{"id":680243,"date":"2026-05-19T06:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680243\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:32:27","slug":"brutal-kylie-minogue-speaks-out-on-the-singing-budgie-label-she-got-at-the-start-of-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680243\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Brutal’: Kylie Minogue speaks out on the ‘singing budgie’ label she got at the start of her career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kylie Minogue<\/a> has spoken out on the “singing budgie” label she got at the very start of her career.<\/p>\n

The Aussie singer, 57, who is now one of the world’s most successful artists,<\/a> \ufeffappeared on Nova 96.9’s Ricki-Lee & Tim this week when she spoke about the “brutal” realities of being in the public eye as a young star.<\/p>\n

“Things like the ‘singing budgie’ and the press at the time…” she recalled of the disparaging nickname from the media back in the day.<\/p>\n

\"KylieKylie Minogue speaks out on the ‘singing budgie’ label she got at the start of her career. (60 Minutes Australia \/ YouTube)<\/p>\n

“Now people have got a voice, they’ve got platforms where they can talk and say what they want to say. Back then, the press was it.”<\/p>\n

Minogue said she really wanted to be given a chance, as she launched her career during her time on iconic soap, Neighbours, back in the late ’80s.\ufeff<\/p>\n

While she was still finding her feet as an artist at the time, she wishes the press would have been nicer.<\/p>\n

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\"KylieShe launched her career during her time on iconic soap, Neighbours.\ufeff (UK Press via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“I understand, like ‘Singing Budgie’… yeah, I hadn’t earned my stripes,” she added.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t know what I was doing. I wasn’t very good… but, give her a chance! That was the thing that really got me,” she finished.<\/p>\n

Minogue went on to prove the naysayers wrong, \ufeffgoing on to sell more than a whopping 80 million records worldwide.<\/p>\n

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\"Kylie“I didn’t know what I was doing. I wasn’t very good… but, give her a chance!” she said. (Corbis via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Minogue is celebrating the release of her new Netflix documentary, Kylie, which chronicles her life and career.<\/p>\n

And it seems nothing is off limits, with Minogue talking about her life-changing breast cancer diagnosis and even her relationship with late INXS rocker, \ufeffMichael Hutchence.<\/p>\n

In her new docuseries, Minogue talks about her relationship with late rocker Michael Hutchence. (Getty)<\/p>\n

“He was the first in so many ways. And of those firsts was heartbreak. I was devastated,” she says in the docuseries.<\/p>\n

“You go on and live your lives, but it was definitely an amazing point in time and I’ve probably been looking for something like that ever since and I haven’t got it\ufeff.”<\/p>\n

Kylie premieres on May 20 on Netflix.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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