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Keeping It Kylie! (with DJ John Michael)
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Get ready for an ALL-KYLIE extravaganza on this episode of HOMOPHONIC!
DJ John Michael and I are back together, still buzzing from Kylie Minogue’s Tension tour—I caught her in Chicago, HE saw her in New York—and we’re spilling all the glittery details. From jaw-dropping video projections to fresh new arrangements and unforgettable fan-request moments, we relive our favorite highlights from the show.
We also give a well-deserved spotlight to the electrifying opening act, Romy, who absolutely owned the stage. Plus, we take a nostalgic detour through our personal Kylie journeys—how we first discovered her, our go-to deep cuts, and the most iconic Kylie concert videos over the years.
Whether you're a longtime Kylie stan or just curious about what makes her a pop legend, this episode is for you!
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Transcript
Sunday Morning Mishap at Trader Joe's
00:00:09
Speaker
Yeah, I cannot wait to discuss all of this. but But first of all, I have to vent really quick. Oh, do it. Do it. Do it. Okay, because so this morning, this is my Sunday morning routine. i i i wake up like a crazy person super early, like I always do.
00:00:26
Speaker
And then I go grocery shopping and I usually do a two to three like grocery crawl like route like i hit up there's a store called fresh time which is not much different from world or uh whole foods yeah and then uh so i go there specifically for brosley sprouts you're like this will be important later on yeah right exactly like it has nothing to do with the story but then i go to trader joe's and then there's a grocery store here called meyer well i am on my way to trader joe's normal morning I pull into Trader Joe's and as I'm pulling into my parking spot, the person to my right is opening their door. And it was that perfect, just unfortunate
Parking Lot Altercation Escalates
00:01:09
Speaker
like moment where I, my like pat or um or my driver, like what's that mirror that's coming up?
00:01:16
Speaker
The driver's side mirror? Driver's side mirror, yeah. I'm like, what is it called? i That hits his door. And so like you clearly hear like a like ah like whatever and a shitty circumstance.
00:01:30
Speaker
But he was the type of person that makes the shitty circumstance a million times worse with exaggeration and just like nonsensical bullshit.
00:01:42
Speaker
He made it sound like I ripped the door off of his car. Right. I was completely in within the like the lines of the parking spot. Like it wasn't like I was super close to the line or like veering over. Like I was like, oh my God. And then he, he said I was threatening him because I called him an asshole after like five minutes of him berating me.
00:02:03
Speaker
I was like, are you insane right now? Oh, no. And then and then he's like, I'm going to have to get my entire door fixed. And I'm looking at the door. not a so Not a scratch in sight.
00:02:14
Speaker
Not a scratch in sight. And then ah he is trying to act like it's not closing. It was closed perfectly. It wasn't even like... You know how sometimes when you like... Like the door might be open a little bit. Sure, sure,
00:02:28
Speaker
But like the thing that's weird is that like... I don't like... What do you even get by... Making that shit up. Like, it's not like you're going to insurance money on on your door or something for, like, you're going to get... You know what i mean? like Right. Yeah. No, i was like I was, like... It was absolutely insane.
00:02:43
Speaker
And then... So, Did you end up, like, switching insurance and that? I them my insurance information, but in Michigan, it's, like, no-fault insurance, I don't know what they're going to able to do. But, like... Yeah. I'm just, like... like next time. Like I, we both should have been paying more attention. Right. But he also, he also was like, he was like, you're flying in here. And I was like flying in here. i was, you're making it sound like I was just like, just this is crazy person coming Cruella DeVille. Cruella DeVille getting ready to get her kombucha. Like what the, it was crazy. So anyway, I'm calmed down. I had to get that out. Yeah. No, I get it. I get it. I get it.
00:03:18
Speaker
I have to say, as much as i like I thought me not having a vehicle was going to be so much more heartbreaking than it actually has turned out to be, I miss driving. I definitely do. But like yeah doing it in the city and all this other stuff, like reducing that type of moment, yeah priceless.
00:03:32
Speaker
Oh, my
Road Trip to Kylie Minogue Concert
00:03:33
Speaker
God. Literally. Well, I was going say, i i can't imagine... driving in New York, let alone like like when my... So we went to Chicago because newsflash, everyone, we're going to be talking about Kylie Minogue on this episode. I'm so excited. Yes, we are.
00:03:46
Speaker
um And my friends that I went with, we drove from Grand Rapids to Chicago. Yes. And um I'm glad that they drove because i I'm a nervous driver. Are you? Oh, no. I'm a little bit of a nervous driver. Just but just like I'm a good driver. i don't think that I'm like...
00:04:03
Speaker
a bad driver by any means. I definitely pay attention and whatnot for the most part as I hit someone who's like, ah oh for the most part, for the most part. But you know, like i'm I'm not like, you know, some people are like, I'm an amazing driver. And then some people are like, I'm a shitty driver. I just think like I'm right there in the middle. Like it's whatever.
00:04:20
Speaker
But driving in big cities does make me nervous. I get it. And so I'm glad that my friends drove, but we had the craziest rainstorm the entire way there almost. Yeah.
00:04:32
Speaker
Yeah. is that is it Is Rosemont far away from Chicago? um It's like, i don I want to say, I'm bad at this, but I want to say it was maybe like 30 to 45 minutes. Oh, okay. Like 30 minutes outside of downtown.
00:04:45
Speaker
Right, right. Yeah. And so, but like the we the drive was like four-ish hours.
Dining with Concert-Goers at Chili's
00:04:52
Speaker
and But like, it was like, we couldn't see in front of us for the majority of the time.
00:04:57
Speaker
Oh my. Because of how radio was. Yeah. So I was like, I was like, Ms. Minogue better not cancel this concert. Right. But you persevere for Kylie. We certainly did. We persevered. And we made it we made it in one piece. Got back in one piece.
00:05:09
Speaker
Did you get there in time for Rummy? Yeah. So we we got there really early. We left Wednesday morning and or Wednesday afternoon. And then we got there. i think we arrived around like 3 Chicago time.
00:05:21
Speaker
um And then they're like an hour behind Michigan. Right. um yeah we had plenty of time we like went to the mall for little there's a mall right across from our hotel so it was like a fashion outlet place so we went and just kind of perused and then um came back to the hotel chilled for like an hour and then we got dressed went to dinner famously we went to Chili's where yeah all the homosexuals went to Chili's were stop I I am not kidding It was the entire place filled with gays.
00:05:53
Speaker
It was so funny. And we were we were just like, oh wait, we weren't the only ones that had this thought. and Not the gay chilies. The gay chilies. Hot lake chill late like Right, right, right. i it was it was It was quite the sight. Yeah, for sure. wow. Yeah. Okay. I love that, though, because that's what it was like when we were leaving the concert last night in front of Madison Square Garden onto like 9th Avenue. It was just...
00:06:18
Speaker
It literally looked like Black Party had just
Kylie Minogue Concert Experience
00:06:20
Speaker
let out. And it was like, it just gays everywhere. and i'm like, this, this is, this is what God created. This is what God wanted. This is what God wanted. This is what God wanted. He wanted Adam and Steve.
00:06:29
Speaker
Right, right, right. Adam and Eve was definitely a mistake. It was definitely a mistake. It was a, it was a misprint in the Bible. Yeah. And, um, Kylie was in the center of that garden, just dancing and frolicking.
00:06:41
Speaker
I mean, I'd pray to her. I'd sing. Yeah. Let me, okay, so, I mean, where do we even start? we we both just saw Kylie Minogue within days of each other. Yes. I saw her in Rosemont, Chicago.
00:06:54
Speaker
I saw her in Madison Square Garden last night. And she was sold out both nights at Madison, Both nights. And you know what? I was worried. I was really, really worried because a few days ago, um we had bought tickets. We were in the 120 section, which isn't on the floor. We were like the first section up, but like further out.
00:07:11
Speaker
yeah But I was like, you know what? I'm like, let me just look and see if there's any like better tickets. Maybe we'll like, you know, sell these and get whatever. yeah And I was a little nervous looking at the thing. And I'm like, I don't know. It looks like there's a good amount of tickets that are left. But when we were there last night, every single seat.
