{"id":2125,"date":"2012-12-02T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/diva-incarnate\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:27:34","slug":"diva-incarnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2012\/12\/diva-incarnate\/","title":{"rendered":"Diva Incarnate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cher scholar Dishy recently alerted me to the site Diva Incarnate which has some very well-written reviews of Cher performances on older albums AND some rare little publicity shots. I love the way the writer categorizes her oeuvre: &quot;a mix of poppers o&#39;clock dance tracks, soft-core cougar rock and sleepy torch ballads.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>For the page on <a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/sloppy-jos-straight-delivery.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonnie Jo Mason<\/a> (1964):<br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d7370e970d-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bonniejo\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d7370e970d\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d7370e970d-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Bonniejo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Forty-five years later the track still sounds fresh and remarkably intense&#8230;deliberately borrowing ideas from The Beatles&#39; &#39;She Loves You.&#39;&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>For the pag<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d70d23970d-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stars2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d70d23970d\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d70d23970d-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Stars2\" \/><\/a>e on <a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/chers-stargazing-torch-song-bender.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Stars<\/a> (1975):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The site calls the album a &quot;torch song bender&quot; and a masterpiece, one very special album and &quot;her real Oscar winning performance, a souring artistic triumph of alarming beauty, disarming characterization and profound dignity&#8230;Cher puts one on a gripping journey&#8230;the album displays a poignant maturity she is rarely given credit for. This album is her real autograph.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Bell Bottom Blues&quot; is &quot;a gorgeous battle against downtrodden, drunken piano-laden sadness. Cher sings with rare grit and passion that someone like Pink would saw her dick off for&#8230;[it&#39;s sung] like a shooting star with an exhaust pipe.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Love Enough&quot; is &quot;a thing of whimsical beauty&#8230;so swoonsome and cradles your heart with horrific tenderness.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;These Days&quot; [has] &quot;a wilting orchestra that folds over like lace curtains inside her gypsy caravan&#8230;Cher&#39;s voice glides like flowing ribbon.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Just This One Time&quot; has &quot;a choir that threatens to steal Cher&#39;s thunder before the dark lady brings out her rare and privileged falsetto. Cher&#39;s mountain climb of a vocal is jaw-dropping.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Stars&quot; is &quot;a gorgeous finale, sung with private grace&#8230;desolated loneliness.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the<a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/cher-id-rather-believe-in-you.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"> I&#39;d Rather Believe in You<\/a> (1976) pa<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d71ef4970d-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Idrather5\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d71ef4970d\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d71ef4970d-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Idrather5\" \/><\/a>ge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;Cher&#39;s voice is a throaty elixir of hot lead and ash.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The title track is the album&#39;s real winner: sad and joyful in equal measure, the gorgeous piano rouses Cher&#39;s authentic &#39;yeah oh yeah.&#39;&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;A fine record but not an exceptional one&#8230;the vivid emotion conveyed on <em>Stars<\/em> is sorely longed for.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Cher is a cement-cracking architect of her own material, despite hardly ever writing any of it; she wastes no time with uncertainty, and her &#39;deadpan&#39; portrayal is what makes her so real.&quot; [Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherscholar.com\/zine.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher Zine 2<\/a> for complete explication of Cher&#39;s deadpan strategy from variety TV to film to music.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The page of <a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/womans-work.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">mid-1970s Phil Spector singles<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d7300f970d-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hair\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d7300f970d\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017ee5d7300f970d-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Hair\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;A Woman&#39;s Story&quot; is &quot;a slow burning candle, a languid brewing stew, and the results are dense and hotter than a Turkish bath&#8230;.the seething and cutaneously operatic backing vocals blister with burning inferno whilst Cher flatly grimaces &#39;hell no.&#39;&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Baby I Love You&quot; is &quot;crestfallen and dewy, oozing into hibernating meditation. Cher draws out new-found tenderness to the lyric, usually full of so much joy.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;A Love Like Ours&quot; has &quot;over-yelping and [is] slightly out of key as she belts &#39;knock knock knocking every day.&#39;&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;These lingering recordings&#8230;pack more heat than all of her oil-gargling cougar schlock-rock from the mid-80s to early 90s.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/chers-black-rose.