It’s Friday night time in Las Vegas, and Voltaire, the intimate artwork deco-meets-Studio 54 new efficiency venue inside the Venetian, has reworked into a particularly lit homosexual membership. Beneath numerous glowing disco and glass balls, the group of 1,000 dances to the DJ’s mixture of a who’s who of dance-pop — Jessie Ware, Spice Women, ABBA, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s just lately revived “Homicide on the Dancefloor.” Intermittently, elastic-limbed burlesque artists enter to striptease, dance and execute feats of dazzling flexibility. That is Voltaire’s Belle de Nuit “preshow.” And it’s simply the warmup to the primary occasion.
“It’s nearly time for Kylie Minooooogue!” the night’s MC declares. “Yeah, that’s proper — Mom is coming!”
The screams change into really deafening when, roughly 10 minutes later, the curtain opens to disclose the diminutive 55-year-old Australian pop star clad totally in metallic gold. She launches into “Your Disco Wants You,” a rousing monitor from her 2000 album, Gentle Years: “Let’s dance by all our fears, conflict is over for a bit,” she sings. “The entire world ought to be shifting, do your half, treatment a lonely coronary heart!”
For the subsequent 70 minutes, Minogue follows her personal command, belting songs from her three decades-and-counting profession which have united listeners with their infectious dance-pop melodies and lyrics that, whether or not ebullient or bittersweet, are all the time anchored by a deep, honest sense of pleasure. She shimmies to her cowl of Gerry Goffin and Carole King’s “The Loco-Movement,” one in every of her earliest hits from 1987 (and nonetheless her highest-charting Billboard Scorching 100 entry, peaking at No. 3); she rises above the stage in a flowing purple cape like some disco excessive priestess to sing her seductive present smash, and her greatest in the USA in additional than 20 years, “Padam Padam.” She’s a consummate pop diva, stomping down the stage’s catwalk and placing poses — till every tune ends. Then, she merely turns into Kylie: laughing, kicking up her stiletto heels in a cheerful dance and, at one level, talking into her water bottle when she errors it for a microphone.
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