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Recap of Woman’s World Press Tour


943273_10201522820973247_1967374274_nThe Accolades:

After decades of dissings, then surprised condescension at her success in the 1980s, then the
1990s of affected interest with the turn into occasional accolades and credit,
the excitement of this round’s interviewers is palpable. I’m chalking it up to
the inarguable facts of her career piling up and The Cher Show kids finally finding their asses in interviewing seats.
It’s truly extra-ordinary and Cher is responding with
her grown-up voice and is downright verbose in her responses.

One of my favorite pile-ups of accolades was from SoSoGay,

“Before Beyonce,
before Gaga. Before Rhianna and before Katy. Before Britney, Christina, Cyndi
and Celine. Before Whitney and Mariah, and before Madonna. Before colour
television, before the Vietnam War, before man walked on the moon. Before the
decimalized pound. Before everything, before time immemorial…There was Cher….this shimmering vestibule of unrelenting
fabulousness….her sparkling tsunami.”

Ed Brody, the author, tells me Burlesque was amazing and to get over myself. I laughed at that. I wish I could. But that’s the cross a scholar bears.

Here’s more overview of the love:

  • A Cher fan said
    she was coolest person ever since he can remember (Watch What Happens/Andy Cohen)
  • Andy Cohen said as a kid he watched The Cher Show and “when she came down the
    ramp, life, hope, goose bumps, gave me fairy dust, inspiration” came too. He said Cher
    was putting to bed all the kids in America. (Watch What Happens/Andy Cohen)
  • Anderson Cooper said he grew up adoring Cher—and
    his mom (Gloria Vanderbilt) said Cher was her
    fantasy daughter. Kelly Ripa is also a fan. One caller said he had to get high
    to talk to Cher (Watch What Happens/Andy Cohen)
  • Dan Taylor called her the female artist of rock
    and roll, the iconic lady (WCBS).
  • On Sirius/XM radio’s Studio54 channel, the hosts Marc Benecke and Myra Scheer were very
    excited. (I just got a new car so have free XM for 3 months or something–whohoo!). In
    their intro, they played “The Shoop Shoop Song,” “Believe,” Turn Back Time,” and
    “Woman’s World” clips. On the Town Hall interview with Cher,
    (the inaugural), Myra noted that she was Steve Rubell’s executive assistant at Studio 54 in New York City.
    They called her major star, a guiding star, a role model with 250 world-wide
    awards in music, TV and film, including a Golden Globe, an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy,
    and a hit song in every decade “since 1910” Cher joked. At the first break,
    they played “Take Me Home” (and noted the song was on the Studio 54 album). The next
    break “Turn Back Time.” The next break “I Found Someone” (and here a salamander
    crawled up our faux-bedrock wall and stopped to listen). The next break “Believe,” “Strong
    Enough” next and during the final break “Women’s World.” Many of New York’s straight men asked questions
    during this interview and I love how straight men in NYC love her. You don’t see this so much in LA and the Midwest.

Candidness: Cher seemed so much less guarded in her face, body, and with her words.

  • The New
    York Times
    said what they used to say about her in the 1980s, “In this age
    of rigidly controlled star-bots, no topic seemed to be off-limits (except her
    relationship status).”
  • She appeared on The Today Show with Savannah Guthrie, (perky like Katie
    Couric) and was so nice and comfortable in her PJs. After the interview,
    Guthrie gushed about Cher to her co-anchors, calling Cher
    an unassuming charmer. I was impressed how easily Guthrie could kid with her.
  • On Z100, the DJ played “Does Cher Care” asking Cher irreverent questions about Paula Dean (Cher feels she’s not
    misunderstood, just wrong), Sandra Bullock’s new movie trailer: is it
    overexposed, will it be good? Is Cher even interested (Cher said it looks
    cool), about the never-ending cupcake craze (Cher said it sucked to begin with and
    prefers Hostess cupcakes), should Snowden be punished or kicked out of China/Russia?
    (Cher said this was above her pay grade).
  • Andy Cohen launched CherMaggedon with a plethora
    of games, including Truth or Cher—the Truth
    question being who her greatest lovers were (She said they’d all been
    exceptional. Andy said “That’s a list!” and she answered, “Not a long list but a
    good list.” He got her to admit Tom Cruise in the top 5 when prompted). In the
    Dare, Andy Cohen quoted Moonstruck
    and asked Cher to slap him while saying “Snap
    out of it.” In another segment Gypsies Tramps and Tea, Andy Cohen asked for
    Cher’s opinion on: Elvis (didn’t know him), Whitney (didn’t know her), Nick
    Cage (he’s crazy but I love him), Meryl (my idol), Phil Spector (he’s crazy and
    only paid me $25 for a year’s work), Michael Jackson (I have TMI!), Tom Cruise (He wasn’t
    a scientologist then and they were hot and heavy for a minute), ever having a lesbian lover?
    (who hasn’t). She said she stole a horse when I was 13 and took it to Santa Ana. If she could
    meet anyone? She’d ask Jesus “Dude, what’s the deal?” Her favorite decade was the
    80s (so much fun, could go naked swimming). On her bucket list? (I thought she said to build
    Balobgese house but is that right??). Her best movie role was Moonstruck.
    Does she have a boyfriend? (The moment anyone knows, you don’t have one; so she
    keeps that on the low down now—that’s a great answer actually). For the Jackal of the Night: Cher picked Senator Ted Cruise because he’s an a-hole who
    doesn’t like gays or foreigners. According to Andy, the show said “Cher” 29 times – which was a record.
  • During Andy Cohen’s Aftershow, he asked her what
    sent she would use for a scented candle (Uninhibited); she says she watches
    CNN/MSNBC. Anderson Cooper made a surprise appearance and said Cher calls in all the time to help people but low key (that she did so
    with Hurricane Katrina). They asked her about the Supreme Court decision on gay
    marriage (about time, she said) and they tried to play Kiss, Marry, Shag with
    her (with Quaid who she’d say she’d marry and Nicholson & Cage but she
    never finished the list.) They ran a Hair Chertrospective at the end.

