The simple, ordinary joy of Kylie Minogue

Is the struggle to understand Kylie finally over?Has the three-part Netflix documentary, Kylie, answered the question that has nagged at bewildered commentators, critics, music writers, cool magazine editors and the rest of the legacy media for so long?Like amateur alchemists trying to separate gold into its constituent parts, those critics and the media have wrung their hands to the bone trying to figure out the unparalleled success of someone to whom the rest of us have been simply, joyously dancing for decades.How, they anguish, can someone be such a cultural phenomenon, so successful, so broadly adored when they are so… ordinary?The ordinariness of Kylie Minogue is both her mystery and her superpower That unaffected candour, again, so surprising in contrast to more carefully constructed artists.And wrapped around and through Kylie's life story is that affecting and deeply connecting cheerfulness and resilience that seems to confound her critics most of all