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The Very Best Of Cher - Cher
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Given a five-decade career that`s been one long series of critical write-offs and subsequent comeback triumphs, it`s tempting to argue that the natural elements are actually earth, wind, fire, water--and Cher. Anchored by her 1998 international mega-success ",Believe", (the song that made Cher the oldest woman to score a chart topper) and its equally club-savvy contemporary collaborations with producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawlings, ",Song for the Lonely", and ",A Different Kind of Love Song,", this 21-track anthology is indeed the first to contain all her No. 1 hits, stretching back to her epochal 1965 duet with Sonny Bono on the faux-Dylan ",I Got You Babe.", And if it shortchanges her Phil Spector-rooted origins and a true perspective on her `60s and `70s career (though kitsch classic chart toppers ",Dark Lady,", ",Half-Breed,", and ",Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves", are all here) to focus on her string of `80s and `90s pop successes in service of writers like Diane Warren (",If I Could Turn Back Time",) and Desmond Child (",Just Like Jesse James",), it`s good to remember that, according to the pop soothsayers, none of them were even supposed to happen, let alone make her an icon for a whole new generation. It`s a tribute to sheer, fashion-defying willpower--and as unlikely an argument for the notion of `the singer, not the song` as one is likely to find.
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