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Cher - Woman's World: A Dramatic Reading By Jackie Collins

 

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Cher finds 'Truth' in new album 0

MICHAEL RECHTSHAFFEN SPECIAL TO QMI AGENCY

FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 10:18 AM EDT | UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 10:57 AM EDT
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The cover of Cher's "Closer to the Truth."
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MALIBU, Calif. -- Although her first album in a dozen years, Closer to the Truth, won't be released until Sept. 24, its sensual cover, featuring Cher in flowing blonde tresses and a skimpy nightie, is already generating talk--which suits the 67-year-old icon just fine. She recently curled up on a sofa (donning rocker chick gear instead of a negligee) in a rented home nestled high above the shores of Malibu to reflect on her life, her career ... and Betty White.

It's interesting that you, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry all have new CDs being released within weeks of each other, because you all have a similar sense of theatricality and style. Have either of them ever come forward and personally given you props?

I think Gaga has, but I don't know enough about Katy to know if she has, but look -- I set a place for Madonna, Madonna set a place for them. We try to move the bar to have more freedom of expression. That's what it is, being able to express yourself in any way you want to, in any look you want to, because, when I was growing up, when Sonny and I first started, people hated us for the way we looked. We got into lots of trouble. We got thrown out of restaurants and we got beaten up. It was hard to be who you wanted to be and look too different. And we looked really different! I mean, the Beatles still had their little haircuts and their suits but nobody looked like us. I thought we looked fabulous!

Your new album is very strong and you're sounding in remarkably supple voice!

I think I am. And I do like the songs and can actually listen to it and not shudder.



There are a couple of tracks in particular -- You Haven't Seen the Last of Me (from Burlesque) and Sirens -- where you hit some really lovely notes.

And no one's more surprised than I am. People ask me to do things that I've never done before and didn't think I could. And I love songs where you don't know that it's me. I really do. Because I have a distinctive voice and it's no fun to just go, "Oh, that's Cher."

But that's also what people like about your voice -- it's your own.

True, but when we did Believe, I was so excited when the record company said, " 'We don't know it's you right in the beginning,' and I went, 'I know!' "

You were recently quoted as saying you've never been a huge Cher fan. Was that taken out of context?

No, absolutely not. I like to sing but I don't want to hear my speaking voice!

Seriously?

Yeah, I mean, if I'm acting I'm OK, but if I hear it just as something."

But you're OK seeing yourself on screen?

I haven't seen every movie I've made. Like, I've waited a year to two years to see some films, but they're going to be there, so it's not like I have to rush out. I've never really liked looking at pictures of myself. I kind of look at it with a detached eye because I have to finalize them -- and I can look at them in retrospect, like, I was just looking at some pictures in a book and I thought, "Oh, I remember that. That was really fun. God, Bob (Mackie) did a fabulous outfit and, whoa, look at my body. It was hot!"

Whatever you might think of your voice, your singing has never sounded better.

It was pretty bad in the beginning. But I'm happy with it now "¦ I mean, I'm happy with the notes, and my vocal teacher's made a huge difference. It's so freaky people because people my age are having to lose notes and I'm gaining notes, so that's pretty shocking.

Maybe you'll be like Tony Bennett.

I like Tony Bennett. Wouldn't that be fabulous? Like Tony Bennett and Betty White. She's the best. She's the most fun person.

And she's got a wicked sense of humour.

Come on! Yes! Totally, totally wicked! And a mouth like a sailor! She's my hero.

What you and Betty White already have in common is that you're both adored. Whenever I mentioned that I was going to be speaking with you, people always said, "I love Cher!"

That's cool. I like that. It's nice to be liked. I mean, there are many artists that you don't really have to like because the art is really great and you can't confuse the art with the artist. I remember we once went to dinner with a comedian who shall remain nameless. Huge comedian. We should have never gone to dinner, because after dinner I couldn't laugh at anything he said again.

Seeing as If I Could Turn Back Time has become your signature song, are there certain things in your life that, if you could turn back time, you'd want to take back or do over?

Oh, countless, I'm sure, but you just can't. I kind of think that even the bad things are your path and do something for you one way or another. But there are millions of things that I wish hadn't happened or I reacted to in a different way or I made a different choice, but, what belongs to you comes

to you.

