Cher is currently out promoting her new album Dancing Queen, a compilation of ABBA covers. While on the media circuit, the 72-year-old legend revealed that she has absolutely no desire to record a duet with Madonna.
Related: Someone already mashed up Cher’s new Abba single with Madonna’s “Hung Up”
Roz Weston and Graeme O’Neil from “ET Canada Live” tried getting to the bottom of the decades-old feud between the dueling divas, and it’s quite clear neither of them are huge fans, or even casual fans, of either singer.
“I was trying to look and see, like, is there a history between them?” O’Neil tells Weston.
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“I don’t know,” Weston shrugs.
O’Neil goes on to say he was surprised to learn… there was! Sort of. He thinks. He did some research and here’s what he learned: “Cher just said at one point a few years ago, she just said, ‘It’s not that I don’t like her. I just think she’s a B’.”
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Weston adds: “I’ll say that Cher is at a point–Madonna’s at a point, too–where you don’t have to work with people you don’t like.”
“Yeah, I guess so,” O’Neil says. “But what is the issue?” He then wonders aloud if it’s because they “kinda came up together a little bit?”
“They didn’t come up together,” Weston corrects him. “Cher was waaaay before Madonna.”
“I don’t know what the issue would be,” O’Neil adds.
Bless their hearts.
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Bromancer7
Cher has made it very clear multiple times. She doesn’t like Madonna because she’s a nasty bitch. It’s that simple. And that’s enough for Madonna to not like her in return.
S.anderson
This is easy to explain; Madonna is a narcissistic, copycatting, credit-stealing b***h, and Cher is a great and powerful ancient dragon with absolutely no f***ks to give.
startenout
“Cher is a great and powerful ancient dragon…” I love this!
Terrycloth
Cher is a better singer period.
Cher has a Oscar shes a better actress
Cher was an icon long before anyone knew of Madonna.
Cher was always better dressed.
Cher has a better body than madge ever did
I could go on…you get the idea
Kamuriie
Yeah, no. Madonna isn’t the best vocalist in the world, but Cher? Have you HEARD her music, like Believe? It’s autotuned BEYOND BELIEF.
S.anderson
Also, Cher never destroyed the career of another artist because his music from the soundtrack of a movie she’d appeared in was getting the club and airplay she coveted. Who did? Madonna. She requested he be dropped from the label and that the soundtrack be re-issued without him. Clubs were spinning pirate vinyl because audiences were asking “Who’s That Boy?”.
wikipedia Michael Davidson (singer)
GetOffMyInternets
Wikipedia mentions NOTHING in his career about such an event. If a song was getting club and airplay and then she had it pulled, makes no sense because the product is out there. So great detective work there, Maestro! It’s even on the CD I ordered when I was 12 from BMG. OOOOOOHHHH! MAYBE they sold me a bootleg!
GetOffMyInternets
Comments on how Andy Warhol got him signed up with Sire/Warner to SFGate:
“Andy sent me to Sire Records, which had just done a phenomenal job with Madonna. That song, “Turn It Up,” got me the record deal and wound up on the Madonna soundtrack. I did a video. I recorded an album with producers in London, New York and L.A. But sadly, the album never came out as Warner Bros. was cutting its roster and I slipped through the cracks. After the record deal fell apart, I moved from L.A. back to New York and did a lot of soul-searching.”
I can’t find one thing to back up your claim. Your research skills are on par with the staff here at Queerty. Ask them for a job.
S.anderson
@GetOffMyopicInterests: You skimmed Wikipedia? Great detective work there, Madgesucker.
Also, there is such a thing as artists spinning the truth to avoid further trouble with their label and PriMadonnas who target people who don’t live their carefully-constructed ‘truth’.
Anyway, I don’t need to ‘look this up’ because as someone twice your age in ’87, and working with DJs and promoters in the clubbing industry, it is a fact which we know. I don’t expect you to be able to “research it” as your pride depends on failing to. Good day.
GetOffMyInternets
And TWICE my age you say. At your age of 82, I hope I can remember the importance of shitty club music by S.A.W when I reach your time of your nuts hitting the toilet water before your ass hits the seat. Kisses Granny!
S.anderson
@GetOffMyWharblegarble:
Another testimony to your poor, or at least selective deductive skills is assuming that if I was twice your age in 1987 (12) that I would still be twice your age today. That’s only true if we take into account your Emotional maturity. Kiss Madge’s starfish for me, toots!
GetOffMyInternets
Thanks strange, because his song IS on the soundtrack. “Turn It Up” was a S.A.W produced track.
S.anderson
That’s what I said, numnuts. They were playing HIS track and not hers. From. The. Soundtrack. He was on the soundtrack. She wanted it re-released without him. Some of us already had his DJ/club mixes and many others had pirate copies when those ran out (and weren’t re-issued). She had him excluded from wherever she had influence. Michael calls her “a very good friend” for strategic purposes, as she won’t contradict him.
GetOffMyInternets
“She requested he be dropped from the label and that the soundtrack be re-issued without him. Clubs were spinning pirate vinyl because audiences were asking “Who’s That Boy?”.”
To quote you, implies that the soundtrack was reissued without his music and that clubs were spinning vinyl. YOU were the one who listed Wikipedia in your original statement and I could give a rats ass how old you are and all the DJ’s you probably blew for a dime bag. Sorry, must be your burnout brain who made it seem in the above quote that she had him dropped. Your clarification within the sentence is shoddy, and I’m glad you’re twice my age. It’s nice to know that AIDS didn’t kill everyone and that you’re alive. It’s amazing how at that point, with SO many people on club lists from then scoring high on the charts that you believe she wielded that much power. It’s not like she’s Cher.
Eat me.
S.anderson
I’d encourage you to GDIAF, but that doesn’t seem probable. So you see, requesting something is not the same as “implying that it has come to pass” as well. And see my response above as to your emotional maturity and the way to do simple mathematics. Go back to gazing at the lovingly selfish eyes staring out at you from your wall of Madge posters. Ta ta.
seaguy
I love Cher and Madonna but this feud is mostly played up by the media for ratings and attention to their stories. For all those anti Madonna haters the numbers speak for themselves. Madonna is the top selling female artist of all time. That is why she is the undisputed Queen of Pop!
S.anderson
You’re right… depending on the year. Madonna is #1 some years, someone else is after that. It’s not a lifetime appointment, they work it out annually.