Cher.Photo:Courtesy Warner Records
Courtesy Warner Records
Chersure wishes she could turn back time.
The singer’s comeback hit “Believe” marked its 25th anniversary in October — but the star, 77, isn’t doing much celebrating.
“It’s not that amazing, OK? It pisses the f— out of me,” she said with a laugh on theTodayshowTuesday. “No, it just is like… what is this?”
“Believe” was released in 1998, and was featured on Cher’s album of the same name. The song, which popularized the use of Auto-Tune in pop music, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“My mother didn’t mind, but I do. I hate it,” she said, joking that she’d “give anything to be 70 again.” (Her mother Georgia Holtdied in December 2022at age 96.)
The star has been in show business for six decades, enjoying success across music, movies and television. In arecent interview withThe Guardian, she quipped that she’d been hard at work longer than anyone else.
“My life seems to be longer than any other human being ever,” she said. “I feel like I should be in the Guinness Book of World Records for this. And I’m still going!”
Indeed she is. In October, Cher released her first-ever holiday album, titledChristmas,explaining to PEOPLEat the time that it’d been an idea she’d had for a while.
Cher holds her album “Believe” in Santa Monica in November 1998.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
“I wanted to make a Cher Christmas album,” she said, “but I didn’t know how to do it. I never could figure out a way. Then this year, I just asked the record company if they would just let me do it — and just hand the finished product over to them —and they were agreeable, so I started picking songs.”
She recently brought the holiday spirit to theMacy’s Thanksgiving Day Paradewith a performance of her new song “DJ Play a Christmas Song,” and will do it again on Wednesday, when she appears on NBC’s annualChristmas in Rockefeller Centerspecial in celebration of the Christmas tree lighting.
Cher also revealed on theTodayshow that she’s hard at work on a memoir.
“It’s very difficult because I’ve lived too long and I’ve done too many things,” she said. “And so it would have to be like, an encyclopedia, truthfully.”
source: people.com
