Kylie Minogue - Fever 2002 (Live in Manchester)

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DVD Review: Somebody Get Paula Abdul onto the Next Plane to Oz, Pronto!
Summary: 4 Stars

This DVD also contains a great full-length documentary about the making of this tour which I enjoyed just as much as the concert. Watching it BEFORE watching the concert really helped me to understand what they were trying to do with this concert more, and appreciate all the hard work and creativity that went into it.

The elborately choreographed and costumed show with its awesome set and futuristic projections really reminded me of the kind of spectaculars that pop stars in Asia put on, and I felt that THIS was the kind of show I had always imagined people would be watching in the "distant future" of the year 2002.

But I had two main problems with this concert. The first was the music. My favourite songs here were "Burning Up", "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (which I truly can't get out of my head), "Love at First Sight", and the concert's opening song "Come into My World" (the way she made her entrance was sooo cool!) But unfortunately a lot of the stuff here just seemed to be quite run-of-the-mill and unremarkable pop tunes.

Kylie deserves better than this. She needs to get some better songwriters working for her, and live up to the promise shown in "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and get waaaay more funkae~, baby. She needs to go further in the direction of say, Madonna or Janet Jackson and get further away from the direction of Olivia Newton-John where she seems to be at now. I know she's got it in her. I want to see her really let loose!

My second problem with the show was the lack of Kylie actually dancing. Yeah she does a bit of hip wiggling and strutting back and forth, but her hottest dance songs would have been so much better if she was actually DANCING. Although it's been mentioned in other reviews that the reason for her not dancing much is that she uses all her energy in actually singing rather than just lip-synching like so many other of today's less honest stars, maybe she could insert some instrumental breaks into her songs where she could funk it up and show us what she can do on the dance floor. And since Paula Abdul doesn't seem to have been doing much for like the past decade now, I think she'd be the perfect person to teach Kylie a few moves and help her realize her full potential. -- Kylie is good now, but I think she can still be so much better!

True, they did try to funk things up a bit here on "Cowboy Style", but the unattractive dancers were a real turn-off and everything seemed kind of over-choreographed and never really got co~okin' (a general problem with the whole concert actually). And as mentioned in some other reviews, the dancers here are um, highly Rainbow flag-friendly shall we say (the choreographer seems to enjoy keeping the ugly male dancers in drag throughout much of the concert) Only the presence of the luscious Ms. Minogue could offset the "hurl factor" in certain parts of the concert for me.

But I did love the various costumes and personas they created for Kylie, like lingeree-clad pixie disco princess Kylie, dominatrix Kylie, funky Kylie from the very ending (which is actually what I was expecting much more of this concert to be like), and my ultimate favourite of all, futuristic space cyborg princess Kylie from the very beginning of the concert. God she was gorgeous!

In short, I am ready to worship at the feet of this pop goddess for the new millenium, who I feel is the most striking and special thing to hit the pop scene since Blondie's Deborah Harry. -- But first she's got to do a wee~ bit more homework for me.

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