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In the new album she released last week,
Minogue returns to those roots, and could make British chart
history if it reaches number one.
Despite her many accolades, including one Grammy and three Brit
awards, Minogue says it would be "incredible" if 'Disco' - her
15th studio album - topped the charts, making her the first
female solo artist to have number one albums in the UK across
five consecutive decades.
"That sounds crazy to me. I'm 52 years old. So, you know, across
five decades … I just find it mind blowing," Kylie told Reuters
in an interview in London.
The singer, who has sold 80 million albums worldwide, says she
started listening to disco music as a child.
"I would have been eight, nine, 10, you know, just getting into
music, just able to play my parents' records myself...and a lot
of those were disco records."
Disco "has always been in the system", she said.
"In 2018 after that my previous album, Golden, which had a
country influence, I knew I'd be heading back to the dance
floor. I didn't quite know I'd be as kind of blatant as disco.
But I knew I was heading that way."
Minogue co-wrote all the tracks on Disco, which was mostly
recorded during lockdown in a studio she had to set up in her
home. She said she hopes the album connects with people, now and
while her lead single was not written in response to the
pandemic, it resonates.
"The opening lines for ‘Say Something’ are ‘we’re a million
miles apart in a thousand ways’. Which, of course in 2020 took
on a whole new meaning," she said.
(Reporting By Sarah Mills; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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