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Kylie Minogue - Body Language (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

  • Writer: PopEntertainment
    PopEntertainment
  • Feb 8, 2004
  • 2 min read

Kylie Minogue - Body Language
Kylie Minogue - Body Language

Kylie Minogue - Body Language (Capitol)


You don't get to be a diva for going on twenty years without a little chameleon in you. After a few missteps in the 90s, Kylie Minogue has shown an amazing ability to adapt to the changing styles and subjects of the musical world; reinventing herself again and again so that as a woman in her mid-thirties she is every bit as with it as she was when she originally came to notice as a cute eighteen-year-old actress-singer. 


With Body Language, the follow up to her smash US comeback CD Fever, Minogue and her compatriots pull off the impressive feat of making a modern techno album that feels strangely timeless. In fact, Body Language seems to be the album that Madonna was trying unsuccessfully to make with American Life... a musical statement that was at once completely up-to-date and yet would not scare off longtime fans. 



Sometimes, in songs like the impossibly sultry bedroom jam "Chocolate" and the torrid single "Slow," the songs are undeniably sterile dance tracks and yet Minogue's cooing voice and innate song crafting ability heat up what could be a cool dish. Retro-vibed dance tracks like "Obsession" and "I Feel For You" seem wonderfully timeless, these songs could have been hits in the 80s, 90s or today. "Still Standing" uses a clever quote from Lisa-Lisa and Cult Jam's "I Wonder If I Take You Home" to ground the song in a funky place.


Very few veteran artists can do a techno-colored album any justice. Heavy hitters like U2, Madonna, David Bowie and many others have failed miserably. Who'd have thought the tiny Australian thrush who just three years ago was best known in the US for a chirpy Hi-NRG 1988 remake of "The Loco-Motion" would be one of the few who could do it right? (2/04)


Jay S. Jacobs


Copyright © 2004 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: February 8, 2004.



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