A duet with Jason Donovan, entitled Especially For You, was also the first Kylie single to sell over 1 million copies in the UK. Her follow up album, Enjoy Yourself, released in 1989 was a success too and contained several hit singles. She embarked on her first concert run, The Enjoy Yourself Tour, in the United kingdom, France, Belgium and Australia, where Melbourne’s The Herald Sund wrote that it was ‘time to ditch the snobbery and face facts – the kid’s a star’.

Kylie had become Stock, Aitken & Waterman’s highest selling act, so in the face of widespread comment that the second album was a poor imitation of first, it was decided to adjust the overall style of her music.

Kylie took control of her image for the first time with the video for Better The Devil You Know and presented a more sophisticated and adult style of herself. Determined to be accepted by the more mature audience, she presented herself as a sexually aware adult. A relationship with INXS‘ leader Michael Hutchence furthered her attempts to gain acceptance as a mature performer, with saying his favourite hobby was ‘corrupting Kylie’. and writing the INXS’ hit song Suicide Blonde in reference to her.

When Shocked reached the British Top 10 in 1991, she became the first recording artist ever to place their first thirteen single releases in the Top 10.

Kylie’s contract with SAW had been for three albums, but she was persuaded to record a fourth one. Let’s Get To It in 1991 was designed to boraden her appeal by presenting a diverse range of ballads and slower dance songs. Despite generally positive reviews it failed to make the British Top 10, although the albums spawned two UK Top 5 singles: If You Were with Me Now and a cover of Give Me Just a Little More Time.

By this time Kylie had fullfiled the requirements of her contract and decided not to renew it. She had often expressed the viewpoint that she was stifled by Stock, Aitken & Waterman, and later compared the experience to her time with Neighbours, saying all they wanted her to do was ‘learn your lines…perform your lines, no time for questions, promote the product’.

Realising that her fans were growing apathetic towards the SAW formula, and that she could only develop as an artist if she broke away from them, she decided to leave. She agreed to record three new songs to be included on the Greatest Hits album, which was released to coincide with her departure from them in 1992.