Kylie Minogue

Quimogen

Quimogen

Say Hey has never been the same since the great Body Language war. People really did the most over R&B being the direction they were going without hearing a single track. It’s still top five Kylie for me.
 
Juango

Juango

Quimogen said:
Say Hey has never been the same since the great Body Language war. People really did the most over R&B being the direction they were going without hearing a single track. It’s still top five Kylie for me.
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There really was no synergy at all with BL. You've got the Bardot artwork and a minimalist electro lead single which is amazing and which made sense in the context of a campaign and as a follow up to Fever.

But then Red Blooded Woman comes along and you hear the rest of the album, and it's no wonder the album didn't connect with people like Parlophone thought it would. I was only a kid during the album campaign but when you look back at her amazing career it definitely wasn't as strong as it should be.

In hindsight Kylie should have left Parlophone at that time. Basically there was no good album campaign after Fever.
 
heartmightmelt

heartmightmelt

bonnieetclyde said:
Johnny Douglas on Body Language (from Steve Anderson’s podcast)


“With the Body Language album... the label’s brief was ‘hop-hop with glitter’ that was their brief to me... had to figure out what that kind of means. Whilst we’re making that record we’re also on SayHey Kylie forums looking at the outrage from the fans “Kylie’s making this urban kinda of record?!” It’s not that great if you’re making an album and there’s a load of guys with machine guns wanting to kill you like it was your idea. I was the guy that was there kind of going “Disco Down” now I’m kind of this guy almost being hung, drawn and quartered because I’ve got Ludacris rapping on her record.”
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It's funny how people think agressive stan culture began with Twitter and the 2008/9 American pop explosion/domination but anyone who hung around a message board at the turn of the century - it was all fully formed already. If Johnny Douglas read comments like that today he'd probably barely register then before scrolling past.
 
iveivan

iveivan

tylerc904 said:
*does quick search of what tracks Johnny Douglas worked on for Body Language*

Chocolate? Cruise Control?! RED BLOODED WOMAN?!!!? A king if you ask me.
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Johnny Douglas is a successful producer that has gone under the radar a bit. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Anyone know what he’s been doing recently?
 
Carlo

Carlo

I never knew Body Language was half finished when they released it, this makes me appreciate it even more. I always thought it was a stellar record and while yes, Slow is in a league of its own, it still works really well with the rest of the album. Also I don't think we would have necessarily ended up with an album full of Slows, had she had more time to work on the record – the stars align only so often for a track like that.
 
phoenix123

phoenix123

I had a major crush on that dancer grinding up on Kylie in that clip.

I think he danced for a lot of performances on TOTP in the early 90s, I remember him dancing with Annie Lennox and I think he was in the Alex Party video too.

I’m not sure if it was Jake Canuso or not?
 
WhereIsTheFeeling

WhereIsTheFeeling

I decided at having a go at remixing from scratch Things Can Only Get Better - influenced by Studio 2054 Real Groove remix with Dua….. here is a clip of the work in progress. Feel free to comment - whether you like or not!! It’s so hard to work on some of the SAW material as for some reason the bpm and speed of delivery changes the 2nd chorus on this and also Shocked which I had to abandon…. Anyway I may get this one finished depending how determined I feel!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8yl39cs5c3ygkd/IMG_0797.MOV?dl=0
 
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