If Gwen Stefani was once again turning heads at the Gibson theater on post-Thanksgiving Saturday, the same night the Bootleg theater also had its strong and fierce frontgirl and she was only 17. I only mention the No Doubt’s woman because she is known for her certain sexy presence on stage, but, although I have never seen No Doubt live – I greatly dislike their music – I am certain that Kitten’s Chloe Chaidez was beaten her at this high-energy-sexy-sensual game….
Move over Gwen, this teen girl was a ball of fire! She was a lioness shaking her long mane and roaring in the mic over the band’s energetic electro-pop songs, she was jumping, shaking her body as if she had been possessed by the ghost of rock’ n’ roll, dancing, bouncing and doing even more dangerous acrobatics from one corner of the stage to the other. She was the relentless aerobic girl of the night, and although being quite a petite woman, she was acting like a typhoon determined to tear down the place, and slowing down for a few songs that gave her the time to shine in another manner with her high-power croon. Okay, with so much confidence it was hard to realize that she wasn’t alone on stage but ‘just’ the band’s singer backed up by no less than four musicians, but it was hard to detach the eyes from the quicksilver that had electrified the place.
I had seen Kitten before – Chloe was only 15 at the time!! – and the least I can say is that the girl hasn’t lost any of her enthusiasm for performance. Barefoot, wearing black leather skinny pants and a skull printed black shirt, I was watching her and thought she had taken lessons from the greatest, getting into a more aggressive attitude later on, pouring a water bottle on her hair, pugnaciously pushing her bandmates, kicking them while not even miss a note of the 80s-inspired melodic tunes off their new ‘Cut It Out’ EP… The 80s? These kids weren’t born, their parents hadn’t even met,… but it doesn’t matter, they even covered Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’, a song which was perfectly matching Chaidez’s dramatic presence, even the Purple one would have been proud. They finally played their last song ‘Kitten’ and went totally full punk-rock on us, bringing the kids on stage, Chloé climbing everywhere, even on the back of a happy guy who had ventured in the chaos, ending their set in some insane final. This girl truly knows how to shake the devil out of the music.
Setlist:
Hot Rod
Chinatown
Christina
Kill the Light
Japanese Eyes
Cut it Out
G#
Purple Rain
Kitten