(Paris) “A new generation discovers me with Padam Padam and she never heard of The Loco-Motion », smiles Kylie Minogue: the Australian is still dancing after 35 years of career, driven by this new viral single on TikTok.
Padam Padamthe first piece released as a scout for a new album, Tensionscheduled for this Friday, is not a resumption of Padam Padam by Édith Piaf but an electro track that was a hit this summer (more than 71 million plays on Spotify, market leader in music streaming platforms).
“So far, the only Padam Padam in my world, it was Edith Piaf’s song but the only similarity is the title: lots of crazy things have happened to me in my life and it’s another one to find myself linked to two same words from Edith Piaf,” she laughs, during a meeting with the AFP in Paris.
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The album cover Tension
“I wondered if the French would “agree”,” continues the 55-year-old star, pronouncing this last word in the language of Baudelaire. The singer was able to judge the good reception in France while listening to the album in a club in the center of Paris. The lucky ones in the know were surprised to see her come down from the stage to dance in the audience, dressed like Little Red Riding Hood, perched on high heels that she eventually took off.
Residence in Las Vegas
France was not the only country to catch on and TikTok even took over. “I didn’t see it coming,” she whispers. Enough to open up a new audience for him on the borders of adolescence.
“Being accepted at my age by this audience gives me energy. A new generation discovers me with Padam Padam and she never heard of The Loco-Motion Or Can’t get you out of my head “.
The Loco-Motion featured on his first studio album Kyliepublished in 1988. We also hear the success I should be so lucky.
This first opus has sold more than five million copies. To celebrate 35 years of this release, a limited edition will be released on November 24. The one who first broke the screen in Neighborsa blockbuster television series, has now sold more than 80 million records and has more than five billion streams online, according to its record company.
Tension, designed for the dance floor, should in turn allow it to fill theaters around the world. Ten new dates have been added to his Las Vegas residency in November.
“Kylie Nights”
And Padam Padam has, like many of his songs, become a hit in the LGBTQIA+ community.
It was when his manager, at the start of his musical career, told him about “Kylie Nights” in Oxford Street, a street of gay clubs in Sydney, that the artist became aware of this sounding board.
“There are drag queens and, in these shows, I am the last Kylie. There are supersonic versions of me, against whom I could not win the competition,” she laughs.
In early 2023, Kylie Minogue participated in WorldPride in Sydney. “It was electric and, as a bonus, my sister (Dannii) was there. It was a surprise, at the end of the show, we sang the last song together. Seeing two Minogues together is like seeing a unicorn.”
Recently, asked which actress could star in her possible biopic, Kylie Minogue replied Margot Robbie, compatriot, tops the box office this summer with barbie.
“This story turned out well. When someone asked me that, I was panicking (laughs) and I said Margot Robbie. That would be her in my dreams. I’m a big fan but I know it won’t happen. So, if a biopic is to be made, it would need someone not so well known, for the different Kylies, baby, little, older.”