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==Promotion== ===Live performances and tour=== {{see also|Intimate and Live (concert tour)}} Minogue's press campaign for the album began in mid-1997, including interviews with magazines and a performance at the [[Radio 1 Roadshow]] in [[Newquay]] on 21 August 1997.<ref name="Smith140"/> The promotional campaign was aimed at album buyers, rather than the singles market.<ref name="musicweekinterview">{{harvnb|Malins|1997}}</ref> The label stressed Minogue's wide-reaching appeal by setting up press cover interviews for her in various markets: broadsheets, dance specialists, tabloids, gay magazines, and style monthlies.<ref name="musicweekinterview"/> During the release week in March 1998, Deconstruction and Minogue held a release party at [[Tower Records]] in London.<ref>{{harvnb|Kinolibrary|1998}}</ref> She conducted a small-concert tour travelling to Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong through October 1997; it was her first time in both New Zealand and Hong Kong.<ref>{{harvnb|Minogue|Baker|2002}}; {{harvnb|Magee|1997}}</ref> Minogue expanded the tour by adding venues in Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands.<ref name="LaLaLa"/> She appeared on several television shows to promote the album's singles.<ref name="Julie"/> She promoted the album at the 1998 [[Mardi Gras]] ceremony in Sydney, Australia.<ref name="Smith152">{{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=152β153}}</ref> In May 1998, Minogue announced the [[Intimate and Live (concert tour)|Intimate and Live]] concert tour, which began on 2 June at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, that same year.<ref name="Dates">{{harvnb|''Kylie.com'' B}}</ref> Initially, she wanted to finish the tour in Melbourne on 4 July, but because of high demand in England, Minogue hosted three additional concert performances there.<ref name="Dates"/> The tour attracted positive reviews from both attendees and publications, praising the idea of a smaller venue show. She received compliments for her vocal performance and her stage presence.<ref name="Julie"/> Each concert had drawn in approximately 2,000 audience members in Australia, and the media there deemed it a commercial success.<ref name="Smith154">{{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=154}}</ref> To complete the tour's promotion, an accompanying [[Intimate and Live (album)|live album and DVD]], shot at the [[Capitol Theatre, Sydney]], were released on 30 November (album) and 23 July 2003 (DVD).<ref>{{harvnb|Mushroom|1998c}}; {{harvnb|Roadshow Entertainment|1998}}; {{harvnb|Warner Music Australia|2003}}</ref> ===Singles=== [[File:P1240644 (42973930472).jpg|thumb|left|alt=Photograph of Minogue singing into a microphone looking to her right | Minogue performing ''Impossible Princess''{{'}}s third single, "[[Breathe (Kylie Minogue song)|Breathe]]", on her 2018 [[Kylie Presents Golden]] promotional tour]] Minogue wanted to introduce the album in a way that would intrigue and surprise the public.<ref name="interview10">{{harvnb|Deconstruction|1997a|ps=, track 10}}</ref> "Some Kind of Bliss" was chosen as the [[lead single]] in September 1997.<ref>{{harvnb|''Kylie.com'' C}}; {{harvnb|Deconstruction|1997a|ps=, track 10}}</ref> David Mould directed the music video shot in the Desert of [[Tabernas]] in [[Spain]]; it features [[Dexter Fletcher]] as Minogue's lover.<ref name="Smith140"/> Released a week after Diana's death, "Some Kind of Bliss" was a commercial disappointment: it peaked at number 22 in the UK, Minogue's first single to not reach the top 20 there.<ref>{{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=141}}; {{harvnb|Goodall|Stanley-Clarke|2012|p=101}}; {{harvnb|Official Charts Company A}}; {{harvnb|Flynn|2019|ps=: "Non-Stop Dancing" by Hurley, Oliver|page=40}}</ref> It reached number 27 in Australia, and number 46 on the [[Official New Zealand Music Chart|New Zealand Singles Chart]], her last charting release there in the 1990s.<ref>{{harvnb|Hung Medien A}}; {{harvnb|Hung Medien C}}</ref> The second single was "Did It Again", released on 24 November 1997 with the B-side "Tears".<ref name="dia">{{harvnb|''Kylie.com'' D}}</ref> Minogue promoted the single heavily on television in the UK, which led to it peaking at number 14 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] in December where it remained for another six weeks.<ref>{{harvnb|Official Charts Company A}}; {{harvnb|Goodall|Stanley-Clarke|2012|p=102}}</ref> In Australia, it peaked at number 15 and lasted 17 weeks in the top 50, one of her longest spanning singles on the chart.<ref name="auschart">{{harvnb|Hung Medien A}}</ref> Petro Romanhi directed the accompanying music video shot in London, in which Minogue portrays four different versions of herself: SexKylie, CuteKylie, IndieKylie, and DanceKylie.<ref>{{harvnb|''Kylie.com'' D}}; {{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=146}}</ref> "Breathe", Minogue's final single under Deconstruction, was released on 9 March 1998 featuring mixes from [[Sash!]] and [[Todd Terry]].<ref>{{harvnb|''Kylie.com'' E}}; {{harvnb|Deconstruction|1998e}}</ref> Welsh film director [[Kieran Evans]] directed the accompanying music video in which Minogue floats in an airspace of spiral effects.<ref>{{harvnb|Deconstruction|1998f}}</ref> The single reached number 23 in Australia and inside the top 20 in the UK.<ref>{{harvnb|Official Charts Company A}}; {{harvnb|Hung Medien A}}</ref> Because of popular demand, "Too Far" was released on [[Gramophone record|12" vinyl]] in May 1998 as a [[promotional single]].<ref>{{harvnb|Deconstruction|1998g}}; {{harvnb|Deconstruction 1998h}}</ref> Two remixes were made for the single: a Brothers in Rhythm remix that contains new vocals and adlibs from Minogue, and a [[Europop]] remix by [[Junior Vasquez]].<ref name="toofar1">{{harvnb|Deconstruction 1998h}}; {{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=145}}</ref> "Too Far" was planned to be the final single and was to be released commercially as a vinyl triple pack, but these plans were scrapped.<ref name="toofar1"/> Instead, "Cowboy Style" was released as the album's final single, with "Love Takes Over Me" on the B-side, on 5 October 1998 and distributed only in Australia.<ref>{{harvnb|Australian Recording Industry Association A}}; {{harvnb|''Kylie.com'' F}}</ref> It was not released in the UK because of Minogue's departure from Deconstruction in November.<ref name="classic43">{{harvnb|Flynn|2019|ps=: "Non-Stop Dancing" by Hurley, Oliver|page=43}}</ref> Owing to a limited number of issued formats, the track only charted for a single week at number 39 on the Australian regional top 50.<ref name="auschart"/>
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