Let’s talk about how Living Proof is the greatest album of all time, shall we?
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Doesn’t mom turn 80 in the next few weeks?
This feels scary. I want Cher to live forever.
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Any updates on this new album anywhere? It’s been talked about for ages now.
I wonder if we’ll ever get Dancing Queen 2
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I feel like it was the same when we were waiting for Closer to the Truth
Hopefully not. I hope we get at least one more studio album of full original material. But, guess we’ll see.
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Yes. Let’s do that.
What an album. When the worst song on the album (Rain Rain) is still a solid 7/10, you know you’re onto a winner. The album is an embarrassment of riches. So many 11s. The Music’s No Good Without You, Alive Again, Song the Lonely, Real Love, You Take It All, When You Walk Away. All incredible.
And there are days when A Different Kind of Love Song is my favourite pop song in history.
A Different Kind Of Love Song, feels like Cher’s most joyous foray into total proper Dance-Pop.
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When The Money’s Gone should’ve been the lead single in the UK.
Love Is A Lonely Place Without You is such a pearl.
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Whilst Music’s No Good Without You was never going to be a chart behemoth, it was the correct choice. They simply should have been ready to follow it up with some equally high profile promotion. Song for the Lonely being cancelled here was a travesty. Alive Again would have been a great single too. A shame Different Kind of Love Song didn’t get a video - it had potential to lure in some of the casual fans that liked Believe as it’s just so easy on the ears and delivers an unchallenging wallop of dance pop. My very favourite here is You Take It All, but in no way would that have been released.
I personally much prefer Closer to the Truth, not least because it’s quite kaleidoscopic in terms of representing different eras and facets of what Cher can do.
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I think there were so many stronger choices to launch that album. I love The Music’s No Good, but it’s not instant.
The album deserved better.
Love the elegance of it. And the Gandalf inspired music video of course. So ultra.
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The Living Proof era being paid dust in the UK after 1 sole single following the huge Believe era, just feels weird and such a waste somehow.
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Yes and its chart position was inexcusable. (I don’t think the cover photo helped.)
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I might be remembering this wrong (wouldn’t be the first time), but wasn’t Song for the Lonley ultimately cancelled after Cher wasn’t willing to fly back for promotion? In any case, it had a video and the quiet early period of the year could have gotten at least a top 20 out of it.
It was later used for a Weight Watchers campaign.
I completely understand her not wanting to fly. It’s a shame videocall technology wasn’t so common back then.
Never knew that pop fact, and yes, even promo with a single release with a music video would have been better than no single at all. Plenty of international acts never promote their singles in the UK then or now.
The fact that she loved that song, she clearly told Mark Taylor give me something more U2. Well, in my head that’s how the exchange went.
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