- Kylie Minogue recorded her viral hit “Padam Padam” in a London hotel room.
- Since the COVID-19 lockdown, Minogue said she mostly records music on the road or at home.
- The star told Rolling Stone UK it’s preferable to recording in studios because she’s less nervous.
Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue revealed she recorded her viral hit “Padam Padam” in a London hotel room and admitted she rarely goes into the studio to record music anymore.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone UK ahead of the release of her album “Tension,” Minogue shared that after receiving a demo of the song, she recorded it in a London hotel room. She also mentioned that she’s been traveling with a Telefunken microphone setup that allows her to record whenever and wherever she wants.
“Home recording and being able to play anytime is preferable to me,” she told Rolling Stone UK.
Minogue has rarely used recording studios since 2020 when the COVID-19 lockdown forced her to finish her album “Disco” from home. In September 2020, the “Spinning Around” singer told Billboard that she had to figure out how to do everything remotely. She turned her London flat into a home studio and learned to use Logic Pro for recording and producing music.
“I thought, ‘If 11-year-olds can do this in their bedroom, I can figure this out,'” she said.
Minogue, 55, has extensive experience recording in proper studios throughout her decades-spanning career, but she admitted that she didn’t always enjoy it. “Especially in the early days, I did many years of being really nervous,” she told Rolling Stone UK.
“With self-recording, I can spend hours mimicking the demos,” Minogue explained. “It’s so helpful, and I can reach a point where I go, ‘Shut it down now.'”