Cher was great fun through all these shenanigans.




WomanssingleThe New Album:

  • On Live Chat NY, Cher
    said the video wouldn’t be released until September (which is very strange since
    a video might have helped the single). Cher
    said the newspaper wig was her wigmakers idea and kinda a nightmare. She said
    her favorite songs on the album are “Lie to Me” (a Pink song), “My Love” (a
    future single), Take It Like a Man” (a future single), and Dressed to Kill.”
    She said she recorded “Woman’s World” in an hour (on Z100 she said the song sang itself) and
    she co-wrote the song “Lovers Forever” which is actually old and was written for the movie
    Interview with a Vampire. She said
    the album has dance, rock and ballads and she hopes it will generate three videos.
  • On Z100 Cher said recording is still scary and
    tenuous and she is not Cher fan, that recording studios are not her favorite place to be, that she feels more confident
    on stage (where I shine) because she feels she’s a good entertainer (vs. a singer).
  • To Andy Cohen, Cher
    said Lady Gaga didn’t like their duet but that she felt it was good. Cher said this was her best album and her best songs and she loved that she didn’t have to lower her keys.
  • WCBS noted that this is her 26th
    album. She said here it was very eclectic with dance, ballads, a country song, and
    some funky banjo in one song and a U2-sounding 9/11 song called “Sirens.”
  • On XM she talked about the writing of “Woman’s
    World.” As she said in “Believe”-era interviews, there’s no overt personal connection to the song. She said the writer was a guy and
    his idea was that women are strong and now demand their rights. (In this light,
    I think the setup suffers from slight condescension, which isn’t the writer’s fault, but a generational interpretation, ex: we don’t need men to tell us this.) Myra said the song was
    very “I Will Survive of the 21st Century.” (I thought that label should
    have been applied to the song “Strong Enough” with its 1970s sound). Cher
    said the song was like “Believe” in that she didn’t like the second verse,
    which was too similar to “Believe.” Cher said
    she won’t cry twice, which is why in “Believe” she added the more empowering line: “Maybe
    I’m too good for you.” She wants to show that women are resilient. Myra said although Cher
    didn’t write it, she owned it. Cher’s mom said
    that about her The Voice performance.


GypsiesorigOld Songs:

  • On Live Chat NY, Cher
    said she turned down “Turn Back Time” around 1000 times and then did the song
    in an hour. She said her favorite song of her own is “Song for the Lonely.” The
    interviewer said she loves “Baby Don’t Go”
    and Cher said that was a great song and very  definitive Sonny & Cher.
  • On Z100 the DJ said Cher
    has embraced change through the eras vs. musicians who say “this is the kind of
    music I make” and aren’t flexible. Cher said
    she gets bored and likes to try new ideas. Cher
    said she can’t think of anybody my age who
    is making records to get on the charts or anyone who performs onstage with no clothes.
    (She’s so funny!) They talked about “Believe” and auto tune and the vocoder and pitch machines. I get confused during such tech talk.
  • On WCBS, Cher
    says she almost threw away “Believe” although she thought it was a “beautifully
    constructed idea.” She talked about the first time she heard herself on the
    radio, for her song “Baby Don’t Go.” They were at her mom’s house where their managers
    were living (because they were all poor). They were in the living room listening
    to KFWB and had all been calling on all their phones to the radio station to get it played. Cher said it was an out of body experience with everybody
    screaming when the song came on. They said they all wanted to go to the Cadillac
    dealership with bag full of money and buy a Cadillac.
  • On XM, Cher
    said she hasn’t a clue about her longevity in the business. She agreed with a
    fan that she liked the “Walking in Memphis”
    video and was the first to play Elvis. (Like originally? Like in 1971, which is
    my theory that she’s been doing Elvis since then?)

