Pop diva Cher reveals she is not a fan of her music branding classic hits as ‘c**p’
The singer wanted to make songs like Joni Mitchell
POP diva Cher says she hates her music.
Cher, 71 today, has sold more than 100million records in a 52-year career.
But she revealed: “I’m not a Cher fan.
“I just don’t think my aesthetic taste lies in that direction.”
She branded 1998 smash Believe — No 1 in 23 countries — “a nightmare” and said she stormed out of the recording studio.
She dismissed 1995 album It’s A Man’s World — which included her hit Walking In Memphis — as “crap”, adding: “I didn’t like any of it.”
Cher said she wanted to make songs like Joni Mitchell but since the 1970s had been given ones she didn’t like.
She once fought her label’s bid to make a dance album until chief Rob Dickins told her: “I’m going to send you some songs. When you like them, tell me.”
She also blasted her hits Gypsys, Tramps &; Thieves, Half-Breed and Dark Lady.
But Cher reckons 1989’s If I Could Turn Back Time was “OK”, adding: “By that time, I figured out I wasn’t going to be the Eagles.”