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So Cher has been doing a plethora of interviews for the new album.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Recently she was on I Heart Radio<\/strong> talking with Mario Lopez about not wanting a true blue Christmas album but once she got the DJ song, she felt, “I can do this. I can find myself in here.”\u00a0 She wanted songs that didn’t “scream Christmas.” She likes the album’s different kinds of music and emotions.\u00a0 Lopez calls the DJ song a “banger,” Cher says it was her assistant’s idea for her to sing “Home.” She says her best childhood gift was a white leather cowboy jacket with fringe. She says she was already into clothes and “so thrilled.” She remembers decorating the tree that year and says she was a stern Taurus taskmaster for decorating the tree that year, only letting everyone put on three pieces of tinsel at a time.”<\/p>\n

You might remember this photo from one of Cher’s biographies.<\/p>\n

She recently did a lip synch of\u00a0 “DJ Play a Christmas Song” during The Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/a> (but per Mr. Cher Scholar, it was so cold and open-air that so did everyone else) and on Wetten Dass<\/a>. Macy’s kept her to the end of the parade (with teasers all morning), like they always do, only to be followed by Santa Claus himself. Savannah Guthrie,\u00a0 Hoda Kotb and Al Rokerall agreed it was an “epic” ending.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>On Thanksgiving Day she was also on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon<\/em>.\u00a0 Fallon told a funny joke at the top about how her Macy’s parade performance wasn’t planned. Cher just drives down the street and parades form around her.<\/p>\n

Fallon also sent a cardboard standup Cher crowd surfing. He tried to imitate her but sounded more southern than Cher. He kept saying to the surfing standup, “Be careful Cher!” And that made me laugh.<\/p>\n

The studio audience wouldn’t stop yelling when Cher first appeared in the cute freezer skit<\/a> where she pretended Auto-tune was how her voice normally sounded. She also joked that her name was really pronounced “Shure.”<\/p>\n

Before the interview<\/a>, Fallon introduced her as “the most iconic on the planet” and noted that she’s had a number one single in each of the last six decades. She said most of the album was recorded in her house, except for a few of the songs in England. They talked about Cher’s love of the frozen hot-chocolatier Serendipity 3 and they made jokes about what her autobiography should be called, none of them good. Cher admitted she was uncomfortable with some of the stories she needed to tell, that she’d chickened out but needs to go back to it and put those stories back in. She complained that her life is so long, the book would need to be an encyclopedia.<\/p>\n

Well, it just so happens Barbra Streisand’s career is just as long and she recently put out a tome, an autobiography weighing 3 pounds and\u00a0 totaling 992 pages.\u00a0 So\u2026yeah, I\u2019m gonna read that one too. Don’t worry Cher, we’ll read an encyclopedia. Think of this as your effort toward bringing back literacy.<\/p>\n

But seriously, I was recently talking to Cher scholar Robrt Pela about the movie\u00a0Chastity<\/em> and if we would ever get word about who may have really directed it. Because this Alessio de Paola guy doesn’t seem to exist or to be a real name. Things like that. Will Cher ever “set the record straight.”<\/p>\n

Cher recently said in one of the print interviews that she doesn’t care about her legacy. And that’s understandable. Her legacy will already be what it is. It’s done. People know things already or will think they know things.<\/p>\n

The fact is, Cher doesn\u2019t owe it to anybody to set the record straight. Everybody probably disagrees with what happened anyway. Nobody \u201cdeserves\u201d to know the private part of anybody else, the backstory of anybody.<\/p>\n

Personally speaking, there\u2019s just something to be said about leaving this world in an honest way. There\u2019s an integrity in that.<\/p>\n

But what form that honesty takes….who knows. It may just be a slew of deathbed confessions.<\/p>\n

Perspective is always good in a biography (and seems to be what Streisand’s book may be providing). But I am always interested in influence. What are all the things that made Cher who she is, like from what music Sonny liked to what music she was listening to before and after Sonny. Family history, dramatic experiences and stuff people gravitate towards even as kids.<\/p>\n

Anyways, one exciting piece of news from the press junket of interviews, (and the resulting deluge of clips were overwhelming, from long interviews to click-bait clips), is that Cher will be working on a new album on the heels of this one. She says she has “one more in me.” But then again, she keeps saying that about tours, too.<\/p>\n

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