★★★★★
"Getting older sucks the big one," Cher said recently, yet ageing seems to have instilled a fierce energy. On her last album, in 2001, she was a bellowing dance-commander, and now she's gone one better, cranking up both the beats and her propensity for blasting. And she can blast like nobody else: Pink and Jake Shears are credited as backing vocalists on I Walk Alone and Take it Like a Man respectively, but they're inaudible against Cher's Auto-Tuned foghorn...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-10-11
★★★★★
The artwork for Closer To The Truth, Cher's first studio album in almost 12 years, is more apt than its creators probably realise. It depicts our diva lounging on a white pillow wearing only flesh-coloured lingerie, one strap very deliberately hanging from her shoulder. Like the album title it suggests a rawer offering from one of pop's most flamboyant performers, perhaps something akin to her self-released and largely self-penned 2000 album Not.Com...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-10-10
★★★★★
When the Farewell Tour concluded after a record 326 dates, having been expanded multiple times during its run, there was reason enough to think that "Farewell" might be the wrong word to use. Sure, Cher may have taken time off from releasing new music and actively touring worldwide - including her successful run at the Colosseum - but while she may have not released any new music since Living Proof until now, she always gave off the aura of a performer who would never be content resting on her...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-09
★★★★★
Cher's influence on pop music has never been as quantifiable as it has been in the last 15 years--a fact that's especially remarkable when you consider that the 67-year-old hasn't even put out an album in over a decade. The pervasive (mis)use of Auto-Tune to create a robotic, Vocorder-style vocal effect over the last several years can be directly attributed to the massive success of Cher's late-'90s hit "Believe," the sound of which was emulated by Madonna and Kanye West, and even formed the...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-09-20
★★★★★
Sound: Yes, Cher is still alive and so is disco. If you love disco, you'll LOVE this CD. The greatest dance music ever. // 10 Lyrics and Singing: 1.Believe: Hello! Can we say this is the best dance song of the 1990's! 2.The Power: An ok song, not a great choice for a #2 track but it grows on you. 3.Runaway: Should be a single, a very fast upbeat song starts of slow and then gets fast. 4...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
One minute, this dance grab bag is
mimicking Ray of Light; the next, paying homage to Donna
Summer's disco days ? then both at once! But cutting through the
poptronica glaze (the soon-to-be club fave ''Believe''), Italian
salsa (''Dove e L'Amore''), and her 1988 power ballad ''We All
Sleep Alone'' remixed for groovin', babe, is that unmistakable
voice. Believe is erratic (and sometimes cheesy) as hell, but you
gotta love how her Cher-ness shines....
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
That Cher. She really knows how to make a record the efficientway. When she wants to have a hit, she doesn't seal herself off in adark room and arm- wrestle her muse into submission like some sillyartist. She goes straight out and hires the most successful hacks shecan find. As did her last two hit albums, Cher's latest, Love Hurts, finds the warbler surrounding herself with the mostformulaic hit songwriters alive (Diane Warren, Desmond Child)...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
MEMORANDUM To: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame staff From: Museum Curator Re: Upcoming Symposiums Date: March 2027 Dear Staff: I'm pleased to report that our lecture series on "Single-Moniker Heroes of the Rock Era" ? focusing on such luminaries as Madonna, Prince, Sting, and Tennille ? has generated "rockin"' interest from both the good people of Cleveland and the music community...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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