Kylie Minogue recorded her viral hit 'Padam Padam' in a London hotel room and says that since COVID she now mostly works from home

• Kylie Minogue recorded her viral hit "Padam Padam" in a London hotel room. 
• Since the COVID-19 lockdown, Minogue said she mostly records music on the road or at home. 
• The star told Rolling Stone UK it's preferable to recording in studios because she's less nervous.

Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue revealed she recorded her viral hit "Padam Padam" in a London hotel room — and admitted she rarely goes into the studio to record music anymore. 

In a new interview with Rolling Stone UK ahead of the release of her album "Tension," Minogue said that after getting a demo of the song, she recorded it in a London hotel room, adding that she's been traveling around with a Telefunken microphone setup that lets her record whenever and wherever she wants. 

"Home recording and just being able to play any time is preferable to me," she told Rolling Stone UK. 

Minogue has rarely stepped into a studio to record music since 2020, when the COVID-19 lockdown forced her to finish her album "Disco" from home. Back in September 2020, the "Spinning Around" singer told Billboard: "Lockdown happened, and I had to figure out to do everything remotely," adding that she'd turned her London flat into a home studio and learned how to use Logic Pro to record and produce music. 

"I thought, 'If 11-year-olds can do this in their bedroom, I can figure this out,'" she said.

Minogue, 55, has plenty of experience making music in proper studios across her decades-spanning career, but she said she didn't always enjoy it. "I did so many years and years and years, especially in the early days, of just being really nervous," she told Rolling Stone UK. 

"I will drive myself crazy mimicking [the demos]," Minogue explained. "What's so helpful with self-recording is I can spend hours doing that to the point where I go, 'Shut it down now.'"