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Cher Album News (Timberland, Pink, Gaga, Aguilera)

August 10, 2012 / / 5 Comments

PinkWent to Kansas to visit in-laws last week and while I was gone tweets and news bulletins went a-flyin about Cher's new album. Cher also tweeted some sweet new pics. An overview:

— There's a Lady Gaga duet we already knew about called "The Greatest Thing"

— There are two songs written by Pink, who says of contributing songs that it was "such an honor…I'm such a fan." One of the titles is supposedly "I Walk Alone." I'm such a fan of Pink being a fan of Cher!

— There may also be a duet with Christina Aguilera. This is far from confirmed and would be ironic considering they made a musical together but have never sang together. I know. Makes no sense to me either.

— Producer Timberland is also involved in one song at least. Studiooutfit

— Cher is very happy with the results so far, often tweeting her excitement on various songs. "It's funny, I'm always drawn to same kind of song – overcoming pain, being strong enough and believing in love!"…"I worked hard last night! I go in and sing for ninety minutes to two hours straight! I don't like sitting down until the song is finished! Usually I can ace one song in one session! 'You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me' took two hours; 'If I Could Turn Back Time' took ninety minutes! I'm fast!" …"Many artists take a lot of time but more time wouldn't make my vocals better. I don't mean to sound pompous, it's the only way I know! 'Believe' was the worst time in studio – that's why we used pitch machine! It just wasn't working".

— A single is now slated for October not September and an album around Christmas. This will be here before you know it!

Cher also posted current photos, including the pink one at the top and the leopard-print jammies she said she wore to the studio.

Studio2 As Cher Scholar, I am absolutely salivating over modern pictures of Cher recording in the studio! Is this even a studio? To be a fly on that wall, a bug on that crazy carpet. Below you can see the producers at the board.

Cher News also gives an overview of reports that Cher is working with RedOne (producer of "The Greatest Thing"), J-Roc, Kuk Harrell, and Jason DerĂĽlo. And then there's Diane Warren. More obvious rhymes and vague sentiments to be expected there. It would be sweet to have this album be peppered with so many young divas and producers.  

 

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Cher News has extensive blow by blow reports:

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Cher’s Drawers

July 28, 2012 / / 3 Comments

EyelashdrawerLast week Cher scholar Robrt sent me the link to the page Kathy Griffin posted about her girls-night-in with Cher.

http://kathycher.tumblr.com/

Cher rummaging through her eyelash drawer to the left

 

 Amazing things to see here:

  1. Cher giving us the finger (never tiresome is it?)
  2. Cher attempting to organize the un-organizable eyelash drawer.
  3. Cher's glitter drawer. It is comforting to see how the rich and glamorous have the same troubles containing glitter in their glitter jars as the likes me. Glitter escapes all over the bottom of the drawer whether your're famous or not.
  4. Kathy Griffin posing in one of the Sonny & Cher bobcat fur vests. History is calling on the princess phone!
  5. I really find it adorable how Kathy gives Cher a hard time in the video.

Music & Art That Inspires Us

July 19, 2012 / / 2 Comments

PalomaThis week Cher expressed praise for the material Pink submitted for Cher's new album:

"Had meeting 2nite w/Record Co. They Love (the) Song I've done! Got 2 New (songs)! Pink Wrote them! Co(mpany)  wants it out end (of) yr. pic'd single… Alecia (Pink) wrote 2 Great Songs!… Pink is Definitely My Girl! She's Talent! Luv it."

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Since I am broke, I am waiting like a pauper for my birthday to get the new Paloma Faith album, which is available as an import only now. I love her song "Agony" and the song and video for "Picking Up the Pieces."  

Hopefully I'll be in the flush with cash again soon. I just started a new job at the Institute for American Indian Arts. I'm pinching myself to be in this creative space. Check out their museum, ground zero for contemporary Native American and Alaskan art: http://www.iaia.edu/museum/.

SavageMeanwhile, Cher Scholar Dishy has been turning me on to some awesome stuff. Through him I watched the Siouxie and the Banshees video collection. Although I only really loved "Kiss Them for Me" as a song, all the videos blew my mind; the special effects still hold up. I also watched his copy of the videos for The Eurythmics' album Savage which I can't recommend highly enough. Now I finally get the "I Need A Man" video. You get to see this amazing characterization of the blonde chick as she evolves through the videos. I see elements of Kiki DuRane in the whole trajectory. Interesting to me that Annie Lennox was working on similar feminist characterizations as Madonna but not getting the credit for it, because hers was more to the jugular and it made everyone uncomfortable.

Watch the sequence:

  • Beethoven (I Love to Listen To)…This video introduces us to housewife versus the little brat the unruly woman is created from. After watching it, Mr. Cher Scholar told me about how they used to discourage women from listen to Beethoven because his music excited them.
  • I Need a Man – Unruly woman gets unhooked!
  • Heaven – Unruly woman does LA.
  • Wide Eyed Girl – If you wait to the end of this very-80s video, you see what might be the unruly blonde as worn-out mother.
  • Savage – Unruly woman runs out of steam…beautifully.
  • You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart – Unruly woman and house-frau battle for Annie Lennox's soul.