00:07:25
Speaker
yeah And Madison Square Garden, I don't know how big your place was, but Madison Square Garden is like 20,000 seats. It was pretty. It was a big, it was an arena. um It was much bigger than the venue I saw her the first time in Chicago. The first time I saw her in Chicago, i don't remember. I want to say it was an arena at a school.
00:07:41
Speaker
And i don't remember... how big essentially it was but I do remember I want to say the stadium was only about half full that time but just because again she isn't that big of a name or at that time not that big of a name here in the US but she knew that she had enough of an audience at that time to where it would you know make some sort of sense right and what year is that
Kylie's Performance Highlights
00:08:05
Speaker
that's that was 2009 the only other time she's ever toured in u.s right because she said that last night yeah and so she um but this arena i want i want to say it was probably comparable to madison square garden probably about 20 000 seats or so maybe maybe a little less um and i don't know if our show was sold out but i have to say it was
00:08:25
Speaker
easily hands down and I say this with my chest and my chest is out and right now with my chest loudest crowd I have ever been a part of. Oh my God.
00:08:36
Speaker
when Ever. Right. It was crazy. When Padam Padam came on. Oh my God. i was like, wow, we're really doing this moment. We're really all about to have this moment. Yes. Yes. was so fantastic.
00:08:50
Speaker
It was so good. Well, it was like, it was right after Padam Padam had finished and before she started singing Love at First Sight as the encore. Yeah. The crowd was just roaring.
00:09:01
Speaker
Oh, yeah. and And I, like, to the point where, like, I don't really have that sensitive of ears. My friend Joey, who I went with, shout out to Joey. um ah he Because he got me this ticket for Christmas. So shout out to Joey and Jacob for taking me.
00:09:15
Speaker
um So, but, like... I was like, had to be like, oh, I gotta cover my ears for this. People were roaring. Roaring, yeah. It was so cool. And she got emotional. She started crying.
00:09:29
Speaker
Well, and you know what? I was surprised because like, look, I expected any Kylie Minogue show, it's going to be just mostly gay men of a certain age. Yeah. But there was a lot of straight women. There was a lot of just women in general. Yeah. And like...
00:09:41
Speaker
All of the girls that were around me, the actual women, like, knew the words to, like, the tension songs. And it wasn't just, like, can't get you out of my head and padam padam. And I was like, okay. I was like, we're actually, like, we're with Kylie Minogue fans. Like, this is cool.
00:09:55
Speaker
Yeah. What was really cute, this was really sweet. So we were we were in, like, the top… Honestly, was one of those venues and maybe Madison Square Garden similar. There really wasn't a bad seat in the house. No.
00:10:06
Speaker
I really I think that maybe like only if you had for whatever reason had gotten tickets behind the stage that would have been shitty. But like but like our seats were kind of perfect. We saw everything from like the the middle stage in the catwalk to like everything was like perfect view. Yeah.
00:10:20
Speaker
And, um but there was a little girl and her mom sitting in front of me. girl Little girl could not have been older than eight or nine. Oh. and she like turned and looked at me as we were like getting into our seats and she goes, And I that but just like, oh. Oh, we've got a little fruit fly on our hands. I believe the children are our future. And it was it was so sweet. herma i was like, is this your first concert? And she was like,
00:10:47
Speaker
oh She kept yes-ing and she kept doing that with like her fingers. And I was just like, oh, this little girl. she she' is She has gay uncles. We'll see you at the parade, honey. Yeah, we'll see you the parade. She was living.
00:10:59
Speaker
She like su said, she goes, I love your bodysuit. And I was like, it's not a bodysuit. Yeah. It's not a bodysuit. Keep a cute bitch. You're cute, but now you're not that cute. Exactly. Exactly. No, but it was so sweet. She like loved everything. like She was just living her life. But I felt bad because...
00:11:18
Speaker
Her mom, like she said that I i was like, are you excited for Padam Padam? And she was like, yeah. And I was like, that that song is a big hit amongst your your demographic. Right. um But they left like halfway through the show.
00:11:29
Speaker
so Oh, no. Yeah. So I don't know what happened or or why they left. But I don't know if maybe she was maybe a little too overwhelmed or. I mean, I could see that. Yeah. I mean, it's ah it's a lot. so There was a lot of lasers last night. Lots of lasers. Yeah. And so.
00:11:43
Speaker
um But you asked me, okay, so
Opening Act: Romy's Performance
00:11:45
Speaker
do we make it for Romy? Yes. I completely forgot. I was like, because they when we went into this, I was like, I don't think there's an opener. I was like, i don I don't remember hearing about an opener or whatever.
00:11:55
Speaker
Oh, I was excited because I was under the impression that it was going to be Rita Ora. I didn't realize that she's not our part of the tour. Oh, really? Oh, she's just Europe or whatever? I think Europe and maybe Australia. that's right okay now i now that you say that i remember that yeah and i was like so excited and then as i when i when we got to madison's quick and i was like oh no we're romey oh okay that's cool too romey was fantastic she was so good oh my god i so i remember listening to her album someone introduced me to her album last year and i listened to it and i was like this is really good she's on my mind is one of my favorites yeah it's so good so good
00:12:30
Speaker
And, but then it was just one of those things where like, I listened to it for like a day or two and then just like got sidetracked with other things that, you know, Gina G took up space. As she tends to. As she tends to.
00:12:43
Speaker
And so, but so that was such a great, way to reintroduce me to her because like her set was just flawless flawless and like when she did she uh she's on my mind with like the little into you the ariana grande into you bit yes i was so not expecting that i was like wait wait wait i need this mashup it worked so perfect did she also incorporate slow into one
Concert Set List Surprises
00:13:07
Speaker
of the last songs yeah i want to say it was either did i or strong or something like that wow like so good so so good her energy was incredible the i just i was blown away no i really hope people get into her yeah same i was like we need more romey yeah and like her i don't know and she started talk about punctuality 7 30 was our ah was our start time and 7 30 hit romey came on and that's it
00:13:35
Speaker
I was like, let's celebrate that. She said, this ain't the Madonna show. just let She was like, we've got we've got to go to bed. Right, right. We just came from Australia. with And so we're walking we're walking through the halls of Madison Square Garden trying to get to our seat after we buy like this t-shirt, by way. Yes, I love KM. Love.
00:13:55
Speaker
And so we're walking. And of course, it's like all gay men of a certain age, which when I say a certain age, I mean like our age. And as we're walking, all I hear is just people going, Debra Cox and Christine W. And I'm like, I'm with my people. am with my people.
00:14:08
Speaker
I was like, we get a Jocelyn Enriquez and an Amber in there. I was like, we're good to go. We are good to go. Oh, that's hysterical. All the dance divas. Yep. I was like, only here are you going to hear that. Oh, my God. i love that so much. Right. I just, yeah.
00:14:23
Speaker
I mean... The concert was just – so I have to say, like, I went into it a little slightly, quote-unquote, nervous. and i Nervous is not the right word. I was so excited. But it was just one of those things where I was like, I knew that the show the that the production value of the show is is a lot more scaled back than her previous tours.
00:14:42
Speaker
So I think that was my only, like, thing about being like, oh, I don't – I hope I'm not disappointed by the lack of – I hope that it's not, like, a
Concert Production and Remix Praise
00:14:51
Speaker
bad – whatever. No, I mean, it was incredible.
00:14:53
Speaker
look The screens were phenomenal. Her backdrops. Her backdrops were amazing. I loved the backdrop to the locomotion. It was so colorful and so fun. The locomotion, but the one for ah for tension.
00:15:04
Speaker
Okay. Can we talk about this? I like my friend Alex sent it to me this morning because he got a good video. And I was like, girl, I was like, literally Brian and I just like gagged as soon as it started.
00:15:14
Speaker
i inject that shit into my Instagram quote. I've had a podcast like I'm not kidding you. So for those that don't know what we're talking about, the Kylie... First of all, shout out to Kylie and Steve Anderson for always reinventing and remixing and arrang rearranging her songs. Unbelievable. Steve Anderson, i seriously, hats down to your Hats down. And so, so for to go into tension, the song, there is this video interlude where it's like a, like a cobalt blue backdrop. And Kylie is in, she has her blonde bob, like slicked back. She's got these comfy little glasses on. She's got,
00:15:52
Speaker
ah high-waisted pants with suspenders and a white tank top and and black gloves. It's giving very X-era. Very X-era. yes Yeah. Yes. And she, you know, Steve Anderson does this incredible like remix intro to it where she's at this robotic voice and she's like, touch me.
00:16:09
Speaker
Yes. Touch me. And then it just kind of starts building and building and building. And then she's like, does her, you know, her classic Kylie like, ah. Like the- Every time she did one of those live, I died. And then like a, ooh!
00:16:21
Speaker
And then it just starts building up on one another. And it's just, it was just this. And then she, and and the backdrop, she's like walking and there's, it turns into like ah you know, hundreds of Kylie's and it's just very. It's just fashion. It's just full fashion. It was full fashion. And it was, it was ah one of my favorite moments of the night. It was just so cunty. And I love that remix. I'm like, give me that studio version right Yes. There was so many versions like that, especially going from like the,
00:16:48
Speaker
come into my world with like the really pretty like abbey road type intro into the steve anderson version was amazing so good i loved that i loved the new intro to lights camera action which is so good opened with i mean her like starting up on that like swing and with like the laser diamond was so good well it took me a second i was like wait where is she right yeah it's like i don't understand what's going on wait Did she make it to the stage?
00:17:14
Speaker
No, but so good. so so good. So good. I also loved it sounded like there was a new arrangement to put on, put on at the end. Like it went into yeah of a remix that was sickening. um The intro video for confide in me.
00:17:29
Speaker
Where she's like. what she What, she got the Kylie Bat phone? Yeah, she got the Kylie Bat phone. And she's like looking at the phone, like looking all scared and nervous. And i was like, isn't that all of us though? Right, right, right. and She picks up the phone, dials one number, every Pop Diva's phone rings. Right, exactly. i was like, if that ain't me when someone calls me at work. Right, right. I'm like, we have teams, we have email.
00:17:48
Speaker
Right, why are you calling me? Why are you calling? No, yeah i no, no, no. Oh my God. And, you you know, we've talked in but ah in this show before with Z Machine about like,
00:17:59
Speaker
how what i love about kylie is that she will remix and rearrange her songs keeping the kind of the spirit of the originals alive but updates it the production to kind of either fit with the either fit with the times or fit with the vibe of either the portion of the set list that she's doing or just like you know maybe the theme of the album and again with this like everything just sounded so good Well, and i'm I'm so glad that we're still getting the same like infinite disco version of In Your Eyes because that is now for me like the supreme version of that song. Like I think that's the best.
Discussion on Kylie's Recent Album 'Tension'
00:18:32
Speaker
It's really, really good. Yeah. And she also did. I mean, she did. I was so surprised at how many songs she was able to fit into the set list. I know that when she started the tour, people were kind of criticizing the set list a little bit.
00:18:45
Speaker
Yeah. I was surprised that there wasn't as many tension songs in the show, to be honest. I kind of was too. Yeah. I was like, there was only six out of the entire, I think what it says on this thing is 30.
00:18:56
Speaker
Yeah. on our Yeah. 30. it's like only six of them were tension and tension two tracks, which I was very, very surprised that there was no Vegas high, which I was really, i was upset about. I love that song. Yeah. We're canceling Kelly Minogue because that. Right. That's it.
00:19:10
Speaker
Can you imagine? It was all right. Talking to 20 Minutes Glowing Review, she doesn't do one song where she's over, she's done. Well, because I was like, and the one that she did do was Good Is Gone, which I was like, okay. I was like, I like that song, but I would have chose, i don't know, kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Oh, sure. Whatever it is. i love that. That would be amazing. Yeah. um Yeah, I don't know. I was just kind of surprised.
00:19:32
Speaker
I was, yeah, i I was surprised with that too. I was surprised because ah in interviews before the tour started, she kept mentioning that she was revisiting a, she essentially was describing the Big Brothers remix of Confide in Me.
00:19:45
Speaker
And she was saying that she was going down this like 90s house trip and she wanted to somehow incorporate that into the tour. Right, right. And and it wasn't in the tour, which is fine. I mean, I get that these things change, but I was like, I was like, oh i would have loved that for her to maybe revisit some of her like 90s house stuff.
00:20:01
Speaker
Well, and that's why, like, I was curious about the addition of What Do I Have to Do? i was like, that's a random one from the catalog. Like, I like it, but, like... Well, that's what I was saying saying with my friends that we went there. So I was like, what's really fascinating with this tour, because a lot of it is, I mean, greatest hits in a way. Right.
00:20:18
Speaker
And... Which they all are, to be honest. Truly. I mean, she does not have really a bad song. No. She really doesn't. And... I, um, but I was saying, was like, what's really fascinating with some of these songs. What do I have to do as one of them?
00:20:33
Speaker
Shocked is one of them. I think but better that I've been, uh, excuse me, better the devil, you know, is one of them is I was like, for us here in the States, these, we, for a lot of these people that are even probably here are probably like, wait, what's this song?
00:20:45
Speaker
I don't know if I know this one. Right. Whereas overseas and on Australia, these are classics. classics this would be like hearing you know uh you know madonna's into the groove over right right right you know and so i was like that's what's fascinating about this is that because kylie for so long was just for whatever reason did not really catch a break in america except for her you know locomotion song and then can't get you out of my head in the early 2000s but like it's been a very slow build and so to see her be able to
00:21:18
Speaker
sell out these shows or almost sell out these shows is truly ah magnificent feat. Oh, absolutely. And that's it like when when Confide
Kylie's Vocal Skills and Song Requests
00:21:26
Speaker
in Me started. I looked at Brian and I was like, it's Confide in Me. She loves this song. yeah that is She loves Confide in Me. This is in every fucking tour. Every tour. And I loved that arrangement. That arrangement. That throbby, pulsy beat that she gave it. But also that whole video intro with the blonde wig, again with the blonde wig, giving like a little Justify My Love-ish, kind of. Yes. You know, the black and white through the hallway, but...
00:21:50
Speaker
So good. Yeah. And then slow. I mean, doing the, so she said, werenna she basically did a turn and turn. And she was we're going to start off nice and easy.
00:22:02
Speaker
And then we're going to go really fast. Right. Into the Chemical Brothers remix. Yes. Well, because as soon as it started, I was like, all right, poppers break. right.
00:22:12
Speaker
I'm not even kidding. No, I was like, here we go. The girls are really going to turn up now. Literally. Oh my God. It was just so, so good. Yeah.
00:22:22
Speaker
Okay. So what were your special like, like ah songs that fans were requesting in the audience? First of all, I also want to say that the, the, the part where she does the second stage stage B when she comes out and does this whole section, yeah It starts with Hold On To Now, yeah which was easily vocally one of my favorite moments of the entire show.
00:22:42
Speaker
Absolutely beautiful. Like her background singers are just unbelievable, the three girls. And yeah when the four of them were doing that, it really was just truly phenomenal. And even all night, like the microphone was on.
00:22:54
Speaker
on and I have to i have to drag one of our friends from Chicago so the day after we went to lunch ah with my friend Joey and Jacob's friend Ryan love Ryan but Ryan we're dragging you because because Ryan was like the the she was like she was lip syncing and I was like you weren't there i was like I was like, someone needs to get their ears checked. Right, sorry.
00:23:16
Speaker
i was like, i don't know if you heard like a moment of ah like a backing track. that Because, you know, all pop stars, including Beyonce, news and use a backing track for certain parts of their songs throughout the show that's different than lip syncing.
00:23:31
Speaker
and And Kylie Minogue 100% sings live. 100%. And that is just Zach's PTSD from having this conversation so many times showing up right now. Literally me just getting red in the face more, more angry about this in the car accident that I was in earlier.
00:23:49
Speaker
You were like, but Kylie sang live. No, but she, but she really did though. So for, they requested, we got a little bit of wow, which was excellent. Oh, love wow. Love. um Golden, which was really random. I was like, I can't believe that somebody actually requested. Okay. Golden, of all things.
00:24:05
Speaker
Right. She, of course, did a little bit of New York City, which the place went wild for. Oh, I love that. And talk about, I mean, that's that's a deep cut. I mean. Totally. Totally. A greatest hit song. And then i was surprised somebody from ah Disco requested Story.
00:24:20
Speaker
And she did the whole thing. And let me tell you, i got to send you the video because we were just watching it before here, how she hit those notes live. And like, clearly
Reflecting on the Concert Experience
00:24:30
Speaker
she was doing that bit in the court.
00:24:32
Speaker
whatever like that has is so crazy nuts it was so nuts oh my god i'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it i i'm so jealous i love story i love that i was not expecting that whatsoever but i will say when i was watching people when she was doing hold on to now like because brian took brian's got like the super fancy phone whatever with like the really ridiculous zoom We were watching.
00:24:55
Speaker
There was no, ever all the gays were so drunk. They were so messy. Nobody's singing the words back. And i'm like, do you not know the words to hold on to now? Oh my God, literally. I was like, get out, give me your ticket.
00:25:07
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. that you should Your ticket should be revoked. You should be in the back. Oh my God. But the biggest surprise that I never imagined that I would get to enjoy was to see her doing Time Bomb. oh i freaked out.
00:25:19
Speaker
Let me tell you what, what a joy oh my was to get a Time Bomb. Let's celebrate that. Let's celebrate that because talk about, I mean, that song, i mean, that video, and that music video is so hot. It's yeah everything. I mean, that was a special KM25 celebrating 25 years and just a one-off single.
00:25:39
Speaker
And I'm so glad that it got a little time to shut I couldn't even know it was shortened, which is, yeah you know, I get it. It's fine. We got a lot of songs to get in. we yeah But geez, that was so crazy. I was not expecting that. And I was also, I mean, the other two random singles, Last Night I Dreamt, i Fell In Love and The Edge of Saturday Night, i wasn't expecting either.
00:25:58
Speaker
Right. Yeah. I know. I was so glad that we got Edge of Saturday Night. i Totally. I love that one. Same. Yeah. It was so, so good. Yeah. Last night I dreamt I fell in love felt random. I would have probably preferred another tension track, even though I do love that song. Sure.
00:26:11
Speaker
But I was just like, all right, I get it. The label's like, we're paying for this song. You're putting it in the set list. Right. Exactly. I you know. I just, honestly, i felt like,
00:26:22
Speaker
I could go on and on about like what songs I would have loved to have seen live, but like, it just, the the night was so fun. Right. It was a fun night. Right. And that's what I think the difference is with this is that I don't feel like I missed anything. Although there are songs that I wish I would have loved to have seen her do But like when I left, I felt like I just had the most incredible night in my life.
00:26:45
Speaker
Yeah. You know, but it's like, I have a laundry list of songs that I would love. Like, I would love to see her do your disco needs you. Right. Yeah. Oh, my God.
Kylie's Growing Popularity in the US
00:26:53
Speaker
So our surprise song, she did a little, a tiny little bit of Your Disco Needs You.
00:26:57
Speaker
She did a little bit of I Believe in You. I would have died. I love that one, too. She did. Did she do ah Where the Wild Roses Grow? Yeah, that's ah that's like the wild rose section. Yeah. yeah So so she did that.
00:27:10
Speaker
OK, I'm trying to. Oh, she did a little bit of the one. ah I would have died. and the one that I was shocked to hear and and i got a little tear in my eye um because I forgot how much I love this song was No More Rain.
00:27:22
Speaker
ah I love that song No More Rain. and she And she loves that one because wow when she because that was the one that she sang the most of out of the all the songs. Yeah. And it was just, it was very special.
00:27:35
Speaker
Yeah. yeah ah So good. Like it really, like it just, the set list just didn't stop. Like on a night like this was phenomenal. Phenomenal. And I loved the way that they integrated taboo in the yeah of that with the video production. But I really would have liked to have heard that song perform too. Yeah, I know. That's one of my favorite ones.
00:27:55
Speaker
You know what love? I mean Kylie, what I love about it, and maybe this is why people were a little bit disappointed with this set list because at At the beginning, I should say, ah so when she did her first night in Australia, um there were people on, of course, Twitter being like, she should have done this, blah, blah, blah. And like, whatever, I get it, but like, calm down.
00:28:15
Speaker
But I think that the reason why we, Kylie has spoiled us as fans. Because she's kind of known for... She always does a lot of the big hits, but she also does a lot of the current material, but she also throws in like random surprise and not even surprise songs, but like, it's, it's like, she'll throw in deep cuts and like rare tracks, maybe unreleased stuff. Like in the X tour, she did not one, but two unreleased songs. She flower, which she ended up releasing later on the Abby roads album.
00:28:41
Speaker
Um, But she did another song called Ruffle Your Feathers. While also then also incorporating a third unreleased song, Boombox. and so good can't so So good. So good. good. Everything for everything that from the X sessions that didn't get released, like all the unreleased stuff is phenomenal. That's like one of her best eras for me. it Same.
00:29:01
Speaker
yeah I love the X album. And every the the bonus tracks are just insane. Cherry Bomb. I mean. Come on. I know, I know. Pop!
00:29:13
Speaker
Like it's, and that was, so so that's what I was going to say is that the fact that she did the anti tour, which not to be confused with Rihanna's anti um or auntie, however you want to pronounce it.
00:29:24
Speaker
um But she did this like small venues or small, what was it? Like a residency style tour. I think that was some dates in Australia and I think some in the UK where it was very stripped back, no, no, you know, big production or anything, but it was her in a small venue and she did,
00:29:42
Speaker
um just album cuts and b-sides I would have died I would have died like she did yeah and and so and she did cherry bomb in that tour I would love that and anti-tour too would be amazing I don't even know like where I would begin like because it's like it's hard for me to even sit here because like we're talking I'm looking up her on Spotify right now because like there are so many deep cuts and b-sides and it's like it's Yeah.
00:30:10
Speaker
I really like it. It's just anything from Kiss Me Once. Right. I love that album so much, and it really did not get anywhere near the amount of love that it deserved. Are you kidding me? If only? ah Yeah. Beautiful. Fine.
00:30:24
Speaker
You know what's funny? Okay, so I asked i when we were out at Chili's. um we I asked my friends. I was like, okay, if you had to delete one song from Kylie's discography, what would it be? And my friend Jacob immediately goes, beautiful.
00:30:36
Speaker
Wow. I was like, I did the same thing. go, not the Enrique duet. Right? Oh my God. i was like, I was like, geez. was like, okay, interesting. I was like, I get it, but interesting. Sleeping with the Enemy, that bonus track from that album is one of my favorite Kylie songs ever. Kiss Me Once is beautiful. Like I was going to cancel. I mean, Into the Blue is one of her best and I'm sorry like that we don't get that anywhere near enough. Yeah.
00:31:03
Speaker
Oh, what's the one from Aphrodite? Cupid Boy? Cupid Boy is so good. It's so good. I know. She, um yeah. i I could go on and on about like. true Nudity is just one of my favorites. I love nudity. Top five Kylie of all time.
00:31:21
Speaker
I love nudity. That like the, whoo. yeah Chocolate. Chocolate. So good. That video. ah ah Yeah. So incredible. love song. You know, what song I love from um body language is secret. Take you home. knew you were going to say that. I knew it. love Secret. It's so good.
00:31:39
Speaker
Buckle up, baby. Feel my speed. Take it from zero to 60. Like, it's so good. And it's still standing as great one. Cruise control. Yeah. I love Cruise Love Cruise Control. Cruise Control is great. Is now, hold on, I'm trying to think.
00:31:55
Speaker
Cruise Control. That, nope, never mind. i think Chocolate was the song that Ludacris was supposed to be on. I can't even imagine. That almost sounds borderline inappropriate.
00:32:05
Speaker
Right? but Right. Yeah, and I want to say, i want to say like the, I want to say it's floating around on YouTube somewhere, like the leaked version. Oh my. Yeah, for whatever reason, well,
00:32:17
Speaker
Yeah, for whatever reason, he was taken off the song. I need to go find that because I can't even imagine a world. yeah Right. Yeah. It's kind of like, I mean, same same reasoning as probably putting Mims on All I See, which, you know, in
Kylie's Innovative Music Approach
00:32:32
Speaker
hindsight. Right.
