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Enrique Iglesias respectably broke in the remodeled Aladdin Theatre
for the Performing Arts on Saturday. He capably sang some hits. He
invited a weeping fan on stage and sang a love song to her. And he
didn't lip-sync.
This last point is actually important. Earlier this summer, Howard
Stern broadcast a tape of Iglesias wailing like a lunatic. Iglesias then
went on Stern's radio show to prove he can sing. As it turned out, the
tape was probably of Iglesias messing around somewhere in time.
The fact that Iglesias didn't lip-sync Saturday is also important
because Britney Spears was in town the other week, and her lips often
didn't match the sound coming out of the speakers. But Iglesias decided
that a star's throat performance is more important than his body
performance.
Iglesias sang his catchy songs well and, unlike some other pop
stars, he connected to his crowd in a personal way. Consider, for
instance, the fan he sang to on stage. He planted her there and sang in
her face as she cried. He kissed her cheek, he placed her right hand on
his left butt cheek, and he kissed her square on the mouth. The
predominance of women among Iglesias' 7,000 heart-throbby fans
screamed once and again.
In the most unorthodox and human moment, Iglesias stopped one
warbly song a minute into it and started over.
"I think we should do it again. You guys like that song? (The
audience cheered.) That sounded (bad). Let's start again," he said.
That song...