Did red blooded woman give body language much of a boost can anyone remember?

 

It put it back into the top 30 briefly.

I recall it being solidly #5 all week.

I had wrongly recalled a 3, 4 5 chart trajectory.

Red blooded woman is my fave cover from the whole of body language, i will give it that.

Did red blooded woman give body language much of a boost can anyone remember?

 

It put it back into the top 30 briefly.

 

Yeah, I remember it having a small impact but nothing spectacular. Going off the data here on Buzzjack, 'Body Language's run around the time of Red Blooded Woman was as follows:

 

82-76-76-73-41-28-41-47-68-100-120-160

 

The numbers in red bold are when Body Language and Red Blooded Woman were in the charts at the same time!

Edited August 14, 20204 yr by cf80

It done its job getting body language back into the top 30.

Did Chocolate bring any chart impact to Body Language?

Did Chocolate bring any chart impact to Body Language?

 

Not really, returned it to the low top 100 for a couple of weeks.

Didnt help too much then, while I love it, chocolate wasnt a hugely well received single overall.

Chocolate was a marmite choice of single.

I'm sure that the minimal sales impact on 'Body Language' following the release of 'Red Blooded Woman' and 'Chocolate', along with the sliding sales for these singles (125,000 --> 62,000), played a big role in Parlophone abandoning the project and shifting their focus to a greatest hits campaign.

 

It sold decent for a Kylie album, but nobody can convince me otherwise that Parlophone didn't expect the album to be more successful. Surely they were confident that they could shift somewhere in the region of 500,000 - 1,000,000 copies following the success of 'Fever'! Why else would they invest in a launch concert that cost £1,000,000?

 

It really is the project that could have been. I think Kylie mentioned on the interview disc that they recorded the album in 6 months. They should have gone with their original plan of holding off until 2004. They had a brilliant blue print in 'Slow', which came late in the recording process, as was the norm for a lot of Kylie lead singles at the time. They should have taken stock of what they had recorded up to that point, and spent another couple of months working on the songs!

The album was widely expected to sell much stronger.

The direction was wrong and luckily the move to Ultimate Kylie showed her popularity was still intact.

An I Believe In You sound was required on the follow up to Fever.

Body Language was an abismal follow up to Fever.

It is not an album that is easy to listen to in full.

Body language just didnt really work as the Fever follow up, i was so disappointed with the album especially as both light years and fever were just brilliant, i was so happy with those albums and with both albums there was that feeling kylie had really found her groove again and she was churning out the hits. Body language bar a few songs all sounds the same in a boring way. Kylie prob didn't want to be making the same album twice but i think in this case i would have preferred if she did.

I really admire her for taking that risk, actually. It'd have been so easy to just spit out a copy of Fever and it at least shows she was brave and not being predictable.

I really admire her for taking that risk, actually. It'd have been so easy to just spit out a copy of Fever and it at least shows she was brave and not being predictable.

The album was widely expected to sell much stronger.

The direction was wrong and luckily the move to Ultimate Kylie showed her popularity was still intact.

An I Believe In You sound was required on the follow up to Fever.

Body Language was an abismal follow up to Fever.

It is not an album that is easy to listen to in full.

 

Definitely! Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves.

 

I don't think it was the wrong direction per se, just an under-cooked album. If they had given it more time, then I think they could have put together something really strong. Songs like 'Slow', 'Still Standing', 'Sweet Music', 'Loving Days', 'I'm Just Here For The Music' and 'Slo Motion' are all good tracks. Some need a bit more work but the DNA of a good song is in all of them.

 

One thing that has always baffled me is the fact that they included 'Sweet Music' as a B-Side on the 'Slow' CD Single!! It was one of the best songs on Body Language and could easily have been a single, albeit with a bit more work).

 

I really admire her for taking that risk, actually. It'd have been so easy to just spit out a copy of Fever and it at least shows she was brave and not being predictable.

 

I agree...putting out Fever 2.0 would have been too predictable/easy. It' s just a shame the material wasn't strong enough!

 

Anyhoo, back to the original topic...'Red Blooded Woman' was a lazy, obvious choice! It smacked of panic and pandering to the US, which ultimately didn't work. Great video though :yahoo: :yahoo:

Edited August 18, 20204 yr by cf80