General Music:

On Live Chat NY, Cher says she Pink, Adele, and Amy
Winehouse; On XM she said she still has her favorite go-to song (but said
it makes no sense) as Procol Harem’s “Whiter Shade of Pale.” SoSoGay reporter
mentioned that her song from Not.Com.merical, “With or Without You” taps into
that Procol Harem sound.


MaskMovies & Broadway:

  • According to Live Chat NY, Cher has no word on the
    status of Drop Out or Bet and Flo, movies once listed on her IMDB page. For her
    next movie, she seeks a non-glamorous role in an independent film. She says she
    will never do Shakespeare.
  • She also says she got her Silkwood offer on a Wednesday matinee of her Broadway show, Come Back to the 5 & Dime, and she liked
    doing a play, found it comforting. (Live
    Chat NY)
    She said Broadway was not easy but you get an immediate reaction. (XM)
  • According to Live Chat NY she’s still writing
    for her Logo show.
  • The DJ of Z100 told Cher
    he used to watch Mask over and over with
    his sister. On Z100 and XM, Cher said she was
    sick during the offer to do Thelma &
    Louise
    but that what belongs to you comes to you. She  regrets not being able to do it but feels it
    was meant to be “Sue’s” part.
  • Andy Cohen during his Aftershow asked Cher if she keeps in touch with the Mermaids daughters, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci. Cher says they grew up and she hasn’t seen them lately. She
    said “Noni” went through a strange period but seems back on track and she
    remembers sneaking Christina M&Ms during the shooting when directors
    thought Christina was too chubby and banned them from her trailer. Cher
    said she loved the family-feeling of movies and talking to the tech people. She said
    she had a great time on Burlesque.
  • On WCBS, Cher
    retold the story about a crowd laughing at her name during the Silkwood preview (Nichols told her the
    previews were out and she went to a Tom Cruise movie in Westwood to see it with
    her sister and her manager, Billy Sammeth). She said it was organic laughter and therefore
    pretty painful. At the eventual premiere the audience clapped at her name in
    the credits.
  • On XM, Cher
    admitted not knowing how’s she’s persevered in a youth-oriented film industry. Myra calls her fearless. Cher said you evolve. Mark said she has communication
    with audience. Cher said she is likable. She
    said her most memorable moment was winning the Oscar. It was amazing to her since
    it took so long to get an acting job. She said Robert Altman was such a rebel. Mike Nichols told her when he saw the Saturday matinee about the
    character of Dolly that they couldn’t find anyone for the role before they found Cher and so they we were just gonna
    write her out; Mike said, “She’s a lesbian, but really lovely.” A fan asked if
    she would do more musicals? She said she wasn’t planning any but she enjoyed
    singing in a film.
  • One fan on XM commented on her sexy glamor and
    sensitivity in movies from Moonstruck
    to Jimmy Dean. Cher
    joked that she could multitask. She said, I am who I am for better or worse, a
    lot of worse. She said she likes play in her work and that sometimes she stops
    doing it when she feels she has nothing to offer.

Twitter & Star
Fights:

  • On Live Chat NY, Cher
    admitted on Twitter it’s hard to read jokes and emotions, saying, “Words can’t
    see a smile, can’t get emotions.” She said she tweets in the middle of the night
    like a vampire. To Andy Cohen she says she’s good with Madonna.
  • Andy Cohen asked her about Nicki Minaj throwing
    shade on her. She said people come and go. Snap!

Exercise & Free
Time:

  • On The
    Today
    Show Cher says for free time, she sees friends, goes to the Bahamas,
    paddle  boards, goes hiking, or somewhere
    like Nepal.
  • On XM she talked about working out, working her
    “ass off” now because when you’re older it gets harder. But she was always into
    sports and running as kid, climbing trees. She had “so much energy.” Official exercise started for her during The Sonny
    & Cher
    shows where she took a dance class during their lunch breaks.
    She said you have to change it up to trick your body. The same exercise stops
    working. Now she does yoga, pilates, weights and the trampoline to music, bouncing,
    she says, makes her happy.

