Cher's Believe best single by a female artist ever

[smark21]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/09/chers-believe-named-the-best-selling-single-by-a-female-artist-ever-4493794/

[soulster]

Um...OK...you gotta love people with limited musical awareness who proclaim these things.

I happened to listen to "The Rose" by Bette Midler the other day. Remember that one? It was a MAJOR hit in early 1980. But, it was was a quality production with real singing without any studio hokery-pokery. I'm not saying Cher can't sing, and her song was fun fore about five minutes, but that song "Believe" was nothing but autotune. Techno-geeks loved it because of the technology. But, gimme some Nancy Wilson, Alicia keys...even Barbra Streisand!

[roger]

The article is actually a list of "Best Selling" singles in the U.K. so personal opinion and musical taste [[or lack thereof) has nothing to do with this.

The same list has been posted on another forum in which I participate and surprise has been expressed that nothing from the '60s or early 1970s appears on the list. Maybe records didn't sell too well back then in comparison with the past two decades.

Roger

[splanky]

Thank you, roger, I was about to make that point but you beat me to it. Quantity and quality
are two different things and I dn't give a red rooster booty about how many hot dogs so
and so sells when I'm looking for a steak...

[soulster]

The article is actually a list of "Best Selling" singles in the U.K. so personal opinion and musical taste [[or lack thereof) has nothing to do with this.E]

Heh! I quickly skimmed the article but missed that part where it was a list of best-selling singles.


The same list has been posted on another forum in which I participate and surprise has been expressed that nothing from the '60s or early 1970s appears on the list. Maybe records didn't sell too well back then in comparison with the past two decades. It is about the U.K., so I have nothing to add.

[edafan]

It's the same hokey uninformed people in sports

They named Michael Jordan as best athlete of the last century.

I guess they never heard of Babe Ruth, Bill Russell, or Jim Thorpe

I would take anything Ella Fitzgerald sings over anything
Cher sings.


edafan

[smark21]

Oooops! I forgot to include the word "selling" in the thread title field.

[soulster]

Oooops! I forgot to include the word "selling" in the thread title field.
That changes the whole discussion!

[Amithesameboy]

It's the same hokey uninformed people in sports

They named Michael Jordan as best athlete of the last century.

I guess they never heard of Babe Ruth, Bill Russell, or Jim Thorpe

I would take anything Ella Fitzgerald sings over anything
Cher sings.


edafan

But in your instance it is just an opinion, and opinions of this nature are of course endless, subjective and ulimately rather pointless. You could just as easily say :

" They named Bill Russell as best athlete of the last century.

I guess they never heard of Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, or Jim Thorpe "

[juicefree20]

While not musical, I'd have to say that Babe Ruth was the best athlete in history, regardless of sport. A man who began as a pitcher & a Hall Of Fame class one at that, transformed into a beast of a hitter who out homered entire teams when he changed positions.

For better or worse, he impacted the way that the game of Baseball was played.

[juicefree20]

The title of this thread had me worried for a moment!