Kylie heads back again to dance floor with new album
12 November, 2020
Since Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue played her parents' ABBA and Donna Summer records as a kid, disco music has always been part of her.
In the new album she released the other day, Minogue returns to those roots, and may make British chart history if it reaches number 1.
Despite her many accolades, including one Grammy and three Brit awards, Minogue says it would be "incredible" if 'Disco' - her 15th studio album - topped the charts, making her the first female solo artist to have number 1 albums in the UK across five consecutive decades.
"That sounds crazy if you ask me. I'm 52 years old. So, you know, across five decades … I just think it is amazing," Kylie told Reuters within an interview in London.
The singer, who has sold 80 million albums worldwide, says she started hearing disco music as a kid.
"I would have already been eight, nine, 10, you know, just getting into music, just in a position to play my parents' records myself...and lots of those were disco records."
Disco "is definitely in the machine", she said.
"In 2018 after that my previous album, Golden, which had a country influence, I knew I'd be heading back again to the dance floor. I didn't quite know I'd be as sort of blatant as disco. But I knew I was heading that way."
Minogue co-wrote all the tracks on Disco, which was mostly recorded during lockdown in a studio she had to set up in her home. She said she hopes the album connects with people, now even though her lead single was not written in response to the pandemic, it resonates.
"The opening lines for 'Say Something' are 'we're a million miles apart in one thousand ways'. Which, of course in 2020 took on a complete new meaning," she said.
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