00:32:35
Speaker
Remember Mims? No? It's alright. Right, exactly. His song was what? This is Why I'm Hot? Yep. yeah well And an iconic one. An iconic one? You were hot for a second. You were.
00:32:46
Speaker
Yep, yep. but is yeah Lots of hot things cool down. Like I always say, it's been swell, the swelling's gone down. The swelling has gone down. Exactly. um but Even on Fever, Burning Up.
00:32:59
Speaker
That's another one I would love to see her do live. being Burning up. being up burning up um I mean, she did she did that at the last show that I went to. um is She did like the mashup that she did with fever right or not sorry not fever um Vogue.
00:33:14
Speaker
And it was phenomenal. That song, I think, should have been a single from Vogue. Totally. Totally. It's kind of crazy that it wasn't.
00:33:26
Speaker
Even Impossible Princess. God, now you got me real. I'm going to be on like a Kylie Rabbit Hole all day after this. Oh, I know. like It's just it's it truly, like i've we've said it before and we'll say it again, Kylie Minogue has one of the best discographies in pop music. Yes, without a doubt. And even if you get into the 80s stuff, like and I think I would have swapped out What do i what do I Do with Never Too Late?
00:33:47
Speaker
I love Never Too Late. Yeah, Never Too Late is really good. Very big fan of that. Yeah. Step Back in Time would have been amazing. I've never seen her do that. Oh, I love Step Back in Time. i love i love the version that she did on the X tour for that Oh, yeah.
00:34:02
Speaker
How she kind of starts acapella and then it goes into like the electrified version. But the version that she did of Finer Feelings on the Fever tour still remains my favorite. oh Incredible. That DVD, I bought like the CD DVD one. set to have It's ugh.
00:34:20
Speaker
It's so good. Yeah. With the crying game. When she did the crying game. ah Again, just just giving fans what they want. She's like, I'm going to give you bonus tracks. I'm going to give you deep cuts.
00:34:32
Speaker
I mean, she also did ah GBI, Dragon Ball Italic, as one of the video interludes. yep She also did Limbo on that tour. Like... She's... No, I mean, I'm sorry. She's the queen of giving people what they want.
00:34:46
Speaker
She really... I mean, I think that she is the princess of pop. Oh, without a doubt. Without a doubt. Yeah. Like, I'm sorry. Like, she's just... And what's Someone asked on Twitter the other day, who's the most...
00:35:00
Speaker
celebrated pop star in terms or like who who's up and or how did they word it it wasn't most celebrated it was like who's a pop star that has no controversy and that has to be kylie and i was like it has to be kylie minogue i can't think of i was like the most controversial thing and i'm saying this with air quotes that she's ever done is that like interview clip that gets resurfaced every once in a while where she gets quote unquote mad at it at someone And it's like barely mad. Yeah. She's like, she's like, back to primary school or something like that. Right, right, right.
00:35:34
Speaker
It's her being the sweetest person But, like, she's clearly upset because the guy asked her, like, a rude question. It was something about, like, Princess Diana, an impossible princess. And – but, like, I was like, that's maybe the most controversial thing that I've ever seen from her. Right.
00:35:49
Speaker
Like, I don't – like, there's this – and I don't know anybody who's ever said bad things about her. Not at all. Right. Yeah. No, no, it has to be her. Like, she is – Just one of a kind. Truly a diamond. Truly. And like always shows up in the most random places. Like I haven't seen it yet on Netflix, but that show that she was just in The Residence, I still
Dream Collaboration with Dannii Minogue
00:36:08
Speaker
have to watch that.
00:36:08
Speaker
Random. Like she just shows up in places. Like it's never like a hey guys, I'm going to be on the show. It's just like, hey guys, look what I did. Look what I did. oh yeah, I found time between recording, you know, a second album and all the bonus tracks with DJs. Right. Yeah.
00:36:24
Speaker
Do I have time in my schedule to film a TV show? Yeah. Yeah. Seven episodes? No problem. No problem. Like, where does she find the time? I don't even I swear she must send in Danny sometimes just as a body double.
00:36:34
Speaker
I'm not even, I heard Danny was at your show. Was she? i don't know. That's what i that's what the rumor was. I would have died. My friends and I used to sing instead of, um, better the devil, you know, we used to say I'm better than Danny Minogue. Better than Danny Minogue.
00:36:48
Speaker
Better than Danny Minogue. So shady. I love Danny so much. She's so wonderful. And it's, you know, I, I know that they did a duet on the Christmas album. I would love a true, like non Christmas duet.
00:37:00
Speaker
Give me a full tour, both of them. o Send them both out. Oh my God. And I want to see them do each other's songs, do duets of each other's songs, like just do the whole thing. Like, can you imagine like a Neon Knights, Light Years, complete album mashup? Do it.
00:37:15
Speaker
That would be insane. Do it. You've got the power, Minogs. Do it. yeah Do it. I mean, talk about ah another song that Kylie loves and she didn't do it on this tour, but she loves the song Light Years. Oh, yeah.
00:37:28
Speaker
She loves that song. She also loves kids. I'm surprised we didn't get that. You know, I was shocked we didn't get kids. i She loves kids. she she that She's like, this is my rock song. is I mean, and I get it.
00:37:39
Speaker
It's definitely like an arena stadium song for sure. That's her Madonna with the guitar moment. Literally. She's like, I don't know how play it, but we're going to do it. We're going to do it. I got four chords. And who wants to do what?
00:37:54
Speaker
Right. um Yeah, I, I, oh my god, like I, I'm just I'm still on a high I'm still on in an I can't believe it's over already like I was like there was it time is just going crazy and I just first of all couldn't even believe that we're in April now.
00:38:11
Speaker
But the fact that it's already come and gone, right? I'm just like, geez. No, no, it's true. it's it's It's kind of nuts. But you know what? Kylie sort of just has the ability to restore goodness in the world, I feel. Like, you just can't help it. Like, her aura is just, I don't know.
00:38:28
Speaker
Even when she's upset, she's still like, oh my god, like, I just want to like, protect her. Right, yeah. she's She's really good at bringing people together. I mean, she's... she's I think you just said it spot on. I mean, like it's her aura. It's her energy. She's just... And I think that it also speaks to, like, when you see, like, somebody like Steve Anderson, who has been working with her for literal decades. Like, the team that writes her music, like, Biff Stannard is one of her longtime co-writers. Richard... What the hell's name?
00:38:57
Speaker
Stannard. Richard Stannard and Biff Pine... Biff... Not Biff Pine. Biff... what hell his name? I can't think of his name. Anyway, but she's got like very similar songwriting co-partners that like, yeah, she's been working with for decades. And it's like, that says something to me, like, you know, these people want to work with you and they've been with you by your side this entire time. Right. And also like Steve Anderson really is the unsung hero of Kylie Minogue's career, or at least I should say of her touring career for sure. And for those who don't know, he's one half of Brothers in Rhythm.
00:39:28
Speaker
Yep, and Brothers in Rhythm was like an electronic duo i production remixers throughout the late 90s and early 2000s. Yeah, iconic. Iconic, and he's been her musical director. I don't know when they started together, but it's been at least since at least since the Fever tour, but I want to say it probably started before then. Probably, but yeah.
00:39:48
Speaker
And so he is responsible for reinventing and remixing all of her songs for each tour and doing it
Hopes for Future Disco Tour
00:39:57
Speaker
flawlessly. Like flawlessly. Like he really like, he flexed, I'm sorry, during Infinite Disco.
00:40:04
Speaker
Like that was just such a flex overall. And even like the disco section of the tour last night. Yeah. Yeah. The one thing I will say that I do need from Kylie at some point, and I hope that this ah will be a reality, is that since we never got a disco tour, <unk> I'm going to need either for an anniversary or some type of something. I need her to do a full scale tour or something show of that album because it was too monumental. Yeah. And it's too good. There's too many tracks. And even like she did Supernova, again, top five Kylie.
00:40:38
Speaker
I'm so glad that she did Supernova. I um i love Supernova. So much. i mean So it was like Supernova, Real Groove, Magic, and Where Does the DJ Go?, which I was surprised at. Right. I didn't think it was going to be that one. Apparently it was Monday Blues at some point, but they swapped that out from Australia and they put in Magic, which thank God, because of really Monday Blues is probably, if I had to delete one song from her catalog...
