Track Listing

1. Slow
2. Still Standing
3. Secret (Take You Home)
4. Promises
5. Sweet Music
6. Red Blooded Woman
7. Chocolate
8. Obsession
9. I Feel For You
10. Someday
11. Loving Days
12. After Dark

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64254 in Music
• Released on: 2003-11-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
Before recording Body Language, Kylie Minogue must have wondered how to follow Fever. That was an album that not only prompted six million people to grab a copy but sparked a national obsession with the diminutive pop diva's posterior. Well, breaking Madonna's record as the female solo artist with the greatest UK chart-topping longevity isn't a bad start. Fifteen years after Kylie first reached the pinnacle of the UK chart with "I Should Be So Lucky", "Slow" took the mini minx to the top for the seventh time. Oozing with the same entrancing blend of seductive electronica, spiralling rhythms and breathy vocals that sent hormones raging with "Can't Get You Out of My Head", "Slow" was cowritten by Minogue and is easily the finest moment on Body Language.

Despite the army of writers, Body Language is a surprisingly cohesive serving of R&B-lite, laced with a sprinkling of Prince-style 1980s disco-fuelled funk, such as "Still Standing", which finds Kylie pronouncing "You know you want it!" amid a bed of grinding bass and squelching synths. There are moments such as "Red Blooded Woman" when the generic-pop production machine all but eradicates any sense of Kylie, but on the whole the formulaic funk and predictable pop styling is outweighed by the soap survivor's inimitable presence. As a result, Body Language is sure to work its magic. --Christopher Barrett

CD Description
After the success of 2001's disco influenced album 'Fever',Kylie Minogue returns with her ninth studio album 'Body Language'. Joined by producers Kurtis Mantronix, Baby Ash, and Karen Poole to name but a few, the album sees Kylie take a more experimental approach mixing electro, hip hop, and minimalistic soundscapes to her sultry vocals. The single 'Slow' is also included.

Customer Reviews

An outstanding album!
Body Language' represents a return to a more adventurous direction for Kylie without losing that commercial sensibility cemented by her previous record 'Fever.'

Influences here include Urban beats, especially evident in the fantastic 'Secret (Take You Home') and 'Red Blooded Woman,' Electronic Hip POP represented by the truly kooky 'Sweet Music' and Prince-esque funk on 'I Feel For You.'

Kylie even slows the pace with a slice of RnB Electro on 'Chocolate,' the anthemic orchestral 'Loving days' (a MUST for a single)! and the sublime 'Someday' (featuring Green Gartside).

Body Language is an absoulote must have record which is on an entirely different level to her last album.

Reading The 'Body Language'
4 stars or 3? Somewhere in between, so I'll go for the higher one. Not feeling the first release 'Slow' I bought the album, basically because it had 'Kylie' on the front, after the breathtaking 'Fever' album.

'Body Language' offers a change in style, with electro-pop sounds that resonate some of sister Dannii's work. R&B sounds whilsts keeping a pop edge, topped with light, sexy, and occasionally 'weak' vocals.

Songs that work include 'Promises', 'Red Blooded Woman', 'Chocolate', 'Obsession', and 'After Dark'. I think this album has had several 'official' poor reviews is down to the fact that 'Fever' worked! Kylie obtainded an X-factor in the sound that was produced, and it really worked.

Personally, though this album has 5 excellent high-lights, I can't help wondering, or take my self away from the fact that if those lyrics were put in context with a 'Fever' style album, with wopping beats, and impressive vocals, then this album would have been far better.
This album falls short of expectations because of this, though if the change in your pocket is enough then buy it. I think moving away from the 80's stlye reborn style of 'Fever' and Kylie's image herself was wrong.

This is a grower!
I have to admit that on first listening I was disappointed with 'Body Language'. I loved the Fever album and have fond memories playing it over and over in the summer of 2001, working away on my computer or prancing around the room getting ready for a night out. 'Light Years' was alright, definitely better than her previous stuff but 'Fever' was simply fab. I was eagerly anticipating 'Body Langauge' but an extension of 'Fever' this wasn't. Instead it conjured up images of cocktail lounges -it sounded like the type of easy listening music that you have in the background of upmarket bistros. But I hadn't given it a fair hearing. Over the past weeks it's grown on me enormously, to the extent that I'm constantly humming 'Red Blooded Woman' and 'Chocolate'. Every track effortlessly flows into the next. I haven't heard such a cohesive album since Madonna's 'Ray of Light'. Though she didn't have a hand in writing any of the tracks bar 'Slow', this album really gets at the essence of Kylie. She's revealed herself and this intimacy with thoughts and feelings really strike a connection with the listener. 'Promises', 'Loving Days', 'Secret' are also brill and contrary to some critics' opinions, 'Still Standing' is great. Yes there is a Prince influence but that's not a bad thing, especially since Kylie herself was a fan in her early days. I've reviewed my original opinion of 'Fever', as an album 'Body Language' is infinitively better - no fillers here. There may not be the equivalent of the stumping anthem of 'Can't get you out of my head' but when Kylie is this interesting, you know you're onto a good thing.