Body Talks
The Struts
Where "Could Have Been Me" deploys The Struts' glam rock arsenal for inspiration, "Body Talks" angles the same weaponry toward something more sensual and groove-forward, the band channeling the physical end of their influences — the Stones at their most lockstep, Bowie in his funkier moments. Spiller's voice does something different here, the theatrical instinct still present but directed toward momentum rather than proclamation, the delivery working with the rhythm section rather than above it. The guitar tone is fat and saturated, the production hitting harder in the low end than the band's more anthemic work. Lyrically, the song is about desire expressed through physicality, the body communicating what language can't organize — a classic rock subject handled with the genre's characteristic lack of self-consciousness about wanting things openly. "Body Talks" has a practical use: it belongs at the beginning of a night out, the transition point between preparation and movement, the song that makes whatever space you're in feel like it has the right energy. It rewards being played loud in a car before arriving somewhere, the outside world visible through glass while the bass redistributes the air inside.
fast
2010s
heavy, groovy, physical
British
rock, glam rock. funk rock. sensual, energetic. Settles into groove-forward momentum from the opening and sustains physical desire and motion throughout without pausing for reflection. energy 8. fast. danceability 8. valence 8. vocals: theatrical, groove-driven, confident, momentum-forward, soulful. production: fat saturated guitar, heavy low end, Stones-inflected rhythm section, funk-rock. texture: heavy, groovy, physical. acousticness 1. era: 2010s. British. The transition point between getting ready and going out, played loud in a car before arriving somewhere.