It's been a pretty cool career"¦

Yeah. I mean, it's had really high highs and really low lows and there's either laughing or crying or waiting or going, well f--- it! You know? I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, at some point, I won't be relevant, but I'm not sure. I want to be like Betty White and everybody can't be Betty White, but I'll go for as long as I want to and as long as people want me to. I've just been here so much longer ... I thought I'd be dead right now! If I had known I was going to live this long, I think I would have done less sleeping and more activities. But you know what? I've crammed five lifetimes into my life.

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Over the course of her remarkably enduring music career, Cher has logged 32 Top 40 hits (counting those with Sonny) to date. Here are five of our faves:

1) I Got You Babe

(1965)

Her first and only number one hit with Sonny--it topped the charts for three weeks over the summer of '65--I Got You Babe would go on to be a part of cult classic history three decades later as the song that Bill Murray would wake up to every morning (again and again) in Groundhog Day.

2)Half-Breed (1973)

Perfectly timed to tap into the country's attempt to address social injustices against Native Americans through song and film (see also Paul Revere and The Raiders' Indian Reservation and Billy Jack), the catchy tune casting Cher as the biracial daughter of a Cherokee mother hit No. 1 in the U.S. and Canada.

3)Take Me Home (1979)

Cher swapped rocker chick for disco queen, with the gravity-defying head-dresses to prove it, and landed her 12th top 40 solo hit as well as cementing her status, along with Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, as a beloved gay icon.

4)If I Could Turn Back Time (1989)

By the end of the '80s few female singers could belt out a power ballad quite like Cher, and the anthemic single would become her signature song. Of course, having a banned video in which you're straddling a USS Missouri cannon clad in a fishnet body stocking and flanked by hundreds of cheering sailors certainly didn't hurt.

5)Believe (1998)

Representing yet another shift in musical direction for Cher, the dance smash topped the charts in 23 countries, while its pioneering use of Auto-Tune--subsequently known as the "Cher effect"-- would become a highly sought-after recording studio tool for dozens of pop and hip-hop stars right up until today.

 

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11 days until Closer To The Truth, Cher's 26th studio album
Here's a classic music video to celebrate

 

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"I mean, at some point, I won't be relevant."

Whatever, Cher.

 

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Whatever, Cher.

I doubt so much Guillaume de Machaut fancied being famous still as the greatest Medieval composer seven centuries after his death.

 

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Where are the flaws?

In the dumpster behind her plastic surgeon's office?

 

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Stream the new album for free here:
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Cher's back with 'Truth,' post-Farewell tour, Miley zingers
Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY 7:02 p.m. EDT September 17, 2013
At 67, Cher resurfaces with a new album, explaining, 'What else would I do? I love to sing.'


STORY HIGHLIGHTS
After swearing off the road with her Farewell tour (2003-2005), Cher is plotting another trek
Dubbing it not up to par, Lady Gaga pulled their duet from Cher's 'Truth' album
She was happiest in the '80s with boyfriend Rob Camilletti: "It was heaven"

MALIBU, Calif. — In June, Cher took the spotlight on the finale of The Voice to unleash dance anthem Woman's World, the debut single from Closer to the Truth, her first album since 2001. The stage warhorse with 50 years of performing behind her concedes that she felt terrified.

"Everyone judges you on what you just did," she says. "Right before I walked out there, I told my mom, 'I'm so sweating it. I'm a has-been. My career is nothing.' It's my first time out of the box in 12 years, in front of 20 million people. If it had been horrible, they would have tarred and feathered my whole life with that brush. My career would have ended on such a sad note."

Whoa. Doesn't an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, three Golden Globes, sales of 100 million solo albums and a half-century of diva status bolster faith in her talent?

"Ah, no, not at all," she says. "I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing."

MORE: 'Truth' is 'as good as I'm ever going to do'

That's why she'll return to the road, eight years after her Farewell tour ended with a gross of $192.5 million for 273 shows.

"The road is a nasty place and lonely," she says. "The shows make it worthwhile. If I didn't do it now, I would never, ever do it again. Tina (Turner) went out when she was 70, but ... she's much tougher and has an energy like I've never seen in any human being."

