Pop Icon Kylie Minogue stopped by for an #AudacyCheckIn from the Hard Rock Hotel talk her new album, ‘Tension II,‘ her upcoming tour and more!
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00:00If you were going to put together a, you know, your own charity We Are The World song today,
00:06give me like five or a few artists that you would love to get on that.
00:09It might be a girl group because I'm giving the girls a lot of spin. I wouldn't mind being with
00:15Chapel, Sabrina, Lana, Miley because she's a gas, and Madonna.
00:25We are here at the Odyssey Soundspace at the Hard Rock Hotel New York with our check-in
00:32with Kylie Minogue, the legend, the icon. I'm so happy to have you here.
00:38Thank you. So good to see you.
00:40We have so much to talk about the North American tour. This is your first proper
00:44tour here in 13 years?
00:47In way too long, like too, too, too, too, too long. So it's hugely exciting. Yeah.
00:51How do you even go about like selecting the songs you're going to perform for something
00:57of this magnitude?
00:57That's my current, yeah, Living Rent Free.
01:01Yeah.
01:02In my brain is set list. Obviously, it's a Tension tour. So we're going to have songs
01:08from Tension, Tension 2, even Disco, my previous album, I didn't get to tour.
01:12But we're going to serve you, can't get you out of my head and all the lovers and
01:17even take you back to Locomotion.
01:19Yeah. And I grew up, I told you, I grew up listening to you and watching you and all
01:23the things you've acted in. So it's got to be mind-blowing for you, for you to be able
01:30to play Locomotion and then have the moms, the 80s babies dancing their butt off and
01:36then do padam padam and have like the kids, you know, it's a family affair. Is that what
01:42you're expecting?
01:43So glad that you've recognized that because that's been one of my recent, it's just
01:49been such a buzz that the OGs are there. The OG fans that have been around like, yeah,
01:55yeah, we were on board years ago. So they're there, they're having a blast that this is
02:02happening in our relationship. And then the newer fans, new people come to the Kylie
02:10party and they're, okay, I know they've been introduced a lot of them with padam
02:15or tension, whatever, but they lose their minds over Locomotion, which is just brilliant.
02:21Yes.
02:21So cool. So it means I can encompass the scope of my career, which is over five decades.
02:26It's so cool. Is there a key to longevity in this crazy business?
02:34I mean, there's a few things that definitely count. Persistence, tenacity, passion,
02:40luck. Trust me, there's days where I go, I just, I can't. But that doesn't last long.
02:48Maybe not even days, like moments where I'm like, is this good? Should I do something else
02:56just for my kind of health and sanity? But I just love it too much.
03:01Is there anything you miss about the industry, like when you were first getting into it?
03:05Like for me, you know,
03:07Yeah, what are you nostalgic about?
03:10On cassettes or CDs, when you would find the secret song at the end, when you would just
03:14let the final track play and then you would, I miss that so much.
03:18Yeah, we don't have that. Oh, look, just the thrill of, you had to make the effort,
03:25go to the shop, get or, you know, have it gifted to you. Or that was like,
03:31you know, your kind of own private Idaho is to have that, put that record on or,
03:35or I have to like argue with your brother and sister like, what are we playing? We're playing
03:38this or your parents can put that off. Like that just, there was, there was less time going in.
03:44I don't know. You just couldn't have music. Well, until I got a Walkman,
03:47you didn't have music on the move. So I guess, yeah, I can be nostalgic about all of that.
03:52But cut to now and it's great to go. What do I want to listen to that?
03:57What are, what, what's new? I don't know. Shuffle, show me. So, so much has changed. But yeah,
04:04there's definitely some reasons to feel nostalgic.
04:07Totally. And now it's crazy. You see like your older songs blowing up on TikTok and you're
04:11probably like, what the heck? It's just crazy. Well, what's interesting is like, who started
04:16that? If something takes off and so you see the kind of the snowball effect of that, I'm like,
04:22who did that? Yeah. Who? And did they think it was going to work? I know. I love it. I love
04:28seeing people's creativity and them getting involved. Talk to me a little bit about the
04:33changes you've seen over the years for women in the industry from when you were getting started
04:40to now. Do you feel like there's been real progressive?
04:45It's very encouraging that like I'm proof I'm sat here and we have now we bring up the age
04:52topic, but I think it's at least with a positive spin on it. It wasn't that many years ago that I
04:58felt I was in quite awkward positions where people would question me to my face in an
05:05interview. Like, so when do you think you should, you know, basically to paraphrase,
05:11when are you too old to be a woman in this business? And I'm like, firstly rude, but secondly,
05:18I don't know. I guess I've always had women in the industry that I've looked up to. I didn't
05:26really think about their age at the time. I'm 8, 9, 10, obsessing over Liv Newton-John and Donna
05:32Summer. And then as an older teenager, you know, Whitney, Madonna, Cindy, all of them. I guess
05:43they weren't, there wasn't such an age gap between my teenage years and their years. But I don't
05:49I don't know. I don't know what happened where it was suddenly
05:55deemed distasteful or I don't know. But thankfully it is becoming,
06:02certainly for the younger generation, they've just got a new minds and open minds. And I don't think,
06:10you know, it's like, you shouldn't be all sorts of things. You should be open to people being
06:15who they are. And one of those things is ageism and particularly music. So good for you.
06:21Absolutely. Is there a song that got away from your long career? Like
06:27ever a song that you were in the running for or something that ended up going to someone?
06:32There's a little song called Toxic that was headed my way. And I was like, toxic. I don't know.
06:37I don't know if I want a song called Toxic. I should, I mean, as it's turned out,
06:44it was meant to be a Britney Spears song. I can't imagine it being anything else. But
06:48yeah, at the time that was, came very close to me.
06:51Did you cut a demo for that?
06:53I did not. No.
06:54Oh, okay. Wow.
06:55There's nothing that's going to surface.
06:57Yeah. Yeah. A couple of things before we wrap up. If you were going to put together a,
07:04you know, your own charity, we are the world song today. Give me like five or a few artists
07:09that you would love to get on that.
07:10It might be a girl group because I'm giving the girls a lot of spins. I mean, I do really have a
07:15penchant for like indie bands. I definitely love some Yacht Rock just on in the background. But
07:22I wouldn't mind being with Chapel, Sabrina, Lana, Miley, because she's a gas, and Madonna.
07:35Oh, so good.
07:37I mean, if I could broaden it to 10, 15, 20, I'd have Rihanna, Beyonce, like all of them.
07:44Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're wonderful. We're so excited for you.
07:47Thank you for taking out the time to talk to us.