Knew you'd be here tonight, so I put my best dress on

Continuing my trip back through the 2003 album charts.

23/11/03 : Body Language - Kylie Minogue

Our SIXTH(!) visit with Ms Minogue - I don't recall this being one of Kylie's moments of peak popularity, so I'm expecting something bearable but lightweight.

Yeah, it's all very bearable, but pretty forgettable electro-disco nonsense. In fact, coming back to finish this up one day later, let me upgrade that to completely forgettable - I'm drawing a complete blank on it all. Which pretty much tells you all you need to know, I guess.

We're at #6 with a new entry in the charts this week on the start of a 21 week run, with this being as high as it got - it also came back in '05 for a five week run. The top five this week were Michael Jackson (a new entry), Busted (another new entry), Dido, a Red Hot Chili Peppers best-of (another one) and an R.E.M. best-of with the next highest new entry being The Beatles (#7) - it seems like everyone was releasing their albums for Xmas.

Wikipedia has way more than I was expecting for such a forgettable album (301 milliPeppers) and an awful lot of it is complete tosh. Apparently the album was inspired by the 80s and "touches upon themes like enjoyment, flirting, sex and "partying like it's 1987 all over again"" (because 1987 was THE party year). There are a lot of songwriters involved - 24 across twelve tracks, with some interesting names in there including Green Gartside (lead singer of Scritti Politti), Cathy Dennis, Ms Dynamite and Emiliana Torrini (who suspected they actually wanted Jamelia but called the wrong person). The critics were much nicer about it than me because apparently it's a "near perfect pop record" and it did well commercially getting to #2 in Australia and even #42 in the US, trading on the success of the previous album Fever, which contained "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". It also charted in '24 at #34 because it was released on vinyl - which seems like there are a lot of people out there that hold a lot of affection for this.

"Customers also listened to" "no similar recommendations", which is a bit of a surprise - at the very least, it feels pretty similar to most other Kylie albums. They're all a bit hit and miss, but this feels more of a miss than most - none of it was terrible but it just didn't have anything making it worth all the effort.

16/11/03 - A perfectly fine album
30/11/03 - A missed opportunity

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