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Pop icons Kylie Minogue and Madonna carried out a duet collectively in celebration of Worldwide Girls’s Day, a second music followers have been ready 4 many years for.
Regardless of being billed as rivals, the 2 pop queens have usually praised each other and are every recognized in their very own proper as dominating forces within the music business. Nonetheless, they’d by no means carried out dwell collectively… till now.
Kylie joined Madonna on the Kia Discussion board in Inglewood, close to Los Angeles, California, for a rendition of the Australian star’s hit single “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” on Thursday (7 March), as a part of Madonna’s ongoing Celebration tour.
Sporting cowboy boots and a leather-based jacket, Madonna danced beside the “Princess of Pop”, who was wearing leather-style sample trousers and a black T-shirt.
After performing Kylie’s music, the duo carried out the Grammy-winning empowerment anthem “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, a favorite amongst LGBT+ music followers.
Writing on X, previously Twitter, Minogue mentioned: “Madonna It’s been a very long time coming!!! Liked being with you!!!! Celebration Tour and it’s now Worldwide Girls’s Day …. Thanks and Love Love Love.”
She additionally shared a clip of her dancing by way of the group whereas sporting a T-shirt bearing Madonna’s title on the entrance. Madonna returned the tribute by sporting a “Kylie Minogue” T-shirt throughout her efficiency.
Kylie, 55, has been having fun with one thing of a profession renaissance in current months, successful a Grammy for her 2023 summer season smash “Padam Padam” and not too long ago being topped with the International Icon award on the Brits final weekend.
With 9 No 1 albums, she claims the third most UK chart-topping data of any feminine artist, following Madonna and Taylor Swift.
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Madonna’s Celebration tour sees the Queen of Pop performing a string of her best hits, from “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer” to “Vacation” and “Hung Up”.
It was rescheduled final 12 months after the US artist contracted a severe bacterial an infection that resulted in a keep in intensive care.
Madonna addressed her well being scare in an earlier present on the Kia Discussion board, the place she thanked her physician and his medical staff, a lot of whom had been watching from the viewers.
“It was a wierd factor to lastly not really feel like I used to be in management,” Madonna mentioned, including that, regardless of struggling damaged bones and having a titanium hip, “nothing can cease me.”
Madonna is at present acting on her ‘Celebration’ tour
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“This summer season I had a shock,” she mentioned. “It’s known as a near-death expertise. Sure, and I’m not kidding. It was fairly scary. Clearly, I didn’t know for 4 days, as a result of I used to be in an induced coma. However after I wakened, the primary phrase I mentioned was ‘No.’
“Anyway, that’s what my assistant tells me. And I’m fairly positive that God was saying to me, ‘Do you wanna include us? You wanna include me? You wanna go this fashion?’ And I mentioned, ‘No. No.’” She emphasised: “No!”
“You might be affected person and you might be sort, and you continue to are. You continue to assist me deal with everyone I do know that’s sick,” she later added. “Thanks a lot, wherever you might be.”
She is subsequent set to carry out on the Kia Discussion board once more on Saturday and Monday, earlier than transferring on to the Acrisure Area in Palm Springs subsequent week.
