TO KEEP UP in an impossible business, Minogue has become one of its most adaptable stars. That malleability is apparent on the set of Rolling Stone UK’s cover shoot: she’s instantly game when someone suggests putting her in red wigs, leaning into the reputation she earned in the 90s and 00s as pop’s ‘great chameleon’, when she would switch up her image with each album release. “Sure, let’s give it a try,” she says.
“Home recording and just being able to play any time is preferable to me,” she says. ‘Padam Padam’ was recorded in a London hotel room, shortly after Nelson sent over the demo. The lead single is one of only a few songs on the album that Minogue herself didn’t co-write, but the recording process is where her perfectionism really begins to take over. “I will drive myself crazy mimicking [the demos],” she explains.
“She’s so down-to-earth. You don’t even think you’re in the room with Kylie. You feel like you’re in the room with a friend you’ve known for a long time. It was such a crazy experience to feel that you know someone so quickly,” Purcell says. man” doing the dance routines to ‘Better the Devil You Know’ and ‘Shocked’ in clubs in the early 90s; she was a well-established icon for her gay fans long before the entire world would catch up.
In the comfort of those sessions, with someone who has known her personally and professionally for so long, Minogue is open and honest, but how much she’ll let her listeners in past the bubbly pop pixie persona is a negotiation. What’s her secret to keeping much of her life away from the public eye? “It takes common sense. It takes some work, and it takes some sacrifice,” she says. “I can really go from doing a full kind of blitz of doing it all and then stop and recalibrate.”
“There’s a song that hasn’t been written yet,” she continues. “‘Padam Padam’ didn’t exist a year ago. I guess the ultimate seduction or challenge is to create that three and a half minutes of transformative magic. You want to try and keep getting that high [of] affecting someone positively.”BECAUSE HER WORK never really feels over, it often takes someone like her A&R Nelson to tell her to stop working on a project for her to actually step away.
Still, she’s seen firsthand how quickly time can move. Even three decades living in London snuck up on Minogue. For her first five years there, she could barely admit that she had relocated, mostly due to the amount of travel she was doing regularly as her music career was getting established.
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