So now let me ask you something, how much do you like Cher? Me, I kinda admire her more than like her. The early “I’ve Got You, Babe” stuff and new folk cum pop stuff, you know, just before the Sonny And Cher show blew up. Maybe a little later, with the divorce.
But Cher the disco diva? Never entirely convinced to be perfectly honest and even when you could see Cher’s blueprint plastered on Madonna, Madonna was always the more interesting of the two. Remember the Allman And Woman period? Who can take that shit seriously?
I’ve only seen her live once, a Vegas extravaganza moved to MSG in the late 1990s and it wasn’t bad, I guess. Campy as hell, but that was the point. Than of course there was “Burlesque” but n… maybe let’s not discus that if it is all the same to you.
So next week we get Closer To The Truth and if the first single “Woman’s World” is anything to go by, I’d rather pass on this 67 year old diva if it’s all the same. Leave Rolling Stone (prediction: four stars) to try and not offend her, I’ll just put my head down. “Woman’s world” has the most nagging synth hook imaginable, it is three ntes over and over again and man does it grate. Plus her drag queen portraying Cher in a new one woman show vocal doesn’t help.
But speaking of predictions, this one is easy: the album will hit the top ten but the single, a major major annoyance, won’t. A concert? That will huge, a sellout, and Barclay will get it.
Woman’s world – C-