Kylie Minogue: Through the Eras

I sometimes give a little bit of thought to what would have happened if I didn't pursue music

I wonder what where I would have gone with acting. I had a rollicking time in the 90s

Take me back. It was brilliant. I want to let you know what I was going through

I'm Mark Wright and I am with the one and only Kylie Minogue. We're about to sit down

and talk all things Kylie from the start right up until now

Kylie, we're here in Hart's new lounge. And this is just literally me having a chat and talking about all your very many iconic moments

I'm going to take it all the way back to 1987 and your first single that you released, Locomotion

Now, you were on Neighbours at the time. Charlene, of course, you was killing it in the acting world

What made you say, I know I'm going to release a song? We were asked to perform at a concert for one of the local football clubs

We did a couple of songs and one of them was Locomotion, which I just happened to know

I mean, this is where it's like, this sounds like a biopic. This guy came up to me and he would have known me from our shows at the same station and said

that was really good. You should release a record. And I had stars in my eyes. I just, I remember going, really

So when you go back to Neighbours after releasing that, what's the rest of the cast, what's their reaction

Oh, I think they were really, really pleased for me. And then it got kind of tricky where to come to London

to record the rest of my album, they would have to write me out of the show for a couple of weeks

So, of course, that took a lot of advanced planning, like where's Charlene gone for two weeks

And I would make my way over here. And I did that for a couple of years

And then in the end, I thought, I've got to make a choice here. I sometimes give a little bit of thought to what would have happened if I didn't pursue music

I wonder where I would have gone with acting. But music's turned out pretty good

If you could take you back to that exact moment and someone said, right, you're about to do this

It's singing or it's acting. One of them has to go forever. What are you choosing at that point

That's possibly one of the most awful things you could ask me, Mark. I thought this was a nice little chat on the sofa

What I mean is, would it have been nerve-wracking? Was you nervous that you're pursuing this new career

and you're so successful in one already that one that could get left behind and this might not work

Maybe in a sense it was a brave decision because it was the number one show. So I kind of left when it was still really peaking

But for whatever reason, I made that decision. And what advice would you give to someone for that

I think that's amazing because, you know, there's the famous saying, don't change what's not broken. sit and be comfortable and that was very comfortable you was the star on Neighbours

it was a humongous show all around the world what would you say to people who are doing something

they're comfortable but actually there's something more they could go and get because that's what you essentially done you left something that is massive I consistently go out of my comfort zone come to think of it like really how important is that in growth i think it essential do you think that comes naturally a natural drive to keep

progressing i can't imagine if that wasn't my nature i can't i certainly wouldn't do it for

this amount of time but so it's just something within me amazing that is sometimes interpreted

even to myself as madness so let's skip forward two years 1989 especially for you

one of the biggest duets in pop for sure and one of mine are my wife's

karaoke songs actually have you ever heard anyone doing that in public have you ever been in a karaoke bar

or heard two people singing it no I don't think I have no I've heard it

so many times it's like the number one karaoke song but it does something to people

as soon as that you know that comes in the kind of

the intro of it I see the change in people because it's kind of like nostalgia

you're taken straight back to that time let's do it now me and you

no I'm joking I want to let you know what I was going through

So good. All the time. Look, he's left me. I can't harmonise with that

I can't harmonise with that. Just unbelievable. What's your relationship like with Jason now? It's good, yeah

I last saw him in Spain, weirdly. But it's always so special to see him

And Guy Pearce. I see him from time to time. And actually I came across some amazing pictures of the three of us just recently on set

with some neighbors promo pics and I just think what a time like we were just we were

straight out of school like it blows my mind we and we suddenly had this responsibility

you need to know your lines you need to get to work you need to do this you need to learn stuff

um be thrown into the PR machine and I'm really glad that we had each other at that time and we

were all just figuring it out like as we went along now we're gonna go skip forward to 1990

okay i'm there you know that other devil you know did you know when you created this song that it

was going to be as special as it was no no clue but the the main memory for that at the time i

was starting to i just wanted to have more input and i was really into at the time kathy dennis

and D-Mob, come on and get my love. Come on and get my love

Come on and get my love for you. And there was this, oh

And so they wrote Better the Devil You Know, which you can hear once you know that fact

Better the Devil, it was a turning point visually for me. I made the video in Melbourne, Australia

And again, I found this amazing footage the other day of us having the first play of the video

and I was on tour. We were in the touring bus and we're all crowded around watching the video

and there's this footage of panning around to my makeup artist at the time

I was like, what do you think? She goes, it's going to be banned. Like, because it was quite racy at the time

Would you say that in your top five favourite songs you done It getting tough now because there a few There a good few But I would definitely say it was one of the first turning points for me

