Kylie Minogue has done it all during her gold-dust career of 45 years. But even with two Grammys under her belt and her mantle as the best-selling artist of all time from her native Australia, Kylie as a few “what-ifs?” in the closet.
Reveal one in a new chat with Audacity Check Intelling host Mike Adam that at one point he almost recorded one of Britney Spears' most iconic songs. “Yeah, there's a little song called 'Toxic' that was coming my way, and I was like, 'Toxic? “I don't know if I want a song called Toxic,'” Minogue said of the dance banger from Spears' 2003 fourth album. In the Zone. “As it turns out, it was meant to be a Britney Spears song, I can't imagine it being anything else.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Minogue was asked to name which other singers she would beat if asked to do an all-star We Are the World-style song. “It might be a girl group,” he said before rattling off a list that included Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Lana Del Rey, Miley Cyrus and Madonna.
Minogue also spoke about putting together the set list for her upcoming first US tour in more than a dozen years, promising to hit songs from this month Volume IIas well as its 2023 predecessor IntensityDisco of 2002 and 2018 Goldenand, of course, her ground-breaking cover of “Locomotion” in 1987.
The 56-year-old singer who has tapped into a musical fountain of youth that has kept her relevant for decades — see her 2023 global dance hit “Padam Padam” — also delved into the changes she's seen for women in the music industry.
“It's very encouraging to be proof, sitting here. Now we bring up the issue of age, but I think it's at least with a positive spin on it,” he said. “It wasn't that many years ago that I felt I was in quite uncomfortable positions where people would ask me to my face in an interview, 'When are you too old to be a woman in this business?' First — rude, but second — I don't know. I guess I've always had women in the industry that I've noticed, I didn't really think about their age at the time.”
Minogue recalled being “obsessed” with Australian singer Olivia Newton-John as a primary school student, as well as disco diva Donna Summer, before moving on to worship Whitney Houston, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper as a teenager. “I guess there wasn't that much of an age gap between my teenage years and theirs,” she said. “But I don't know what happened where it suddenly became unpleasant or, I don't know. But luckily, it does, for sure, for the younger generation… they just have new minds and open minds.”
Watch Minogue on the Audacy Check In below.
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