I finally got to hear the latest albums by surrogate Britons, Kylie and Madonna today, so half a year after everyone else, let’s compare and contrast and find out who, if either, has kept up their pop icon standards in their new ‘cool’ styles.
Kylie Minogue – Body Language
Style: nonchalant dancey pop, some r’n’b influences
Best single: Reb Blooded Woman
Best unreleased tracks: Chocolate, Secret (Take You Home)
Worst track: I Feel For You
Collaborators: Who didn’t contribute to this album? Not Ms Dynamite, Karen Poole, Alexis Strum, Emiliana Torrini, Kurtis Mantronix or Biff & Jules of ‘worked with Will’ fame, that’s for sure.
Any good? Yes actually!
Madonna – American Life
Style: Acoustic with bleeps, lots of mentions of Jesus Christ and how artificial the world is.
Best single: American Life (mainly for the bizarre “Fuck it, fuck it, fuck it” that was edited out the radio edit) and Hollywood is good because it makes me want to dance around like a drunken robot.
Best unreleased tracks: Mother And Father, Nothing Fails
Worst track: I’m So Stupid
Collaborators: Mirwais
Any good? Not really…