The song “Spinning Around” was found as a demo by Jamie Nelson, one of my A&R guys in New York, so there’s a New York story.

He went over there, arrived home waving his arms about saying, “I’ve got this great song here, I think it’d be perfect for you.” And we all listened to it, and loved it straight away even in demo form, it had something.

The song went through a few processes before it ended up as you hear it as a single. And it always had the potential, so when it wasn’t quite right, it was difficult for us because we knew it had promise, and it’s a very fine line as I’ve learnt through that experience, of it being good, and of it being a hit song.

Kylie Minogue, paula-abdul.net

On a list of 30 of Kylie Minogue’s best singles, published on September 25, 2020, The Guardian ranked it as Kylie Minogue best single, saying:

Over the course of her career, Kylie has tried her hand at being Indie Kylie, Moody Kylie, Mature Kylie and indeed Covering Toots and the Maytals on a Children’s TV Show Kylie (see her 2009 version of Monkey Man with the Wiggles). But the fact remains that Kylie was essentially put on this earth to make glitzy, euphoric, balls-out pop bangers, and Spinning Around is the glitziest and most euphoric of the lot. A bold restatement of core values following her 90s dalliances with the left field; a perfect pop-disco nugget, a single only the terminally joyless could fail to enjoy.