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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2020 22:22:24 GMT
Kylie Minogue sings herself to sleep when she needs to block out doubts and criticism. The Aussie pop princess is returning to her roots with new album, Disco, following her Golden country music turn two years ago. And it is unlikely she will let the mixed reaction to new tracks Say Something and Magic get to her — explaining she can’t get it right every single time, even after 15 albums and a music career that has spanned more than 30 years. The 52-year-old, whose album is expected to take on Little Mix in a chart battle later this year, said: ‘Sometimes, I think I’ve done okay but I always think there’s more to do… I do.’ Explaining she has no plan B, she added: ‘It’s pretty much the only thing I’m good at. Am I going to change careers now?’ And with the first offering from the new record struggling to fly, the pop star says is not fazed. ‘There’s always a new challenge. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes it’s not quite right. I’m always driven to try the next thing.’ Kylie is now returning to her disco roots (Picture: Getty) She also explained she has a tried and tested way of blocking out the critics, and her own negative thoughts, when she hits the sack with boyfriend Paul Solomons. ‘Well, I can’t always shut it out that’s for sure,’ she said of her haters. ‘I think it’s a common part of being an artist or performer. ‘Doubt can creep in and maybe that’s one of the reasons why I want to keep going. I feel pretty at ease with that now (doubts).’ The Can’t Get You Out of My Head singer added: ‘I go to bed with songs going around my head. I don’t know if I do shut it out but I try. ‘I don’t know what the difference is but making my own noise can cancel it out.’ And she says fans shouldn’t overthink her pop ditties too much. ‘As long as it’s going to get you boogeying around the kitchen bench, that will be great,’ she said. But the pop icon does have a dire prediction for fans — she is sad she can’t say for certain when they will see her Spinning Around in the flesh again. After shooting disco scenes for new single Magic at London’s Fabric nightclub, she said: ‘Concerts now seem like an absolute pipe dream. I hope it’s not too long before we can reconnect like that.’ Her new album, Disco, is due to be released on November 6.
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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2020 7:27:32 GMT
Kylie Minogue wishes she used her platform to "speak up" when she was younger.
The 52-year-old singer has been in the spotlight since the 1980s, and has said she regrets "letting things slide" in her early years of fame which she would definitely speak out against if they happened today.
She said: "It's more like a little bit here, a little bit there, wish I hadn't have done that, a lot of wish I had done that differently, I could have done that better, why didn't I see what was happening.
"Mostly [as a perfectionist], there are some areas, when I'm really on the fence about something, it can go either way.
"I'm not sure how correct I am in saying, in recent years, last five, ten years, whatever, where I am more ... I don't let things slide, some things from the past ... I've always had the idea, but haven't always spoken up."
And the 'Say Something' hitmaker says it's refreshing to see up-and-coming singers these days being confident enough to speak out against injustice.
During an interview with Jessie Ware and her mother Lennie for the 'Table Manners' podcast, she added: "It does seem like the younger girls now have stronger voices. And that's amazing."
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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2020 22:41:36 GMT
There haven’t really been parties during the pandemic, but disco-diva fever has been all the rave in 2020. As Kylie Minogue releases her aptly titled “Disco” album on Friday, a look at how she, along with Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware, Róisín Murphy and, of course, Lady Gaga have twirled back to the dance floor — even when the clubs were closed. After trading her dancing pumps for boots on “Golden,” her 2018 country detour, the dancing queen from Down Under takes it back to her rug-cutting roots. Minogue sounds positively giddy to be back in the land of sequins and flashing lights on tracks such as the impossibly bouncy “Monday Blues,” the galactic-grooving “Supernova” and “Dance Floor Darling” — a title that she owns and then some. Most discolicious moment: “Miss a Thing.” From the moment she commands “Dance” at the beginning with the sweetest of coos, this is pure Kylie bliss.
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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2020 5:36:34 GMT
Two years since the release of her country-tinged pop project Golden, Minogue once again enters a new phase with Disco, her latest studio album. Joining the 2020 pop disco revival started by Dua Lipa and Jessie Ware, Minogue has crafted a bevy of contemplative, dance floor-ready tracks that recall her retro-imbued albums Light Years (2000) and Fever (2001). With lead single “Say Something,” Minogue provides a balm for the lonely days of quarantine: “We're a million miles apart, in a thousand ways / Baby, you could light up the dark, like a solar scape,” she sings with a candy-coated lilt.
