A viral TikTook hit this summer season means Kylie Minogue has added one other cohort to her multi-generational fan base — a lot of them so younger they’ve by no means heard the hits that made her a star.
“Padam Padam”, the primary single from the brand new album “Tension”, which is out on Friday, has put Minogue again on dance flooring around the globe greater than 35 years after she first broke out.
It has additionally seen children around the globe recreating the dance routine from the video on TikTook — a brand new expertise for the Australian star.
“To have this new generation loving it — they’re so open-minded and accepting of me at my age — it gives me more energy,” the 55-year-old informed AFP throughout a go to to Paris.
“It’s funny because I see people who have discovered me through ‘Padam’ and they’ve never heard of ‘Locomotion’ or ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’, which is alarming but also exciting,” she stated.
Minogue was simply 19 when she launched “Locomotion” in 1987, remodeling her from daytime cleaning soap actress on Australian present ‘Neighbours’ to worldwide pop star.
Her place was confirmed with follow-up single “I Should Be So Lucky” that propelled debut album “Kylie” to greater than 5 million gross sales.
That was simply the beginning. Her document firm says she has offered greater than 80 million information and had greater than 5 billion streams throughout her profession.
The title “Padam Padam” had many in France questioning if Kylie was masking the well-known music of the identical identify by Edith Piaf however she admits the similarities begin and finish with the identify.
“A lot of crazy things have happened to me in my life and that’s another one — being linked in the same sentence as Edith Piaf,” she stated with amusing.
“I did wonder if the French would be ‘d’accord’,” she added.
The singer was in a position to decide the nice and cozy reception in France at a listening occasion for the album at a Paris membership final week.
Lucky attendees had been stunned to see her come down from the stage to bop within the viewers, dressed like Little Red Riding Hood and perched on excessive heels that she kicked off to maneuver extra freely.
Having one other pop hit in her mid-fifties was a shock, she stated.
“I was completely blown away… Every song release, I have nerves and excitement, but I can honestly say I did not see this coming.”
As all the time in her profession, “Padam Padam” has been a specific hit in LGBT golf equipment.
Her homosexual fan base dates again to her earliest days — she remembers the primary time she heard a few “Kylie Night” at a membership on Sydney’s Oxford Street.
“I’ve since been to the drag shows and I’m the least Kylie there. There are these supersonic versions of me. I couldn’t compete!” she stated.
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