Maybe you should open one? That is the dream – right? And further to that, you know, disco is a real thing but part of it is a dream, is a state of mind. There’s so much association, certainly for those of us of a certain age. Disco was the thing before there was social media, before you could look like you were somewhere, you know, back in the day where you had to be there and experience it.
Have you had many crazy nights in discos? Well, I think at that point in time they were just called clubs. So when I was 18 or 19, you could go to clubs when you were 18 in Australia, and yes of course I tried to get into a club when I was not 18 but I don’t even think I looked 18 when I was 18. So I don’t think I got in. That’s like a rite of passage. So yes, I went to clubs, my girlfriend and I still laugh about the night we were refused entry at a club in Melbourne. And then the early ‘90s when I was 21/22 up to maybe 25, clubbing was just a part of life. I loved it. I was in London and London was just such a scene and we’d go once or twice a week. So yes, I did definitely have those nights and long nights and the clubs closing, ‘You all need to get out of here. Where are we going next?’ kind of vibes.
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So Kylie, have you spent lockdown in London? Pretty much. I got away for a tiny getaway for a couple of weeks but the rest of the time, yes, in my house in London being very, very quiet. I only started, when work started to open up a little bit, to do photoshoots and videos and things like that. With work I have started to enter the world but really not so much for personal things.
Do you miss not being out and about? Well I think, like everyone, I miss the option of doing that. I definitely miss Australia, I miss my family, even though they are far away in Australia, I’ve always had the option to kind of get a ticket, fly home, see my family - and that’s just on hold for a little bit or at least requires a lot more thought and work than previously. So that’s probably the biggest thing I miss right now.
And for those that miss going out and dancing, they can enjoy your new record Disco? Well it’s certainly one of the things that can do what it’s always done, which is connect to people. Music is delivered with a message and an intent, how it arrives at listeners’ ears is another thing. But I’m so thankful that I was able to work and finish this album and share music with people from all over the world - it’s incredible.
What was your intent when making this record? Well, firstly it was disco. That was our theme. Not to solely be in the world of ‘70s disco but that’s where it began and where my love affair with it began as a nine/ten-year-old, with Donna Summer and Abba and Bee Gees and Chic and you name it, Gloria Gaynor. They were peaking at the late ‘70s and that’s when I just figured out how to play my parent’s records, put the LP on. So those records, as an inspiration, are just lifelong for me. So my intent, back to that question, was to try to honour that. In the end I had to say, ‘Well what is disco?’ and all I can say is this is some records that you would hear if you came to my disco.
Unlike the club in Melbourne that wouldn’t let you in, the Kylie disco is for everyone, like on the track Say Something you say, ‘Can we all be as one again’? Is this like an anthem to unite everyone? I think I’ve always believed that. The idea of a disco brings up is inclusion, abandonment, you know, go there and lose yourself, lose yourself to find yourself. When you step through those doors and you’re in that place, you’re not at work, you’re just in… another dimension may sound too ethereal or dramatic but I do think that places like that can be that transporting. So of course, for now, we can’t do that but it can be, hopefully, a state of mind and it’s the kitchen disco.
Is that a kitchen disco in the metaphorical sense or is your kitchen sometimes like a disco? Both. Sometime in the past couple of years, I’ve found myself saying, you know, a dancefloor is good when you have to move the furniture. So you don’t plan that you’re going to end up dancing, you have a dinner or a drink and the next thing you know the music is getting louder and it’s like, ‘We need space!’ so if you need to move chairs or a table or a sofa or something, that’s generally a good sign.
When was the last time you did that? The last time I really, really did that was a couple of years ago after a film screening and we didn’t realise that there was a DJ in the restaurant where we were and everyone ended up dancing. It wasn’t a dance floor but it became one.
Magic is quite a magical song – do you believe in magic? I like to think so. I’m only just starting to talk about this song Magic and it seems convenient I suppose, but I do. There’s magical things all around and I think particularly through this year people are seeing it in unexpected places, through the challenges and the darkness and the hardships of this year we have seen shining lights of people and their kindness and creativity. All those little kind of rays of goodness that give you hope. So yes, I think magic is in lots of places but the song, obviously, is about that magical moment of meeting someone and possibility and that I really do believe in.
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