On Friday night, Cher is holed up in her 16,000-square-foot Italian Renaissance-style villa on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. She perches cross-legged and barefoot on a sofa in an upstairs bedroom, sipping a can of Dr Pepper as scented candles glow nearby and Mr. Big, a gray cat rescued as an injured kitten during her Believe tour, curls up at the foot of the bed.

No makeup. Her long black hair falls past her shoulders. She appears toned and trim in a coral fleece jacket and black leggings. In light this soft, Cher, 67, could still get carded at the nightclubs that will be blasting Red and Dressed to Kill.

And yet her age is the conversation's running gag.

"It's been so long since I made a record — not since gramophones," she says. "I can't get on radio because they're not playing women who are almost 100."

Ask her how the industry can possibly ignore a global superstar simply for crossing the Medicare threshold, and she bellows, "Oh, my God, look in the mirror! It gets harder when you're working against girls in their 20s. Tell me who at my age is making a record and wants to be on radio? When I started out, I thought I'd be dead by now."

Even Cher underestimates the power of Cher. In 1998, at 52, she became the oldest woman to have a No. 1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 with Believe, the title track from the Grammy Award-winning album that topped charts around the world, selling 20 million copies.

While she insists there's no upside to aging ("I'm not going to lie and say I'm smarter; I haven't learned anything since I was 40"), Cher says it won't stop her. She's relieved the years haven't eroded her vocal powers, as she happily discovered when recording the demanding power ballad from 2010's Burlesque soundtrack, a bonus track on Truth's deluxe edition.

"A lot of people my age are dropping notes and don't have much of a voice anymore," she says. "I was completely shocked with You Haven't Seen the Last of Me. I kept saying, 'I can't do that song.' I did it to my absolute, utter amazement. It gave me a bit of confidence."

She freely volunteers missteps, though on Truth,they're superficial: the title ("I should have called it Dressed to Kill") and the smoldering cheesecake cover (platinum hair, skimpy lingerie, fur pillow).

"I meant it to be camp, like a Playboy centerfold, but people didn't get it and took it so seriously," she says. "You make mistakes, you pay and keep going."

She shrugs off an axed duet with Lady Gaga, The Greatest Thing. Dubbing it not up to par, Gaga pulled it from Truth, and an unfinished version leaked last month.

"She didn't like it," Cher says. "I wasn't thrilled with my part, and she wasn't thrilled with her part, and neither one of us were thrilled with the music. She was the one who said, 'I don't want it out.' I would have given it another shot and re-recorded my vocal and had someone else do the music. But she was over it, and it's her song."

There's no ill will. "Gaga's got 'it,' the way Madonna had 'it,' something that made you stop and go, 'What's that?' " says Cher, who is also a fan of Bruno Mars, Adele and the late Amy Winehouse. "It's not just crazy clothes. Madonna had her ear to the ground and knew what was coming before anybody else."

A legendary boundary pusher in fashion and video, Cher kicked doors open for generations of pop upstarts, and she admires risk takers.

Miley Cyrus? Not so much. Her hyperactive twerk routine on MTV's Video Music Awards "was so bad," Cher says. "I'm not old-fashioned. She could have come out naked, and if she'd just rocked the house, I would have said, 'You go, girl.' It just wasn't done well. She can't dance, her body looked like hell, the song wasn't great, one cheek was hanging out. And, chick, don't stick out your tongue if it's coated."

Cher's toughest tirades these days are less TMZ than WMD. She has informed and passionate takes on the Syrian crisis, litigation against Chevron over oil pollution in Ecuador, erosion of women's rights and an explosion of laws against feeding the homeless.

"I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter," she says. "I talk about important things, stupid things. I rant against teabag idiots. What are they going to do to me now?

"I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back."

She gets blowback.

"Yes: 'Die, b----.' But if you do nothing, nothing will change."

Citing the country's recent anti-gay laws, Cher declined an invitation to open next year's Winter Olympics in Russia.

"It's a drag because I have so many Russian friends and fans, but I can't do it," she says. "What they're doing is inhumane and sad."

The twice-married mother of two (musician Elijah Blue and transgender writer/activist Chaz) is less forthcoming on her love life.

"If you talk about it, it gets ruined," she says.