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Rose<\/a> (1980) Page:<br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c34338f8d970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Br6\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c34338f8d970b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c34338f8d970b-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Br6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This album served &quot;as basic training and skid-marks the debut of the leotard.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>On &quot;Never Should&#39;ve Started&quot; her &quot;chainsaw vocals rip the material to shreds&#8230;with a witch-crackling hostility&#8230; and ballsy performance.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Julie&quot; is &quot;heavy chugging.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;88 Degrees&quot; is &quot;more &#39;tart with a heart&#39; rhetoric but they are tying themselves in knots with this train wreck.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>In &quot;You Know It&quot; it is &quot;always great to hear Cher sing alongside a man, usually emasculating them.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>After &quot;Fast Company&quot; &quot;someone give her a made-up phone number already! Doo-wop backing vocals hurry her out the door. Lord knows who with.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/cher-paralyzes.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">I Paralyze<\/a> (1982) pag<a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c34337aa4970b-popup\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paralyze7\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c34337aa4970b-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Paralyze7\" \/><\/a>e:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;Cher Paralyzes Her Chart Positions&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;It<br \/>\nwas the first of 4 schlock rock affairs and by far the best&#8230;her next<br \/>\nthree albums would rely heavily on their boxer-in-the-ring style<br \/>\nsingles.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;It has been argued that her voice was simply too big for the lead single, the 60s girlband pastiche &quot;Rudy.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>On &quot;Games&quot; she &quot;sings so deep it&#39;s hard not to wonder if she&#39;s deep-throating the microphone.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I Paralyze&quot; is &quot;pure Elvis&#8230;so visceral it&#39;s a wonder her vocal chords aren&#39;t sharp enough to shred timber.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;When Cher quips &#39;you&#39;re as real as a dollar bill&#39; her innate pronunciation manages to make the couplet rhyme.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Book<br \/>\nof Love&quot; is &quot;worth a million bad album tracks for the throwaway lyric<br \/>\n&#39;hey-ho&#39; inadvertently being one of the familiar quirks used to<br \/>\nimpersonate her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/cher-believe-1998.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Believe<\/a> (1999):<br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c3433a0b0970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Believe\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c3433a0b0970b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c3433a0b0970b-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Believe\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;The exotica heavy-breathing of &quot;The Power&quot;&#8230;its bridge is gorgeous, one of parental disdain and caution.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The female Elvis sound sensual on the sturdy hell-no anthem &quot;Strong Enough&quot; but this is throwaway stuff.&quot; <\/li>\n<li>&quot;The sumptuous fast-lane craziness [and] mesmerizing poetry of &quot;Taxi Taxi&quot; and the sensual aroma of &quot;Love is in the Groove&quot; [has] pulsating elegance&#8230;.[both] are floating and sublime and I just love their dreamy lyrics.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The euro-pop of &quot;All or Nothing&quot; is incredibly cheesy (and wonderfully so) but she injects so much euphoria into it, as do those tremoring guitars.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Takin Back My Heart&quot; is &quot;weak (Diane Warren has a lot to answer for).&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/divaincarnate.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/cher-living-proof-2001.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Living Proof<\/a> (2001): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;The Music&#39;s No Good Without You&quot; is &quot;a monotune affair<br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c343397b4970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Whitehair\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c343397b4970b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef017c343397b4970b-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Whitehair\" \/><\/a>with expressive verses and an emotional soliloquy she wrote herself. I wasn&#39;t completely sold. That is, until I saw her music video, which was a tribute to Gandalf from <em>The Lord of the Ring<\/em>s and I felt better.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The unyielding pathos of &quot;You Take it All&quot;&#8230;is mesmerizing and emotional to say the least (the middle eight is heroic).&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;When the Money&#39;s Gone&quot; is &quot;basllsy kitchen-sink Hi-NRG&#8230;.[and] just daft fun.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Real Love&quot; sounds &quot;like a robot with bulimia.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>&quot;This will hopefully be the last dance album from Cher of this kind; the album proves there was little for her left to do in this genre&#8230;What the album does have is coherent and plaintive elegance.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I loved reading these takes on some of Cher&#39;s great albums and definitely think &#39;tart with a heart&#39; is a very common Cher meme we could really explore further.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher scholar Dishy recently alerted me to the site Diva Incarnate which has some very well-written reviews of Cher performances on older albums AND some rare little publicity shots. 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