Body Language (Kylie Minogue album)

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Body Language
Studio album by Kylie Minogue
Released 20 November 2003
Recorded 2003
Genre Pop, R&B, funk, synthpop
Length 47:44
Label Parlophone
Producer Baby Ash, Chris Braide, Cathy Dennis, Johnny Douglas, Electric J, Julian Gallagher, Kurtis Mantronik, Karen Poole, Rez, Richard Stannard, Sunnyroads
Kylie Minogue chronology
Fever
(2001)		 Body Language
(2003)		 X
(2007)
Singles from Body Language
  1. "Slow"
    Released: November 3, 2003
  2. "Red Blooded Woman"
    Released: March 2004
  3. "Chocolate"
    Released: June 28, 2004

Body Language is the ninth studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, released on 20 November 2003 by Parlophone. While Body Language failed to reach the chart and sales success of its predecessor, 2001's Fever, it still managed to chart inside the top five in several countries. It was certified double platinum in Australia, platinum in the United Kingdom and gold in Austria. In addition, the album has sold 177,000 units in the United States as of March 2011.

Contents

[edit] Album information

Minogue performing at the Hammersmith Apollo on Money Can't Buy.

Body Language is Minogue's ninth studio album, and her third for the Parlophone label. Its title is a reference to a line in the album's lead single, "Slow". The album was recorded throughout the summer of 2003 in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain. It also saw Minogue working with previous collaborators Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, Cathy Dennis, Johnny Douglas and Karen Poole, as well as Emiliana Torrini and Dan Carey, known collectively as Sunnyroads.

The album was supported by a spectacular one-off album launch show entitled Money Can't Buy on 15 November 2003 at London's Hammersmith Apollo. At the show Minogue performed seven new songs, alongside some of her older hits. In July 2004 the concert was released on DVD, which included an unedited version of the concert as well as multi-angle screen visuals for the performances of "Slow" and "Chocolate", a behind-the-scenes documentary and the videos for each of the singles.

Australian and Japanese versions of the album included the bonus song "Slo Motion". Japan also received a second bonus track, "You Make Me Feel". When released in 2004, the North American version of the album included an enhanced data track with the "Slow" music video and the "Can't Get You Out of My Head" live performance from the Money Can't Buy concert as well as two bonus tracks, "Cruise Control" and "You Make Me Feel". In the US, some versions of the album came packaged with six postcards. The album peaked at number forty-two on the Billboard 200 chart and to date has sold 177,000 copies.[1]

[edit] Singles
Singles from Body Language
"Secret (Take You Home)"
"Slow"
"Red Blooded Woman"
"Chocolate"
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  • "Slow" was released in November 2003. It debuted at number one on both the UK and Australian charts and reached number one in Denmark and Romania. It also went top ten in a number of other countries including Canada, Italy, the Netherlands and New Zealand in late 2003 and early 2004. In the United States, it reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and the top forty on the Hot Dance Airplay. The track was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Dance Recording category in 2005. The single achieved platinum status in Australia.
  • "Secret (Take You Home)" had a limited CD single release only in Taiwan in early 2004. The live performance of the song from the Body Language Live DVD was used as a promotional video.
  • "Red Blooded Woman" was released in February 2004. It debuted at number four in Australia and at number five in the UK. The song also made the top ten in Denmark, Hungary, Ireland and Italy. In the US, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart, and was a modest radio airplay hit. It was certified gold in New Zealand where it peaked at number eighteen.
  • "Chocolate" was released June and July 2004 in Australia. It became Minogue's twenty-seventh top ten single in the UK when it debuted at number six and spent a total of seven weeks in the top seventy-five. The song reached number fourteen in Australia.

[edit] Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (62/100)[2]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[3]
The A.V. Club (mixed)[4]
Entertainment Weekly B+[5]
The Guardian 3/5 stars[6]
New York (positive)[7]
NME (7/10)[8]
PopMatters (mixed)[9]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[10]
Spin (positive)[11]
Yahoo! Music 5/10 stars[12]

Body Language received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on 17 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[2] Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield gave the album three out of five stars, calling it "fantastic" and noting Minogue's "seductive voice in Prince-style electro-glitz disco gems such as 'Slow' and 'Secret (Take You Home).'"[10] Chris True, writing for Allmusic, described the album as Minogue's "big step forward" as well as "a near perfect pop record", while adding that it "may well be the best album of her career."[3]

Other reviews were less flattering. In a review for PopMatters, Adrien Begrand praised songs like "Slow" and "Sweet Music" but dismissed the rest as "forgettable" and "little more than mere filler". Begrand also dubbed Body Language a "bit of a misstep" from her previous album Fever.[9] Sharon O'Connell from Yahoo! Music rated the album five out of ten stars, calling it "[a]n ill-judged move" due to its praise of '80s disco music and its references to '80s "cheese music" made by Duran Duran, Dead or Alive and one-hit wonders Nu Shooz.[12]

Q listed Body Language as the fiftieth best album of 2003.[13]

