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By DOUG ELFMAN
REVIEW-JOURNAL
Pop-diva concerts are all about the visuals. So, Cher rides a fake elephant on her "farewell" tour. Christina Aguilera beefs up her "Stripped" tour with a guy who, duh, strips.
And Mariah Carey's new tour du jour looks like a Barbie doll has dressed up for a ball but has gone tiptoeing onto the stage of a hip- hop Cirque du Soleil show. It is, as the phrase goes, ghetto fabulous.
I know that sounds bizarre because it looked bizarre on Saturday, when Carey kicked off her first U.S. tour in three years at the outstanding Colosseum, which Caesars Palace built for pop-diva Celine Dion.
Here are images from Saturday's glamtacular:
Carey wore eight form-fitting costumes that shrink-wrapped her hourglass figure. One short-short dress sparkled pink. Later, a pink glitter top matched her pigtails. Carey is 32.
The butterfly is Carey's logo (it symbolizes her Peter Pan flight away from a world of meanie-pies), so she wore a butterfly...