“I hate it,” the singer, 77, told the ‘Today’ show of aging
Cher sure wishes she could turn back time.
The singer’s comeback hit “Believe” marked its 25th anniversary in October —
but the star, 77, isn’t doing much celebrating.
“It’s not that amazing, OK? It pisses the f— out of me,” she said with a laugh on the Today show Tuesday. “No, it just is like… what is this?”
“Believe” was released in 1998, and was featured on Cher’s album of the same name. The song, which popularized the use of Auto-Tune in pop music, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Despite its success, Cher made it clear that her relationship with aging isn’t exactly positive, giving an emphatic “No!” when asked by journalist Harry Smith if she and aging were “friends.
“My mother didn’t mind, but I do. I hate it,” she said, joking that she’d “give anything to be 70 again.” (Her mother Georgia Holt died in December 2022 at age 96.)
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The star has been in show business for six decades, enjoying success across music, movies and television. In a recent interview with The Guardian, she quipped that she’d been hard at work longer than anyone else.
“My life seems to be longer than any other human being ever,” she said. “I feel like I should be in the Guinness Book of World Records for this. And I’m still going!”
Indeed she is. In October, Cher released her first-ever holiday album, titled Christmas, explaining to PEOPLE at the time that it’d been an idea she’d had for a while.
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“I wanted to make a Cher Christmas album,” she said, “but I didn’t know how to do it. I never could figure out a way. Then this year, I just asked the record company if they would just let me do it — and just hand the finished product over to them —and they were agreeable, so I started picking songs.”
She recently brought the holiday spirit to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with a performance of her new song “DJ Play a Christmas Song,” and will do it again on Wednesday, when she appears on NBC’s annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center special in celebration of the Christmas tree lighting.
Cher also revealed on the Today show that she’s hard at work on a memoir.
“It’s very difficult because I’ve lived too long and I’ve done too many things,” she said. “And so it would have to be like, an encyclopedia, truthfully.”