The National Student

I was lucky enough to be the only student with exclusive access to a syndicated interview with Kylie Minogue. The entire article can be seen here.

Her latest album Aphrodite is not likely to reduce the worldwide phenomena of Kylie, and if anything revisits her early days of pint-sized pop sensationalism. “It’s been described as a return to the dance floor; I don’t think I ever totally left but it is a return to form I’d say,” says 42-year-old Kylie.

You can see her point, after a glance at her singles back catalogue. ‘2 Hearts’ (2007), for example, is catchy but fails to get you busting out your best dance moves. ‘Slow’, a number one in 2003, is also lacking that dance vibe.

After her well documented battle with breast cancer in 2005, Aphrodite provides a lighter alternative to Kylie’s last album X in 2007. “I think a lot of what I do now is, in some way, coloured by the experience I had with illness. I guess I was just feeling like expressing joy at this point, I’d written songs more about that period in my life either on or for the last album, so I didn’t feel like going through those again; this was about this moment, this time, and what a happy experience this has been for me.”