The title of this disc recalls the photos that a young RuPaul plastered around midtown Atlanta; airbrushed to flawlessness, the flyers announced the singer–drag star’s club shows, or simply read RuPaul is red hot! Red-Hot is a hot album of attitude and agenda, and it’s firmly entrenched in RuPaul’s signature dance music genre, right where the diva does it best. Politics are clearly on the docket with “My Love Sees No Color,” a dance cover of the Depeche Mode hit “People Are People,” and Ru’s house track “Love Is Love,” a song that takes on gay marriage and the right to love whomever one wishes. And what Ru album would be complete without some nitty-gritty sex talk? “Kinky/Freaky” is such a slickly produced number it could have been a Britney single—with a few lyrics changed (and a few claws retracted), of course: “You ain’t never had it quite this way / This ain’t The Crying Game… / I’m more than a man, just ask yo man / He knew what he was doing when he unzipped his pants.” The R&B-flavored “Just a Little In & Out” gets down to business just as quickly. A true believer that “if you can dance, you can start a revolution,” Ru is ready to start the revolution now. Matthew Breen