My new single made me cry, because the quest for love never ends
EVER since her first No 1, Kylie Minogue has dreamed of being lucky in love – but it is a dream that has eluded her… until now.
The pop princess hopes her run of failed relationships is finally coming to an end, telling how Welshman Paul Solomons gives her “a magical feeling”.
But Kylie, 52, is taking things step-by-step with GQ boss Paul, admitting she still has scars from her devastating split from actor fiancé Joshua Sasse.
The pair parted company in February 2017 over her fears he had been cheating on her.
Kylie says of that break-up: “I just felt broken, there’s still some scars. That’s just what happens.
“Otherwise you wouldn’t have been that invested.
“Self-doubt as well, like, ‘How did that happen? How did I let that happen?’ It does shape you as a person – it’s part of your bounty of experience.”
The true bounty was her hit album Golden, for which she says she poured all her emotions about the break- up into song form. She spent 2017 writing it – and by 2018, when it came out, she had met Paul, 46. “So time changes everything,” she says.
UPBEAT
And if her music charts her life, then new album Disco – with its much more upbeat tone – must be a promising sign.
She says lead single Say Something moved her to tears with its lyrics “Cause love is love, it never ends, can we all be as one again?”
The singer says it is about “the eternal quest for love… not specifically a relationship love but just love for love’s sake – how that is pretty much a common need, a longing, and it is endless”.
She says: “I cried when I heard it. I remember listening to it and just being very teary and calling my producer going, ‘ This song is just…’
“It’s saying more than we’re saying – like there’s a lot of room for interpretation in that song.
“And yet if you want to take it in a cleaner line, it’s about love and everyone having the capacity for love.”
In that spirit, Kylie is hopeful her romance with Paul is the real deal. Ever cautious, she admits: “Being realistic, we can only take each day as it comes.
“But I’ve found someone who… you know… we really have a great connection, a great time together.”
Asked if she had a magical feeling when they met, she says: “I did, actually – maybe not like a romance novel where there are butterflies and stars shooting through the air.
“All my friends said to me, ‘ You were acting different’. And that’s
My friends said that I was acting different… I thought I’d kept cool
KYLIE MINOGUE ON FIRST MEETING BOYFRIEND PAUL
when I knew there was something – because I thought I was acting cool, but maybe I wasn’t.”
Yet it was a meeting that could so easily not have happened.
She says: “It was a mutual friend who’d been saying to both Paul l and d myself independently, ‘ You should meet’.”
Still raw from her split, Kylie says she was not interested in meeting anyone. She says: “I kept saying, ‘ Yeah, but no, one day…’ Eventually that day happened – and we connected.”
Her previous boyfriends have included French actor Olivier Martinez, who she was with for five years until 2007, and Spanish model Andres Velencoso – who she met in 2008 while filming an advert for her perfume range.
She also dated model James Gooding – who labelled her a “self-obsessed, virtually friendless, control freak” after a clearly acrimonious split.
And she dated her Neighbours co-star Jason Donovan early in their careers. But despite her blossoming love life,
Kylie has not had the easiest year.
Unable to travel to see her family in
Australia, she has spent most of l ockdown in
London.
She says: “I definitely miss Australia – I miss my family. I’ve always had the option to fly home, see my family and that’s just on hold for a little bit.”
She’s hoping Disco – her 15th
ANGUISH Ex-fiancé Joshua
NO AMOUAMOUR With French actactor Olivier MarMartinez hopes it can give her fans a temporary escape – even if they can currently dance only in the kitchen.
She says her idea of disco is “you go there and lose yourself, lose yourself to find yourself ”.
Kylie explains: “When you step through those doors you’re just… ‘another dimension’ may sound too ethereal, but I do think places like that can be that transporting. It can be, hopefully,
Model James Gooding a state of mind.” And in the wake of the emotionally tangled Golden, she says it was important to do something that felt more uplifting.
The singer adds: “There’s still definitely space for melancholy because that’s part of life. But I wanted Disco to be celebratory.”
Released last month, the album also includes the single Magic – which again seems to mirror
MATRIMONY Neighbours with Jason another stage in Kylie’s own romantic journey. She says: “There’s magical things all around.
“I think particularly through this year people are seeing it in unexpected places.
“Through the challenges and the darkness and the hardships, we’ve seen shining lights of people and their kindness and creativity. All those little kind of rays of goodness that give you hope.”
The song, she adds, is “about that magical moment of meeting someone, and possibility – and that I really do believe in”.
KYLIE MINOGUE ON THE MAGIC OF EVERYDAY LIFE