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There are many ways to make a comeback to the US music scene and what better way than with a Las Vegas residency?
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has confirmed that her residency at the Venetian Hotel’s Voltaire Nightclub will start on 3 November.
“I want the residency to be the essence of what a Kylie show has become, enough glamour and abandon,” she says.
“I’ve got some versions of songs that have not been heard, like reinterpretations of songs, which is exciting. There will be live bed dances and amazing costumes. We’ll see what surprises we can come up with.”
The last time Kylie performed in the US was in 2011 and this time around it will be at a 1 000-seater venue. Having a Las Vegas residency was always a goal for her.
“Years ago, I told myself that I wanted to do it when I’m younger. I don’t want to do it when I’m at the sunset of my career.
“So, I think I’ve got it right somewhere in the middle where I feel like I’ve earned the right to and have the experience to enjoy being there.”
Tickets for the show go on sale on Wednesday 9 August and Kylie cannot wait to return to Sin City.
“I’ve performed a couple of times at Vegas but as part of a tour. When I did the Showgirl tour in 2004 we said, ’Oh, this feels like a Vegas show'.”
She’s been out of the spotlight long enough for everyone to have done the locomotion, for her to get out of our heads, for the world to spin around in new directions . . . But all it takes is a cool new tune delivered by a sizzling hot Kylie to get pulses racing all over again.
Padam Padam is the pop pixie’s banger of a comeback single that has everyone from nine to 90 hooked and it’s thrust her firmly back into the charts.
It’s her highest-charting song in the UK since her 2014 hit, Into the Blue, and marks her return to the US charts for the first time in more than 20 years.
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Critics and music websites such as Billboard have hailed it as her best work since her 2001 megahit, Can’t Get You Out of My Head.
But the song is doing more than soaring up the charts – it’s also made her a viral sensation on TikTok. Turns out Gen Z-ers are as hooked on the 55-year-old as their parents, proving the world is witnessing a cross-generational Kylie renaissance.
Her popularity on the social-media platform came after many youth radio stations in the UK refused to play the song at first, believing it was for an older audience. The kids disagreed and Kylie became a TikTok superstar.
She also performed the track during the final of American Idol in May to huge applause and was seen dancing to it alongside UFC champion Conor McGregor at a party in Monaco.
The track is inspired by the 1951 song of the same name by French singer Édith Piaf and is named after the sound the human heart makes.“People have been responding to it because of how confident it sounds,” says George Griffiths of UK record charts company Official Charts.
On her birthday in May, Kylie gave a shoutout to her fans for loving her new number. “I just wanted to say thank you so, so much for all your birthday messages and the Padam reaction and the love. My heart is bursting with joy.”
The track is the lead single off her 16th album, Tension, which is due out in September.
Kylie, who has sold over 80 million records and is the highest-selling female Australian singer of all time, has described this record as “a blend of personal reflection, club abandon and melancholic highs”.
Music isn’t the only thing experiencing a resurgence in Kylie-land – she recently re-released her 2006 perfume, Darling, due to popular demand.
“I feel like I have one foot in the old world and one foot in the new,” she says. “This is another wild turn in my life and my career.”
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Despite her fame and fortune Kylie has never found long-lasting love. She’s had a string of romances with famous men, including INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and rocker Lenny Kravitz, and was rumoured to have been engaged to British actor Joshua Sasse before they split in 2018 after he cheated on her.
In 2022 she described her perfect relationship as one “that allows you to be you”.
“People will appreciate that as we go through life we change and develop,” she said. “I definitely know I’ve been in relationships where I’ve wanted to turn myself into a version of what I think someone else would like. To reach a point where you are just yourself – that’s the thing to be cherished in a relationship.”
In February this year she and British magazine executive Paul Solomons decided to call it quits after five years, despite their best attempts at a long-distance relationship.
A source says Kylie had hoped to keep her split from Paul out of the public eye. “She really didn’t want the narrative to be ‘poor, unlucky-in-love Kylie’s heart breaks again’. She isn’t one to mope around. She’ll be 100% into her career.”
SOURCES: KRDO.COM, DAILYMAIL.CO.UK, DIGITALSPY.COM, METRO.CO.UK, HUFFINGTONPOST.CO.UK