She finds escape from stress in Buddhism, "but I'm probably the worst Buddhist ever because I have a terrible temper."

This is neither the best nor worst stage of her life. She was happiest in the 1980s.

"I had the most fabulous boyfriend (baker Rob Camilletti), the kids were young, New York was amazing, I was making movies and records. Everything clicked. It was heaven."

One of the low points came after her 1975 divorce from first husband Sonny Bono.

"I thought I'd never climb out of that hole," she says. "I had no money, and I had to pay him $2 million. It took a long time. I worked my way into a spot in Las Vegas playing two shows a night. My managers were making more money than I was. I pride myself on still being here. A lot of people were gigantic, and then they were gone."

If Cher could turn back time, she'd tell her younger self to lighten up. "I've forgotten most things that were life-and-death to me at the time. I was such a drama queen."

Has age mellowed pop's long-reigning bohemian?

"Absolutely not," she says.

 

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Cher Gets 'Closer To The TV' With New 'Closer To The Truth' CD
Major Appearances and Performances Scheduled for Album's Sept. 24 Release; First Album in Over a Decade -- Includes No. 1 Dance Single, "Woman's World"; "Dear Mom, Love Cher" Documentary DVD Scheduled to Be Released Simultaneously

NEW YORK, NY, Sep 19, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- The one and only Cher is back on TV in a big way in celebration of the release of "Closer To The Truth," her new CD coming out this Tuesday, September 24th on Warner Bros. Records.

A major profile on Cher on CBS Sunday Morning with Anthony Mason will air September 22nd. The following morning, Monday, September 23rd, Cher will be On The Plaza performing three songs for NBC's Today Show including her No. 1 Dance single, "Woman's World." Cher is scheduled to appear in the 8, 9 and 10:00 hours of the show. On album release day, Tuesday, September 24th, Cher will visit her pal David Letterman on CBS and will be performing a song. It's expected to be another classic "Cher and Dave" moment for fans.

The following week Cher will be performing and visiting the Kelly & Michael Show on Tuesday, October 1st.

Cher is also scheduled to appear as a mentor for Blake Shelton's team on The Voice. Those appearances will air on October 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd.

Cher is the only recording artist with a No. 1 single on a Billboard chart in each of the past six decades. She is an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and three time Golden Globe Award winner.

Simultaneous to the release of "Closer To The Truth," the "Dear Mom, Love Cher" documentary DVD which reveals the extraordinary life of the star's mother, Georgia Holt, will also be released on September 24th and available on Amazon and other major outlets. "Dear Mom, Love Cher" chronicles the family matriarch's life story from her humble beginnings through six tumultuous marriages and her career as a singer, actress and fashion model. Holt overcame the odds to successfully raise two loving daughters, one of whom would live out Holt's own unfulfilled dream to become one of the world's biggest stars. The DVD is a rare peek into Cher's fascinating family history. Cher recently remastered a CD "Honky Tonk Woman" that Holt recorded over 30 years ago which includes "I'm Just Your Yesterday" a duet with her daughter which is available now.

 

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Cher Live in Monte Carlo The Take Me Home Tour

 

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Cher Interviewed By... Jake Shears! (For 'V Magazine')
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Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears collaborated with Cher on her new album 'Closer To The Truth' - more precisely, on track 'Take It Like A Man'. More recently - just before Cher completed the album - 'V Magazine' asked him to interview the music legend, via phonecall, for their magazine. And here it is...

JAKE: Let’s talk about the new record, which I’ve gotten to hear a lot of and absolutely love. You sound amazing. What were the biggest challenges of making it?

CHER: Getting into the studio. I haven’t made a record in 11 years. But I think my record company was just about to blow me off, ’cause you know, I would have. They just said do it or don’t. So the first thing we did was “Woman’s World” and they seemed to like that. Then I pretty much over-recorded. I’m really enjoying this, but I have to say that it’s a little bit different. I’m singing higher notes and I’m singing better, which is kind of freaky, because I should be having to bring down my keys, but these are the highest songs I’ve sung.

JAKE: It seems like you don’t know what an incredible singer you are. Do you still feel insecurity about your voice?

CHER: Of course I do, you know that.

JAKE: I used to get nervous before I went on stage and I thought to myself, When I stop getting nervous is the day that I need to hang it up.