Outfits:
Inlove

  • In the New
    York Times,
    Cher said her favorite dress
    was the Oscar Snub Dress: “If you could have seen it up close. It was cashmere,
    the beading was beautiful, they made earrings and the headdress was exquisite.
    It was impeccable. It was beautifully done.” (And Cher
    would know a headdress). She also stated “Camp is in the eye of the beholder.”
  • On The
    Today
    Show she said she doesn’t mind people hating what she wears.
  • On Andy Cohen she wore space platforms shoes and
    black and white geometric jacket and pants. Cher
    scholar Robrt Pela noted that this outfit matched the back cover of Sonny & Cher’s In Case You’re In Love album.
    She stated her that her favorite outfits where the Oscar dress, and her first
    Indian “costume,” and the “Turn Back Time” outfit (Which one? The concert hole fit or the
    video V fit?)
  • On XM, a fan asked what her outfit inspirations
    were. She said her first inspiration was Bob Mackie. She loved that her
    friend said her hair on The Voice
    looked like a chicken from the 4H club. She says she has a  good humor about it. But she said the outfit
    and wig didn’t translate on the show (I agree: too many cuts and closeups). Cher said art should provoke conversation, not that she
    can say my hair was art, but she was going for Luxe Punk.

Concerts:
Helen-Mirren

  • On LiveChat NY, Cher talked about
    her first live appearance in bowling alley and Sonny pushing her on stage. She
    said about her Caesars shows:  “They were
    very staid.” (New York Times) and that
    fans couldn’t afford the show so there was an older, low energy audience. She came
    to understand “you don’t get to decide how they’re gonna enjoy it. They get to
    decide.” She said on tour she saves her voice and doesn’t talk, lives like a
    nun.  She said in the 1960s people threw
    rings on stage, in homage to the fact she had rings on every finger (I did not
    know that.). She said “Song for the Lonely” is impossible to sing and she didn’t
    tape Caesars show. (Live Chat NY)
  • The New
    York Times
    was with Cher at the Marquee
    during a very long wig change. Manager Lindsay Scott was asked, “How much of
    his life is spent waiting for Cher to change
    her outfit and get trussed up?” “A good amount.”
  • In the Marquee video itself, Cher
    made a speech about when she was unc2ool and a has-been, “you guys have always
    been there.” Cher watched some drag queens/impersonators
    dance to a mix of her songs and she danced and sang along, smiling.
  • On Z100 she said she might tour next year. The
    DJ asked her about seeing all those cell phones now at shows. She said smart
    phones weren’t around yet during her farewell tour years.
  • During the Macy’s 4th of July
    Spectacular, I loved the long hair and the pants. Is that chain mail back in
    action? Mr. Cher Scholar made many positive remarks, (She looks cool here,
    looks younger, like the big hoops, she looks great). The women in audience
    really seem into it. Cher smiles a lot and
    throws out sultry looks. She did lip sync but in the bootleg pre-tape, you can
    hear her singing. She comments about dressing age-appropriate (not quite yet; age appropriate would be dressing like Helen Mirren above…can you believe they’re less than a year apart in age?). She talks about her choreographer, Doriana
    Sanchez, and about getting free M&Ms vs Dr. Pepper backstage.
  • Cher announced
    she’ll be performing a Today Show
    concert on September 23. The hosts said to “expect a legendary crowd.”
  • Cher said her least
    favorite song to do live is “Jessie James.” She talked about touring with sonny
    in early 70s on the club circuit where they had to cook in our room but used
    Chastity in act; She used to lead the orchestra. (Watch What Happens/Andy Cohen)
  • On XM, Cher
    said hearing her records again, she felt they sound better. For live shows you
    need to speed them up because the audience needs excitement. She said singing
    live is a crap shoot. She said sometimes her musical director  Paul Mirkovich changes up arrangements. A fan asked if there was a drag queen better
    than she was? She picked Elgin Kenna and called him a genius artist.

TV Shows:

  • To Andy Cohen, she talked about Farrah Fawcett’s
    appearance on The Sonny & Cher Comedy
    Hour.
    “She had tits and I didn’t” so Farrah got all the crews attention.
    She said one of her favorite things  with
    Sonny was the Raymond Burr blooper (long form) and on XM she said the blooper
    was “so us.” She also agreed she loved her West Side Story performance. She
    said there were 14 costume changes on her show with Sonny.
  • On WCBS, she said her appearance on The Voice was awful and scary. Before
    the show she told her mom she would either be the greatest reinvention of herself
    or it would be “get thee to a nursing home.”