00:41:00
Speaker
love I Blues. I'm not. No, I don't know. There's something about it. Take it back. I mean, there's probably others that I could come up with, but like out of disco, like that was usually, that was my skin. Okay, i've got it.
00:41:12
Speaker
But- Yeah, I don't know. I just I need a full disco tour because like there are so many ways that you could break that into so many things. Like imagine her actually taking like real disco, like classic disco and bringing that in and like how she combined slow with Love to Love You Baby and like just doing a whole set list of things like that.
00:41:32
Speaker
for that album would be just so iconic. That would be really iconic. Dear Steve Anderson. dear Dear Mr. Anderson. Here is an idea. Right. Have you considered this? Seriously.
00:41:46
Speaker
Talk about a duo. like why I feel like for anybody who's unaware, like Steve Anderson is to Kylie Minogue what Stuart Price is to Madonna. Yes. Yep. Absolutely. That's a, that is a perfect comparison because they they just know each other's musicality so well. And, and again, you like I mean, Steve Anderson, the way that he I'll use the slow into the Chemical Brothers remix, like it's,
00:42:09
Speaker
based on the chemical brothers remix, but then he like adds to it and judges it up to where, where you think this already immaculate remix can't even get better. And he makes it even more incredible.
00:42:21
Speaker
And he just has an ear for all of this. unbelievable It really is amazing. One of my favorite things he's ever done with Kylie is during her showgirl tours. So she did showgirl and then the showgirl homecoming. Cause obviously she got diagnosed with breast cancer and, and, you know, had to take a year off to recover.
00:42:39
Speaker
um But in both of those tours, she did the... I think they dubbed it the Smiley Kylie medley. But it was the three main songs that were performed were Shocked, Spinning Around, and Oh My God, what was the other one?
00:42:51
Speaker
Was it What Do I Have To Do? think It was three of her 90s songs, and then obviously Spinning Around 2000. the... um but the ah whole mega mix of these three songs contained little snippets throughout of other songs over dreaming over you. Oh, wait, no, it looks like it's wait shocked. Do you dare? It's no secret. Give me just a little more time. Keep on pumping it. And what kind of love?
00:43:19
Speaker
that Okay, yeah. So those are all, like, a bunch of those songs were, like, the songs that were kind of snuck into the background of it. And that maybe is my kind of reference point for, like, if someone's going to make a really incredible Megamix or medley, that's my reference point.
00:43:36
Speaker
In fact, actually, I'll even take this a little bit further. When I look at Super Bowl set lists, that... is kind of my reference point for how I would want the songs to get mixed together. Absolutely.
00:43:50
Speaker
Because that's the perfect way of like showcasing three big songs where she does, you know, each song is a little bit shortened, but it's basically verse, chorus, verse, chorus of each one. Right. But then all these little tiny little snippets for the fans in the background. good. That is so good. That just elevates it so much. I mean, just...
00:44:09
Speaker
That's what I want from people. Well, and I will say, I think that on the the most recent greatest hits, the double disc one that New York City was from, the Freemasons did a really good job in their Megamix, their Kylie Megamix.
Kylie's Remix and Re-arrangement Skills
00:44:23
Speaker
Are they the ones that did it? They're the on that one. Yeah, the F9 Megamix. That's the Freemasons. Oh, I didn't know that. And it's so good how they did slow and they did all these different bits and pieces like that, too. But I agree with you because even like when you think of when Madonna did the GHV2 and Thunderpuss did the Megamix, like they did their club Megamix, which was phenomenal. But then they also did like the album version Megamix, which was so good.
00:44:46
Speaker
Very, very good. Yeah. But that's basically like Steve Anderson being like, yes, I have the stems to everything. Everything. Everything you've ever wanted. Everything. And yeah, like it's just, it was really, really, really fun to hear all of these new renditions of songs throughout this tour. And and some some that, you know, have been around for a little bit. Like she did the Kiss Me Once version of Love at First Sight, which I'm not mad about. It's not super, super fun.
00:45:14
Speaker
um Well, and she's she's just not one of these artists either that's afraid to like, just try something new. Like, I feel like every tour, we're going to get like some type of new version of her one of her songs. And I'm like, I'm here for it.
00:45:26
Speaker
Yes. Like whatever you've got, like she's totally down with just redoing the whole thing. And I just love that creativity from her. Same. And that's the thing is that like, you know, I know a lot of people get turned off by the word remix or like they don't like remixes.
00:45:39
Speaker
And I get it there. I'm not saying that every remix is incredible. In fact, I would say we've gotten to a time where, yes, there is ah are a lot of. for lack of a better phrase, like useless remixes out there. 100%. Right.
00:45:52
Speaker
But for every useless remix or maybe dozen useless remixes, there are some really good ones that just breathe new life into a song and just give you something different from that, from the thing that you hear all the time. Right. Right. Kind of as you pointed out in a previous episode where it's like, you know, when you have dozens of remixes to choose from, you can have several parties or,
00:46:12
Speaker
classes or playlists that have the same song with different versions so it keeps it fresh. yep It doesn't keep it super repetitive. And that's what I love when artists do that for their live songs.
00:46:25
Speaker
And especially again with Kylie, her being able to do that while still maintaining the spirit. I mean, we still you still kind of get the the essence of the original. But it's just beefed up and freshened up for this particular tour.
00:46:37
Speaker
Yeah. And I love that. I think that's... ah you ah You know what remix does that really well as well is the Greg Kirsten remix of Can't Get You Out of My Head. Yes. That for the time was perfect. In fact, that might be my preferred version of the song now.
00:46:53
Speaker
um But yeah, it it keeps the original's essence while beefing it up. I just love it. It really like... And it's... it's i His direction on this, I mean, or that I should say their collaboration is what I feel like there is no lull in the show.
00:47:12
Speaker
Like it starts at the top in high energy. And even if it dips with a song that's not as high energy, it still doesn't feel like the show is dragging at any moment. Like it not at all it feels like a DJ programmed this yeah this show. Yes.
00:47:27
Speaker
Yeah. And it really does move along. So I really do think that that's a testament to his talent and their collaboration together. Yeah. I also have to say, I'm usually not one for stripped down versions of songs.
00:47:40
Speaker
It's not always my cup. I think what it is more is I don't like when people try to act like if something is stripped back, that it's better it's more artistic or whatever. Like, I just don't, I don't like that. Right.
00:47:55
Speaker
But, All that said, the acoustic version of Say Something that she did on show was fantastic. It's so crazy because I remember when I heard that song the first time, I was like, huh.
00:48:08
Speaker
I was like, I don't know, maybe it'll grow on me. And now i would ride or die for that song. It's been stuck in my head since the concert. It really, yeah. It's
Kylie's Bond with LGBTQ Fans
00:48:18
Speaker
so good. And the way that the disco ball, I mean, every that's the moment in the show when the disco ball comes down and the lights shine on it. As soon as I see when the disco ball started coming down, I couldn't get my phone in my pocket fast enough.
00:48:31
Speaker
And I was like, oh, it's going to happen. It's going to happen. And then I pulled it out. I was like, oh my god yes Like everyone getting a free cataract surgery. Like, oh my God. We all left with an astigmatism.
00:48:41
Speaker
What? Literally. Like it was, ah thank you, Kylie, for such an incredible night. but Thank you. Like seriously, thank you. Not only, but just, ah sir and as cheesy as this is going to sound, like there are certain pop girls, you you know that the the relationship between gay men and and pop girls is very symbiotic.
00:49:04
Speaker
And there are some girls that really go out of their way to acknowledge, see, and just sort of taken our community and kylie really does it in a way that is just a step above most of the other girls so yes if you want to talk about a career with community go see a kylie minogue concert Literally. Because, I mean, she has been doing this long before it was ever in vogue to do so. Correct.
00:49:28
Speaker
And she has just been... Like, she's... The relationship's just been there from the start. Right. And it's just one of those inexplicable things. I can't explain why. I don't know how. It's just one of those people.
00:49:40
Speaker
Much like this young girl that was in front of me at the show. Like, there is sometimes just this bond that you have.
Kylie's Career and US Recognition
00:49:47
Speaker
And she really... She really gets it.
00:49:52
Speaker
Yeah. Without a doubt. And she not only just gets it, she celebrates it and wants to give to it. Yeah, absolutely. It's, she is, and I love that she's getting her flowers here in the States now.
00:50:04
Speaker
Thousand percent. And it's about time. It's a about damn time. Cause she has, deserve it's, it's been interesting. Cause when we were talking about her career at dinner before the concert. So my friend Joey was introduced to Kylie.
00:50:18
Speaker
Um, in a bigger way, with the disco album. That was kind of the album that made him want to explore her discography further. want to know what yours was after this story. So I was a member of this Madonna Talk Forum, and i remember there being a lot of buzz about Light Years, the album in much particular, um and then people talking about the song Butterfly. And remember hearing Butterfly, and I was like, I like it but I wasn't like...
00:50:44
Speaker
It wasn't enough for me to be like explore on my own necessarily, but I was aware of who she was. Right. And I also just remember specifically being in love with the Light Years album cover. I thought it was so good. And I was like, this is class. This is art.
00:50:56
Speaker
Yes. And put it in the museum. Put it in the museum. And then she released Can't Catch You out on My Head like ah six months later or something like that. And then that's what kind of i captivated me, if you will.
00:51:07
Speaker
um What about for you? What was your entry point? i was It was definitely Light Years. I knew of her from the locomotion because my parents were so big into like the original locomotion. I grew up listening to doo-wop music. So I was yeah aware of her at that point in the 80s. But I don't think I realized when I discovered Light Years that this was the same woman.
00:51:25
Speaker
Oh, sure. um And I want to say it was either it was either an import single from my local record store for on a night like this or on a night like this was because what year is light years? 98, 99? Light years 2000. 2000. Yeah. So.
00:51:40
Speaker
lightyear was two thousand two thousand yeah so On a Night Like This was before the album, I want to say. So it's probably like, yeah. So I feel like it might have either been on a videotape that I used to have to play in the store that I worked in the mall. Obsessed. really want to go back and I think it was On a Night Like This or it was an import single. One of the two had happened, but I was not as familiar, but I immediately fell in love with On a Night Like This. So good.
00:52:06
Speaker
just seeing the music video, I was like, wait a minute. I was like this. This really speaks to my soul. She, yeah. she So, I mean, shout out to the Metro production team for producing On a Night Like This and Please Stay.
00:52:18
Speaker
well Same team that did Shares Believe. Right. And then Please Stay after I heard an On a Night Like This and I found Please Stay. I was like, oh no, this is it. She's got me for life. Yeah. Oh, 100%. Yeah.
00:52:29
Speaker
So then once I heard Can't Get You Out of My Head, then i kind of became full fledged. And then that's where I allowed myself to revisit light years. And since then I was just like a huge, I i remember then going to ah Virgin Megastore RIP and purchasing her original, like 1992 greatest hits.
00:52:48
Speaker
I purchased light years. I purchased a plethora of, singles at the time ah that they had and just like probably spending way too much money because yeah an imported cd single back then was like what yeah 9.99 12.99 for like three tracks
00:53:07
Speaker
And I'm just like making it rain. Right. Right. Right. I'm like, this is money worth spending. Right. Yeah. I. And yeah, she's had me ever since. And well, and it's funny, too, because I feel like as I started to get more acquainted with Kylie and in that era, all of the like Thunderpuss, Junior Vasquez, all of that type of stuff was sort of happening at the same time.
00:53:29
Speaker
I went and I realized that like Junior had done mixes for some of her songs like um Too Far and that remix is so absolutely bonkers and just wild and like 12 minutes long.
Influence of 90s Remixes
00:53:40
Speaker
yeah Razor and Guido did the remixes for Did It Again, which I absolutely was obsessed with. And it's like, oh, she always has sort of been around. And I think that's when I started to put together like the length of this woman's career. Right. But yeah. And then once Fever hit and I was like, okay, I was like, we're in full Kylie Minogue mode here.
00:53:56
Speaker
Yeah. But it was like weird watching her have such a big smash and then watching her kind of fall off in America. And I wonder why that is. i it has to have been just because labels for whatever reason felt like she wasn't promotable or something. i don't know.
00:54:12
Speaker
i have no idea. I mean, because by that point, like 2000, like we were really like in full swing with like the Britney Backstreet Boys and Sink of It All. So maybe that wasn't as big of a market.
00:54:25
Speaker
Maybe. and also I just feel like, so I'm going say right now, Kylie Minogue is arguably the most underrated vocal performer in pop music. For sure.
00:54:35
Speaker
But she has a unique voice. Yes. And, you know, it's very high. Sometimes people compare it to, you know, like a helium sound in a way, but like she can sing just about anything.
00:54:49
Speaker
And when i again, when I saw her the first time in Chicago, there was a, uh, technical glitch between one of the songs so she took an audience request and and people were chanting disco meaning your disco needs you right and when she did this is the this is when i realized how good of a singer she was she goes how about the opera and then she goes starts doing the operatic background vocal in this song which up until that point he had no idea that was her oh yeah and so i was like oh She can do anything right now.
00:55:20
Speaker
And she can do anything in this feathered headdress. Right. And um yeah, I just – so yeah, I don't – so I'm thinking maybe it's because of her voice that – that And she's always leaned dance pop for the most part.
Kylie's Diverse Career Ventures
00:55:38
Speaker
That maybe just America felt just didn't really know how to.
00:55:43
Speaker
I feel like I still, I still will regularly shock people when I tell them that she's the green fairy from Moulin Rouge. Right. That people don't even realize that that's her. Yep. You know? So it's like, that's what i mean. Like she pops up in so many like random places and.
00:55:56
Speaker
And she was, she was Cammy in Street Fighter. Right. And so I had my t-shirt last night, which I was wearing. um So it it's, it's stylized the ah like Street Fighter, but it says Kylie Minogue, the pop princess or the pop warrior.
00:56:08
Speaker
ah I love that. It's great. Yeah. And so like people were commenting on that and I'm just like, it's some, some queen came up to me was just like, it was the only reason why I watched Street Fighter. i'm like, girl, it's the only reason why all of us watch Street Fighter. Like, are kidding me? Literally.
00:56:21
Speaker
oh my God. And I think that there was rumors. I don't know how true this is. I think that they were going to try to reintroduced her to american audiences with confided me back in like 93 94
Challenges in American Market
00:56:34
Speaker
but it and obviously doesn't didn't happen it didn't get promoted here in america or if it did they did a really bad job no because we were we were too into the in the 90s it just went to nirvana it went so grunge like even like she would have had a chance then for like the portis head type audience but even then i think it was still too pop and not like grunge enough
00:56:52
Speaker
Right. Yeah. no And so, yeah, but I'm glad that I'm glad that she's getting her dues now, but it's also, but it's still kind of fun to like, she is kind of like that gem that, that we all kind of like know about. And it's kind of fun. i don't want to say that she's only ours, but like, it is kind of fun knowing that this incredible global superstar is kind of like our special little thing.
00:57:18
Speaker
Well, there is this there is a certain FUBU aspect, the for us, by us sort of thing. Yeah. FUBU. you know, but it is. It's very sort of for, like, she makes she clearly makes things for us, and she definitely feels like she's one of us. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I wonder what she's going to do next. I'm very curious.
00:57:35
Speaker
i You know what? And that's the thing is that it's always a surprise throughout her entire career. It's always just like, oh, oh, oh, okay, yeah.
Anticipation for Kylie's Future Projects
00:57:43
Speaker
And I never disagree with her choices either. Yeah.
00:57:46
Speaker
You know, like there are some times where I look at other people and I'm like, girl, did you really have to do that? Was this album necessary? Right. You know, but never, never with Kylie. I'm always just like, oh, that's cool. Oh, she's here. Oh, she's doing a commercial. Oh, she's doing. Okay, cool, cool, cool.
00:57:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah I know. i i'm I'm very curious to know like what's going to happen with the Joel Corey collaboration. They were in the studio together. They posted it last summer. made thought it was going to be a part of Tension 2 and it wasn't. So I don't know if it's going to be in a so you know a one-off single or if it's for something else or they decided to scrap it.
00:58:21
Speaker
um But yeah, I'm very curious to see what Kylie does next. Absolutely. I'm... i'm I mean, it just she's just been so in with like DJs and stuff for so long. Yeah, she's just so friendly to the dance music community. Like, it's just it's wonderful.
00:58:34
Speaker
Yeah. I saw some TikTok where there um somebody was playing. i don't remember what remix it was. It was one of her 90s remixes and they were like, Oh my God, I just realized that Kylie Minogue has been making incredible 90s acid house this entire time. And I'm like, girl, okay, you know what? You're late. It's fine. I'll take it.
00:58:50
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Well, was it, she that she has a random ass B side that's going viral on TikTok right now. Is that, that's what it was. they probably is It's probably the song Closer. oh yeah yeah. Not to be confused with Aphrodite's Closer. Correct.
00:59:03
Speaker
She has a song called Closer that was a B-side to the single for Finer Feelings. Yes. And it was during a period of time where she was kind of going through a lull with the dance pop scene and she was starting to make a little bit more like club music.
00:59:17
Speaker
um And she did a few recordings under the alias Angel K. And so that's where like, I guess I like it like that. And Do You Dare came from. um And I want to say Closer was another one of those ah songs from those sessions, but it's a fucking banger. That's why I'm like, I love that this is happening on TikTok right now. Yes. And I'm and i'm like, shout out to whoever helped make that go viral. Cause I would, I would love more of that style of Kylie to see. Hell yes. Yeah. see a little bit more of an edge with this next album. Maybe that would be, that would be really cool.
00:59:50
Speaker
and who And longer songs. I was going to who are we kidding? She probably has the next two albums already done. Yeah. but At the rate that she's working right now? Seriously.
Pandemic Recording Adaptations
00:59:59
Speaker
She's like, let's turn them out. Well, because I was watching an interview and she was talking about how once she learned how to like during the pandemic, how to set up her own like home studio.
01:00:09
Speaker
Yeah. That she's like, it's been an absolute game changer because she's talked about recording vocals in her hotel rooms on tour, how she's done it like from wherever location that she's staying in on vacation, whatever. So it's like, I feel like this is what's going on right now. And we're just sort of seeing like the fruits of all that labor.
01:00:24
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. while i can't wait. ah can't wait to see what she does next. um Well, John Michael, it's gotten to that point in the show where we pick a song we don't talk about enough. The famous section where we like to highlight a bonus track or a deep cut or remix or what have you.
01:00:44
Speaker
I'm going to keep it Kylie. I'm going to keep it Kylie too. Okay, good. So I hope we don't have the same one. um So mine is from a soundtrack. It's probably the most random Kylie Minogue inclusion ever.
01:00:56
Speaker
But it's such a good, ah adorable, wholesome, like just straight up pop song. And it's, I can't believe they were like, hey, Kylie, do you want to be on the Scooby Doo soundtrack? But she is. And it's for the song Whenever You Feel Like It.
01:01:10
Speaker
It's so good. so good. I love it so much. Whenever you feel like it. It's so good. And I'm like, it's just like an absolute shot of sunshine right into the veins. and And I remember before I knew it was on a Scooby Doo soundtrack, because I think this also happened around the can't get you out of my head time. Yeah.
01:01:32
Speaker
And it just showed up, I think, in LimeWire one day. Oh my god. Right. And I was like, what is this song? And I downloaded it and I had no idea. And I was like, this unreleased Kylie Minogue song. And then I found out it was on the soundtrack. But I was obsessed.
01:01:45
Speaker
I love that. well good. That's so good. Great selection. Because that song... is it i think you said it best it's a it's a shot of sunshine into your veins right it's just it makes you feel good it's uplifting wow that's the nostalgia that you just brought back right and it feels like it could have easily been on the fever album oh absolutely yeah absolutely in fact i think that they put it on so she used to do at the end of every era if you will like she would do kind of um
01:02:17
Speaker
like a tour version of the album to kind of re-promote the album as she's going on tour. And um that was the, they added that track on. Oh, I have to say, I didn't even know that. Yeah. To the Fever album. In fact, I want to say that the soundtrack version and the,
01:02:34
Speaker
ah Fever version are slightly different mixes. Oh. Yeah. Okay. so yeah So I love that too. Like a fun fun little fun fact. Right. um I'm also going to go same era.
01:02:47
Speaker
um There is a bonus track on a Fever that she put out for American audiences on the American version of the album called Boy. So And it is a bop. It really is. It really is. ah It's like this like mid-tempo electro pop just banger and the chorus like um get up up boy boy. And that it's oh my and then there's like yeah yeah yeah.
01:03:17
Speaker
It's such a fun song. It is. And i i to the point where I was ah like, back when I was a kid, I was like, this has to be a single. And clearly it wasn't. Right. um But yeah, I mean, she ah Kylie's one of those artists where I would say that her B-sides are, if not on the same caliber as the album tracks, arguably better sometimes. 100%.
01:03:45
Speaker
Like it's some of the the best music. Yeah. and fever albums, a great example of that body language album is a great example of that. But even like, like i somebody sent me a whole folder of like tension demos that didn't get finished. And just like some of the demos are like, you can clearly tell they're not 100% completed, but I'm like, put it on the album. Like, right hair like put it the album. Like, put it out. Like, this sounds great. Like, I would i would totally stream the hell out of this. Yeah.
01:04:11
Speaker
One of yeah favorite unreleased tracks by her ended up getting recorded by Paula Abdul. Stop. Which I need to know, like, are they friends? Because like the whole relationship with her and Paula with their because there are.
01:04:24
Speaker
OK, so Paula Abdul famously co-wrote ah Spinning Around. Mm hmm.
Exchange of Songs with Paula Abdul
01:04:28
Speaker
um for those of you that don't know that that was kylie's uh comeback single into the dance pop vein after going a little bit more like indie with like her uh impossible princess album and shot her right back to the top of the charts all around the world um but then kylie recorded boombox and i didn't mean or sorry what was it called um oh my god I just had it on the top of my head.
01:04:55
Speaker
It's it samples. I didn't mean to turn you on. um
01:05:01
Speaker
I'm just here for the music. Oh my God, there we go. I'm just here for the music. And both of those songs were then recorded by Paula, which Paula ended up releasing I'm Just Here For The Music, but she did she teased Boombox in some reality show that she had, but never ended up releasing it.
01:05:19
Speaker
oh I don't know if i knew that. Yeah. So I need to, I'm like, I'm just, it's just like a, just a random coincidence or are they friends? And they're like, here, like you record my song, I'll record your song, vice versa. That's so random. So random. So I need to know the relationship between Paul Abdul and Kylie Minogue more.
Musical Trivia and Sign-Off
01:05:38
Speaker
Tell me. Watch. And then we'll, then we'll get like a random photo of them in the kitchen. Like that random photo of Kylie in New York. Where it's like the two of them in the kitchen, like making a sandwich or something. Yeah. i To be a fly on that wall. I mean, like, that it seems like the most random time, like, that you could ever put them in the same room together. That would be insane. yeah Oh, my God.
01:05:58
Speaker
But, yeah, but I was going say, I'm just here for the music. Kylie's version is immaculate. was written I want to say it was recorded for the Body Language album and just didn't make the cut. but And her version does actually sample the I Didn't Mean to Turn You On.
01:06:13
Speaker
It says that that like that drum. tune to doing du Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah. Okay, a little bit of trivia there for y'all. Yeah, yeah a little bit of trivia. And shout out to all the people who are going to be like, um you're unethical for listening to the leaked tracks.
01:06:29
Speaker
Oh, God, give me a break. Yeah, yeah, sorry. all right, stay stay sad, I guess. Stay sad and arrest me. right Arrest me, I guess. I don't know. Well, im I'm so glad that we're on this Kylie High, and I'm going to go spend the rest of my day probably listening to Kylie Minogue tracks.
01:06:48
Speaker
Absolutely. Going to do the same. Yeah. Love it. Well, thank you again for joining my sir. um And for those of you that don't know who we are, i just realized I didn't introduce us because we were so excited about Kylie.
01:07:00
Speaker
I am your host, Zach, and this is DJ John Michael. Hello. And until next time, everyone, peace out. Bye.