Authorities in Wales are no longer recording laboratory-confirmed cases; they are satisfied when a child or teenager shows signs of measles – cold-like symptoms, red eyes, sensitivity to light, fever, greyish white spots in the mouth and throat and then a red-brown spotty rash.
From the hocus-pocus shrieking of opener "Chickens" to grandiose Steinman-esque closer "Kissing in the Wind", 'Red Light Fever' is all about jubilant falsettos, crashing crescendos, and ludicrously layered arrangements.
But beneath their painterly opulence runs the light fever of fragility, like an omen.
It started with a pain in the boy's stomach, a light fever.
Christel Loar from PopMatters found the album similar to Light Years and Fever and commended the production, opining that while "dance pop with this much gloss and unabashed glee is relegated to the realms of guilty pleasure", Aphrodite is "is that rare representation of perfect production that is just pleasure, pure and simple".
Inspired by music from the 1980s, Body Language deviates from Minogue's usual disco-influenced dance-pop style, evident on albums like Light Years (2000) and Fever, and instead explores genres like synthpop, electroclash, club and R&B.
Wade commended her for returning to her roots and becoming the "Kylie of Fever and Light Years"; he concluded the review by calling Aphrodite an "all-killer, flags-aloft amazing triumph" and that "not liking this (album) would be like not being keen on breathing".
Meningitis symptoms include headaches, stiff neck, dizziness, fever and sensitivity to light.
Those blood results put a different light on his rapid heart rate, fever and high breathing rate.
The message, underscored by David Van Tieg hem's ominous, anxious music and Paul Gallo's sooty lighting, is clear: Salem's got the fever, and it's got it bad.