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Slow"   Kylie Minogue, Dan Carey, Emilíana Torrini Sunnyroads 3:15
2. "Still Standing"   Ash Thomas, Alexis Strum Baby Ash 3:40
3. "Secret (Take You Home)"   Curtis T. Bedeau, Gerard Charles, Hugh Clarke, Reza Safinia, Lisa Greene, Paul George, Brian P. George, Lucien J. George, Niomi McLean-Daley Rez 3:16
4. "Promises"   Kurtis el Khaleel, David Billing Kurtis Mantronik 3:17
5. "Sweet Music"   Minogue, Karen Poole, Thomas Baby Ash 4:11
6. "Red Blooded Woman"   Johnny Douglas, Poole Douglas 4:21
7. "Chocolate"   Douglas, Poole Douglas 5:00
8. "Obsession"   Khaleel, Billing, M. Grey Mantronik 3:31
9. "I Feel for You"   Liz Winstanley, J. Piccioni, S. Anselmetti Electric J 4:19
10. "Someday"   Minogue, Torrini, Thomas Baby Ash 4:18
11. "Loving Days"   Minogue, Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, Dave Morgan Stannard, Gallagher 4:26
12. "After Dark"   Cathy Dennis, Chris Braide Dennis, Braide 4:10
B-sides

Available on the "Slow" single

  • "Soul on Fire" – 3:32
  • "Sweet Music" – 4:08

Available on the "Red Blooded Woman" single

  • "Almost a Lover" – 3:40
  • "Cruise Control" – 4:53

Available on the "Chocolate" single

  • "City Games" – 3:42
  • "Love at First Sight" (Live at Money Can't Buy) – 4:57

[edit] Personnel

The following people contributed to Body Language:[14]

  • Kylie Minogue – lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Niall Alcott – orchestra engineer (track 11)
  • Baby Ash – producer (tracks 2, 5, 10); mixing (tracks 2, 5, 9, 10); vocal producer (track 9); chorus "pops", backing vocals (track 2)
  • William Baker – visual direction, styling
  • David Billing – backing vocals (track 4)
  • Chris Braide – all instruments, backing vocals (track 12)
  • Dave Clews – Pro Tools (tracks 3, 6, 7); programming, vocal engineer (track 6, 7); keyboards (track 6)
  • Cathy Dennis – producer, all instruments, backing vocals (track 12)
  • Johnny Douglas – vocal producer, additional producer (tracks 3, 4, 8); all instruments, backing vocals, producer, mixing (tracks 6, 7)
  • Electric J – producer (track 9)
  • Steve Fitzmaurice – mixing (tracks 3, 4, 8)
  • Dylan Gallagher – pre-production (track 12)
  • Julian Gallagher – producer, keyboards, programming (track 11)
  • Green Gartside – additional vocals (track 10)
  • Miriam Grey – backing vocals (track 4)
  • A. Guevara – MC (track 7)
  • Simon Hale – string arrangements, conducting (track 11)
  • Tony Hung – sleeve direction, design
  • Damon Iddins – mixing assistant (tracks 3, 4, 8)
  • Lion – chorus "pops" (track 2)
  • London Session Orchestra – orchestra (track 11)
  • Kurtis Mantronik – producer (tracks 4, 8)
  • Tony Maserati – mixing (track 12)
  • Dave McCracken – programming (track 12)
  • Mert and Marcus – photography
  • Dave Morgan – guitar, keyboards (track 11)
  • Mr. Dan – mixing (track 1)
  • Geoff "Peshy" Pesh – mastering
  • Karen Poole – backing vocals (tracks 6, 7)
  • Rez – producer (track 3)
  • Geoff Rice – assistant engineer (track 12)
  • Richard "Biff" Stannard – producer, backing vocals, keyboards (track 11)
  • Alexis Strum – backing vocals (track 2)
  • Sunnyroads – producers (track 1)
  • Danton Supple – engineer (track 12)
  • Alvin Sweeney – engineer, mixing, programming (track 11)
  • Gavyn Wright – orchestra leader (track 11)

[edit] Charts

[edit] Weekly charts

Chart (2003–04) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[15] 2
Austrian Albums Chart[16] 23
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[17] 10
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[18] 33
Danish Albums Chart[19] 22
Dutch Albums Chart[20] 19
European Top 100 Albums[21] 9
Finnish Albums Chart[22] 32
French Albums Chart[23] 31
German Albums Chart[24] 11
Irish Albums Chart[25] 19
Japanese Albums Chart[26] 43
New Zealand Albums Chart[27] 23
Norwegian Albums Chart[28] 21
Polish Albums Chart[29] 49
Portuguese Albums Chart[30] 14
Swedish Albums Chart[31] 20
Swiss Albums Chart[32] 8
UK Albums Chart[33] 6
US Billboard 200[34] 42

[edit] Certifications

Country Certification
Australia 2× Platinum[35]
Austria Gold[36]
United Kingdom Platinum[37]

[edit] Year-end charts

Chart (2003) Position
Australian Albums Chart[38] 54
Chart (2004) Position
Australian Albums Chart[39] 85

[edit] References

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