Exclusive: Eurovision stars KEiiNO cover Kylie Minogue’s ‘On A Night Like This’
Watch an exclusive preview of the video for the Norweigan pop group's club-ready cover.
By Will Stroude
Words: Will Stroude; Image: Supplied
KEiiNO have recorded an exhilarating cover of Kylie Minogue’s ‘On A Night Like This’, and we’re officially in gay pop heaven.
The Sámi-Norwegian pop trio, who famously competed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv in 2019 with their uplifting equality anthem ‘Spirit in the Sky’, have reworked Kylie’s classic 2000 track as they prepare to embark on a tour of the Aussie pop princess’s home country.
‘On A Night Like This’ was originally released in September 2000 as the second single from Kylie Minogue’s seventh studio album, Light Years, and remains one of the Aussie star’s most recognisable hits more than two decades later.
As Attitude premieres an exclusive preview of KEiiNO’s ‘On A Night Like This’, band member Tom Hugo, who is gay, tells us why Kylie has remained such an enduring LGBTQ icon.
“First of all because she’s delivered high-quality pop music for such a long time”, exclaims Tom. “And she looks gorgeous. And I guess she can relate to being a bit of an outsider, rising to fame as an actress before her musical abilities were known to the public.
“I’ve seen her twice, first performing her country album at Berghain in 2018 and at Glastonbury in 2019. Being able to pull both things off proves she’s more versatile than a lot of other pop singers.”
KEiiNO won legions of LGBTQ fans themselves with their empowering performance at Eurovision in Tel Aviv. With 2021’s contest in Turin set to take place in May, would the group consider going for another shot at Eurovision glory in the future?
“We are not planning on it, as we had a blast in 2019 and know it will be hard to top that”, Tom tells Attitude. “And after 24 releases post-Eurovision, we don’t depend on being in the show to get our music heard.
“But then again, all three of us love Eurovision, so we might be involved again in one way or another. If we all of a sudden write a song that we’re certain could be a winner, you never know.”
KEiiNO’s cover of ‘On A Night Like This’ is set for a global release on Friday (25 February) and coincides with the release of the group’s new compilation album OKTA guokte [English: ‘One two’].
The record will feature all of the band’s original singles as well as their dance cover of Lady Gaga’s ‘Shallow’.
Listen to KEiiNO’s ‘On A Night Like This’ below: