Body Language

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It would have been easy for Kylie Minogue to take the easy route when it came to <i>Body Language</i>, her follow-up to 2001’s earth-conquering, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”-housed <i>Fever</i>—stack the album with similarly accessible dance-pop floor-fillers and watch the disco balls light up all over again. But Minogue has never been risk-averse—this i, after all, a superstar who has made reinvention her calling card—and <i>Body Language</i> found her trading in the atomic chart hits of the <i>Fever</i> years for an album drenched in sensuality and atmosphere. Minogue has said that <i>Body Language</i> was inspired by the ’80, but you won’t find the primary-colored pop of the Stock Aitken Waterman days on her ninth studio record. Rather, “Still Standing” invokes <i>Parade</i>-era Prince with its pogoing bassline and frothy topline—albeit welded together with the metallic crunch of electronics—and there are echoes of Gloria Estefan on the seductive computerized funk of “Sweet Music.” “Secret (Take You Home)” features a sample from Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam’s “I Wonder if I Take You Home”; “Red Blooded Woman” takes the drama of a Police song and elevates it with six-inch heels and a clacking beat; and tucked away on psychedelic slow jam “Someday” is a guest vocal from Scritti Politti frontman Green Gartside. .

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