Kylie Minogue: Giving You Up (2005) Online

Kylie Minogue: Giving You Up (2005) Online

The music video for "Giving You Up" was directed by Alex and Martin and filmed in February 2005 in London, England. The video features Minogue as a 17 foot tall, vampy, blonde giantess roaming through the streets and clubs of London at night. There are three sequences; the first features Minogue walking through a tunnel, the second of her walking through the streets and the third of her in a club. Throughout the video Minogue meets several people. In a sequence on the streets, she dances in front of a taxi cab that has stopped to let her across a zebra crossing. Minogue then heads to a club where she meets a shy man who is interested in her. In another scene on the streets, Minogue walks past three men, and begins to dance and sing to them.

"Giving You Up" is a song by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue from her greatest hits album Ultimate Kylie (2004).

The song was released as the album's second and final single on 28 March 2005.

The song was written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, Lisa Cowling, Paul Woods, Nick Coler, and Minogue, while production was by Higgens and Xenomania.

The song is a dance track, which features instrumentation of synthesizers and keyboards.

The track was Minogue's last solo single after she was diagnosed with breast cancer two months later, and resumed with 2007 single "2 Hearts".

The song peaked inside the top ten in both Australia and the United Kingdom, and also charted in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Finland.

Alex and Martin commissioned the accompanying music video for the single, which shows Minogue as a giantess and walking around the streets of London.

"Giving You Up" has only been performed on her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour.

Kylie Minogue's track "Giving You Up" appears on her third greatest hits album Ultimate Kylie (2004).

Lyrically, Minogue is trying to get her shy boyfriend to open up.

Music editor Dusk411 felt the message in the song was "naive". He commented "People cannot be changed. They can only change if they want to."

"Giving You Up" was released as a CD single and digital download.

It was released as a limited edition vinyl single in the United Kingdom.

In Australia, the CD single was limited to 25,000 copies.

In a review for About.com, Jason Shawahn called the song "a sultry little throbber" and wrote that its "Minogue at her best".

Chris Taylor from MusicOMH.com wrote that the song was "not one of Kylie's most inspired singles".

"Giving You Up" entered at number eight on the Australian Singles Chart. It lasted seven weeks in the top fifty.

The song reached number thirteen on the Billboard European Hot 100 Singles chart.

In 2006, the video was nominated for "Best International Video" at the 15th Annual MVPA Awards.

The video premiered in February 2005 and was released commercially on the song's CD single.