She's unafraid, too, of tackling more problematic areas of sexuality, as for instance when she dealt with cradle-snatching in 'The Infant Kiss' and incest in 'The Kick Inside'. But not all that seems erotic in her music is about sex, as an EMI employee discovered when he found her working on the hypnotic 'out-in-out-in' chant section of 'Breathing' (from 1980's Never For Ever), and expressed outrage at EMI's young pop princess making such an overtly sexual record. The song is, of course, about breathing. Duhhh!

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