It is hard to believe anyone was ever a snob about Kylie. To stand in the screaming crowds (possibly the loudest I have ever heard) at Perth’s RAC Arena, on the first stop on what will be her biggest world tour in two decades, is a reminder of what a genius of reinvention she is. This is a show stuffed with preposterously catchy hit after preposterously catchy hit – “from, you name it, almost any decade,” Minogue herself says, before letting out that endearingly goofy laugh.

Two decades ago, she said she would never ...
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