For You, for Me

For You, For Me Tour

Tour by Kylie Minogue
File:Okland Kylie Tour 2.jpg Minogue performing during her 2009 North American tour
Location	North America
Start date	September 30, 2009
End date	October 13, 2009
Legs	1
No. of shows	9
Kylie Minogue concert chronology

For You, For Me Tour , (advertised as KylieUSA2009), is the eleventh concert tour by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue. The tour marks Minogue's first concert tour in North America.

Background

The tour was officially announced via Billboard on May 6, 2009. Minogue stated, "I’ve wanted to tour in America and Canada for years now and know that fans have been waiting a long time for this. I’m thrilled that the opportunity has finally arrived." Bill Silva (CEO of Bill Silva Presents) stated, "Kylie has such a successful career outside of North America that it has taken quite a while to find a window in her schedule for the U.S. and Canada. Her amazing fans in North America will be well rewarded for their patience when they experience her show and its entire spectacle." Minogue promoted the tour on the fourth hour of the Today Show in New York stating that she's always wanted to tour the US, but it was a constant battle with her manager. During an interview with BlackBook Magazine Minogue spoke about her fanbase in North America: "The fans in America aren’t great in number, but they’re great in spirit. And they’ve been so patient. I think I really shocked them when I said I was touring, because they’ve become accepting of the fact that it was never going to happen. But I meant it, all the years I spent saying I would love to tour the States" and what they should expect from the tour: "I decided not to go somewhere I’ve never been before, direction-wise, because American audiences haven’t seen my live shows for the most part. So we decided—and I guess it works well in these financial times—to bring with us a “best of” my different tours". Minogue also added that famous French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier will create some of the outfits for the show.

Setlist

1. Overture
2. "Light Years"
3. "Speakerphone"
4. "Come Into My World"
5. "In Your Eyes"
6. Medley:
   1. "Shocked" (with excerpts from: "Do You Dare?", "It's No Secret", "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "Keep on Pumpin' It" and "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)")
   2. "What Do I Have to Do?" (contains excerpts from "Over Dreaming (Over You)")
   3. "Spinning Around" (contains excerpts from "Step Back in Time" along with elements of "Finally" and "Such a Good Feeling")
7. "Better Than Today"
8. "Like a Drug"
9. "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (contains excerpts from "Boombox")
10. "Slow"
11. "2 Hearts"
12. "Red Blooded Woman" (contains excerpts from "Where the Wild Roses Grow")
13. "Heart Beat Rock Segue"/"Wow"
14. "White Diamond"
15. "Confide in Me"
16. "I Believe in You"
17. "Burning Up" (contains excerpts from "Vogue")
18. "The Loco-Motion"
19. "Kids"
20. "In My Arms"
21. Encore:
    1. "Better the Devil You Know"
    2. "The One"
    3. "Love at First Sight"

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Additional notes

• "Got to Be Certain" was performed a capella on the October 3 show in Las Vegas, as the audience requested for it.
• An acoustic version of "I Should Be So Lucky" was performed in place of "The One" on the October 4 show at the Hollywood Bowl. The winning entry of the "Speakerphone" fan-created music video contest was shown before the concert started.
• Prior to the October 7 show in Chicago, the venue was changed from the Congress Theatre to the UIC Pavilion, due to the size of Kylie's production.
• "Your Disco Needs You" was performed a capella on the October 7 show in Chicago, because the audience requested for it while other technical difficulties were being sorted out.

Tour dates

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Promotional poster for the For You, For Me Tour

Date	City	Country	Venue
North America
September 30, 2009	Oakland	United States	Fox Oakland Theatre
October 1, 2009
October 3, 2009	Las Vegas		The Pearl Concert Theater
October 4, 2009	Los Angeles		Hollywood Bowl
October 7, 2009	Chicago		UIC Pavilion
October 9, 2009	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre
October 11, 2009	New York City	United States	Hammerstein Ballroom
October 12, 2009
October 13, 2009

Critical response

• The San Francisco Chronicle gave the For You, For Me Tour a favorable review: "It's impossible to describe the full spectacle of the Kylie experience - part Vegas extravaganza, part sci-fi adventure, all flesh. There were golden tigers, confetti showers, diamante-studded football players, digital explosions and Trojan warriors with elaborate plumes on their heads. Well, why not? [...] The fact that she fit it all into a relatively intimate venue was a marvel unto itself. The show seemed to have been designed to be visible from the moon, with large-scale video projections broadcasting studio montages of celluloid Kylie mouthing the words to the songs the real-life version was singing below. The stage swarmed with musicians, dancers and the occasional army of robots. Meanwhile, her wardrobe department seemed intent on making Lady Gaga wave a white flag. [...] Apart from a pair of middling ballads that served as a reminder that her relatively thin voice works best served with a generous heaping of bass, there were no major opening-night missteps. Rather, it was one thrill after another, especially for the fans who had waited so long for this moment."

