Composition
"Spinning Around" is a moderately paced dance-pop song with disco influences. According to the sheet music for the song published at Musicnotes.com by Bug Music, the song is written in the key of F♯-minor. The beat is set in common time, and moves at a tempo of 120 beats per minute. The song has the sequence of F♯7sus–Dmaj7–E/B as its chord progression, and Minogue's vocals in the song spans from the note of F♯3 to the note of C♯5. Bryony Sutherland and Lucy Ellis, the authors of the book Kylie: Showgirl, noted that the song is an unashamed piece of sparkling "disco-pop". Larry Flick of Billboard noted that the song ended a brief "modern-rock flirtation" and revisits the dance-pop sound of her 1980s heyday.
According to Chris True of allmusic, "Spinning Around" is a fun and string-laden declaration that she may have made a mistake back in 1997. Pam Avoledo of Blogcritics noted that the song begins with lush keyboards. In the chorus, Minogue sings she says that she's demanding attention, while in the bridge, she repeats that people can't help but like her now. The phrase "you like it like this" is also funkified by a vocoder. After the chorus, Minogue adlibs the part of the chorus — "Oh, I'm not the same / You like it like this / Ooh-oh."
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