LdrDishy also alerted me to the new album by Americana-lyricist Lana del Rey, Born to Die. Have yet to spend real quality time with it but I love the atmosphere and the smart lyrics so far.

If you love pop-culture references, you might like the videos too:

  • National Anthem (Is that Marilyn Monroe meets President Obama a.k.a. A$AP Rocky? That's awesome enough but it gets better!)
  • Video Games
  • Born to Die
  • Blue Jeans (Because everybody has to do a black and white video…this one has great water shots, like the video for "Just a Dream," the masterpiece from my STL-homie Nelly.)

 

Twitter, Tours and Taking Pics

July 13, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Cherjuly2012_3I'm late with Cher posts again. Okay, this is for two reasons: I've been out camping this summer around the Southwest (Mesa Verde, Bryce Canyon, Conchas Lake) and I've been moonlighting with another blog. I'm putting out a book this year and I've been ramping up my personal and poetry sites. Check out Big Bang Poetry at http://www.bigbangpoetry.com, reinventing the life of the poet in the modern world.

But it's not that I haven't been having any Cher thoughts. I'm excited-ly awaiting the new Cher biography out next Friday, the one that was supposed to come out last May, then June.

Cher fans have also been discussing new album and tour news. Cher tweeted that the first single would come out in September, an album would be released for Christmas, and a tour, if she tours, will be postponed until spring of 2013 due to surgery she needs on her ailing tootsies.

Although I would pay to see Cher tour again, I'm hoping her toes talk some sense into her. Coming back after such a dramatic farewell and all…could cause more tweetwars.

Cher has also been continuing to fight the tweet-skanks on Twitter. I hope she finds this somewhat energizing and not depleating. This time MDNA fans have been up in her grill. Read all about it here. Then a Britney Spears fan misinterpreted her anti-Romney tweet.Cherjuly2012_2

Cher said:

Like to keep my insults Straight asshole!".

I don't think LOL expresses how funny that is. I love how the twitterazzi is hanging on Cher-tweets like she's the guru of shade.

On the lighter side, she's also been posting some candid photos on twitter, the ones seen above taken by Kathy Griffin after a girls-night-in.

The candid ones below are older but some of my favorites of the recent strike-a-pose shots.

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New Cher Music on YouTube

July 1, 2012 / / 4 Comments

CherjesseCher has posted a new song on YouTube, a cover of Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YJhdDq8biA

The song is somewhat of a duet between Jesse Jo Stark, Cher's God daughter and Cher and was created for Jesse Jo's father Richard Stark (of Chrome Hearts) for his birthday.

The youtube video also has a good photo-feed of candid Cher shots mixed with shots of Jesse Jo Stark.

The song, about airplanes taking lovers away, is melancholy and sweet and a believable lament for Cher's traveling songbird persona:

Silver wings
Shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines
Headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away
And leaving me lonely
Silver wings
Slowly fading out of sight

Can we have a Cher country album pleeeeessse?????

A live Merle Haggard version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w99UIu9N44w

Cher Starting Fires and Helping Fire Victims

July 1, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Cherbighair2Maybe it's me, but I am loving seeing Cher with big hair again. And maybe big hair spray ignites big fires.

Cher has been busy lately setting fires and helping to put them back out again.

The latest raging inferno, Cher gets some Mormon groups in a snit over a tweet using the phrase 'magic underwear' to refer to celestial garments.

The offending tweet:

"I Feel if he (Obama) doesn't get all his DUCKS IN A ROW we'll b forced 2 listen 2Uncaring Richy Rich! The whitest man in MAGIC UNDERWEAR in the WH (White House)."

This Brisbane press article also takes the time to remind people that Australians were also offended by Cher recently over the sale of the key to Adelaide.

The girl is giving Courtney Love a run for her money this year. You go!

CherbighairTo be fair to Mormons, they are starting to take back their religion. This week 300 pro-gay Mormons joined Salt Lake City's Gay Price Parade in a gesture of support.  A very inspiring story.

To be fair to Cher, she is helping to raise money and offer sympathy for Colorado's latest fire victims. Cher tweeted:

"I will donate $. It's beautiful place, warm people! I've played there many times! SAD! Nephew went 2 Air Force Acad (Academy there). Ryan Southall, he's getting married…

"I'm sad about ppl w/ nowhere to go! Houses lost! I don't think I would (be) strong enough to start over w/ nothing."

http://www.kimt.com/entertainment/story/Cher-to-help-out-fire-victims/Q28vnGFZuE-v48qE7bY-2g.cspx

 

Nora Ephron Dies

July 1, 2012 / / 2 Comments

Silkwood-meryl-cherNora Ephron, screenwriter for the movie Silkwood, has died of Leukemia.

From the Wall Street Journal:

As a screenwriter, Ephron was nominated three times for Academy Awards, for "Silkwood," ''When Harry Met Sally …" and "Sleepless in Seattle," and was the rare woman to write, direct and produce Hollywood movies.

