Kylie Minogue used to think she was too cool to record a Christmas song.
The Padam Padam hitmaker has scored the UK festive number one with XMAS, but she admitted she previously rejected ideas to release a holiday-themed single.
She is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column as saying: “It was suggested to me many years ago but I would go, ‘Nah I’m too busy trying to be on point’.”
Ultimately, Kylie’s brother urged her to embrace the season and make some Christmas music.
She said: “I spoke to my brother before I hit the green button.
“He’s the voice of reason in my family. He said, ‘I think it’s great and the perfect time.’ He was right.”
The Locomotion singer has revamped her 2015 festive album Kylie Christmas to add four new songs, including XMAS, and rebranded the record as Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped).
And the 57-year-old star described the LP as “Doris Day fuzzy stuff meets Aunt Lynne’s had a couple too many sherries.”
Kylie previously admitted XMAS – which is inspired by the Village People’s 1978 party classic YMCA – has been 10 years in the making because she first thought up the idea for the song in summer 2015.
She told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “The song comes from 2015. I was at Soho House in Berlin, it was summer on the terrace and we’d just done the first Christmas album.
“We’d had a couple of glasses of wine – it wasn’t Kylie Wines back then – and it came to us like YMCA but XMAS. I’ve been sitting on the chorus for 10 years.”
In the video for the single, Kylie performs the famous flying dance move from Dirty Dancing and despite her decades of stage experience, the Can’t Get You Out Of My Head hitmaker was “a bit scared” about pulling it off.
She said: “I was a bit scared as I’ve never done it before. It was a fantasy moment. I was told not to overthink it.
“We did a couple of practices before we did the main one. The thing is, you just need to trust the other person.
“The first one I got up, but I overshot it. The second was fine. The third one was good. The bruises were worth it the next day.”