Disco delivers exactly the kind of optimism people need in 2020. “I think a lot of my songs and a lot of the songs on Disco are about togetherness, and that dream of good times, acknowledging they're not all great times,” Minogue says. Phoning in from her home in London, she speaks with ELLE.com about how quarantine affected the making of the album, the new wave of disco pop, and her dream future collaborators.
Why was it important to mix wistfulness with hope on the record? I think that's one of my happy places. "All The Lovers" is like that, which is from 2011. In "Can't Get You Out of My Head," there's a longing and a plaintive cool within that. It's enough to drive me crazy: You can't shake the idea of this person. That, to me, is a no-brainer. That's a place I like to go to, to try to illustrate that, especially lyrically within a song. There's other songs on the album [where] really it's like, we're just having a good time. There's really no storyline other than "this is the dance we're doing." I'm not afraid to do that.
What made "Say Something" the ideal lead single? I think “Say Something” has some melancholy to it for sure. Lyrically, for a start, it seemed to make sense and connect with people. Everyone has hard times, so how do you navigate that? How do you find the joy within that? Some of the other tracks go into more of a disco leaning [feel], especially “Magic,” the second single.
Tell me the story behind "Magic." I'm not pulling a rabbit out of a hat. It is about that magical feeling and the sparks of falling in love, finding a person, the person, the people, however you roll—finding that connection with someone. That does seem like magic sometimes. We read about it, we write about it, there's paintings. Just about anything you look at goes back to love and the human desire to have that in some way, shape, or form.
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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2020 19:41:37 GMT
I heard you made part of the record before COVID-19 and the rest of it during quarantine. I started on the album last year and carried on early this year. My last gig was in São Paolo and the date is etched in my brain, March 6, because the weeks leading up to that, I was speaking to my management every day saying, "Is this still on? Is this still happening?" It did happen, and it was fantastic, but that was it. That was the last gig I did. Then I was back in various studios and hit my stride with different writers and producers: We think we've got this disco thing. We know the lane we're supposed to be in. I was going all day, every day, and then lockdown happened.
What was that transition like for you when quarantine hit? I thought, how can we keep doing this? I took baby steps using GarageBand, which I'd never used before. Then thought, okay, I've got to get serious: auditing all the equipment, setting up a home studio, and learning the basics of Logic to at least be able to record my vocals and do remote recording sessions. It took some getting used to. Everyone being in their houses, all my collaborators, some of them with children, they'd say, "Well, I could do 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Then I've got to put the kids down." Someone would have a Wi-Fi problem, there'd be buffering issues. There'd be challenges, but every day one of us would say, "We are so thankful to be able to do this, stay creative, keep working."
How did you approach making Disco differently than Golden? Oh, quite differently. Golden was about songwriting and going back to basics. I think having a piece of country was delving into that world and finding a way to have that make sense with my pop sensibility.
It meant so much to me to try to understand the past couple of years. I had a breakup, and it's not about him, it's about me. It was that age-old story of trying to understand what happened and how I felt about it. So, on that level with songwriting, there were themes that are universal. I definitely haven't forgotten any of the lessons. And by osmosis, going to Nashville and learning more about songwriting, something changes [in you]. Everybody talks about it when they've been to Nashville. I've joined the fan club because my time there was incredible.
This year, we've been seeing a disco revival in pop with Lady Gaga, Jessie Ware, and Róisín Murphy, to name a few. Dua Lipa has referenced your older work as well. What do you think accounts for the shift to disco liberation in pop? I'm asking the same question because it's in the air. I think Dua started her album last year. I started mine last year. I don't know that anyone knew that anyone else was doing disco or going down that path, yet we have to talk about it this year. So, why is it happening? Why is it so relevant? I don't entirely know the answer to that. Firstly, it's got to be that pop is cyclic. The music we hear veers toward something else in time. There's a moment in the world now where people want or are enjoying some escapism. I have my own personal reasons for how I ended up having disco as the thing for this album, but it had nothing to do with 2020. It's just ideas and actualities colliding.
Why do you think there's so much power in pop music, especially this year? We've gotten some really incredible pop albums. Maybe people are more receptive to it at the moment, or the desire for music and to appreciate. I think we're appreciating the day, whether it's a beautiful, sunny day or in London today, the weather has just turned. I can't speak for everybody, but it seems that collectively, if I can generalize, we're grateful for much smaller things that we would have taken for granted before. We haven't been through this before. It certainly feels like music is one of the things that can connect and unite people, as it always has been, but this year is a year like no other for us.
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