Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)

"Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)" is a song recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her eleventh studio album, Aphrodite (2010).

Its release was heralded by the Pete Hammond remix, published on YouTube months before as promotion for the album and Minogue's Aphrodite World Tour.

Initially scheduled to be part of the tour edition of her Aphrodite album, the single was first released in Japan on 29 May 2011 as a digital bundle including a new track called "Silence".

The same digital bundles were released in Australia,[2][3] as well as an exclusive limited-edition CD single which includes two versions of album track "Cupid Boy".

The artwork used for most bundles features a picture of Minogue posing with one of the Dolce & Gabbana costumes designed specifically for her tour.

[9] After writing was finished, Starsmith and the Nervo twins offered the track to Parlophone Records for inclusion on Minogue's Aphrodite album.

"[8] Meriam Nervo also commented on the experience:"... [Kylie Minogue is] the kindest, sweetest, most professional yet approachable artist and person...

[12] Eventually, on 27 April 2011, Astralwerks (Minogue's North American record label) contravened her earlier statement regarding the end of single releases from the album, announcing that "Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)" would be officially released as a digital single on 31 May 2011,[13] later pushing the date back to 7 June 2011.

[14] Minogue's main label Parlophone Records then set release date for two extended plays for sale on 5 June 2011.

Its addictive chorus and warm verses bounce with cotton candy care (yeah, I said it) and her glee is impossible to miss.

It's also one of those songs in which Kylie insists on singing all the vocal parts – a kind of creepy pop tune equivalent of the multiplying Oompa Loompas scene in the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

"[22] The lead version of the single release was the Pete Hammond remix, was more universally praised for its 1980s retro sound.

Perez Hilton called is "epic" and praised its engineer "legendary" Hammond[23] while Ben Gilbert for Yahoo!

[24] "Put Your Hands Up" lasted one week in the majority of the charts it entered, including Australia, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Despite being the second highest-charting single from Aphrodite in the country, this is Minogue's lowest peak in the top half of the chart since "GBI: German Bold Italic" in 1998.

"Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)" was performed as last song on the set list before the encores in all the legs of Minogue's Aphrodite World Tour.

[37] It uses the Pete Hammond remix of the song, and was accompanied by the following message: "Thank you all for making 'Aphrodite: Les Folies' such an amazing experience for me.