Two Hearts (Kish Mauve song)

"Two Hearts", alternatively titled "2 Hearts", is a song first recorded by British electronic duo Kish Mauve, written for their 2005 self-titled extended play and later re-recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her tenth studio album, X (2007).

The music video for "2 Hearts" was directed by Dawn Shadforth and filmed at Shepperton Studios in London, England.

The British electronic duo Kish Mauve consists of Mima Stilwell and Jim Eliot.

[3] Paul Lester considered in a review for The Guardian their song "Lose Control" to be "far better" than "Two Hearts".

[4] An opinion from the magazine Out claims "There's a definite happy-sad contradiction in the writing, so the songs feel emotional and stirring".

She was hospitalized in Melbourne so treatment could go ahead, but this led to a brief but intense period of media coverage, particularly in Australia.

[8] After recovering from her diagnosis, Minogue began writing lyrics towards the end of her cancer treatment in mid 2006, having not worked on any music for the previous year.

Tom Ewing from Pitchfork Media compared the song to the music of Goldfrapp, and wrote that "it's an unexpected stylistic move" and "it plays to her strengths".

"[20] Though Dave Hughes from Slant Magazine said that "2 Hearts" "serviceable rip of Goldfrapp's glammier slinks, kicks things off well" he felt that Minogue was playing it too safe.

[21] The Boston Globe highlighted the song as the album's best track, and said ""2 Hearts," the glammy lead track, is the heaviest song here, musically speaking, and also the freshest, even though the stomping, swaggering gem is a blast from the Marc Bolan-esque past.

Sarah Walters of the Manchester Evening News was less impressed, commenting that "it takes more than a bunch of singable wooh's to maketh the memorable single".

[23] Drowned in Sound reviewer Alex Denney called "2 Hearts" a "disappointment", stating that "it's a genetic three-way splice of the burlesque chic Christina Aguilera's been peddling for the last 12 months to a worldwide chorus of mehs, Alison Goldfrapp's vampish electro shtick and, quite literally, Feist's "1234".

The song then re-entered at number 38 due to the copies given at the premiere of her film White Diamond: A Personal Portrait of Kylie Minogue.

It debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 12 on 11 November 2007, based solely on digital download sales.

[36] The song also charted in several other European countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

The music video for "2 Hearts" was directed by Dawn Shadforth and filmed at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England in September 2007.

[37] The video features Minogue in 2 different scenes: dressed in a black latex catsuit, red lipstick and curly blonde hair performing with her band & another scene where she has a plain black dress, and in a darker, more mysterious environment.

[38]"2 Hearts" was used in promotional advertisements for the ABC sitcom Cougar Town starring Courteney Cox.