Family & Friends:
Hersonny

  • Cher said her mom would be a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Chaz was great
    performing in “30 Minute Musical” (Live Chat NY), the episode spoofing Independence Day and Chas played the
    president.  (Watch What Happens/Andy Cohen)
  • Cher said Sonny’s
    funeral was very Italian with everybody cooking. “The only person not there was
    Son.” Cher said they didn’t sing to Chaz at
    bedtime, they read her stories. (Watch What
    Happens
    /Andy Cohen)
  • ON WCBS, Cher said her mom’s best advice was to never
    litter and that Cher has never seen Chaz better
    in his life.
  • On XM someone asked for Cher’s
    advice to new artists. Cher said entertainment
    and fame are so different now, everyone has an immediate clothing line (I
    wonder how Sonny would have operated in this era). Cher
    said Sonny instilled in her the idea never to believe in a no. She said she should
    have stopped years ago when all signs pointed to no, but like a bumper car she
    keeps going, it’s in her family DNA. She said far more talented people don’t
    make it. She hears friends saying older people should move over to give the
    kids a shot, but the women in her family are not moving out of the way.
  • On XM they asked her for her best personal and
    professional decade. She said all decades have had their over parts and have
    also spiked up. “They said I reinvented myself but it was untrue…I’m just me.”
    She couldn’t decide on a best decade, saying the 1960s were the beginning, the
    1970s had the TV show, the 1980s had the movies and was the best decade
    personally.
  • On WCBS Cher said she was still working with Children’s
    Craniofacial Association.
  • In The New
    York Times,
    Cher said Robert Camilletti was
    her easiest relationship and of her two husbands, Sonny she was most attached
    too: “It wasn’t like anything before or after. And it wasn’t all roses. It was
    very Russian roulette.”
  • On XM she said her true love was Robert Camilletti and Ronnie Zimmerman was the one who could make her laugh so hard she cried.
  • XM asked her for advice for parents. She said I’m on twitter with your
    kids. She said it’s hard to stop telling your kids what to do but you need to think of them as people and cut
    them some slack and do fun stuff with them. You’re not just there to boss them around. But teenagers
    are crazy. You need to guide them more because you worry about them all the time. Her mom told her never
    lie, litter, or talk back. But she learned to drive when she was 11 and her mother assures her she was
    a mercurial child. “Chaz was an angel all the time. Elijah is like me.”

Her Character:

  • Calls herself mercurial (Sirius/New York Times) and says
    her worst habit is worrying too much (Live Chat NY). If she could go back in
    time as superpower to meet an Egyptian whose name I couldn’t catch or to send the
    paparazzi into space (Live Chat NY). She said her biggest obstacle is her up
    and down moods and she works to stay in the center and not be over emotional
    (WCBS).
  • On XM she was asked if she would change anything
    she’s done. “How long do we have,” she asked and then said the truth would be too
    personal. She believes what belongs to you comes to you.

Plastic Surgery:

In the New York Times,
Cher admits her limited movie offers might be due to her wrinkle-free visage,
that her look might make it “hard to be anyone but Cher.”
She said this idea “didn’t feel very good. But it was true. I get that. I
understand that.” She was also asked about Chad Michaels allegedly having
surgery to look more like her: “If it doesn’t bother him, it doesn’t bother me.
I don’t feel creepy. I don’t.”

A Book:
Ft

To Andy Cohen, Cher admitted she once wrote “a half-assed book.” But before she write the bigger book, people have
to die off. She said she and friend, Paulie, talk about it all the time.

Shy Kid to Superstar:

My iPod shuffle served up the Sonny & Cher b-side “Hello
during Cher’s big June/July press push. I was
taken by how far she’s come in her confidence.

We’ve also come to a point of critical mass in her career, where no one (including Cher herself) can pretend this is her first album, movie or project and dismiss or ignore all the preceeding history. I love it when she talks about experiencing showbiz over so long a period of time and, as you can see, all these interviews reflect the breadth of her work, from live shows to TV shows to music albums to being a fashion icon. It’s all here.

 

Cher Pushes into July Publicity

Cher Dance at the Pier (4)News and Pics of Cher at The Pier/Gay Pride


http://www.chernews.blogspot.com/2013/07/cher-performs-trio-of-tracks-at-dance.html

http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-performs-at-pride-concert-new-york/

Pride4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Macys2News and Pics of Cher Performing at Macy's July 4th Celebration from Liberty Park

She looked so lovely at this, by the way. Total charmer. Mr. Cher Scholar's comments:

"She looks cool here."

"She looks younger here."

"She looks great."

"I like the big hoops."

Gah. It's like he wouldn't stop talking about it. 😉

http://www.chernews.blogspot.com/2013/06/cher-performs-womans-world-at-liberty.html

Z100interviewThe z100 Radio Interview

http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-z100-radio-interview/

I'm telling you, the way interviewers are making over Cher, the excitement and respect they give her…it's so remarkable. It kind of made me verklempt. And she's so giving and patient with all their fawning.

 


Today showThe Today Show

Cher was on The Today Show this week in her pjs and not last week. So I missed it like I'm missing everything else in this press junket. Thank the Cher Gods for the Internet. Great interview.

Best clip with the hosts fawning over her afterwards.

More Andy Cohen Show thoughts

O-CHER-BEETLEJUICE-1-570Cher scholar Robrt made the astute connection between Cher's outfit on Andy Cohen in June "those wild matching outfits she and Sonny are wearing on the back of their second Atco LP." Brilliant!

