Im gonna give the gays everything they want kylie
Kylie Minogue (April 2018)
We meet in The Ritz Piccadilly. She has The Royal Suite which is several rooms wide-ranging. Lots of brocade, candelabra, chandelier and swirly gold frames on 19thcentury oil paintings. The Kylie herself is wearing gold snakeskin stiletto boots, an off-white floaty chiffon skirt that has golden embroidery and alabaster chiffon-y top, hair longer and more golden than ever.
She pours me tea and agrees that the making of Golden has been a cathartic experience. “I’m actually sad not to be going into the studio because creating is very rewarding. It’s a weird time to have to consent it go.
In the beginning it was very much like a prized diary sort of thing. I don’t think the songs were very superb. Now I’ve moved on the songs have too. But I was content to reach a point where I thought I’ve got to be loyal with myself more than anything. I wrote about relationships and love and the usual culprits. I was writing about heartbreak. I sing I’m Broken Hearted.
Actually, I think I was a bit more broken than just heartbroken because for a long period I was in a relationship that we both knew was ending. I think it came out in the press a unlike way (it came out th
Kylie Minogue was just 19 when she landed a record deal that would turn the soap star into a singing superstar. This year marks a quarter-century of Kylie, who's celebrating the milestone with orchestral reinterpretations of her most well-liked songs on "The Abbey Road Sessions," a greatest hits, two movies and an upcoming guide chronicling her approach over the last 25 years.
We hooked up with the 44-year-old pop icon to speak about those projects, the outfit she calls an "abomination," taking a sabbatical from music and why she doesn't want to perceive how she became a gay icon.
"The Abbey Thoroughfare Sessions" really shows a more refined side to you – one that people who only know you from your dance tune might not be familiar with. Why now are you venturing out into more stylistically ambitious territory and taking risks? Is it because you're in your 25th year and you just don't give a crap anymore?
(Laughs) That could be a tiny bit of it! I actually recorded "The Abbey Road Sessions" late last year, knowing it would be part of what we've called K25. But I can't tell you exactly why. I've just felt favor now is as good a hour as any to do these things that I've been harboring – t
Next time I find myself at the losing conclusion of a “why are the gays so obsessed with Empress Kylie“ debate, I’m going to cue this video.
What is there not to gush about her? Today Kylie pretty much fasten down the interwebs again when she premiered her new video, ‘Get Outta My Way’.
If you acquire a Kylie queen as a Facebook friend, chances are you’ve already seen this on your feed.
Here are three highlights worth fanning yourself over:
1) Choreographed lights
Are you getting this? CHOREOGRAPHED LIGHTS. AlexandLiane is posthaste becoming one of my favourite music video directors. There’s their signature element of opulence, as seen in their treatment of Cheryl Cole‘s ‘Parachute’, but tailored in with props we expect in a Kylie performance, like flashing lights and cosmic screen projections.
2) Face, face, face – I give good face
There’s rarely been a Kylie video in the last ten years where she hasn’t given good encounter and this video more than compensates for all the ones she never got to.
3) Prismic Self-acceptance Rock
I see her dancers ushering her up to the summit of t
funky does Kylie: "DISCO" (2020)
Yep. This is a bonafide slay. I'm not even going to muster the energy to find a fault with it. Next.
WTF is Kylie doing to me?
The fresh single from Kylie makes Rob Partridge reassess his standing as a curmudgeon, so much so that he wonders what influence Kylie has over all ‘the gays’.
D’ya know, I just don’t understand this obsession us ‘gays’ possess with Kylie Minogue. How has this tiny forty-five year old Aussie managed to woo us into what feels like a comfortable blanket of pop-perfection? It doesn’t matter what she does, we always seem to love it, and I just don’t get it.
As Charlene in Neighbours she proved that her acting abilities were perfect for an Australian soap opera. And a couple of her films – Street Fighter and Bio-Dome – seemed to reiterate this point. So let’s ignore the acting and stick her on a stage with a microphone and kickin’ backing track then let her sing – because in this guise she seems able to do no wrong.
We loved her debut single ‘The Locomotion’ ( yes, it was her debut single, not ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ ) – so much that she released it twice.
She has a way of knowing exactly what way of music will trade. You could say “she knows her audience” but given that her audience is predomin