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The one song Kylie Minogue had to 'fight' for: 'My record company don't even know'

JUST two weeks shy of her much-discussed 50th birthday, Kylie Minogue is in the midst of a welcome career renaissance.

After the ever-so-slightly diminishing returns of her past few dancefloor-focused studio albums, the confessional country vibe of her latest effort Golden has earned Minogue some of the best reviews of her career.

A career multitasker and businesswoman who puts her Jenner namesake to shame, Kylie’s ostensibly chatting to news.com.au about her new nine-frame Specsavers collection — she’s been wearing glasses since her early twenties, most famously on the cover of her 1994 self-titled album. But for Kylie, there’s a lot more to talk about, including the “overwhelming” reaction to her most personal album since 1997’s Impossible Princess (not coincidentally, both albums feature Minogue’s writing credits on every single song).

She tells us about her biggest fashion disasters, the one song on Golden she had to fight her record company to keep, and how her ill-fated 2015 engagement to actor Joshua Sasse now feels “almost like it never happened”.

So, each frame in your new Specsavers collection is named after a classic Kylie song. Which is your favourite?

The frames I’ve been wearing lately are called Never Too Late — a rose gold, metal frame. I throw them in the bottom of my handbag, but they’re surviving. The sunglasses I like are called Light Years. My favourite song? I’ll go with Light Years. I very rarely hear it anymore.

It’s an amazing Kylie single that never was.

It’s been a great moment when we’ve had it on tour, with the countdown … Giorgio Moroder vibes.

Anything in there for your new album, Golden?

I didn’t have Golden when these ones were designed, but the design meeting I had with Stig the chief designer happened when he flew to Nashville. I had two weeks in Nashville which was the ‘aha’ moment for me in making Golden — I wrote the title song there — and at the same time I was meeting with him. It’s that classic question I can never answer: ‘What’s a typical day?’ Are you kidding me? There isn’t a typical day.

It speaks to you as a pop star — the music, the look, the style, it all goes hand-in-hand. This Specsavers collection is ‘reinterpreted retro’ and it seems like that’s been the mission statement for the Golden album campaign too.

That was a fluke, I guess. I feel like this is happening to me at the moment — and I fully appreciate it’s not always like this, I know for a fact it’s not — but there’ve been moments lately where it’s like you’re going with the current. You’ve done a lot of paddling, you’ve missed the wave you thought you were going to catch, and then at a certain point in time, just when you think you can’t paddle any more, the conditions are right and you catch that wave. It feels like I’m having that moment, and I’m super thankful for it.

Not that I’m a surfer, by the way, with that whole analogy. Sounding like I’ve just unzipped my wetsuit … no.

The reinvented retro, the look for the album — if I have to place it somewhere, it’s a bit ’70s, a bit ‘now’, it’s not necessarily one specific thing. It’s been a bit country so far, but that’s going to keep morphing once we get to the tour and we’ll be adding a bit of Donna Summer back into the mix.

The tour kicks off in the UK in September. When will it reach Australia?

I don’t think that’ll be until next year, now.

You’ve had a whole lot of reinventions over the years. Which do you look back on as ‘classic Kylie’ looks, and which do you regret?

The classic moments are easier to pinpoint. I’ll choose three video moments: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, Spinning Around and Slow. I can look at them and say I wouldn’t change a thing.

NOW. On the other end of the spectrum … I’m just going to say: Bicycle pants with scrunched down socks and boots. Maybe throw a motorcycle jacket into that mix, and a scrunch dry. If we float around there, I’m sure there’s going to be some golden ‘how did that happen’ moments.


Let’s talk a bit more about Golden. As a fan, it’s been an exciting album to hear from you.

I get so emotional when I hear people say that.

There’s a real directness to the lyrics. You’re singing about death, life, personal heartbreak. Were you nervous about presenting this diary entry to the world?

No, because I was ready. I’d just been through a period in my life that’s almost like it never happened now. It was so weird — looking back, it was just so weird.
It wasn’t like I had to make myself do it, I just knew I had to be honest with myself — and therefore, I’ve got to be honest with everybody. It was totally liberating, and it continues to be liberating, because I’ve said what I wanted to say. People don’t even ask me any more about that period, because there’s enough about it [on the album].
You might not know my story — well, you don’t know my story because I’m not that person, I don’t tell those stories — but it’s more about the emotion, and what it is to be human. We all know what that’s like, so there’s common ground.

So it wasn’t scary decision, it was a natural one. Now, to hear comments like you’ve just said, it means so much to me, it’s brilliant.

I can’t let you go without asking about an incredible song on the deluxe edition of Golden, Lost Without You …

Don’t start! You are a total nerdy fan, because I had to FIGHT to get that on the deluxe. Because it doesn’t fit, but I just would NOT. LET. IT. GO.
Can it be a single? Will there be a video? Will you sing it on tour? What I’m saying is we need more of that song please, Kylie.

It will be on tour, because if it’s not on tour … I won’t be seen again. I’ll go mad. I think it’s such a special song, and it lives on the perimeter of Golden — I think it’s perfect on the deluxe. I have had people reach out to me and tell me they need visuals for this song, and my response is: I’ve seen the visuals in my head, I know what they are. My record company don’t even know I have these feelings [laughs], but I think it will be a single at some point. It HAS to.

There’s a real intimacy to it — that spoken middle eight especially.

I cried the first time I heard it. I gave it that first listen at about 1am, with headphones on — when it got to the middle eight with the heartbeat and the talking, I literally had tears in my eyes. I think I stopped breathing for a second.

Kylie Minogue’s new nine-frame Specsavers collection includes three design themes (Modern Bling, Subtle Classics, Reinvented Vintage) and two exclusive fashion tints; and is priced from $199 for two pairs.

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