Time & Perspective Quote by Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue slips a whole career strategy into that breezy “I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.” It’s playful, sure, but it’s also a tiny manifesto about permission: dance music is already coded as pleasure-first, a space where excess isn’t a flaw but the point. By naming “camp” without apology, she’s refusing the old pop-music demand to be either “serious” or “authentic” in a dour, guitar-and-tears sense. Her authenticity is performance-savvy: she’s real because she’s knowingly artificial.

The subtext is audience alignment. Camp isn’t just an aesthetic; it’s a cultural handshake, historically tied to queer nightlife, drag, and communities that learned to turn marginalization into style. Minogue has long been embraced as a gay icon, and this line reads like a gentle acknowledgment of that bond without turning it into branding-speak. She’s not claiming ownership of camp; she’s admitting participation, which is a smarter, humbler posture in a genre built on remixing identities.

Context matters: dance-pop has often been dismissed as disposable, especially when fronted by women whose work is treated like packaging. Minogue flips that dismissal into leverage. “Pretty camp…from time to time” is understatement as power move: she makes room for glamour and wink-wink theatricality while staying in control of the narrative. The result is a persona that’s durable precisely because it doesn’t pretend to be above the party.