Kylie Minogue Returns With 'Padam Padam' Follow-Up, 'Tension' & Reveals the Back Story - Listen & Read the Lyrics!

Todd Gilchrist editor As the platonic ideal of a pop star aging gracefully in her career, Kylie Minogue knows what kind of artist she is and for 35 years has stuck to that identity — and better than that, embraced it. “Tension” is her sixteenth album, and it’s not only as good as the ones she released 10 or 20 or more years ago, it’s just like them: full of shiny, irresistible, easily digestible songs whose sole purpose is to make listeners fall in love and dance, if not always in that order.

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Kylie Minogue has announced details of an upcoming pop-up shop in London, set to celebrate the release of her new album ‘Tension’.The special store will be open for a limited time later this week and will see the Australian pop star open up a pop-up shop in the heart of London, filled with exclusive merchandise and unique products related to her latest album.The forthcoming LP, titled ‘Tension’ will mark the singer’s 16th studio album, and is set to be released this Friday (September 22). It will follow on from her previous singles: hit anthem of this summer ‘Padam Padam’, and ‘90s-inspired title track.Located at 55 Regent Street, the store will be open to fans from 10am until 6pm on Friday, when the album is released, and will run throughout the weekend, ending on Sunday (September 24).To those visiting, there will be plenty of exclusive items available for purchase – all of which have been curated personally by Minogue and are set to become collector’s items of the future.These include limited-edition and individually numbered copies of ‘Tension’ on vinyl, as well as limited-edition signed prints and lithographs.

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Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls has hit out at Barbie on his first new song in five years – listen to ‘Must Crush Barbie’ below.The band’s bassist calls the summer blockbuster the “embodiment of lukewarm water” with a press release adding that the song is a “much-needed antidote to the ubiquitous pinkness that has spilled out of movie theatres this summer and onto the high streets with wall-to-wall media coverage.”In the song, Smalls sings about the film having “too much pink” and being a waste of “film and ink”.He said: “Been spending the last year or so as Brand Ambassador for BruegelCoin, the Dutch cryptocurrency.“Since it was cratering this past spring, I was following the news more than usual, which is where I got bombarded by all the Barbie BS. I don’t know which angered me more, but it’s really hard to write a song about crypto.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Derek Smalls, the legendary bassist with the ultimate heavy metal band, Spinal Tap, has returned with a brutally contemporary new single: “Must Crush Barbie,” which is described as “an excoriating attack on the pink sensation … that advocate of everything pink and fluffy, Barbie.” The vividly worded announcement continues, “The self-described embodiment of lukewarm water reaches boiling point with Smalls’ first track in five years.” The song is available now via Bottomland Productions / Immortal Records. “Been spending the last year or so as Brand Ambassador for BruegelCoin, the Dutch cryptocurrency,” says Smalls — who may or may not be actor Harry Shearer, co-star of the 1984 classic film “This Is Spinal Tap,” which may or may not be getting a sequel.

Kylie Minogue has opened up about how fame took a toll on her mental health sharing she had lived through that.In an interview with Rolling Stone UK, the pop icon spoke about how certain aspects of fame are not easy to deal with and noted how it is easier to have open conversations about struggling with mental health now.“What I think is great for a lot of people now is that there’s a discussion about mental health and the toll [fame] can take on people, I had that, I lived that,” she said.The singer also shared that she was also conscious of keeping her family and close friends safe and well along with herself.A post shared by Kylie Minogue (@kylieminogue)“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,” Minogue said.In the interview, she also addressed how she protects her privacy explaining that she has a “common sense” element to her approach, but it does take “some sacrifice”.

She’s notched up 16 years with the BBC and has hosted TV shows including Crimewatch, Points Of View and BBC Breakfast, but Tina Daheley says the role she’s most proud of is that of mum. “This sounds corny and clichéd, but becoming a mum has empowered me to say no, because for a decade I just said yes to everything,” Tina, 43, explains. “It was just constant.

Kylie Minogue has shed new insight into recording her latest single ‘Tension’ – describing how she and her collaborators were “jumping on sofas” to make the song.Released last week as the follow-up to her summer smash hit ‘Padam Padam‘, the song was rcorded in Surrey during the “the hottest week of the year”, as she explained in a recent interview on The Zane Lowe Show – detailing how writing ‘Tension’ with KAMILLE and Anya Jones inspired a rather energetic session.“They came in with this incredible energy,” she said. “‘Tension’, it’s one of those ones that you don’t really even know how it happened.

Kylie Minogue is performing a free, intimate show in London later this month – find out more below.The Australian pop icon and multi-million artist will perform at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Wednesday, September 27, five days after her new album ‘Tension’ releases on September 22.Entry to the show will be free, but is limited to just 700 passes for O2 Priority customers. While registrations are now open, entry to the show will be relegated to a ballot system.A post shared by O2 UK (@o2uk)O2 Priority customers can now enter the ballot for tickets to Kylie Minogue’s intimate show at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire here.

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Kylie Minogue has released ‘Tension’ – the latest single to be taken from her highly-anticipated new album. Check it out below.The 55-year-old pop icon first teased the track yesterday (August 30), when she took to social media to announce to fans that the song would be arriving today.

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Kylie Minogue will be looking back at her career alongside VIP guests at London’s Royal Albert Hall later this year.