Kylie Minogue - Body Language - Bootyful pop from Kylie

"Still Standing" extends the squirming synthesiser and vocal treatments beyond any discernible retro-disco funk, deftly investing Prince's R&B skewered sexual romp with a contemporary techno twist. Similarly, the hypnotic "Secret" struts to a burbling synth and bass beat with the pint-sized pop princess actually taking time off for a retro-rap interlude. Okay, so at times the Saturday Night Fever strut of "Promises" does tread perilously close to Kool and the Gang or Imagination style synthesised soul pastiche.

But the pure roller-disco funk of "Sweet Music" immediately re-sexes up the synapses, with Kylie's panting R&B sigh floating over a killer bass hook that demands you get your groove on. Not even frothy pop dance floor filler like "Red Blooded Woman" can inhibit her from consummating her marriage of seriously sensual R&B, pop and electro-flavours.

"Chocolate" strokes the diminutive diva's signature sex kitten appeal into entirely new erotic reaches where ambient male raps and gentle brass echoes rub up against blissful between the sheets slow grooves ("Obsession", "Loving Days"). Not content to carbon copy the pop disco smash hit blueprint of Fever, Kylie shows she's only too happy to embrace R&B without selling her ecstatic pop soul to mere booty shaking bump or grind. It's difficult to imagine anyone other than maybe Madonna being able to pull off something as consistently seductive as this.