CHER: I have to tell myself that too. The other night before I went on The Voice, I thought, Oh, this is too crazy. Get yourself to a home. This is insane. I was really nervous. The song [“Woman’s World”] is hard because there’s no place to take a breath. It’s some sort of zealous thing—there are literally five breaths in the whole song. Plus, I haven’t sung in front of anybody. I haven’t been on television to sing live since, I don’t know, McKinley was president.

JAKE: What do you notice in an audience when you’re performing?

CHER: I see them all. I’m really lucky [with my concerts]. It seems like the party has started before I even get there and everyone is having a really good time. Another thing, when I walk on the stage, I make sure that the music and my foot get there at the same time. I don’t do well with extra time. Once I was doing the MTV Video Music Awards and we got out of the car, walked onto the stage, the guys plugged in, and we were on. And that’s the way I like to do it.

JAKE: I saw you opening night when you did Vegas at Caesars Palace. I had so much fun. What did you take away from nearly three years in Vegas?

CHER: Vegas was never a place that I liked. It was always hard on my voice, and I always ended up in the hospital. The people were kind of sedated and older, so it took me a long time to decide to let those people enjoy their show the way they wanted to and not the way I wanted them to. When I kind of made peace with that, I was a lot better. And then I changed the whole first part of the show, ’cause I just got so bored. I wish we had recorded it, but we didn’t. I just came out as a pimp and created this horrible old 42nd Street pimps-and-hookers scenario. We had this old yellow cab and this long limousine and I did two Bob Seger songs. Then I came out in this amazing pimp outfit. And then I disappeared, I went into the cab as the guy, and I came out of the cab looking like Jessica Rabbit. It got to be more fun. I can’t work unless it’s fun. I’m too immature.

JAKE: I’m the same way. How would you compare playing a really intense concert to filming a really emotional scene?

CHER: That’s a hard one, because you’re really worn out either way. In one you’ve done a great job and everyone’s had a really great time, the other is that you’ve been crying for three days and you just want to stick needles in your eyes. Meryl [Streep] and I once had a scene, in Silkwood, that took a long time to shoot. We started fighting in the kitchen and then in the living room, then on the porch. Then we sat on the swing and we were crying. It takes a while to do that. It’s a different thing. One is being really exhausted from fun and the other is being exhausted from being so emotional that you want to rip up your whole house.

JAKE: I love that answer.

CHER: I relate to singing as going to a party that someone else is giving and acting as going to a party that you are giving. It’s just emotionally different.

JAKE: This issue of V is about icons. Which people have really been your idols?

CHER: Elvis and, well, there have been different people at different times, but it’s really weird because mostly they’ve been men. When Joni [Mitchell] was making Court and Spark I was with David [Geffen], so every night when she would come in we would hang out and talk. I think Joni’s a genius. And there are great performers. I love K.D. Lang. It’s hard, you put me on the spot, and if I walk away from this telephone, hang up, I’m going to think of 50 people.

JAKE: I think K.D. Lang and Elvis are pretty amazing.

CHER: They’re the same person, right?

JAKE: When you called me to sing on “Take It Like a Man,” I was so excited. When all your dreams come true, is it hard to create new goals to work toward?

CHER: I don’t think that we are born with a finite number of dreams. One thing about dreams is that they can be whatever you want them to be, you don’t have to put a limit on them, you don’t even have to know them. You might have a dream that you don’t even know yet, you know? When I got a chance to direct If These Walls Could Talk, I didn’t really know that that was a dream. My sister said, “Tell them you want to do it, tell them you want to act in it but you don’t want to do the second one and you want to direct the third one.” And I was like, Okay, that sounds good. I didn’t even know it was a dream, and then it was.

JAKE: Let’s talk about technology for just a second.

CHER: I hope you grade on a curve.

JAKE: You’re very outspoken on Twitter. I love how you say what you want. Do you feel like it gives you a different kind of voice?

CHER: Yeah, and sometimes I think that I shouldn’t do it as much. When you’re by yourself, it seems so familiar, and you can get into so much trouble. God knows I have. I either sound like Einstein or some sort of Cro-Magnon man. It’s dangerous for me, but I end up saying what I want and I’m not so sure that certain people can do that. And sometimes even I have to go, Nah, Cher, you can’t.

