In 1999, Cher let writer Benjamin Svetkey into her bedroom for a chat. When he entered the room, Svetkey found the pop icon dressed in leopard print and resting on a leopard print bedspread.
So naturally, the conversation led to kitsch and camp. But it turned out Cher’s is an aesthetic that doesn’t get too hung up on irony.
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The recording of that interview has been turned into a short animated feature, and the two talk everything from motherhood to fame to the singer’s gay following.
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“I think that my gay following is really respectful, and if it verges into being camp — camp is a very specifically gay thing,” Cher says in the clip. “That doesn’t bother me at all because I know that my gay followers really care about me and really love me, have loved me through thick and thin, and a lot of times have loved me more through ‘thin’ because that’s the way gay men are. They understand not being part of the whole.”
Watch below:
