Kylie Minogue has blamed Sia for turning her new album 'sex' orientated.

The singer is due to release 'Kiss Me Once' on March 17 and it features a number of steamy song titles, including 'Sexercise'.

Speaking to Spotify, the Australian shifted the blame onto songwriter Sia when the topic of the titles was mentioned.

She said: "Sia is executive producer with me, which is amazing and a little dream come true, and there was a certain point on the album where we had countless songs, and she said, 'we need some sex on there...we need a hot song'.

"Next thing I know there's 'Sexy Love', 'Sexercise' and 'Les Sex'! And even looking at the album titles, trying to figure out what makes it on the album, I thought 'I can't really do that', and then I thought 'yeah, I really have to do that because they're all really great songs'. And I couldn't call them anything else, because that's what they are."

Minogue meanwhile performed a surprise show at London's tiny Old Blue Last venue on Thursday night (February 13) - read about it here.