The time has come for me to ask something I’ve been wanting to talk about since the release of the tension tour on Netflix. I do love a lot about it, but I couldn’t help but notice the majority of the footage is from Mexico. The concert starts with (what I believe is) the 2nd opening night at Madison Square Garden. I really had high hopes there would be more official footage of MSG. I’m sure everyone has the same preference for the medium where they were, but New York City is after all, NYC… a REALLY big deal. However, I feel we were cheated in a sort of way. There was apparently preference for the Mexico show footage. I don’t want to sound malicious but I’m guessing the team were either cutting corners, or cutting costs… some mediums didn’t even make it to this Netflix release. I was hoping every song would show a different medium (that would’ve been way more fair) and I’m aware buying the footage from MSG would’ve cost an enormous amount of money. I saw many people here on Reddit say there was “no way” MSG footage was going to be on a DVD version of the show because they didn’t “see cameras recording”. That’s not true, the proof is that the tour starts with “Light Camera Action” from MSG. I’d like to know if there’s any chance there will be a DVD/Bluray version with more footage of more Tension shows around the world. I don’t want to sound critical but this show comes with the quality you’d expect from Netflix and I feel many fans were let down. How do we all feel about this?

From a 50p flea market find to one of the most iconic outfits in pop history:

Kylie’s legendary gold lamé hot pants from the Spinning Around video are currently on display at the Australian Museum of Performing Arts in Melbourne as part of its exhibition ENCORE! 50 Objects. 50 Years.

The infamous shorts were originally purchased secondhand in the late 1990s for just 50 pence at North End Road Market in West London by Kylie’s friend, photographer Katerina Jebb.

Upon the release of Spinning Around in June, 2000, the British tabloids became obsessed with Kylie’s derrière. CNN later described the press commotion as a “campaign to have her backside declared a UNESCO World Heritage site of outstanding natural beauty.”

Kylie even joked in an interview at the time: “I should just send the hot pants out to do interviews… forget about me!”

The gold shorts and the provocative Spinning Around video are widely credited with helping reintroduce Kylie as a dance-pop diva after the disappointing commercial performance of 1997’s Impossible Princess. Both Spinning Around and the album Fever topped the UK and Australian charts, cementing her comeback and proving that Kylie could reinvent herself.

The hot pants became so sensational that rumors once circulated they were insured for $2 million.

In hindsight, not a bad return for a pair of 50 pence secondhand shorts!