Shania Twain at Staples Center: 5 quick thoughts on the show

You can take the country star out of Las Vegas, but you can’t take Las Vegas out of the country star. That was the impression I got, anyway, from Shania Twain’s concert Thursday night at Staples Center, part of a tour that follows the singer’s lengthy residency at Caesars Palace. Packed with costumes, lasers and pyrotechnics, the two-hour production was a splashy Sin City spectacle packed up for the road -- at least until the venue’s power went out near the end. I’ll have a full review of the show soon, but until then, here are five quick thoughts on the evening.

1. Twain is calling this outing the Rock This Country Tour after a tune from her smash 1997 album “Come on Over.� And she’s not kidding about the rock: Opening the show in a bedazzled Rolling Stones shirt (and later changing into a ripped-up AC/DC tee), Twain led a seven-piece band that happily cranked the guitars at every opportunity.

2. This is clearly a woman who loves red. From her microphone to her sunglasses to the lips-and-tongue logo on that sparkly Stones shirt, Twain used the color as a kind of visual embodiment of her trusty exclamation point. Other items in the favored hue: her eye shadow, some of her musicians’ gear and one of the several pairs of thigh-high boots she wore.

3. Twain has her own Popemobile, which she rode around the arena’s floor while singing “Any Man of Mine� and shooting video with a smartphone on the end of a selfie stick.

4. Just as the show entered the home stretch with a pumped-up run through “That Don’t Impress Me Much,� the sound onstage suddenly died -- the result, it turned out, of a subterranean explosion in a high-rise building on nearby Wilshire Boulevard. At first Twain seemed uncertain what to do, walking offstage and leaving her band to vamp in the half-amplified darkness. After a few minutes, she returned and did a funny bit with an audience member who’d identified himself as a rocket scientist (à la the guy in “That Don’t Impress Me Much�). Then, once the power was restored, she restarted the song.

5. Twain has said this tour will be her last, after which she’ll concentrate on recording. (Her most recent album, “Up!,� came out in 2002.) But unless I missed it amid all the visual stimuli, she made no mention of that idea Thursday, leaving the door open for the inevitable comeback trip.

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