JAKE: I find myself deleting stuff all the time.

CHER: I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and have something that I’ll want to say. My mother wanted to tweet and I went, “No, the absolute answer to that, Mother, is no.” I’d have to leave the universe if my 87-year-old mother got to tweet.

JAKE: She’s so beautiful, by the way.

CHER: I know, isn’t she amazing? She just finished two days on RuPaul’s show. My mother is just so with it and swears like a sailor, except she won’t admit it. She always is surprised if I say “fuck.” Like, Oh my god, shut my mouth. She’s crazy smart, and my sister is too. I’m the one with the least pencils in the box.

JAKE: You seem like you’re close with your family, with your kids. We have mutual friends you’re very close to, it’s almost like you’ve built a whole familial environment.

CHER: I love my family, and God knows we’ve had our differences and we fight big and we love big. I have my extended family—the Starks, the Rodkins. Some of my friends I’ve had my whole life. And I have so many little friends too, because everyone has children and children just love me, so I just get along with everybody. Sometimes I can be a bitch to my family, so it’s hard. I’m kind of the little girl with the curl. I mean, I’m fabulous, but I can be cranky. But mostly I’m good with my family and everybody comes to me with their problems, and I go to my mom when I’m desperate.

JAKE: Well, I’ve got two more little dumb questions for you now.

CHER: Dumber than these? Have you been listening, Jason? [laughs]

JAKE: I just got a tattoo and it’s a bloody mess. What should I do?

CHER: Go to any good tattoo parlor, because you want to catch that. You don’t want to get sick, but you also don’t want your tattoo ruined. Was that one of your questions?

JAKE: ’Cause I know you’re a tattoo lady. You know what you’re doing.

CHER: They started making tattoos so much cooler and every girl and every preschooler has a tattoo and I just wish I didn’t have mine. I’d like to start over. I would like to take off my tattoos, and especially the one on my butt, but how would I sleep? I’d have to sleep on my stomach and I don’t like that. When I got tattooed, nobody was tattooed. It was me, Janis Joplin, and I don’t even know.

JAKE: Is there anything else that you want to say about your new record?

CHER: I hope it’s good. I think some of the songs are good, and I’m proud of it, I think, on the whole. I’m not embarrassed, and that’s always a good thing. I think if you’re a Cher fan you’ll definitely be happy and not disappointed.

JAKE: I love the stuff I’ve heard. “Sirens” is great. And I love the one that I sing on, “Take It Like a Man.” I hope you make it a single.

CHER: I hope I do too. There are two obvious singles, and that’s one. I think it will be a dance record for sure. “Take It Like a Man” and “Dressed to Kill” are most like “Woman’s World.” “Sirens” is more like U2, wouldn’t you think? The Pink song, “I Walk Alone,” is kind of bittersweet in a way that only Pink can write. The other one that she wrote, “Lie to Me,” is kind of really bizarre and has a banjo in it. One song [“Lovers Forever”] I wrote with my friend, for Interview with the Vampire. We got turned down and I just kept it in the back of my mind for the longest time. There are a few dance songs, like four or five, and some that are kind of disco-sounding. “Take It Like a Man” is a great balls-to-the-wall dance. There’s no disguising it, it is what it is, and I can only wait till the boys hear it. I can’t wait.

JAKE: I can’t wait to hear the finished version. It was just about done when I listened to it.

CHER: It’s not mixed yet, but when it is I’ll be happy to play it for you. But it’s a lot harder now. And also we used Auto-Tune on it, which is really fun.

JAKE: Yeah? Cool.

CHER: So, you know every secret now?

JAKE: Yes! I’ve pretty much gone through all of my questions.

CHER: I like your interviewing technique, it didn’t hurt at all. It’s fun to be interviewed by someone who knows you. I’m not sure if it would work with everybody, but it was fun today.

JAKE: I had a good time too.

 

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Gurlll, I likes me some Cher, but the WTF is up with your posts???

 

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Gurlll, I likes me some Cher, but the WTF is up with your posts???

