Twenty-five years after she first caught the attention of the then classic disco audience, the husky-voiced Amanda Lear continues to bring her paradoxical monologue style — stilted yet intimate, sophisticated, yet goofy — to both disco and French/German/Italian variété. Her voice — so mannish it cannot possibly be hers, but it is — amazes even as its flirty delicacy reassures. Lear actually sounds less jaded now than she did during the "I Am a Photograph" and "Queen of Chinatown" years, when her overdrawn, drag-queen persona was too camp for its own good. Comfortable in her is-she-or-isn’t-he world of chanson and rhythm, and singing in five languages, she winks "Do U Wanna See It?" as effortlessly as she sighs a new version of "Lili Marlene" and whispers, begs, and grins her way through a Europop/jungle-jazz update of Baudelaire’s "L’invitation au voyage." This last, with its pointillist pronunciation and whispered versification, seems true to the poet’s dandyism; there’s none of the dark fatalism that many French variété stars emphasize. Still, Lear is first a disco singer, and the CD’s friendliest songs are its three dance tracks: the atmospheric, French-language "Travel by Night," a sleazy "Porque me gusta," and the Italianate house music of "I Just Wanna Dance" — a song that does not want to end . . . and shouldn’t.