All of a sudden, nobody makes dance music… it’s all “club” or
\n“house music” now, with the exception of the Spice Girls.
\nMorales-esque drum machines, brainlessly repeating samples, and
\nvirtually no lyrical depth whatsoever. Gloria Estefan more or less
\nabandoned her tight Latin grooves for the bland club scene and her
\nmost recent dance album tanked. Ace Of Base never recovered after
\n“moving up” from reggae. It’s all fine in an actual club but man,
\non the radio it’s flat-out BORING.<\/p>\n
Cher recently made UK chart history with “Believe”, the first
\nsingle off her new album by the same name. It’s infecting with the
\ndrum machine held underfoot by Cher’s typical, but satisfying,
\nbrand of aerobic pop singing. Right off it’s obvious her voice is
\nprocessed through with effects but this is actually welcome; Cher’s
\nvoice is, erm, unique in its loud fogginess that made earlier
\nrecords irritating to listen to.<\/p>\n
Aside from three formulaic, unmemorable tracks (“Runaway”, “All
\nOr Nothing”, “Takin’ Back My Heart”) which resemble the slush being
\nproduced in virtually every other recording studio in the Free
\nWorld, it’s all in the name of decent pop music. “Strong Enough”
\nand “Taxi Taxi” are true to Cher in its vocally-driven attitude
\n(dance music all boils down to attitude… ask Madonna!). Less
\noverbearing but equally effective are “Love Is The Groove” and “The
\nPower”. She’s finally realized that we can still hear her when she
\ndoesn’t shout. “We All Sleep Alone” is a dance remix of a
\npreviously released song and though it lost much of its original
\n“yearning” tone, it sounds like a good bet in the clubs.<\/p>\n
It’s apparent that
\nBelieve<\/i> is an effort to produce an unpretentious, honest pop
\nalbum which strives to be both current and retaining of her
\ntraditional strengths. Though it falls short sometimes with its
\nlack of diversity and club recycling, it still shows that Cher
\nreally can sing, and she has plenty of potential to exploit. If the
\nnext album dares to delve slightly deeper, the results would
\nprobably be met with warm hearts by radio listeners everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6037],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-36099","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-cher","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36099"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36099"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}