For her, a true queen of pop music reinvention, it's all about the element of surprise. Facebook Twitter Email. Show Caption. Hide Caption. Album of the Week: Cher's 'Dancing Queen'. Share your feedback to help improve our site! Commercially, the song attained immense global success, reaching number one in almost every country it charted, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States.
It also became the highest-selling single by a solo female artist in the United Kingdom. The music video for "Believe", directed by Nigel Dick , showed Cher in a nightclub performing the song in two different sequences: one in which she is seen performing the song on stage and the other as a supernatural being locked in a cage. Cher has performed the song in a number of live appearances, including in three of her concert tours , most recently the Dressed to Kill Tour in It has been covered by a number of artists, and has been featured in several elements of popular culture.
Scholars and academics noted the way in which Cher was able to re-invent herself and remain fresh and contemporary amidst the more teen pop -based music of the period. They also credited "Believe" as the song which restored the singer's popularity and cemented her position as a pop culture icon. As released, the single incorporates the work of six different songwriters, two producers and executive producer Rob Dickins , the erstwhile chairman of Warner Bros, but according to Mark Taylor the creation of "Believe" was a "strange one.
Mark Taylor said that "everyone loved the chorus but not the rest of the song; As we were already writing other songs for Cher, Rob asked us if we could sort it out. Two of our writers, Steve Torch and Paul Barry , got involved and eventually came up with a complete song that Rob and Cher were happy with.
The hard part was trying to make one that wouldn't alienate Cher's existing fans. The first verse was this woman who was sad that this guy was going, and the second verse was saying the same thing, so I changed it on the spot! Cher's voice is altered by a pitch correction speed that is "set too fast for the audio that it is processing.
In interviews at the time, he claimed to be testing out his recently purchased DigiTech Talker. It is recorded in the key of [[F-sharp major F Template:Sharp major]] with a tempo of beats per minute. Billboard gave the song a positive review, saying that the song is "the best darn thing that Cher has recorded in years". Entertainment Weekly called this song "poptronica glaze, the soon-to-be club fave The song, recorded and released in , peaked at number one in 23 countries worldwide. Cher also set the record for a solo artist with the longest span of time between number one hits: her previous number one hit, " Dark Lady ", had been in She also set a mark for longest gap after her first No.
The success of the song not only expanded through each country's singles chart, but also most countries' dance charts. In the United States "Believe" spent 23 weeks on the U. Cher performing "Believe" on the Dressed to Kill Tour in The official music video for "Believe", directed by Nigel Dick , features Cher in a nightclub in a double role as a singer on stage while wearing a glowing headdress and as a supernatural being in a cage with auto-tuned voice surrounded by many people to whom she is giving advice.
The video largely revolves around a woman who is in the club looking for her boyfriend and is heartbroken when she sees him with another woman. The version on The Very Best of Cher: The Video Hits Collection is slightly different from the previous version the version that is also included on the Mallay Believe Bonus VCD with additional scenes towards the end that were not in the original video.
There are also two 'rough' versions of the video as the song was released in the UK and Europe before a video was completed. The first is a compilation of scenes from the videos of Cher's previous singles "One by One" and "Walking in Memphis" and the second includes a brief scene of the Believe video where Cher sings the chorus while the rest of the video is composed of scenes from "One by One". Three official remix videos exist for this song.
Two of the remix videos were created by Dan-O-Rama in Both follow different concepts from the original unmixed video. Instead of showing the significance of the lyrics the videos mostly show Cher with different colored backgrounds and people dancing. The third video entitled Wayne G. Remix was released by Warner Bros. Cher performed the song during the Do You Believe? While she would lip-sync the entire song on various television programs, she would only lip-sync the synthesized verses when performing on her Believe and Farewell tours, the Colosseum shows and on the edition of VH1 Divas Live.
Since , the song has been the encore to all of Cher's concerts until her Dressed to Kill Tour , where the encore is the ballad " I Hope You Find It ", a second single from her 25th studio album Closer to the Truth. It was featured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Living Conditions when Buffy's roommate plays it on repeat while ironing her jeans. A cover by Correatown was used in Grey's Anatomy season 12 episode 4.
In Ella Henderson performed an acoustic piano rendition of the song during the bootcamp stage of the ninth series of The X Factor UK earning praise from all judges and reducing Nicole Scherzinger to tears. A similar version was included on the iTunes deluxe version of Ella's album Chapter One. On December 7, , Jeffery Austin performed a stripped down, slower version of the song during the Top 9 live semifinals of The Voice.
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Cher was satisfied, but she encountered another hurdle in her record label, who hesitated to release a song that masked the star's recognizable voice. Her reply, per The New York Times in ? And that was the end of the discussion. It also became the top song of and won a Grammy Award for best dance recording. Cher continues to record, tour and act. Plus, the diva will return to the silver screen in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , a sequel to the hit musical film.
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