“From my very first single, I was a duck out of water,” Kylie Minogue tells Apple Music. “I think people feel empowered by that because all things are possible. Don’t let anyone write you off.” The evergreen pop icon—and Australia’s highest-selling female artist—has certainly proven what’s possible with persistence. While still playing Charlene Robinson on the beloved soap Neighbours, Minogue made her musical debut with a 1987 update of the bubbly ’60s classic “The Locomotion”. The same year’s knowingly Madonna-esque “I Should Be so Lucky” topped the chart in the UK and several other countries, setting up a career that would thrive for decades to come. She doubled down on dance music for 2000’s “Spinning Around” and 2001’s self-fulfilling earworm “Can’t Get You out of My Head”, which has sold several million copies around the world. Having cemented her signature sound—seductive, floor-filling dance-pop, anchored by her singular, immediately recognisable vocal—Minogue made side forays into country and disco. More recently, she unleashed the 2023 viral sensation “Padam Padam” and leaned into the Balearic shadings of 2025’s “Someone for Me”, an update of the original track courtesy of German production duo YouNotUs. The lesson? That empowerment she cited can translate into blockbuster longevity with enough raw talent and stubborn self-belief behind it.