Speakerphone (song)

It was produced by Bloodshy & Avant duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, who co-wrote it with Henrik Jonback and Klas Åhlund.

Bloodshy & Avant duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg produced "Speakerphone" and co-wrote it with Henrik Jonback and Klas Åhlund.

[2] "Speakerphone" was released on 21 November 2007 as part of X;[3] it was removed from the album's Chinese edition, along with "Like a Drug" and "Nu-Di-Ty", due to censorship laws.

[12][13] Critics compared the style to the "robotic hypno-funk" of Daft Punk and noted that its use of "array of robo voices" had similarities with the music of Britney Spears.

[10][14] Music journalist Craig Mathieson described Minogue's vocals as "taken to fetishistic levels, wiping the person and leaving the digital construct", and said she had "disappear[ed] into the ether".

Music journalist Robert Christgau and the Scripps Howard News Service's Chuck Campbell cited it as one of the album's high points.

[17] PopMatters' Evan Sawdey preferred Minogue's robotic vocals on "Speakerphone" to those of Britney Spears in her fifth studio album Blackout (2007), writing that she "never falters once, hitting the mark each and every time".

[22] AllMusic's Chris True felt the song would have been more appropriate for Robbie Williams' seventh studio album Rudebox (2006),[3] and Pitchfork's Tom Ewing believed it was too similar to Daft Punk's music.

[7] Criticizing the vocoder as excessive, Dave Hughes of Slant Magazine wrote that the song indicated a hip hop influence on the overall album, which he felt was "wholly inappropriate" for Minogue.