She’s a legit national icon. But is it wrong to want Kylie to be a bit more ... interesting? |
She’s a legit national icon. But is it wrong to want Kylie to be a bit more ... interesting?
May 22, 2026 — 11:00am
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Watching the new Kylie doco on Netflix wasn’t on my to-do list. I’m up to pussy’s bow looking into infrared face masks and how to save Insta recipes without screenshotting them.
Look, I adore her music. Always have. Can still sing every word of Some Kind of Bliss and Too Much of a Good Thing. At my first wedding, Better the Devil You Know was our second song. I’ve kept her first three albums on vinyl through five house moves.
But apart from the songs and fashion, Kylie has never fascinated me. In, what, 35 years, she’s never said anything I’ve found truly smart or funny or even wry.
What she’s shared in interviews has verged on banal. Basic. Especially during that era when she had the fake English accent. I’ve never thought, “God, I’d love to sit next to her at book group.”
It says a lot about my personality that when late Models frontman James Freud slammed Kylie in his 2002 book as a famous tight arse who gave tiny end-of-tour bonuses to her musos, I........