KYLIE MINOGUE Singer releases concert DVD

The only downside is that Minogue doesn't have many good dance moves.
By RON HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kylie Minogue, Australia's most sumptuous eye-candy export, brings her gams and glam-pop music to a live DVD performance with "Kylie Minogue: Body Language Live," above-average fare filmed in November 2003 at London's Hammersmith Apollo to coincide with the launch of a then-new album.
Kylie fans are going to like this and curious onlookers might just find themselves smitten by her cloying creativity.
She's been Australia and Europe's Miss Thang for some time now, thanks to infectious dance tracks and a better-than-most singing voice. But it's Minogue's tight figure that has carried her to diva heights.
Grown men will swoon and women are sure to clench their fists in envy as the curvaceous Minogue preens across the stage in strong strides, lapping up the limelight in hot pants, as she belts out her club and radio hit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head," with scantily clad dancers whirling about.
Voice holds up
What makes this more endurable is Minogue's voice, lip-synched or not.
On tracks like that, along with "Red Blooded Women" and the chilled-out "Chocolate," Minogue oozes more than enough vocal soul to keep the numbers respectable.
Here's the only thing missing from this slickly produced performance DVD -- dance moves. Minogue doesn't have many good ones and her dancers can't help her. Perhaps she's holding back to save her breath for singing, but that's a mighty tall assumption.
But the stage drips with colorful lighting, the camera angles are rightly transfixed on her -- ahem -- assets, and Minogue's earnest effort saves the day.
The DVD extras include redundant still photos from the London concert, but better full-length music videos including "Red Blooded Woman," in which Minogue literally stops traffic with her mesmerizing gyrations.