 Musically, "Slave to the Rhythm" ranges from funk to R&B, incorporating go-go beats throughout the album.All eight tracks are interspersed with excerpts from conversations with Jones about her life, conducted by journalists Paul Morley and Paul Cooke, hence the "a biography" subtitle.The album also contains voice-overs from actor Ian McShane reciting passages from Jean-Paul Goude's biography "Jungle Fever".