When I met Cher at a CD signing, I blogged like a nerd about it (just to process it, man). I see Anderson Cooper has done the same thing but using his media-source CNN: http://www.towleroad.com/2013/07/anderson-cooper-apologizes-for-fawning-over-cher-video.html (Thanks to Cher scholar Dishy for sending.) Cooper outs Wolf Blitzer as a Cher fan. Speaking of Anderson on Andy Cohen, I am always interested when when Cooper talks about his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt.

Queerty.com then makes fun of him for doing so: http://www.queerty.com/anderson-cooper-dresses-in-cher-drag-wants-to-braid-chers-hair-20130704/. (Thank you Cher scholar JefRey for forwarding.)

After Andy Cohen taping a New York Times reporter did a story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/fashion/cher-talks-about-what-else-being-cher.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&emc=eta1

More Remixes from Cher's Youtubes:
Jodie Harsh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAko-fEOq0
Zookeeper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Bw6lromTI
Jason Nevins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBRl-2YMzkE

 


Cher-yours-tomorrow-1968-580x435Great Idolator Pieces
Thanks to Cher scholar JefRey for sending… 

"18 Reasons Why Cher is Fundamentally Awesome

The memory-lane of Cher Single Covers

 

 

I want to talk more about the highlights of all this press coverage but me paws still ailing (thanks to Bruce for your advice…yes it is my upper back causing all the drama), so look to that in the weeks to come. Lots of great stuff to digest.

 

Cher Likes New York in June, How Bout You? (And VCR Alert)

Unfortunately I have been felled temporarily this week by carpel tunnel and much melodrama related to that (crying jags, garment renting) so I've behind in all the Cher appearances of this week. I can't type much (to save my arms and hands) but I'll post what I've been sent.

The Voice Wrap Up:

Blake Shelton on Cher's performance and what it meant to him: http://www.wetpaint.com/the-voice/articles/2013-06-24-blake-shelton-favorite-season-4

Cher on her performance (to Access Hollywood): "It was awful at the beginning… Because my voice has been really bad lately. I was frightened, but I knew I had to do the best that I could. It was probably not the best that I'll ever do it, but it was definitely the best I could do tonight." Cher talks about her look as Luxe-Punk: http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-discusses-the-voice/

Host Carson Daily said: "It was so crazy to
see Cher on the stage. I've been very lucky to watch Madonna, Paul
McCartney, Michael Jackson. I've interviewed them, I've talked to some
of the greats, but watching Cher tonight, that sort of completes my
personal volume of icons in music."

Results of "Woman's World" the Charts (sent from my friend Christopher, my Billboard chart-watcher):

from Paul Grein of Chartwatch on Billboard

"To My Readers: Cher’s “Woman’s World” didn’t make it this week.   It sold 26K digital copies to enter Hot Digital Songs at #79. I thought that might be enough to do it. Alas, no."

Christopher: "Hot Digital Songs is the sales chart for digitally purchased singles. The low ranking on the sales chart, when combined with no significant radio play, failed to generate sufficient overall points for the song to make an impression on the Hot 100.   🙁 "

According to CherNews,

'Woman's World', which was a top 50 seller on Amazon and iTunes, has
entered Billboards Hot Digital Songs chart at number 79, with sales of
over 26,000 copies. Perhaps more importantly, the song has entered Billboard's 'Bubbling
Under Hot 100 Singles' chart at number 25. The 'Bubbling Under' chart
showcases the 25 songs that are sitting just below Billboard's main 'Hot
100' chart and that have not yet entered the main chart. 'Woman's World' has unsurprisingly made a big impact on Billboard's
dance charts; it debuted at number 7 on its Dance/Electronic Digital
Songs (sales) chart and number 16 on its Dance/Electronic Songs chart
(sales, airplay, club play, streaming).

Sadly the bubbling under chart is not great boon. It means the single is charting over 100. Top 41-99 is not a hit. So over 100 isn't great. But it could gain momentum yet.


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Watch it on the Tubes: 1, 2 and 3 and AfterShow later and more later.

The ramp up for this show was called Cher Magedon and Cher scholar JeffRey sent me the promos which are hilarious…

 

 

 

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Talk about an American treasure. The Queen reigns. I'll talk about these interviews more when my hands aren't freakin killing me. But I will say I love how relaxed and open Cher is in all of them. So nice, so nice.

The Pier Show (June 30)

Fan video and video from very very far away (for some reason this is interesting to me; imbibing with out paying…so fun!). Cher was reported to debut the song from the new album, "Take it Like a Man."

Today I noticed there is a reported album leak with the following track listing:

1. Woman’s World
2. Take it Like a Man
3. Dressed to Kill
4. Lie to Me
5. Pride
6. Red
7. I Walk Alone
8. Beautiful Vampire

I didn't download the album myself because (I'm not that innocent), I was afraid of a virus.

