Gen Z doesn’t know who this huge star is and people can’t deal
Do young Australians know who Kylie Minogue is? Well, maybe not.
The question went viral because media personality Andy Cohen quizzed the impossibly tall Aussie actor Jacob Elordi about her on his podcast, Radio Andy.
“Do young straight Australians care about Kylie Minogue?” Cohen asked.
“She’s a national treasure, period,” Elordi said.
The 15-second clip has launched a debate online, proving the generational divide in Australia is strong.
Yes, Elordi gave Minogue the respect she deserved, but the comment section on the clip is a bloodbath of young Aussies claiming they have no idea who our princess of pop is.
Next thing you know, the youngest generation will be claiming they don’t know the lyrics to The Veronica’s Untouched.
“Young straight Australians don’t know anything about Kylie Minogue,” someone claimed in a very bold move.
Another said they’d heard of her but couldn’t name a single song.
Not one single song? What about All The Lovers or Can’t Get You Out Of My Head?
Another young person claimed they’d never even heard a whisper of the pop princess.
“Who? Genuinely never heard of this person or anything about them,” they claimed.
Even more upsettingly, the young people admitting they do know who she is, claim it is thanks to their Mum and not Spotify.
“As a young Australian, I had no clue who Kylie Minogue was until my mum told me,” one wrote.
“My mum likes her,” another shared.
While someone else said, you had to be a “certain age” to understand the power of Kylie Minogue.
Minogue, of course, is an Australian icon; she’s released banger after banger after banger.
She starred in Neighbours, she dated INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, and she’s practically the linchpin of bubblegum pop culture in Australia.
If you haven’t had her song Spinning Around stuck in your head after a school disco in a hall that smells like feet – you haven’t lived.
Australia loves her so much they’ve even accepted Dannii Minogue with open arms.
After all this, Generation Z has yet to become transfixed; in fact, some claim they’ve never even heard of her.
Minogue is actually so famous, that she’s spoken to Rolling Stone about the toll of being so famous.
“What I think is great for a lot of people now is that there’s a discussion about mental health and the toll [fame] can take on people, I had that, I lived that,” she said.
Minogue went on to say the reality of fame has also led her to shy away from the glare of the spotlight.
“I was able to manage that myself and with my family and close friends and navigate those waters. It wasn’t a decision [to stay private], it was a reaction to protect myself and to protect my family because they would go through it with you,” Minogue said.
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