Paul McCartney’s voice returns, everything is forgiven. In the big parade of hitmakers of the sixties of the weekend, Diana Ross’s pipes are without a doubt the most rusty. “There’s a great power in determination,” he imparts wisely, speaking of his struggles to make his tour of thanksgiving and this appearance of Legends slot machines pass, but also of his great epiglottal tension.
The Queen of Motown can appear from the wings in a bubble channel to a fanfare of “I’m Coming Out,” seeming to have materialized directly from a dimension populated by glamorous snowflake people, but sometimes, for the next 75 minutes, it sounds like he’s doing a disco karaoke after four heavy nights at Shangri-La. “Chain Reaction,” in particular, is flatter than a landslide hitting Ian Brown’s house.
The effect is an ensemble that is both a support group of 100,000 people and a celebration song. There’s still a magical thrill to being in the presence of a pop icon so supernaturally famous and so universally loved, and the masses with Glastonbury’s permanent wigs don’t let this one go without a fight. They help bring their first Supreme hit: “Baby Love”, “Stop! In The Name of Love” and “You Can’t Hurry Love”, which are soon removed as a death wish from the Legends slot machine. . They’ll even make Ross ’failed attempt to start a singing queue in the soft soul ballad“ I’m Still Waiting ”. The star and his songs receive all the love; performance itself is a secondary concern.
Until, that is, Ross commits the cardinal sin of the Legends slot machine and connects his new Thank You album too loudly to the wallets they look at at home. “Tomorrow” is an animated disco dish and the lead song is a wonderful throwback to its soul disco period of the seventies, but the last one we’re here for is a selling point, no matter how sweet it is. The modern tropical pop of “If the World Just Danced” suggests that all of our problems could be solved with a vigorous conga. Presumably, Club ExxonMobile has fallen.
From here you need a shout of “I feel 47!” halfway through a fabulous “Upside Down”, with front row security doing her usual dance routine, and her Dolly Parton pop country moment “Ease on Down the Road” to recapture the set, despite a ” Why Do Fools Fall “frankly horrible. It’s a shame Ross feels that songs like “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “I Will Survive” are his favorite shows, songs he’s been successful with but not at all. “I Will Survive “even becomes DJ Khaled’s” Billie Jean “and” All I Do is Win. “But by now the crowd is singing on their own, happy to have such a fascinating leader.