• Rolling Stone critic Barry Walters gave a favorable review to Kylie's concert comparing her to Diana Ross: "Minogue doesn’t possess vocal power, but like Diana Ross, her precise yet joyous phrasing sets her apart from lesser, more self-conscious upstarts. Yet throughout a set that mixed tracks from her last three albums, import singles and unreleased material, her band and blankets of reverb often overwhelmed Minogue’s pop-perfect sighs. Several songs early in the evening were rendered almost unrecognizable. [...] When necessary, Minogue can toss her tiny frame around with the agility of a professional dancer. Yet more remarkable was her poise: She made no unnecessary or ungainly movements, and at times seemed to be traveling at a speed slightly slower than gravity would ordinarily allow. At 41, she is infinitely more sexy than she was in her 20s. Her grace is improbable, yet all the more compelling for its mystery." He said about the show: "It takes a special kind of star to accommodate and make the most of an unplanned special effect, and Minogue is effortlessly, exactly that".

• Los Angeles Times critic Mikael Wood was also impressed with the show: "What kind of show was Kylie Minogue's Sunday night debut at the Hollywood Bowl? The kind in which the dancers outnumbered the musicians, the backup vocalists had several costume changes and the headliner took the stage astride an enormous bejeweled skull as a small battalion of futuristic robots twirled beneath her. [...] Riding that sparkly cranium as it lowered from the ceiling, Minogue introduced herself not as a dictator or a goddess, but as a flight attendant on Air Kylie, here to serve our needs with style and speed. That she certainly did, zooming through nearly two dozen songs in just under two hours to the very vocal delight of her fans [...]Minogue managed Sunday to give her carefully calibrated arena-pop moves an uncommon degree of human warmth, whether she was stomping around the stage in thigh-high leather boots or cavorting with several slices of gym-rat beefcake in a simulated shower scene."

• Variety critic Andrew Barker gave the concert a mixed review, saying of the show: "Her Hollywood Bowl performance did little to explain why her brand of cosmopolitan dance pop has mostly foundered Stateside, nor will it finally sell her to American agnostics, but it nonetheless represented an impressively maximalist display of showmanship that satisfied her rabid, long-neglected fans. [...] Free of the irony and contrived confrontation of a Madonna performance or the Olympian ambition of a Beyonce, Minogue's show was charmingly unprepossessing in its aim to provide a surplus of spectacle. [...] To describe the rest of Minogue's material is to confront a series of contradictions: Her music is relentlessly superficial yet never middlebrow, stylistically heterogeneous but not exactly diverse, sexy but rarely sexual." He praised her live vocals: "Her voice tends toward tinniness and lacks depth, yet she's obviously proficient and can hit some very big notes when required -- and unlike many of her backing-track-assisted contemporaries, Minogue's vocals seemed to be entirely live." He also spoke about the end of the main act: "All the same, In My Arms and Love at First Sight, which closed the main set and the show, respectively, were irresistible. Both songs may be little more than empty calories, but they also represent the giddy apex of millennial dance pop, and the enthusiasm with which Minogue and the Bowl crowd belted them out suggests that the rest of America may not know what it's missing."

• Billboard music critic Keith Caulfield gave another favorable review to the concert presented at the Hollywood Bowl: "Kylie Minogue knows how to make an entrance. For her first ever Los Angeles show at the Hollywood Bowl, the pop diva descended from the venue's famed arches standing triumphantly atop a giant metallic human skull. And that was just the beginning of the eye-popping, hits-filled run through Minogue's career that was replete with numerous costume changes, massive digital screens, dazzling laser displays and a hard working fog machine. [...] At her Bowl show, Minogue reached back far into her catalog, offering up her very first single, The Loco-Motion, as a sultry cabaret number while she also wowed the crowd with a dancetastic rendition of Can't Get You Out Of My Head. Let's be clear -- this wasn't a lip-syncing showcase. Minogue sang live and was in fine voice throughout her set. [...] She has repurposed some of the best moments from her previous globe-trotting outings for her first U.S. tour -- thus giving American concertgoers a taste of what they've missed all these years."

External links

• Kylie.com — Kylie Minogue official website
• For You, For Me Tour — Official website
• Kylie Minogue on YouTube