Relisten #5: Body Language & X (28/10/20 at 7:30pm)

The versions of all these album tracks on the KYLIEX2008 tour were so well staged - Like A Drug sitting atop a giant glittering SKULL while dressed as M. Bison? Yes please Kylie.
 
Oh my word, Like A Drug hasn’t even finished and I am EXCITED FOR THE 1-2 PUNCH that follow!
 
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Like A Drug, fucking hell what an infectious sinister synthy STUNNER. This wasn't a single, right? How in holy fuck?!

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"Like a Drug" really sounds like it could have been on Blackout, which is probably why I love it. :disco::horny:

The post-chorus: "I never had a rideee as delicate and fine...." is the slut pop sensibility we needed. A prime moment.
 
it's all the more upsetting because the first TASTE of new music we'd heard was the EXCEPTIONAL live uptempo of White Diamond, which absolutely should have been the lead single from X and would've been #1 for weeks. in another world she came back with that, Like A Drug and In My Arms as the HOLY TRINITY of singles and tore everybody's fucking wigs clean off and then TOSSED them into the ether. ugh, it's all so right in my head.

anyway, Like A Drug is utterly magical, addictive, a total thrill. that filthy bassline! Kylie really said "I'll give them ELECTRO-BOP BIMBO if that's what they WANT" with a good chunk of this record. and yes, the X2008 tour PERF atop the GLITTERING DISCO SKULL was, of course, LIFE ITSELF.

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She is singing In My Arms with her ARMS OUTSTRETCHED people.

Basically OUR BANNER.
 
"In My Arms" WAS the lead single before it leaked, right? I'm not sure that should've stopped her from releasing it first. It's such a blatant crossover smash without the cheese of "Wow".
 
see, amazing as Body Language is, X takes me back to the Fever thrills of MAJOR BANGER after MAJOR BANGER. Queen did that.

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what is there to say about In My Arms? I won't name and shame but SOME QUEENS (@Ag) claimed it was an odd choice for inclusion in the 00s pop songs face-off. AND YET HERE WE ARE ALL SPUNKING 10s. the fact that this limped in at 10 in the UK is deeply upsetting - I blame the video with its whole budget spunked on that dress Roisin Murphy also wore.
 
This has to be one of the most mismanaged albums of ALL TIME. Look at what we're getting here, everything is so polished and tight, short sharp pop bangers, it's Kylie at the top of her game. Who the fuck invited whatever opened this album into the party?

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