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"Padam Padam" Has Entered the Chat

"Padam Padam" Has Entered the Chat

Kylie Minogue's latest single is gay catnip, but are we eating?

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Evan Ross Katz
May 24, 2023
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Pardon me while I say something disturbing, homophobic even. “Is Padam IT?” my friend Charlie texted me yesterday in reference to Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam,” the lead single from her upcoming sixteenth studio album Tension. “I think it IS,” I responded. Then, a few minutes later, “That said, too short to be Song of Summer.” And though I’ve memed it t…

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