Coming Up


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Cher World coverage:

"Full piece will air on Thursday, July 4, at 10:00 am ET, via satellite on The
Blend, channel 16, and Thursday, July 4 at 2:00 pm ET on Studio 54
Radio, channel 54, and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App on
smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at
siriusxm.com. For rebroadcast times, please visit www.siriusxm.com/townhall"

A clip is posted on Sirus XM

July 4th on NBC

Cher News reports Cher will appear on NBC's 'Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular' TV special.

 

LiveStream Alert and News Galore

SonnycherwaterSo it's summer here in Santa Fe (obviously) and we've been going through a nasty heat wave that broke a few days ago. Just came across this picture of Sonny & Cher in their pool from an early publicity session. Love this picture on so many levels, least of which because I'm hot and don't have a pool handy.

CherNews and CherWorld have been posting some good stuff in the last few days. Tomorrow is single release day for "Woman's World" and she will sing on The Voice tomorrow night. She will also be doing a LiveStream interview before The Voice at 6:15 PST: http://new.livestream.com/cher. Apparently, You can ask questions for this special event by sending them directly to Cher on twitter by using the hashtag #Cherlivestream.

CherNews also culls from Cher's tweets that the failure of Lady Gaga's "The Greatest Thing" duet had more to do with Lady Gaga not liking it than Cher. Producer RedOne was set to redo it as a solo track but "dropped the ball," went "MIA" and please direct your ire at him, tyvm. According to tweets, the album will have 11-16 songs (sweet!) and there are duets with Pink and Jake Shears and a mystery duet on the album.

Of course I have many fantasies concerning Cher's mystery duet. In fact, I have fantasized about an all-chick duet album with Cher as a feminist version of all those insipid Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett duet albums. I also fantasize about a John Waite duet and more Tom Jones duets.

CherNews also reports that Cher and William Shatner are sharing friendly tweets which is sooo awesome because it is another fantasy of mine to see Shatner interview Cher for his Raw Nerve show (if that show is even still running). His interview questions are so much more interesting than anyone elses.

Believe me, the Cher-duet-interview-fantasy factory is alive and well here at Cher Scholar Institutes. Oh and Cher expressed interest in fellow Ellen Show guest Theresa Caputo, saying she reminded Cher of Sonny's mom and other loud and lovable family members of his. I keep getting Caputo (the Long Island Medium) confused with psychic Kim Russo who does The Haunting Of…" show with celebrities. I've never thought about it before but a nice new Cher fantasy would be to see her appear on Russo's show so we could continue to connect with Cher's long lost loved ones.

CherNews also resports from Europe that:

The 'Burlesque' soundtrack album has shot to number one on the iTunes
Soundtrack Albums charts in Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland
after the film was aired on television in Central Europe. The
soundtrack album was also spotted back at number one on iTunes
Soundtrack Albums chart in Japan, where it is certified Gold for 100,000
shipments.

Cher keeps on cookin' out there. 

 

Cher History on Video: CNN, Doll Commercial, Mama

ChercnnSo while we're cooling our heels waiting for the new Cher single to be released this month, I came across some good video of Cher on the UTubes.

 

 

 

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I caught up with a whole array of Cherness on CNN:

– Cher on Larry King (1999) circa "Believe," Tea with Mussolini and discussing Sonny's funeral (part 1 and part 2)

Footage I hadn't seen about Cher's single with Eros Ramazzotti (2001); how they came to make the record together

Cher calls CNN to talk about Hurricaine Katrina, feeling the same helplessness we all did but with some extra money to help out (2005).

Cher calls CNN to talk about the death of Michael Jackson (summer 2009) and her experiences working with him; how hard it was to learn the Jackson Five dance for her Cher TV show, how Michael loved her beaded socks.

Cher continues to talk that night about Farah Fawcett (summer 2009). "This chick was holding on to thin air and still had a great attitude."

Dolls

Doll– Cher Scholar JefRey sent around this clip: a French commercial for the Mego Cher doll. Mr. Cher Scholar thinks the commercial is from Quebec. He said the accent sounded unusual to him and we figure the Cher shows would be more meaningful to Canadians than to the French. Mr. Cher Scholar translates the commercial jingle as follows:

"That's Cher! [John laughed at the beginning because in French 'Cher' means both 'dear and, in 'slang, expensive… so it sounds like the little girl is exclaiming "That's expensive!"] The doll with long hair; the doll with elegant clothes, that doll that you can braid, wardrobe for all occasions. Thirty-two ensembles sold sseparately. Cher is sold with everything on the screen. Cool! [John was confused by the accent over the very last word which he guessed it meant divine or wonderful or cool.]

FactoryCher peforms (circa 1966) "Mama" with all those creepy dolls at what looks like a staged doll factory. Far from being creeped out, Cher looks pretty blaze about it all.