Ephron was once married to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, one of the two reporters to break the Watergate story and she wrote about their marriage in the movie Heartburn.

Many celebrities tweeted about Ephron's passing, including Cher who said:

"Im Extremely Sad ! We had Wonderful times on Silkwood ! She told HILARIOUS STORIES"

  

Cher Butt

June 21, 2012 / / 0 Comments

CherbuttOn Wednesday Cher attended the premiere of Morgan Freeman's new movie, The Magic of Belle Isle.

Cher tripped off the pirazz-o-sphere with her tight pants, showing off some toned big butt.

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Wow. Is that butt ferreal??

I don't know what is more jaw-dropping, that gauntlet-thrown-down-to-J-Lo butt or those 70s-sized platform shoes!

The movie also stars, as Cher tweets…

'Also DEAR FRIEND Virgina Madsen Stars. Her brother was married 2 my sis G!'

No one believes me when I tell them this but Cher's sister Georganne was once married to actor Michael Madsen. See photo below.

Madsen

 

More pictures:

– http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2162471/Never-old-leggings-Cher-defies-66-years-steps-skintight-pants.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

– http://www.toofab.com/2012/06/21/cher-leggings-turn-back-time-magic-of-belle-isle-photos/

Moonstruck over Mothers

June 21, 2012 / / 0 Comments

CherandolympiaI finished ready The Unruly Woman by Kathleen Rowe and it has only one section of one chapter about Cher and the movie Moonstruck. But it's packed with goodies. Rowe does a study of many romantic comedies including It Happened One Night, Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby, Ball of Fire and The Lady Eve among others. She singles out Moonstruck for many things, one being its inclusion of a mother-figure in a traditional romantic comedy.

She states,

"Comedy in mainstream narrative film usually makes its case against the father with very little attention to the mother or daughter. Comedy may deflate Oedipus and show him to be a fool, but it still places him at the heart of the story. Comedy is generally guilty of symbolic matricide. [The young woman, or bride, is seen as] a token of exchange between men [and] mothers rarely hold any power to transfer. [In] the subjugation of female by male [the girl] must sever the most important feminine identification in her life, her mother, for an exclusive attachment to a man, a stand-in for her father. Adrienne Rich [how serendipitous, I just did a profile of Rich yesterday in another blog] describes this rent between mother and daughter, ignored in our culture, as 'the essential female tragedy: we acknowledge Lear, Hamlet and Oedipus as embodiments of the human tragedy; but there is no presently enduring recognition of mother-daughter passion and rapture.'"

Moonstruck is an exception because it centers not only on Cher's character but her mothers: "Both are at turning points in their relationships with men."

"In contrast to the men, Moonstruck women have a clearer sense of who they are. Loretta is a paradigmatic woman on top, enhanced by the strong unruly off screen presence Cher brings to the part….she holds up her own autonomy as long as possible. In doing so, she follows the same course as the unruly virgins in the classical romantic comedies."

Rowe also discusses how the use of ethnicity serves the comedy, how the film uses ideas of death and life, she explicates the meaning behind character names and the symbolism of the moon.

WomenRowe also explains how the movie alludes to Puccini's La Boheme, particularly between the couples of Ronny and Loretta and Mimi and Rudolpho: the use of ordinary vs. mythic characters, the symbolic  scenes with snow, and some symbolic hand-holding moments. However, "Mimi dies…and Loretta remains a woman on top; while Mimi wastes away in isolation, Loretta will draw strength from….her mother and a community that extends beyond the couple."

Most importantly, "Loretta doesn't have to give up her mother to get her man."

This argument by Rowe enticed me to go over all the scenes between Loretta and her mother in the movie, and to realize how realistic they were to normal family relationships between mothers and daughters, the support, the nagging, the daily business of living, right down to the scenes of Loretta's mom serving breakfast in the kitchen.

Rowe ends the book by reminding us that unruly women, in Natalie Davis's words "widen behavioral options for women." She ends talking about Roseanne Barr Arnold (Just Plain Roseanne)…

"Her performance in front of the camera, marked so strongly with her presence behind the camera, is a reminder of the authorship inherent in the performances of other of other women—from Mae West to Cher—who, by making unruly spectacles of themselves, have also made a difference."

Another fan blog post for Moonstruck: http://www.triloquist.net/2012/05/my-love-of-moonstruck.html

 

Bangs are Back Baby!

June 15, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Cherbangsbigger

Two days ago I decided to get bangs. I only made the decision Wednesday because Mr. Cher Scholar was also going for a haircut. I'm starting a new phase of my life and this calls for a new look…at least in terms of hair…the front side of it anyway.

Ironically, Huffington Post put up an article about bangs that very same day and until yesterday Cher's photo to the left was posted at the top of the page.

http://www.stylelist.com/2012/06/13/bangs-hairstyles-celebrity_n_1590649.html

The feature includes a lovely little photo gallery of over 100 famous ladies with bangs.

 

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