large, heavy, and dangerous) but smaller, lighter versions, the classic boomerang, exhibit the classic circular path that made the boomerang famous.
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Media theorist Lee Barron, author of Social Theory in Popular Culture, discussed the Impossible Princess period and further stated "The Impossible Princess phase represented a period of diminished commercial success, marking the moment in which Minogue consciously began to engage in a playful awareness of image construction and referentiality ... This was unmistakably manifest in the promotional video 'Did it Again', which featured four Kylies, each defined by the labels that the media created for her". Barron felt neither of the characters in the video won, but rather "the construction of an entirely new one" and concluded "Because, although Minogue was now reflexively alluding to her identity-shredded progression, 'Indie Kylie' did not gel with the wider recording-buying public, and consequently 'Indie Kylie' was discarded for 'Camp Kylie'"; Camp Kylie was a media label for her efforts around the Light Years (2000) era.
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Regarding her "Indie Kylie" phase, Minogue commented "I don't mind being labelled Indie Kylie, I've had so many labels, but labels are a bit silly because I'm so many things, we all are." The concept for the video was created by Romanhi after discovering several articles and magazines in the 1980s and early-mid 1990s of Minogue, along with his influence of the American film Usual Suspects, but Minogue was sceptical on the final result. In an interview with MTV Australia, Minogue revealed the video was based on her life as a celebrity, stating; > Basically we were having a laugh at a lot of the different articles that > were appearing at that time in different magazines and papers, and they were > talking about 'Pop Kylie, Dance Kylie, Sex Kylie' and, you know, with every > different release of a single they'd say 'What Kylie is it now?' and it was > just becoming a joke. So he, Pedro, cunningly picked up on that and said we > should make a video with all the different Kylies, which I was more happy > about, because it was stating the obvious and having a laugh at the same > time.
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