Kylie Minogue reveals how she avoids music-making driving her 'crazy'

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8 Sep 2023, 12:13

Kylie Minogue has opened up on dealing with the “toll” of fame, getting over self-doubt, and how she has found a way to avoid her music-making driving her too “crazy”.

Speaking with Rolling Stone magazine, the Australian pop sensation talked candidly about her career in advance of the release of her latest album Tension, her upcoming ITV An Audience with… show, and her Las Vegas residency this November.

While discussing her habit of recording on the go rather than in the studio, the ‘Padam Padam’ singer revealed that the expensive studio settings in which she used to record used to make her “really nervous.”

Recording at home, as she learned to do during lockdown, has become “preferable” to the star, she said. 

“I will drive myself crazy mimicking [demos],” she admitted. “What’s so helpful with self-recording is I can spend hours doing that to the point where I go ‘Shut it down now.’”

The 55-year-old also revealed during her interview about how she was proudly able to feel she “deserved to be” at Glastonbury in 2019.

“Every artist that’s ever existed was also riddled with insecurity and self-doubt and all of that stuff. But I feel like now it’s OK. I chased it. I longed for it for a long time. I thought it just might not ever happen for me,” she said of her journey.

To get there wasn’t easy, though. Kylie also discussed how she “lived” through the toll of fame which is now more widely recognised by today’s discussions around mental health.

Speaking about how she dealt with the struggles that fame could bring, she said: “I was able to manage that myself and with my family and close friends and navigate those waters. It wasn’t a decision [to stay private]. It was a reaction to protect myself and to protect my family because they would go through it with you.”

Kylie Minogue’s sixteenth album Tension will be released on 22nd September 2023.