Kylie Mogue: 'I Beme A Gay In by Beg Myself'

Contents:

• KYLIE MOGUE ON THE FIRST TIME SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN
• KYLIE MOGUE FALLY SETTL THE DEBATE ON THE DEFIVE GAY ANTHEM: HERE’S HER PICK
• KYLIE MOGUE’S “PADAM PADAM” IS THE GAY NONSENSE BOP WE NEED THIS PRI
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• KYLIE MOGUE OPENS UP ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE REALISED SHE WAS A GAY IN
• KYLIE MOGUE SHAR HER 'THEORY' AS TO WHY SHE WAS EMBRACED BY THE GAY MUNY
• KYLIE MOGUE ON BEG A GAY IN: I DIDN’T SET OUT TO BE CLIVE — ’S HOW I FEEL
• KYLIE MOGUE: 'I BEME A GAY IN BY BEG MYSELF'
• KYLIE MOGUE FEELS SOLIDARY WH GAY FANS: ‘THEY PROTECTED ME’
• KYLIE MOGUE: BEG A GAY IN ‘FEELS NATURAL’ TO ME

KYLIE MOGUE ON THE FIRST TIME SHE REALIZED SHE WAS A GAY IN

"It happened whout me knowg , " Mogue tells Billboard, explag she beme aware of her tense LGBTQ followg the late '80s while visg Sydney's so-lled "Gay Goln Mile.

Speakg to Billboard ahead of the show, the Asie pop queen reflected on the first time she realized she was a gay in. “It happened whout me knowg , ” Mogue tells Billboard, explag she beme aware of her tense LGBTQ followg the late ’80s while visg Sydney’s so-lled “Gay Goln Mile.

KYLIE MOGUE FALLY SETTL THE DEBATE ON THE DEFIVE GAY ANTHEM: HERE’S HER PICK

“I was Sydney and there’s a famo bar on Oxford Street lled the Albury, and at the time was the gay bar the gay area Sydney. Sce then, Kylie’s given more than enough looks to populate an entire bar whout repeats, and her gay fan base has only grown. The track’s melancholic Hi-NRG productn, and s universal lyrics speakg of a romantic longg that might never be sated, nnected anilly wh a generatn of young gay men stgglg wh their place a wir society that was sred and then goad to antagonism by the AIDS crisis.

KYLIE MOGUE’S “PADAM PADAM” IS THE GAY NONSENSE BOP WE NEED THIS PRI

PWL’s creative geni lay the balanced steer between the teen pop that led the rerd racks the UK high-street cha Woolworths and the vibrant personaly of the gay club scene.

And Shocked, Kylie first beme aware of the appeal she had on the gay scene. She told Billboard: “I was Sydney and there’s a famo bar on Oxford Street lled the Albury and, at the time, was the gay bar  the gay area Sydney.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

She went so far as to rerd wh the legendary Gloria Gaynor on Can’t Stop Wrg Songs About You, but wh sgl such as Magic, and the duets wh Years & Years (A Send To Midnight) and Jsie Ware (Kiss Of Life), Kylie was craftg tracks as creatively nsistent as ever.

Dis divas are arguably ten to the dozen, and gay men particular have an built vulnerabily to a sometim lightweight appeal.

In an terview wh Olly Alexanr of Years & Years, for London’s Eveng Standard, Kylie posned her reputatn as a gay in simply: “I didn’t set out to do that [be clive], is jt naturally how I feel.

KYLIE MOGUE OPENS UP ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE REALISED SHE WAS A GAY IN

Kylie Mogue Fally Settl the Debate on the Defive Gay Anthem: Here’s Her Pick. There is no doubt that Kylie Mogue is a gay in. Now, she’s ready to answer a val qutn this Pri Month: What is the ultimate gay anthem?

On the latt episo of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen on Tuday (June 7), Mogue was asked a seri of burng qutns, cludg her thoughts on the greatt gay anthem of all time.

