Kylie Minogue took over the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday night, headlining the AFL Grand Final pre-game show with a 20-minute set in the rain for more than 100,000 fans. The hometown performance opened with childhood home footage, then moved through“Love at First Sight,”“Spinning Around”and“All the Lovers,”with William Barton joining on“Confide in Me”and G Flip guesting on“Padam Padam.”
The finale was the moment everyone’s talking about. After a fake-out ending on“The Loco-Motion,”Minogue emerged from a giant bedazzled“KYLIE”football and flew above the stadium, closing with a Dom Dolla remix of“Can’t Get You Out of My Head.”She’s the first solo Australian headliner since Paul Kelly in 2019.
For an artist with 80 million records sold, two Grammys and 18 ARIA Awards, this was still a whole new kind of homecoming. As Minogue put it herself:“A homecoming like this? I should be so lucky.”The clips are circulating everywhere, and the debate about where this ranks among all-time Grand Final entertainment is already heating up.
Where does Kylie’s performance rank on your all-time Grand Final entertainment list? Let us know in the comments.
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