Kylie, I'm glad we can talk about your new project - you just released the single "Say Something". It's very disco, fresh, I'm impressed. Can you tell about the emotions associated with recording this number?
The song is inspired by the people I recorded this song with. We worked on it in September last year. Now I look at this song differently - mainly because of the current situation. I think that the first line of the song - "We're a million miles apart in a thousand ways" is such a gate to virtual space, distance. It's a song about someone who can brighten up your world. It also touches on the subject of deep love and even escaping from it.
The song is very catchy, lively, has good vibes. I guess we all need it now.
Absolutely. When we wrote this song at the beginning we felt that this song has that "something". Lots of songs are written, but not all of them make it. I liked it immediately and it ended up being the single announcing the new album. This track is on a completely different level. First of all it's about being musical, but I really appreciate you talking about emotions in this song. This is my favorite answer to what I do. I'm glad that people can feel the song, listen to it and like it. It somehow touches their emotions. I felt it when I wrote this piece, now it's available all over the world and people react to it like that. This is amazing, I'm so happy.
You said Say Something was made by the people you work with. Will you tell us about them?
With great pleasure. One of them is "Biff" (Richard "Biff" Stannard) who wrote a lot of hits and was responsible for the Spice Girls albums, for which he is very famous. It can even be said that he himself has a fan club. We've been working together since 1999, so it's been a while. Another person is Jon Green, with whom I have been working since 2017, when I recorded the album "Golden". I love his energy. Interestingly, the gentlemen had never met before, so I thought it would be great to sit down together and create something. In the end I have achieved my goal and I am very happy about it. We recorded the song in Brighton, England, and finished it during the lockdown .
The song "Say Something" announces your new album, which will be called "Disco". Do you remember a moment when you decided it was time to get back to disco sounds?
In 2018 I released the album "Golden", which was recorded in Nashville and was inspired by country music. It brought some freshness to my pop world. It was a fantastic experience that I really appreciate. In 2019, I went on the "Greatest Hits" tour, which was based on the sounds and hits from previous years of my career. This tour was amazing, especially as I was performing at the Glastonbury Festival back then, which is absolutely one of my favorite moments in my life. Because I was singing my greatest hits, I thought it would be nice though to have new songs that I could present to the world. I decided that it would be better to be an artist looking to the future than to the past. I thought about going back to the studio and did it. One of the first recording sessions for the new album was the one from Brighton, which we were just talking about. Back then, I didn't have a specific idea for a disco album or a title like that. I just wanted to write. So "Say Something" wasn't written with that vibe in mind, and besides, it's not as disco as the rest of the album. It will be a bit like meeting the hit "State Of Independence" and Giorgio Moroder. We used to sit in a band and we thought we would call the album "Disco". These situations can be frustrating because you want to write songs that you like but don't match the vibe of the album. It took some compromise and concentration at times, but it turned out to be fun in the end.
The album "Golden" was a mix of pop and country, a new double world. You know, I fell in love with 70's disco when I was 10. I played the Donna Summer records that belonged to my dad over and over again. I also had the great pleasure of meeting Giorgio Moroder, who is like the godfather of disco. This music has always reminded me of the '70s the most, but the truth is, it's present in almost every genre now. This album will refer mainly to those years, but even in the song "Say Something" there is also a touch of the 80s. We did not want to make an album that would be like an album full of covers of the greatest disco hits, but we dreamed of something new and fresh. And it seems to have succeeded.
I think it will be memorable in the context of the album though
