Who can call themselves the second / new Madonna? While all eyes were on Britney Spears and her contemporaries, it seems that veteran Kylie Minogue is the new 'queen of pop'. Especially with her CD Body Language (2003), on which Kylie, like Madonna, opted for modern electronics and an extremely hip and - for the charts - even difficult to access sound. The first single Slow was a major break in
… style with the extremely easy to sing-along songs of predecessor Fever, and throughout the album the eighties sounds are emphatically present, although nowhere does it get as extreme as in Slow. Actually, Body Language becomes a bit more accessible with every song from Promises (track four) and eventually an electronic pop / r & b album remains. Body Language is high-level hit parade pop with an innovative slant and Kylie deserves a bit of tribute for that. (IV)more
