00:03In that first outfit change, you had, what, 50 seconds to get in the silver dress right here?
00:08It's dying, yes. It was very challenging.
00:10It's just like sitting there and you just jump into the dress?
00:12It's like they rip the one thing off and then we just try to start putting the other thing on. It's crazy.
00:17Let's talk about that opening.
00:19Yes.
00:20I Instagrammed it with just a caption that said, gay rights.
00:25Gay rights?
00:26You and the girls.
00:27Oh, the kissing.
00:31The kissing.
00:32I didn't know what you were talking about. I love it.
00:35Whose idea was that? Tell me.
00:37Mine.
00:38Yeah?
00:38Mine.
00:39Yeah.
00:39I just think it was kind of like a narrative, a little story going on of this, how you interpret music.
00:46I think the whole idea was like the mirrors and the reflections and all of that.
00:50It's like we all have taken this great music every year.
00:54And it's like we go into our own world with the music.
00:58And that was the whole kind of premise of the performance.
01:01And then like throughout it, like it's like everybody feels it differently.
01:05And like I like the idea of like losing control after, you know, she's like hold me for a while and I lose control.
01:12And all of these great songs that I got to kind of think about what kind of story to craft throughout it.
01:18And if you look at it, you can follow a little story.
01:21I don't think of Jennifer as losing control.
01:24I feel like you're in control all the time.
01:26There is a lot of times where I am in control and I am a bit of a control freak.
01:32But I like the idea of losing control and I get to do it on stage.
01:36So there you go.
01:38Residency.
01:39Yes.
01:40What makes you come back to Vegas?
01:41Is it just an easy answer?
01:43It's not, you know, I like being close to home.
01:47It's convenient for me in that way instead of like touring the whole world.
01:51I canceled my tour last year.
01:52So I've been thinking a lot about performing and how I wanted to get back out there.
01:56I'm doing a small tour in the summer because I haven't gone international.
01:59And then it was like, do you want to go on tour?
02:01Do you want to do a residency?
02:02And I was like, you know what?
02:04I think I'll just do a residency.
02:06Go back and forth that way.
02:08Yes.
02:08I get to stay close to my kids because even when I go this summer, they're going to be away from me.
02:14And, you know, I like being home.
02:16And are there at the point where like, mom, we don't want to go on tour with you.
02:19We want to be with our friends.
02:20But they're coming.
02:21They're coming for little pieces of it.
02:23But, yeah, not much.
02:24Tell me about performing at World Pride and why you've been an ally since the day.
02:30Yes.
02:31People in my family, since I was, you know, my aunts and my nibblings.
02:37And, you know, there's just, it's something that's very close to my heart.
02:41I've always loved my gay audience.
02:44They are.
02:45We've loved you.
02:46They are so good to me.
02:48It is my honor to perform at Pride.
02:51And I cannot wait.
02:52And I'm trying to really craft a beautiful, exciting show to have fun and just live and dance and remember that we are the arbiters of our own life.
03:02And we get to be free.
03:04That's within our control.
03:06Nobody can take that away from us.
03:07Do you worry with the community being attacked the way it is politically?
03:11Absolutely.
03:12Absolutely.
03:13And that's why I think it's important to show up for these things at these times, for sure.
03:18Thank you for showing.
03:19You always show up.
03:20Always.
03:20Kiss of the Spider Woman.
03:22Kiss of the Spider Woman.
03:23Talk about gay rights.
03:23I know.
03:24Well, that's it, right?
03:25That movie as well, you know, is about love.
03:29And it's about people seeing through the labels of who you are or what you prefer or where you were born or anything.
03:37And just seeing someone's soul and falling in love with that part.
03:42And that's the part that we're supposed to fall in love with, right?
03:45It's like it shouldn't matter the other parts of it.
03:48And so I find this movie to be very timely, very relevant, and very exciting to come out right now.
03:55I think it's that thing where art does the thing that it's supposed to do, which is make people think and make people see things in a gentle, beautiful way through a musical.
