Exactly, things with Parlophone seemed to go slowly downhill after 2003.
Kylie Minogue
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Verses sound great. Listening to the chorus it's understandable as to why they thought it could work with a country makeover.
80s inspired album, would be great and suit her to a tee.
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I'm watching Infinite Disco for the first time, and holy SHIT this version of All the Lovers with the gospel choir... inject it directly into my veins.
Update: I finished it, watched the making-of, and now I'm watching it again. What a woman. What a show.
Update: I finished it, watched the making-of, and now I'm watching it again. What a woman. What a show.
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I'm not usually into the demos, but I love this. I actually prefer the final album version, but this is a nice direction as well. Speaking of the the album track -- with its irresistible, locomotive chorus -- they should have made it a single instead of Golden or A Lifetime to Repair. Yes, she was playing country-pop dress-up on a lot of the album, but One Last Kiss was one of those Golden Tracks -- like Stop me from Falling -- in which she sounded completely at home in this sound.
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To quote the great sage Wendy Williams: "Yup. Yup, yup... yup. Yup!"
I just wish One Last Kiss didn't end up "countryfied". Obviously, I get with the direction of Golden as an album the final version we got made more sense. But, it still remains my least favourite song only beaten by the dire Low Blow. The demo on the otherhand, makes me wanna hear it again and again. Love the emoto/electro sound, just classic Kylie to a tee.
More like exactly in 2003, the moment they made her release a half-finished album.
I love Body Language, so will forever stick up for it!
It was not meant as a judgement of its quality (although personally I do think it sounds half-finished) but as a fact.
As the story goes (can't provide a proper source), Parlophone needed a christmas-release in 2003 and since Coldplay (Edit: It was probably Robbie Williams) weren't ready, they made Kylie release Body Language even though she herself didn't feel it was ready as they had just recently found their groove with the recording of Slow.
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Yes, one thing I will say about Body Language, the only song from it that says lead single, is Slow. I wonder how things would have turned out if this song never existed??
How interesting. I never knew all of that, but it makes a good deal of sense listening back to the album. Slow is in a world all its own. Can you imagine if we'd gotten a whole album with the ambition of Slow?
[insert we'd all be driving flying cars now meme]
I also heard a rumour once that Chocolate was going to be the lead before Slow came along, Can't imagine that working at all.
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I feel like "Red Blooded Woman" could've worked as a lead single from Body Language. Or maybe "Secret (Take You Home)." As much as I enjoy Body Language, it did lack any obvious singles outside of "Slow" and "Red Blooded Woman."
I can't imagine "Chocolate" working as a lead single either. Considering the backlash that "Slow" received, I can't even imagine the backlash that "Chocolate" would've received as a lead single. If true, I wonder when the single mix of "Chocolate" was commissioned—at the start of the era when it was initially pegged as a potential lead single or when it was announced as Single No. 3.
I wonder which act caused the hole in Parlophone's schedule - the dates don't make sense for Coldplay, who had only just finished touring their last album and didn't start on the next one until early 2004.
Chocolate would never have worked as a lead single; even speaking as a longtime defender of Body Language, Slow was the only choice that made sense.
Chocolate would never have worked as a lead single; even speaking as a longtime defender of Body Language, Slow was the only choice that made sense.
Some copies of Now 58 included an album edit of Chocolate so maybe the single version wasn't ready by that time.
I don't mind Chocolate, but still think it worked much better as an album track, as opposed to a single lead or otherwise.
Wasn't it Robbie Williams whose album wasn't ready in time, and therefore they had to rush-release Body Language?
Either way, I think it's interesting that despite apparently not being 100 % finished when it was released, I still find Body Language better than 90 % of her discography. I guess sometimes music is better when it's not over-polished, and for me this is one of those cases. Obviously it's not always that way... Looking at you, X demos.
Either way, I think it's interesting that despite apparently not being 100 % finished when it was released, I still find Body Language better than 90 % of her discography. I guess sometimes music is better when it's not over-polished, and for me this is one of those cases. Obviously it's not always that way... Looking at you, X demos.
Looking at the UK (top 40) chart run for Body Language, it's quite shocking actually for her first album following Fever:
6, 15, 27, 36, 39
then a brief sole 1 week return inside the top 40 at 28 in late March 2004.
In the long run though, it did sale roughly the same amount as Light Years and X, plus more than Aphrodite her other Platinum Parlophone studio album.
6, 15, 27, 36, 39
then a brief sole 1 week return inside the top 40 at 28 in late March 2004.
In the long run though, it did sale roughly the same amount as Light Years and X, plus more than Aphrodite her other Platinum Parlophone studio album.