LISTEN: The #1 summer banger Kylie Minogue released exactly 10 years ago that nobody remembers today
Tension.The track hasn’t even been out for a week and it’s already been declared both 2023’s summer song, as well we this year’s official Pride anthem, by Gay Twitter™. (The music video has also gotten almost 2 million views and counting on YouTube.)"Let's Fold Padam Padam's Romy!!!"@KylieMinogue #KylieMinoguePadamPadam #PadamPadam #RomyAndMichelle #KyliesHighschoolReunion #Padam #Tension pic.twitter.com/pFQyDWbxQ6The whole thing has reminded us of another bop Kylie dropped a decade ago that has since fallen into obscurity.10 years ago this week, she released a club banger at the very start of the summer that, despite being catchy as hell and topping the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, seems to have been lost to time.“Skirt” was released as a single on May 28, 2013, followed by a remix EP a month later.
The experimental EDM, dubstep and house-pop track was written by Minogue, along with Chris Elliot, Chris Lake, and the production team The-Dream.
Like “Padam Padam”, the theme of “Skirt” is Sex with a capital “S.” Minogue sings, “I can do this all night/All those things you like/Got you high as a kite like the way I shake it/Let’s get outta here come on/Where’s your car?
Take me home/Up the stairs, close the door.”And then her skirt comes down.“Skirt” was released both as a CD and digital single, with an accompanying lyric video that included over 1,000 sultry stills of Minogue inside a hotel room.
