Cher has been turning again time for many years, defying the march of the calendar pages with an eternally youthful look and sound. However after greater than six a long time within the public eye, the ageless 77-year-old singer is having bother wrapping her head round the truth that her iconic 1999 dance single “Imagine” is popping 25 this yr.
“It’s not that tremendous, OK? Pisses me — it pisses the f–ok out of me,” the singer laughed as she mentioned the annivary with the As we speak present’s Harry Smith. “And you’ll’t put that out.”
The dance pop hit that launched the world to the wonders of AutoTune spent 4 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 and racked up three Grammy nominations, together with finest pop album for the LP of the identical title, file of the yr for the only and the singer’s solely Grammy win so far, for finest dance recording.
When Smith requested her if she’s “not associates” with age, the singer confirmed she’s not a fan of Father Time. “No. My mom didn’t thoughts. However I do. I hate it,” she mentioned in a shoutout to her mom, Georgia Holt, who died at 96 final December. How a lot does she hate growing older? “I’d give something to be 70 once more,” Cher mentioned.
The singer’s twenty second studio album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 album chart and is now accessible in a twenty fifth anniversary deluxe version with a bonus disc that includes three remixes of “Imagine” from that period, in addition to three remixes/radio edits of the singles “Robust Sufficient” and “All or Nothing” and 4 remixes of “Dov’è l’amore”; the gathering compiles the mixes for the primary time in 3LP and 2CD codecs.
Now that Barbra Streisand, 81, has lastly launched her memoir, My Title Is Barbra, which was a decade within the making, Cher mentioned she’s struggling to make progress on her guide. “It’s very troublesome as a result of I’ve lived too lengthy, and I’ve achieved too many issues,” she mentioned. “And so it must be, like, an encyclopedia, honestly.”
Cher simply launched her first-ever Christmas album, Christmas, and he or she’ll be performing picks from it at Wednesday night time’s (Nov. 29) Christmas at Rockefeller Middle on NBC, which may even function Chloe Bailey, David Foster, Katharine McPhee, Liz Gillies, Darlene Love, Seth MacFarlane, Barry Manilow and extra.
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