Just posting updates about the album or anything I find that I think other fans might enjoy really. That's all

And with that said here's the official lyric video for the next single I Hope You Find It

 

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Last night on Letterman

 

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Tour information here: http://tour.cher.com/

 

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Cher: 25 Things You Don't Know About Me
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 AT 4:40PM BY US WEEKLY STAFF

25 Things You Don't Know About Cher
Cher's first new album in 12 years, Closer to the Truth, is out now! Here, the pop icon gets personal with Us -- and shares 25 tidbits that might surprise even her biggest fans.

1. Stephen Hawking invited me to lunch one day, and we got into a heated discussion with his students about history vs. math. Stephen said, "Cher, when time travel is perfected, history will be obsolete."

2. Meryl Streep and I saved a girl from a large mugger in New York City.

3. The day I moved out of my home in Holmby Hills, I found a room I never knew existed.

4. There was a time I couldn't afford to pay my gardener for six months.

5. Jack Nicholson helped me through a panic attack just before the famous lunch scene in The Witches of Eastwick. I also have a painting Jack did for me. It's one of my most treasured birthday gifts.

6. I have a collection of elephants.

7. I once crashed in a small plane during a snowstorm.

8. I think David Letterman is in love with me.

9. Someday, I want to build a Balinese-style home.

10. I had two imaginary friends when I was little. They were both lumberjacks.

11. I love to play Wii tennis. I'm also a big football fan. Deacon Jones of the then-L.A. Rams taught me all I know about the game.

12. I am passionate about palm trees. They make me deliriously happy.


13. My mother still tells me what to do and I still don't listen.

14. One time, I threw a dart at a map to decide where I would vacation.

15. I am famous among my friends for my chicken Bolognese. I even use my own Diva Pasta labels when I give out jars for Christmas.

16. I have watched the 1958 film Auntie Mame, with Rosalind Russell, at least 100 times. I would love to play that part in a remake.

17. My cat is named Mr. Big. I first found him underneath one of my tour trucks in Detroit.

18. I love to bead! I make 5-inch-long beaded earrings for all of my friends.

19. My first car was an old red MG convertible.


20. Andy Warhol once showed up uninvited at one of my house parties. Best crasher I ever had.

21. I wear Malibu Cowboy boots (like Uggs, only cooler) whether it's summer, winter, spring or fall.

22. I have driven a taxi through New York City at 4 A.M.

23. I love to read and have taught several young people to read. One of my favorite books is God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch.

24. I once cried when I lost $100.

25. The night I won my Oscar, you could have spotted me running down the street toward the Shrine Auditorium with my dress sky-high. I was late again, of course!

 

[ShyTwink]

Re: The Official CHER discussion thread

A commercial for the new album Closer To The Truth out now

 

[ShyTwink]

Re: The Official CHER discussion thread

Cher Earns Highest-Charting Solo Album Ever on Billboard 200
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By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | October 02, 2013 11:01 AM EDT

Cher Earns Highest-Charting Solo Album Ever on Billboard 200
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"Believe" it: Cher has earned her highest-charting solo album ever on the Billboard 200.

The diva's new studio album, "Closer to the Truth," also logs her highest debut ever (solo or otherwise) with its arrival at No. 3. It sold 63,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Warner Bros. Records effort is her first album since 2002's "Living Proof."

CHER'S MOST OUTRAGEOUS OUTFITS

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Until this week, Cher had never gone higher than No. 4 with her solo albums -- reaching that peak with both "Believe" in 1999 and "The Very Best of Cher" in 2003. As half of Sonny & Cher, she only went higher once -- with 1965's No. 2-peaking "Look at Us." The album -- which contained the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single "I Got You Babe" -- was stuck in the runner-up slot for eight weeks behind the Beatles' "Help!"

During the new album's release week, Cher played NBC's "Today" show (Sept. 23) and "The Late Show With David Letterman" (Sept. 24). On the latter program, she was the only guest for the evening and also performed the album's second single, "I Hope You Find It."

"Closer to the Truth" was led by the single "Woman's World," which became Cher's eighth No. 1 on the Dance Club/Play Songs chart in August.

 

[Native Son]

Re: The Official CHER discussion thread

Tour information here: http://tour.cher.com/

I gotta see her before I die. (I know she's going to outlive me.)

But, damn.... These venues just don't agree with me. We'll have to see how it works out.