Let's skip to 1994. Okay. Confined in me. This is when it feels like your music changed

You just mentioned racier there, more sexy, more mainstream. Would you agree with that

Less mainstream, I would say. I went from PWL Hit Factory. It was like a complete kind of right turn, or U-turn, to go with this kind of club indie label

Again, another, like, what are you doing? And Confide in Me was the first single, and it was completely different

It marked a new era. The music video, if somebody said to me who was born in the noughties, like my sister, my baby sister, what was the 90s like

I would say just watch this video. That's a whole other couch sit down because I had a rollicking time in the 90s, especially early 90s

I was out clubbing. Was that your favourite era? Lots of shenanigans, yeah

Well, and also I was like, let's say that's from kind of 21 to 25

So you're kind of... Yeah, they're good days. Yeah, it was just, it was a wild time

And the music scene and fashion scene was just amazing. Would you say you had that rock period

that pop star going out clubbing, getting in at early hours of the morning period

Has Kylie ever been that? Yeah. Yeah, she has. There was no social media and all that

So you just did it. And you were with the people. And yeah, it was..

Take me back. It was brilliant. Right, let's skip forward to 2000

Spinning around. The iconic gold hot pants, I've got to mention them, of course. you bought for 50p in a flea market well my girlfriend bought them i used to trawl the

markets i grew up going to the flea markets and she bought them for 50p somewhere in london

question is on everyone's lips do you still own them no because i donated just about everything i

have to the performing arts museum in melbourne so the hot pants you can't go near any of this

stuff without white gloves which i think is hilarious especially like tour costumes and

things or even the the gold hot pants are there charlene's overalls are there showgirl cut like

everything's there so everyone has that moment and i hope you forgive me for revealing this but

that moment when somebody becomes their number one their pinup oh i can't get you out of my head

was mine because i literally couldn't get you out my head i absolutely it was the video yeah 100

of the video and the track what was the what was the plan behind this video did you have a lot of

input in this video and how it was going to look well it was the same director as spinning around

dawn shudforth who's just the beautiful human and we'd all got through millennium y2k

the world didn't stop spinning which is great everything came together and it doesn't happen

like it really doesn happen very often with the song the video styling hair makeup choreography dances edit like everything We saw it on the day with the white outfit There was a moment that I recall going

wow, that looks like a campaign. And so we were quite excited

But again, who knew? You just don't know what's going to happen. But I'll forever be grateful for the synergy at that time

When that was released, I mean, it was humongous. Everyone was talking about it. It was massive. It was the song of the moment

when that happens how quickly does it do you feel does it gradually grow or is it it's happened

something like that it happened i can't imagine if that was today yeah what it would feel like but

i remember my tv plugger at the time coming into a dressing room uh at one of the shows and she

just came in this big smile said you sold 400 000 like it was it was it was going to be number one

and we just... And it was the music videos were massive. Yeah

That's when all we did was sat at home and watch music videos. Yeah. I'm going to skip forward now

There's so many more we could talk about, but I know you haven't got all day. So let's just skip forward to now

2024, Lights, Camera, Action, your new single. What's the inspiration? I think the vibe of the track

is just having attitude and being quite ferocious. And, you know, I love the lines

Like, it got shades on my face. I'm looking like Lagerfeld's in Vogue. There's a lot of fashion play there

But what really got me is the track. Like, it pulls you in, you're on the edge

and then the beat drops, and you're good to go. Lights, camera, action, that's it

What I love about you, Kylie, is artists seem to go through their years and their music changes with the times

But your music has always stayed and, you know, continues to stay fun

It continues to make you want to party. that feels like it never wants to that you never want to change that who wants the party to end

that's a great outline that is a good one nope make a note yeah there's other songs that are

emotional you know can pull at the heartstrings but i think my songs always have a hopeful

sheen to them and just make you feel happy i hope so i want you to just feel something and and

feeling happy and hopeful at the end or just feeling abandoned and happy is great as well

and I've been able to explore different genres and dip my toe in and out at different places

but I'm very much enjoying where we're at right now. And the party definitely isn't ending soon

You've just released more tour dates because it's so in demand. Kylie, you are just an inspiration, an amazing person

and we will love you so much. Thank you so much for spending this time with us. Thank you, Mark. That was really fun

I really enjoyed it. I mean, we could have just gone on and on and on. Thank you for the trip down

Well, it's a lot of memory lane. I love talking about all that. Thank you so much

Well, we love hearing it. Thank you so much for listening. Kylie Minogue, The Life Off

And there's going to be a round two because there's so much more to talk about. We just couldn't get it all done. See you back on the sofa soon

Yeah, very soon