 

 

 

Cher Concert Openings

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Although Cher did video for her 1978-9 Take Me Home shows, the big opening video I remember is from Heart of Stone tour. It's fuzzy but you get a sense in the jump in polish from concert videos made from 1989 to 2008. This opening is just a collage of clips as opposed to a remix of music and clips. The first video opening at Caesars Colosseum.

What's great about these openings (whatever version they take) is not just how well they familiarize nonfans with Cher's 4-decade oeuvre, but how much excitement they build up before Cher makes her entrances.I love how the second one is a lovely mashup of "Believe," "I Got You Babe," "Dark Lady," Gypsies Tramps and Thieves," "Song for the Lonely" and "The Beat Goes On."

European Interviews

German– Wetten Dass (German) interview from 1995, part 1 and part 2 and part 3 (she sings a O Holy Night in German!!).

– Wetten Dass from 1999.

Sanremo (Italian) interview with audience from 1999.

 

 

Cher’s Trip to Russia

CherreturnCher was seen at LAX on here way to Russia at the end of May (pic here; Rob in Michigan correctly stated she looked like a Ramone in those pics). To the left, we see her returning via LAX. Fans find her hot to trot in those tight pants. I saw this and was worried she hadn't eaten anything in Russia.

CherWorld has a good set of pictures and video of her performance in Russia, which are great because you can hear Russian fans cheering, talking and singing along.




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Periphery News: Condo for Sale, Thinner Chaz, Hot Allman Wife

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What would a three-to-four year period be without a former Cher residence not going up for sale? I imagine a strange Chertopia forming, where every house in the western world is bought by Cher and redesigned to be resold looking Mediterranean, medieval, middle-eastern or in some way Cher like. A homogeneous Levittown-cum-Chertown.


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Just look at those Cher windows and tell me I'm wrong!

Cher is now selling her two-story remodeled condo in Sierra Towers in LA, ending her relationship with a residence along the lines of a similar pattern: she met it, bought it, changed it over (dating phase), photographed herself in it for Architectural Digest (wedding photos), and then decided they should both see other people, hopefully with a net gain for herself of 1 million dollars.

Allegedly her condo is the only two-story condo in the building, with neighbors such at Courtney Cox, Elton John and Joan Collins. She bought it in 2006 for $4.5 million and is listing it at $5.5 million.

If you're interested in moving in, the building boasts a 24/7 concierge service, a gym, a pool, a sundeck and her condo has panoramic views.

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In other news, Contactnews is reporting that Cher's son Chaz has lost 43 pounds. From the picture, it appears to be true: http://www.contactmusic.com/news/chaz-bono-loses-43-pounds-on-health-kick_3513240

The photo caption claims Chaz is walking with his girl friend. She looks strikingly similar to Heidi Shink. If so, are they dating again or did the caption mean to say girl [space] friend?

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The site Ultimate Classic Rock has named Cher one of the Hottest Rock Star Ex-Wives: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/cher-hottest-rockstar-ex-wives/

…although they admit she's "a legend in her own right." This is a nice nod coming from a classic rock site, I think. Did you know Allman has now racked up 6 wives? As Mother to Cher Scholar would say to Mr. Allman if she ever met him with this factoid, "maybe it's you."

The picture to the right is from the Richard Avedon photos that became the cover of her Dark Lady album in 1974, a year before she met Gregg Allman, before she was to become the ex-girlfriend of David Geffen. I look forward to the list that accumulates the hottest gay beards.

 

Winners Announced: Fans Rend Garments

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The winners of last week's Facebook contest were announced and Cher News has been tracking the tweets of joy and the tweets of despair from those fans who did not make the random cut.

 

 

Zombies will be zombies after all. Sadly, they always want flesh.

But seriously, don't the drama queens ruin it for the rest of us. Just like Jessica Lange emoted in the early part of this season's American Horror Story in her Oscar winning Bostonian accent after the inmates abused a good thing, "Movie night is over for the foreseeable futcha!"

Will Cher continue to provide contests if the contestants lose their minds? She certainly doesn't need to.

Interestingly related to this, I've been saving up quotes on fame for my next Cher Zine and I've just found a treasure trove of good Oscar Wilde ones. Yesterdays find is apropos for the situations of these upset fans:

"It is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals."

I always thought the phrase "get a life" was too harsh and slightly inaccurate. How does one lose a life after all other than to "drop dead." The better encouragement may be, "please start to care about other things."

If you continue to rent the fates for not delivering up your name in a Facebook contest, life is nothing but suffering ahead for you.

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On the bright side of obsession, one obsessed fan contributed a winning bid of $5,700 to ensure meeting Cher, funds which will go to the Cher Charitable Foundation and the maintenance of the Shikimana School in Kenya. How often is it that nice and needy Kenyans get the opportunity to appreciate Americans for our celebrity obsessions?

 

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