Bebe Rexha presents Kylie Minogue with the Icon award at Billboard’s Women In Music 2024.
Hi everyone, how are you feeling? I mean, what a night. It just keeps getting better and better. And it’s gonna get even better because I get to give out an award to an icon.
I grew up listening to her and she’s just one of my I mean, my favorite dance musician. Her name is Kylie Minogue. This extraordinary singer-songwriter, actress, model has been making music for over three decades, okay. She’s had hits on multiple Billboard charts, starting with her very first Hot 100 Top 10 in 1988. Okay, “The Local Motion.” Over the years, she’s charted seven songs on the Hot 100 and 11 albums on the Billboard 200. And it’s no wonder why we can’t get her out of our heads, ladies and gentlemen.
She’s honestly been an extraordinary isn’t extraordinary or extraordinary. It’s extraordinary, right? Whatever. She has been an amazing model for so many of us and she’s encouraging us to do what we love and to keep following our hearts, and she continues to innovate and break boundaries. Most recently actually beating me in this category but first ever Grammy give it out for best dance pop recording for “Padam Padam” and she said that “Padam Padam” is the sound of a heartbeat. And I just want to say one thing okay. Um, being a woman in the music business looking up to her and being in this category right for pop dance. I always feel like in the music business we’re always being judged by numbers, right? Our age, especially, as females our weight, and she beat all of us in a category and she’s 55 and she looks fucking amazing, okay. So I’m telling you right now numbers ages anything it doesn’t define you because she’s fucking winning Grammys and fucking beating all of us out here in dance music, okay?
So it is an honor to present this year’s Billboard Woman in Music Icon to someone who has captured our hearts year after year with her style and spirit and, of course, her sensational sound.
I mean, come on — she is queen. Make some noise for Kylie Minogue.
You got this girl. You got it? I mean, come on. Like are you serious?
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