Kylie Minogue on why she “misses almost everything about the ’90s”
Kylie Minogue has opened up about her nostalgia for the noughties and why she “misses almost everything about the ’90s”.
In a new interview with The Times, the pop icon – whose 90’s hits include ‘Tears On My Pillow’, ‘Better the Devil You Know’ and her collab track with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ – discussed that era in time which has been making a pop-culture comeback as of late.
“I miss almost everything about the 1990s,” Minogue said, adding: “There were no phones, dance music was going nuts and I was in it and among it, going to the clubs, going to fashion shows, pounding the pavement, going to markets.
“I wasn’t wasting time scrolling on socials or dealing with, like, adulting. So there’s a lot I miss. Overall just freedom.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ reflected on the past and revealed the piece of advice she would give her younger self. She would tell herself to “trust her instinct”.
The singer added: “Also I’d say, ‘Have fun. There’s a lot to come, there will be a lot of obstacles and if you can’t go over them you’ll find a way under them or around them. You’ll find a way.”
Recently, Minogue released ‘Tension II’. In a glowing five-star review of the LP, NME shared: “Not to put a damper on the triumph that was ‘Tension’, but ‘Tension II’ surpasses it by light years – and, in so doing, awkwardly puts into question the need to connect the two albums in the first place. This collection of (mostly) new songs stands strong on its own. The record is tighter yet bolder, sexier yet sadder, as icy, electropop siren Kylie once again leaves it all on the dancefloor.”
Speaking about ‘Tension II’ with NME while in Singapore, Minogue said that the tracks on the LP are overall, “a fun group of friends” and that the album was a “fresh start” for her.
“I feel like it’ll be time for something – maybe not as singular as [‘Impossible Princess’] – but to bring some of that back in,” Minogue said, revealing that she “already had a few songwriting days in the studio with my closest [collaborators] for whatever’s to come”.
“I’m not sure how much of [what I’m working on] is because [of] where my output has been of late. We’ve been pretty solid on ‘What’s the hit, what’s the hit, what’s the hit’,” she said. “So, it’s some of that slightly meatier kind of the other stuff that I’m really drawn to.”
In other news, the pop icon will also be taking the album and its predecessor on tour next year. The Tension Tour includes dates in Australia, the UK, US, Canada, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. In a recent interview with NME, she said she wants to bring back her “90s experimental side” for the tour.
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