I love Cher in this haha :lol:

New photos from the Dancing Queen photoshoot:

 

 

 

 

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SOS video

 

Edited September 18, 20186 yr by Mullo

SOS video

 

 

What a disappointing video :nocheer:

Rubbish video

'One of Us' now available:

 

 

Really liking that! I was expecting it to suddenly break into a disco floorfiller but I'm glad she kept it stripped throughout. There's a great vulnerability to her voice which makes for any power she might be lacking.

 

Album out next Friday and I'm so ready!

I like it! Just not that fade out

I like the music video. I think it's absolutely brilliant. It is very clever. The message is so emotional & powerful. The director did a great, great job. It features women of all ages, colors, races & a transsexual. Women helping a young girl who is lost. Betty Who (the tall blonde girl) is so Agnetha-alike. Trace Lysette is beautiful (had no idea she was a trans-woman). Lauren Weedman was so great in HBO's Looking. She's mesmerizing in the video. The younger girls are equally interesting & beautiful. Even picking Rumer Willis is an interesting pick.

 

It has a lot in it: feminism, an empowerment message, meaning, gay wink, fashion, a huge tribute to ABBA (the shots, the lights, the clothes - watch the original ABBA video). It's retro and yet absolutely current. The only thing missing is Cher herself. :wub:

 

Edited September 22, 20186 yr by Voodoo

I was expecting it to suddenly break into a disco floorfiller

 

Rumor has it The Winner Takes It All is a sad club banger. :snif:

 

Wonder how high the album will chart next week. Suppose No.1 isn't out of the question.

Rumor has it The Winner Takes It All is a sad club banger. :snif:

I can see that working tbh. The structure and pacing of the original seems to lend itself well to a bit of a disco beat but whilst still keeping the emotion of the song.

 

For One of Us, the mood is set so well and breaking into a dance song like I thought would have been really jarring.

No.1 best selling CD on Amazon. May even buy it myself.

Just completed my listen of the album. A lot of people are going to think this is very karaoke but, whilst they're not far wrong, it would be unfair to just dismiss the album. The songs do stick closely to the originals but they all have that extra pizzazz and shine; so joyful and fun, making you want to get up and party. What's most notable about the album is how surprisingly strong Cher's voice is. There is, of course, traces of vocoder and perhaps Cher doesn't have the most powerful voice, but for the most part the vocals are clear, she knows how to use her voice well and it allows her to bring her own touch to the songs.

 

The last two are highlights for me. 'The Winner Takes It All' sounds exactly like I thought and hoped it would and sounds absolutely glorious because of it and 'One of Us' gives us some beautiful vulnerability and emotion. 'Gimme' also remains a banger which goes off when played on nights out.

I wouldn't say it was at all surprising that Cher's voice sounds strong. She has a very powerful voice and has always been able to use it well. She's an extremely underrated vocalist, I suspect purely because of her use of vocoder effects, which makes people think she can't sound good on her own.

 

She sounds absolutely stunning on some of these tracks - probably the best she has sounded in many years.

 

What I find disappointing is the choice of tracks. The Name of the Game will always be one of their worst ever singles. It's so dull. Not even Cher can do much with that.

 

I also could have done without Dancing Queen, as it's their most overrated track. It's just not a very good song. And Waterloo, which is abysmal.

 

If she'd swapped them out for Lay All Your Love On Me, Summer Night City and Angeleyes, oh lord we'd have a masterpiece on our hands.

 

We better get a volume 2.

I was referring more to her post-Believe career where she has relied greatly on vocoder. Obviously the vocal chords change as you get older so I think a lot of people assume she takes advantage of the success she had with vocoder in the 90s and uses it to hide such change, but this album shows that actually she can still sing well without it. It's a surprise but one that is refreshing and greatly welcome.

 

I enjoy all the songs she chose but I agree it would have been nice to see her sing a few of the less obvious song choices. I don't think she'd even have to remove any tracks as there's room on the album for more songs.

Love that this is seemingly selling so well! Cher for #1 :cheer:

I got teary listening to The Winner Takes It All. The vulnerability & emotion in her voice with those sad synths in the background just got to me. The whole song feels pretty euphoric. :cry:

 

Giving it a listen now, will be buying my copy this weekend or next week.

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Slay.

I gave it a listen. Really liked One of us. That's about it tbh the rest all I could think was Abba's version are far superior. I say this as a huge huge huge Cher fan too, I love her stuff from really early stuff and more obscure stuff right up to her last album. I'll still buy it to support her of course but doubt I listen to it much bar the last song.