The “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” sger acknowledged that there are “plenty” of songs that f the creria, but said she felt “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor was the GOAT. I’m currently experiencg one of the gayt weeks of my life, which is sayg somethg. I’m Italy, where the gay choir I’m part of (strike one) is attendg a huge ftival of LGBTQ+ choirs (strike two).

KYLIE MOGUE SHAR HER 'THEORY' AS TO WHY SHE WAS EMBRACED BY THE GAY MUNY

It’s like Pch Perfect, but wh a lot more homosexuals and, of urse, more drama. When s openg bars played over the speakers, the gays heard her siren ll and were pelled to storm the dance floor.

Last week, I found myself at London’s biggt gay club, G-A-Y, the Soho district. Social media (Gay Twter, particular) went wild for the performance, which featured the sger thigh-high leather boots alongsi a squad of buff male dancers sktight ary-meets-sci-fi outfs.

And ’s impossible not to notice that queer people, particularly gay men, have been drivg s meteoric rise. )But why is “Padam Padam” a gay anthem? It remds me of gog out gay-clubbg for the very first time and feelg like the world was my oyster.

KYLIE MOGUE ON BEG A GAY IN: I DIDN’T SET OUT TO BE CLIVE — ’S HOW I FEEL

) Pl, Mogue has had a huge gay fan base for s. Mastream (“Can’t Get You Out of My Head” was ubiquo for a time, but that was over 20 years ago, and her prev h here was 13 years before that), she matas an active cult followg among Amerin gays. There is a long-held pattern queer culture, and among gay men particular, which we st ourselv as early adopters of cultural trends, om fashn to mic.

A historic example would be San Francis’s Castro District the 1970s, durg the time of Harvey Milk, when there was an entire sartorial for gay men, acrdg to which not only different-lored handkerchiefs, but also everyday garments like Converse and plaid shirts all meant different thgs. (This language was unpacked Hal Fischer’s semal work Gay Semtics.

2001 bee the label emed “too mp” and went on to bee a gay favore.

KYLIE MOGUE: 'I BEME A GAY IN BY BEG MYSELF'

) “Padam Padam” seems to have entered that same gay lexin, the shorthand many of e to munite wh each other. At the most basic level, there is nsirable crossover between mastream gay culture and meme culture.

I’m generalizg here (and of urse, massively projectg), but beg pletely obssed wh somethg—a joke, a song, a meme—to the pot where be your entire personaly for a short perd of time is a distctly gay tra.

Soon, the song will probably bee so mastream that straight people like too, and gay people will clare “Over! It remds me of an astute quote om Sex and the Cy’s PR maven Samantha Jon: “First e the gays, then the girls—then, the dtry.

KYLIE MOGUE FEELS SOLIDARY WH GAY FANS: ‘THEY PROTECTED ME’

While some artists have to work hard to appeal to the LGBTQ muny, others n't expla how they reach gay in stat. While some artists have to work hard to appeal to the LGBTQ muny, others n’t expla how they reach gay in stat. She realized the phenomenon the 1990s at a popular gay bar Sydney.

KYLIE MOGUE: BEG A GAY IN ‘FEELS NATURAL’ TO ME

Wh the vio, Kylie wanted to pay “homage” to her gay dience, which has given her a lot of support throughout the years. Seven years later, the director for “All the Lovers, ” Joseph Kahn, said that Kylie was asked to cut the gay kissg om the vio. The vio starts wh Kylie wrappg up the dance scen she’ll e that very vio, then walkg through the gay streets of Soho, London, and arrivg at a nightclub.

Sger Ruf Wawright once lled Kylie “the gay shorthand for joy. In the sanely hot live performance of “Butterfly” durg her 2001 On a Night Like This tour, Kylie has a nice surprise for a very specific segment of her dience: the gay leather fetish fans. The origal versn is a perfect example of a bubbly pop hoe track, while Scumog’s “Bety and the Beast” remix domated the gay clubs at the time: dark, sexy, tense New York progrsive hoe.

Even though this uld be an impossible and highly polarizg ll to make, “Your Dis Needs You” might be, fact, Kylie Mogue’s gayt song ever. Or, perhaps, the gayt song ever!