I’ve been so busy catching up on older projects interrupted during my site moves, I’ve missed talking about some big Cher news stories from the last few months.
The Dolly Parton Rockstar Album
I almost titled this post Dolls and Dollys.
So Cher was originally set to do a duet on Dolly Parton’s upcoming duet album Rock Star. Dolly has just been inducted, amidst a bit of controversy, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and she is adhering to the great advice of Henry David Thoreau when he said, “if a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
It was rumored Cher and Dolly would be a covering the Eurythmics debut song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” which isn’t really rocking out but okay. Maybe for Dolly it is. Unfortunately Dolly recently tweeted that Cher, along with Ed Sheeran and Lionel Richie, didn’t make the final album cut “due to a vinyl manufacturing deadline.”
I keep wondering if this really means “scheduling problems with my duet partner.”
Anyway, we’re stuck with the Dolly duets from Cher’s 1978 TV special, which are great but…
Man’s World Reissue on CD and Vinyl
This is long awaited. This great album unfortunately got lost in the mid-1990s due to all the 1990s and Cher’s own Chronic Fatigue problems that decade. I know because I even missed learning about its existence for almost a year.
The snakeskin box set looks delightful. There’s a hefty price of $100 for the vinyl but there are four colored albums in the box so that seems about right. Besides, this was a long album if you consider all the UK and US variations and all the remixes included in the re-release. You can also buy the re-release on CD or, if you’re a completist, both. Sigh. 
Funko Pops
Now I don’t collect Funko Pops so I’ve never bought one before. But something interesting I’ve learned, these little buggers don’t stand up on their own. You have to buy the flat, plastic stand separately! Harrumph.
Oh and if you’re a completist here, there’s the basic and Diamond Collection versions (mere dollars extra) with a diminutive amount of extra bling.
Ho Ho Ho! It’s Cher Bitches
Cher announced this week there will be a Cher Christmas album this year! This might just be the only thing that could ever elicit a Beatle-scream from me. Fans have been hoping for a Cher Christmas album for decades. Decades! At least their pining has been officially documented all the way back to the first Cher Convention of 2000 where we added our Christmas wish-picks to a petition someone created there.
Cher says the album is mostly done so there’s not a lot of room for requests at this point. I’ve been advocating “Little Altar Boy” since that 2000 petition. But it’s such an obscure Christmas song.
Cher says one of the songs already recorded is one of her favorites ever. I hope she tells us what that is. My Christmas-song-obsessed self is dying to know.
A Cher Christmas album. This is gonna make everything in the world alright I’m pretty sure.
