BACK WITH A BANGER

Kylie Minogue has come out of the shadows with a sizzling new single - and that's not all she's been up to recently

- NICIDE WET

SHE’S been out of the spotlight long enough for everyone to have done the locomotion, for her to get out of our heads, for the world to spin around in whole new directions . . .

But all it takes is a cool new tune delivered by a red hot Kylie Minogue to get pulses racing all over again.

Padam Padam is the pop pixie’s banger of a comeback single that has everyone from nine to 90 hooked and has thrust her firmly back into the global charts. It’s her highest-charting song in the UK since her 2014 hit Into the Blue and marks her return to the US charts for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Critics and music websites such as Billboard have hailed it as her best work since her 2001 mega hit, Can’t Get You Out of My Head.

But the song is doing more than soaring up the charts – it’s also made her a viral sensation on TikTok. Turns out Gen Z-ers are as hooked on the 55-yearold as their parents, proving the world is witnessing a cross-generational Kylie renaissance.

Her popularity on the social media platform came after many youth radio stations in the UK refused to play the song at first, believing it was for an older audience. The kids disagreed and Kylie became a TikTok superstar.

She also performed the track during the final of American Idol last month to huge applause and was seen dancing to it alongside UFC champion Conor McGregor at a party in Monaco.

The track is inspired by the 1951 song of the same name by French singer Édith Piaf and is named after the sound the human heart makes.

“People have been responding to it because of how confident it sounds,” George Griffiths of UK record charts company Official Charts says. “No one else could have probably pulled this song off.”