"It comes in the final 10 minutes. It's 2023: a euphoric high point in Kylie's career. Padam Padam, the first single from Kylie's 16th album, Tension, has just been released. Then the words One More Thing flash across a black screen. Cut to present-day Kylie arriving at the studio, singing songs from Tension with her longstanding team of British songwriters."
"There's a song called Story she says to director Michael Harte (also the editor of Netflix's Beckham), who shot the documentary over two years. Kylie, who is notoriously private, falters. Her songwriting partner of more than 25 years, Richard Biff Stannard, takes her hand. She starts to cry as she divulges what Story is really about: her second cancer diagnosis, in early 2021."
"I was able to keep that to myself and go through that year, she says, not like the first time. I've been trying to find the right time to say it. I don't feel obliged to tell the world, and I just couldn't at the time because I was just a shell of a person Thankfully, I got through it. Again."
"What starts as a bog-standard run-through of Kylie's ascent to superstardom an excess of Pete Waterman, Neighbours clips and virulent 1990s sexism ends with a disclosure that moves me to tears. It comes in the final 10 minutes. It's 2023: a euphoric high point in Kylie's career."
Kylie’s career is framed through her rise to superstardom and her enduring impact as a major pop artist. A three-part Netflix documentary traces her ascent, including early influences and the pressures of the industry. The narrative shifts from a conventional career overview to a deeply personal disclosure. In 2023, while recording songs from her album Tension, she introduces a track called “Story.” She falters and is supported by her long-time songwriting partner as she explains that the song is about her second cancer diagnosis in early 2021. She describes keeping it private, struggling through the year, and feeling like “a shell of a person,” before ultimately getting through it again.
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