Michael Cragg

✨ Over eighty million records sold.
✨ One of the world's most successful pop stars.
✨ A modern day icon.

But who is the real Kylie?

Can't Get You Out of My Head: In Search of Kylie by Michael Cragg is out on 24 September. linktr.ee/cantgetyououtofmyhead

Might pop that emoji on the cover as a review. Thanks for being part of it! You are in the CoolKylie chapter

La La La! You can pre-order my new book, all about Kylie, right NOW. It's out in September and will have a lovely iridescent cover. Obviously I will be banging on about it for a long time, but she's finally here! linktr.ee/cantgetyouou...

I really worry about the stuff people put themselves through

No.

‘JLS star Marvin Humes was unmasked as the Can of Worms on The Masked Singer’

YouTube video by Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue Come Into My World Live Fischerspooner Mix TOTP Awards 29 11 02

Kylie in 2002, rocking up to the Top of the Pops awards and performing a Fischerspooner remix of the fourth single from Fever and obliterating a teen audience with electroclash and confetti www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qzz...

A 10/10, chilly-winter-evening-playing-cards-and-losing-but-it’s-fine-actually album

The album features production from Oscar Holter (!), and a proper banger called Copycat about a man who stole his identity

Sébastien Tellier: ‘I thought I’d be famous after Eurovision - but nobody noticed’ The musician’s elegant electropop marked him out as one of the ‘cool French dudes’, before an attempt to literally crash the Song Contest fell badly flat. Now back with an adventurous new album, he ta...

Sèbastien Tellier smoked about 60 cigarettes during this chat, and was possibly the most brilliantly French person ever www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Thank you, that’s very kind

The 50 best albums of 2025: No 1 – Rosalía: Lux On her monumental, maximalist opus, the dazzlingly audacious Spanish singer balanced pop and classical, experimentation and accessibility

I’ve written about Lux, the Guardian’s album of 2025 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

What rhymes with la la la, la la la la la? Kevin Killian, the poet obsessed with Kylie Minogue He wrote poems named after Kylie songs and named his collection of erotic fiction after her indie album. He even loved the B-sides. So what did the avant garde writer find so inspiring about the mini ...

Kevin Killian was obsessed with Kylie, so the announcement of his new poetry collection just as I was finishing my Kylie book, felt like a sign. I interviewed some of his friends for this here piece: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

I don’t LOVE the singles but I trust the process

Here are some people whose albums I am looking forward to hearing in 2026: Robyn; Sky Ferreira; Sugababes; Beyoncé; Harry Styles; Grace Ives; the xx; Agnes; Raye; Chappell Roan; Sekou; Björk; underscores; Lana Del Rey; Danny L Harle; Madonna! (Obvs some of these are wishful thinking #soon 🤷🏻‍♂️)

Tried listening to a celebrity podcast but the constant "what I love about you" chat made me want to disconnect the internet forever

Still quite thrilling tbh

I interviewed Russell Tovey for the cover of today’s G2. Features a bit where we compare gay sex to the Harvester salad cart 🥗

Why was Robbie Williams fired from Take That? @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and @mcragg.bsky.social discuss why The Bad Boy of Pop, Robbie Williams was fired from Take That in 1995.
Full discussion here 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome
#RobbieWilliams #TakeThat #boybands #Glastonbury #90s

It’s a boyband classic and no mistake

Happy Robyn-finally-releasing-new-music day to all who celebrate

🚨ICYMI🚨 This week @mcragg.bsky.social & @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social are talking about all the boy bands that took over the world in the ’90s. From Take That to Westlife. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome
#boybands #takethat #westlife #robbiewilliams #garybarlow #90s

RUDE! But yes, true. Although it’s just a single for now so the shaking is tempered slightly

The book is currently 99p on Kindle, which feels sort of insulting, but hey ho. I would say it's def worth that!

Here I am talking about Five and Max Martin, while wearing a Steps jumper. If you want to read more about all this you can in my award-winning Reach For the Stars, which has been out for a while now but doesn't age, much like J from Five: amzn.eu/d/aHIvklx

Had a lovely time chatting about 90s boybands with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social. The results are up now (apols to Boyzone)

Still a thrill! Did I move it to this position? How rude (yes)

The studio setup for Simon Cowell’s new singing talent show, Who’s In the Band, is quite Naked Attraction, no?

Apols

I love the Lily Allen album, specifically Dallas Major, but I can’t get over the fact it sounds like a mistake has been missed at the 28 second mark. She starts to sing “hate” but then the “I hate it here” hook plays over the top. Can everyone else hear it?? (“No one else cares!!” - everyone)