As a result of Kylie Minogue’s new single, Earth is currently facing its first-ever “padamic”. Released as the lead single from the pop icon’s forthcoming 16th studio album Tension, Padam Padam is a camp-as-tits electro-pop banger that sees Kylie enter her medical era. (‘Increased heart rate’ and ‘tachycardia’ are now extinct: Padam Padam is the way.) “Shivers and butterflies, I get the shivers when I look into your eyes, and I can tell that you’re all in, ’cause I can hear your heart beatin’ padam padam,” Kylie sings on the infectious track. “Padam, padam, I hear it and I know. “Padam, padam, I know you wanna take me home, padam, and take off all my clothes.
Padam, padam, when your heart goes padam.” The Lostboy-produced anthem, which was performed for the first on the American Idol season 21 finale to widespread critical acclaim, has united Gay Twitter with countless, hilarious memes.
From Sarah Michelle Gellar and Eliza Dushku dancing in the club on Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Roxxxy Andrews and Detox untucking in the Interior Illusions Lounge, Padam Padam is a certified “cultural reset”.
Check out the best memes below. Tension, which consists of “euphoric, empowered dance floor bangers and sultry pop cuts”, will be released on 22 September.