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Celeb News: Billboard: Cher reflects on 50 years on the charts
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Billboard: Cher reflects on 50 years on the charts
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Cher Reflects on 50 Years on the Billboard Charts: 'I Got You Babe,' 'Believe' & Beyond
There’s divas, and then there’s Cher.
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Cher’s debut on Billboard’s charts, we spoke to the woman herself. In our lengthy chat, we talked about her frustration of doing “poppy” songs in the early 1970s, how David Geffen "wasn't that interested" in her musical comeback in the 1980s (on his own label!), and how an act of “desperation” led to the famed vocoder sound of "Believe."
Cher also talks about her “hope” of heading back on tour, and her tentative plans of recording new music.
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Were you ever surprised by a single that did way better than you thought it was going to do?
Well, "I Got You Babe." Sonny woke me up in the middle of the night to come in where the piano was, in the living room, and sing it. And I didn't like it and just said, "OK, I'll sing it and then I'm going back to bed." So I was never a very good barometer. I loved songs that weren't as big of hits.
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I thought the range on the last album -- Closer to the Truth, which contains "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" and "I Hope You Find It" -- was wonderful. I think people might be surprised, like, "Oh, this is Cher?" People assume that [your voice] is going sound one way…
I honestly think that the most fun I ever had making a song was "Believe." Because you didn't know it was me in the beginning, and I was so excited.
Was that the intention?
No, it just came out of desperation.
[Laughs]
Mark [Taylor, "Believe" co-producer] hated what I was doing and he kept saying to do it better, because it didn't really pop until the chorus. I just couldn't do it. We had a huge fight. I stormed out. I mean, we were really close -- we're still really close -- but he just kept going "It's not good, it's not good." And then I said, "Well, if you want it better, get somebody else." And I walked out.
Wow.
And then the next day I saw this boy named Roachford [on TV]… and he was [using] a vocoder. And so I called Mark, and I said, "I'm coming over." Walked in, and I brought [Roachford's] CD and played it for him. And he said, "Cher, we can't do the vocoder because you've already sung it." And so he said, "You know, I've been playing around with the pitch machine. Go home and let me see what I can do." I came back the next day and he started to play it for me, and … I said, "We have to just stop and hold on to this moment." And then he kept going, and we were high-fiving and jumping up and down. Then we had to fight the record company because as fabulous as Rob Dickins was [the then-chairman of her label, Warner Music U.K.] … he said, "You know, the Germans don't like it because they can't tell it's you." And I said, "You can change it over my dead body."
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Are you working on anything right now?
I was supposed to go to… Mark [Taylor] has a song and I loved it, and I was supposed to go to England to do it. But then I wanted to go on vacation. And so…
Well, you know…
…I went on vacation instead. So I'm going to be in England to do something in October, so I'll go early and work with Mark.
I have to ask, you went on tour for the last album [the Dressed to Kill Tour], and because of your health issues [an acute viral infection that affected her kidneys], you had to cancel the second leg. Is there hope that you might be able to go out on the road again?
Yes, absolutely. … I've got everything. Nothing went anywhere. … I will keep "Dressed to Kill" and "[Welcome to] Burlesque" [in the set list], because those are my two favorite songs to do, actually. We'll probably get rid of "Take It Like a Man" [from Closer to the Truth] and we'll put in some more hits, probably. I don't know. You know, I'm hoping that I'll be able to do this. That's my wish. But I can't say that I actually will be able to… My will is pretty strong, so… I don't know.
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Well, you're kind of … you can't be knocked down. You're kind of a superhero.
You know what? I'm kind of a warhorse. Tina [Turner] and I are such… we just knew to do it. You know, we just worked until the work was over. And I got that kind of ethic from Sonny, because he never wanted to stop working.
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...llboard-charts
Cher is an amazing person, and I'm glad I stan for her. 
The "Hell on Wheels" shade and forgetting that there were eleven years between Living Proof and Closer to the Truth, though. 
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Really hope she goes back on the road. She'll probably make up all the cancelled shows, including the one in my area. 
Don't take out Take It Like A Man. Singing along to that is part of my coming out plan. 
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when will my favs 
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Are you working on anything right now?
I was supposed to go to… Mark [Taylor] has a song and I loved it, and I was supposed to go to England to do it. But then I wanted to go on vacation. And so…
Well, you know…
…I went on vacation instead.
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Never got much into Cher's work but she seems so nice and lovely, I'd like to have a tea with her
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Like, I was doing these kind of poppy songs. I was not content, necessarily, to do them, but… Like, I never liked "Dark Lady," and it was a big hit. [It went to No. 1 in 1974.] I was like hanging around with Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and I was singing ["Dark Lady"]. They're making like fabulous art and I'm making "Dark Lady." But then they were huge hits, and so, you know, somebody says, "You can't argue with huge hits, Cher."
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Not ha hating on my faves; Dark Lady and Just Like Jesse James
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Originally posted by RihannaRTT
Not ha hating on my faves; Dark Lady and Just Like Jesse James |
I'm pretty sure she hates more of her own songs than she likes.
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The length of the article 
It's a great read, though. She's really had a magnificent career. I think she's kinda underrated in today's society.
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Mess @ her disliking Dark Lady
That and Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves are my two favorite songs by her
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Really hope she goes back on the road. She'll probably make up all the cancelled shows, including the one in my area.
Don't take out Take It Like A Man. Singing along to that is part of my coming out plan. |
NP: Madonna + Taylor
I think they know 
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I knew going to see her twice and planned for 2 more times was a good idea. It's to bad she had to cut the tour short, it was so great to see her on stage. She's such a legend and its amazing how she blazes through with her energy.
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She's the best 
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I don't care if Cher's gonna be 90.. she better keep making flawless dance music... 
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i love her so much
why does she hate dark lady though
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