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Cher Reconsiders Country Album

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It seems Cher is not going country after all. Reports spread like wildfire after an interview with country music producer Mark Bright surfaced, reporting that the music icon was in the process of recording a country-pop album.

"Cher knows that her listeners also listen to country music," Mark told Silk & Denim Music back in January, regarding Cher's decision to dabble with her inner cowgirl. "So she felt it was a natural thing to develop a country music relationship."

The pop culture icon was indeed in the beginning stages of a country project, but has since shifted her artistic focus on the release of a "a dance-oriented album," her spokesperson tells HITFIX.

What sparked the 64-year old to change her mind? Maybe it was the success of her current single, 'You Haven't Seen the Last of Me,' which recently topped Billboard's Dance Club chart. Her latest No. 1 gave the living legend the honor of having a Billboard chart-topper for the last six decades.

Cher's performance also earned the 2011 Golden Globe for Best Original Song, giving veteran Diane Warren her first award as a songwriter. The tune appeared on the 'Burlesque' soundtrack.

No other details have been released, but no matter the genre, Cher fans can expect new music sometime later this year.

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jeremydwetzel

Cherilyn, honey, stick with what is tried and true. One more Dance Album is not going to hurt you in any way. I am saying this not only because I own your last two albums, and I loved them immensely, and that I don't think you could find your niche doing country pop, it's just that you made your most creative music in your last two albums. And I am so sure that you could top those with songs based on what you have for those rock/country songs you have planned to recond and are at the moment doing just that. And,even though I think that your duet with your mother is phenomenal, I just hope you wake up and insist that dance/pop is included in the material you have at least not laid the tracks down to yet. And retool the one you have. I just don't see you as a country musician. This is completely new to you (aside from the ones you taped with Greg Allman in the latter '70s) I just know that your image has changed from what it is since back then and the image you cultaivated since 1998. Pleae stay what you are best at, which I think is Dance and Pop, That is where I think you will continue to take your comback full force. I hope you see these message and think really hard where you want go where you have the greatest fanbase.

June 30 2011 at 9:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jeremydwetzel

It seems to me, that, for the last 15 years leaning toward the dance/pop genre of music has helped in the comeback for Cher, both as the only person to have #1's in each decade since the '60's, that she should stick to the tried and true matierial that has catapulted her into the staratosphere. Good move that they retooled "Ther Haven't Seem The Last of Me," This is where Cher has had her most success. Even when she dabbled in rock in the 1980's (and I do agree that she had major success with certian songs during that era), I believe she hit her stride making people want to dance to some the the most original songs that she had recorded up to date. I hope her does reconsider to go back to the rock era of her life and make more songs with that wonderful voice of hers to get her main fanbase moving and shaking again. That's where she should concentrate on, be careful on the songs she does choose to do, and stay on the cutting edge of dance/nu-disco that has put her back at #1, not just for her gay fanbase, but for all the young people in general that (re)discovered her during that erea. That's what she is best at.

June 30 2011 at 9:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply