As you can tell by the title of this piece, this will not be a very objective review. I hate Cher and unlike a Rolling Stone reporter I will tell you that up front. Why do you hate her so much antiGUY? What's to like? Sure she's a good actress, I will give her that. I thought she finally found her real calling a few years ago when she started doing infomercials. Now that is a case of ye round peg in ye round hole. What better spokesperson for cheap products that stores won't even carry, but a big phony like Cher.  Wow that's harsh. Well, I watched her little act at Sonny Bono's funeral then a few days later I hear she was suing his estate trying to get his money. Not like she doesn't have enough of her own, mind you. But it's not that, the real reason I hate her so much is her music is so phony she makes Milli Vanilli seem like Bach. 

She has a passable voice, nothing special, but then again she has all those idiots in Hollywood telling her how great she is. And then there are the critics who travel in the same circles who praise her work. What is there to praise?  I'll take Bette Midler over Cher any day. Listen to her voice on her latest record. Do you hear her voice? No, you hear her singing through a bunch of synthesizers. Any idiot can do that. While there are plenty of truly talented female singers out there who deserve the praise and success, Cher gets by with pure smoke in mirrors. 

So I tuned into this Live show from Vegas with the slight doubt that hey maybe you were being to hard on her. Listen to her sing live, maybe it will change your mind. Any doubts vanished within the first few minutes. The city that never sleeps was the perfect back drop for this charade she called a concert. 

It had more side shows that Barnum and Baily. That's what it was a circus, and the show was so choreographed that the performers would put a Broadway Production to shame. This all reminded me of one of the Vegas shows, I kept waiting for the dancing girls with feathers. They might have appeared, I don't know, I turned that garbage off after one so-called song. 

Concerts are about music, but a Cher concert exist for only one reason, as a tribute to Cher. It has very little to do with music, art or anything creative. It is an overload of hype, ego and a shrine to the women that has more in common with England's Royal family that she does with an average concert goer. 

I know there is a market out there for Cher, the same frustrated middle age baby boomers that buy up Michael Bolton records. Plus I hear her records sell well in cities with large transvestite populations. But to your average music fan, I can see no appeal. The bottom line is there is no substance to this women or her music. While others put her up on some pedestal, I gladly take the challenge of asking people to pull their heads out of their asses and see her for what she is - An old lady with delusions of grandeur. I could be wrong and this is only my opinion. But for what its worth, I wish this woman would go back to Infomercials and leave music to real musicians and singers.