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Cher – Here We Go Again Tour 2019

on Dec nineteen, 2022 at eleven:32 am

Cher | Here We Go Again

American Airlines Eye – Dallas, Texas – December nineteen, 2022 | Words and Photos by Cassie Preston

I might not have been introduced to keen music growing upwardly, but my mother definitely gave me enough foundation to figure information technology out, and Cher would be the measuring stick I'd use to judge other Pop Princesses trying to pave their way to the meridian of the charts. I'1000 breathing heavy past the time I arrive at Media Check-In; I've run with my equipment from the Light-green Line stop at Victory Park to the box office back to the West side of the American Airlines Center. As a photographer, I'one thousand required to stay in a designated area with my equipment pocketbook on my person earlier shows. I ordinarily exercise my people watching and then and then I can gather some details to use as I'm writing. As far as the centre tin encounter there are crowds of mothers and daughters, the LGBTQ and drag queens (Oh My!) waiting for their Goddess of Pop, Cher.

But that's when I hear from one of the male person photographers, "I saw this video on YouTube (#lies information technology was probably a porn site or reddit), of these girls sucking each others [censor]. And someone came in and chopped their heads off. That's what they practice in the Centre E. And that's what we should be doing here." This lensman and so gestures to a group of laughing drag queens, each dressed in an era of Cher'south career, letting people have photos with them. My typically quick wit is stunned and my oral cavity drops open because of the equally casual and inflammatory annunciation just spoken aloud into our universe. This photographer continues his loud rant for all to hear and I am embarrassed to be in shut proximity to him. Only most importantly, I'one thousand trapped because of my equipment. Is this guy fucking lost? Does he know he'due south at a Cher concert? Past the way, this dude makes his money by taking school and daycare portraits. So, who's the existent fucking weirdo now?

The Here We Go Once more! Tour could non have started sooner. But also, most twenty minutes belatedly. The lights go down and a silent montage of the last threescore years of Cher's career with snippets of everything from The Sonny & Cher One-act Hour to Plough Back Time to The Witches of Eastwick flashing across iii different screens. A remixed opening of Adult female'southward World plays every bit the montage finishes, the curtains drop & our Patron Saint appears suspended above the stage. She's clothed in a shimmering royal toga with an electric blueish wig. Her backup dancers are clothed as Roman warriors complete with headpieces and shields. Because when you're Cher, zero has to make sense. I begin to discover that she doesn't actually  dance, but sort of travels from one side of the phase to another around her dancers.  Subsequently my walk out from the soundboard, I can hear Cher now talking to the arena, "Yous know when I was a niggling girl, I lived in Burleson.". The crowd cheers because everyone in Texas loves their famous hometowners. I also hear something about Dr. Pepper AKA Texas' Sweet Nectar.

Another montage begins, this time showcasing her & Sonny Bono in what I assume is both public and private recordings. Cher joins her crowd once again, this fourth dimension in a sparkling, hot pinkish, 70's jumpsuit with a wig reminiscing her once long, iconic hair. "When I was planning this tour I was not sure how I would feel about performing this song but I know he loved it. And I don't know if I'g going to have a next final tour because I'm like 500." And so the commencement of I Got You Babe plays, and Cher begins her duet with the belatedly Bono who is projected on the screen behind her. Cher exits the stage for what I volition presume is another costume change.

American Airlines Center is actually spending a lot less time with Cher and a lot more time with her backup dancers or with the various montages projected on the loonshit sized screens. Nosotros wait for some other costume alter and effort to be transfixed from clips of her movies. Practise you retrieve that Bob Hoskins' movie, Mermaids? I LOVED that motion-picture show. We see Cher'due south coy moving ridge goodbye to both her on-screen daughters, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci. And as she drives away, the tail on her mermaid costume is stuck in the door of the automobile. Cher is at present in a shimmering, velvet royal jumpsuit and performs 3 ABBA songs: Waterloo, SOS and Fernando. Most recently this 73 yr old icon appeared every bit the estranged Grandmother in Mama Mia! Here We Become Over again (See what she did there?). Months afterward the film gained popularity, Cher released her homage to the band with a tribute album of Dancing Queen. Approximate what happens next? She disappears for another costume changeastward! We know it's Cher and inevitably with that comes a theatrical combination of vibrant wigs and extravagant costume changes. However, I feel like it's become excessive; there are yet three more to come that I'm going to breeze over so equally to not bore you.

I heard the opening piano to her next song, threw my head dorsum in happiness and proclaimed, "YASSS!". My absolute favorite song Cher does is Walking In Memphis … which isn't even her song. The nighttime is finished off stiff with Cher transitioning into a version of her iconic Plow Dorsum Time glittering, see-through bodysuit, tousled black curly hair complete with thigh loftier boots. An eruption comes from American Airlines Center; how is information technology that someone – who is old enough to exist my grandmother – has such a phenomenal torso? She performs her cover of Michael Bolton's I Found Someone. Next is the song we've been waiting for, Turn Back Fourth dimension complete with a battleship projected on the screen backside her. Another costume change and then, Believe.

With any big-calibration performance, specially with a female creative person, I wait costume changes to set the tone for a certain parts of the bear witness. Still, the Here We Go Over again! Tour might have been impacted negatively instead of adding value with each transition. At one betoken in the show during a montage, I distinctly remember hearing Cher say patently,  "I've never actually been accustomed by singers as a vocalizer, and actors don't think of me as an histrion,". As a fan fifty-fifty I've forgotten that this multi-faceted artist has been the recipient of an Oscar, a Golden Earth, an Emmy, a Grammy along with countless other awards. Cher is only a Tony accolade away from achieving an EGOT, considered the chiliad-slam of American show-business. She belongs everywhere but at the same time, belongs nowhere. Possibly Cher has just transcended all of usa.

SETLIST :

1. Adult female's Globe
2. Stiff Enough
3. All Or Cipher
4. Beat Goes On (Sonny & Cher song)
5. I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher song)
6. Welcome to Burlesque
7. Waterloo (ABBA cover)
8. SOS (ABBA encompass)
9. Fernando (ABBA cover)
10. After All
11. Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohn song)
12. The Shoop Shoop Song (Betty Everett song)
13. I Found Someone (Michael Bolton cover)
14. If I Could Turn Back Time
15. Believe

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