SPOTLIGHT
On If She Would Ever Tone Down Gay Imagery In Her Show: I don’t think it’s ever been a particular standpoint to take in my life, that’s just the way it is. These are people I associate with, this is what I believe is right, so it just represents what feels appropriate for that song, or that inter- pretation or visual representation of the song. It’s always been important; it’s great that I can play with that and it can resonate as deeply or as superficially as anyone in the audience wants to take that. I mean there might be someone in the audience who sees how we repre-
sent sexuality, who people are and who they want to be, and that could have a profound effect on them. There might be someone’s Nana in the audience, who just thinks they’re
lovely costumes (laughs) so we’re at so many levels. I never even had the thought that any of that would have to be banished from my show, because that’s such a large part of my show.
On What She Enjoys Most About Visiting America: Really crappy diners (laughs), I love a good, crappy American diner! I don’t
know why, really terrible coffee, or as we say, water with a bean dragged through it—just stuff that I would never normally have, I’m not really a junk food consumer. I don’t know, something makes you want a stack of pancakes, so you know you’re in the states. There is truth to that. Other things I can do in the states… I can walk around and not be recog- nized all of the time, which is refreshing.
On How She Mentally Prepares For The Rigors Of Touring: Aside from sleepless nights, total anxiety and excitement (laughs), how
do I prepare? It’s really mentally demanding—monumentally, and the physical fatigue, when you’re rehearsing, is something that you can’t understand. I did too much of this action and this is why I hurt. But the mental execution of the show, before you really know what the show is; it’s really difficult, and I guess it’s the same for everyone who’s helping put this show together. But, it’s the same everytime and now with experience, I at least under- stand that process. And I know that we can only do as much as we can do, until we run a show with an audience, and then a lot of your questions are answered. I think it’s almost a cruel twist of fate that your opening night is the night that gets the most reviews; because it’s a first night for you as well. You can do dress rehearsals and have rehearsals with family and friends and things like that, but it’s not the same as having an audience in. So I try to stay calm and I realize I’m not going to be calm—I just try to
balance it out.
On Her Pre-Show Rituals: A shot of scotch helps (laughter) when my tour manager comes around and starts doing his call of “30 minutes,” with his little megaphone. By the way, he doesn’t need a megaphone, his voice, you could hear it through lead… but he likes his little megaphone. Those last few moments before it’s time to make the walk to the stage;
it’s like walking through the Narnia closet, something like that. You change from being the person you woke up as, and the person who is aware of all of the nuts and bolts behind the stage, and essentially becoming the person people are expecting to see.
You heard the woman! She’s expecting to see each and every last one of you come out to
show your solidarity for the music, which we can’t get out of our heads. For ticket informa- tion to her Hollywood Bowl show on May 20 visit
ticketmaster.com For all things Kylie, log onto
kylie.com.
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