Cher Reaction Believe (CHER GOT THE KIDS MOVIN!?!) | Empress Reacts

[@scottvanhille5688]

They played this song at our church dances. Woooo! LOL @ Empress mouthing the words. 1999 first time I heard it. Graduated high school.

[@davidvornsand9551]

Cher is ageless, good luck kids☮️❤️

[@brettdavies5239]

I was a cool ass little club kid when this came out and it’s impossible to over state the impact it had. Clubs would go absolutely crazy when this track dropped. So cool to see an icon like Cher, in her 4th decade of show business, back on top 🙌🏼

[@robertasirgutz8800]

She's almost 80!!!! Legendary.

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Love you, girl.

[@BB-eb8fj]

I wore this CD OUT!!!

[@WCD199317]

This song was the first single of the album, also titled ''Believe''. This song reaching n.1 in 25 countrys in 1999, including in US. Cher was the only artists to achieve huge and iconic hits in 4 differents decades, Madonna didn't have this honor. Because after she started in the 60's and the 70's, her musical career didn't well and she concentrates more her energy to acting. And her self-titled album give her a second born in the late of 80's when she begins in a more pop-rock territory. And the ''Believe'' album was another re-invention to adventure in the electro-dance territory. This song was everywhere when i was young and was consider has her biggest hit to date.

[@robertronning7016]

I choose to believe whatever Cher believes

[@terrystorey]

After 50 yrs, I still have a crush on this woman. 😉

[@brianmccleary6278]

I really appreciate ur insights…just love how you think! 👍👍👍

[@EmpressReacts]

I appreciate that!

[@Dr_Madonna]

The famous “vocoder” word was born with this MASSIVE global number one hit!

[@adnap]

The Vocoder isn’t the same thing as auto tune, and Vocoder was around for many years before auto tune. If you want an exception of Vocoder listen to Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek.”

[@Dr_Madonna]

@@adnap i know that … I mean as in the word “vocoder” was what became synonymous with this song, Almost like a novelty word. Wasn’t correct “, but everyone and their dog would use it.

[@Rockymountainhigh.357]

Omg I just discovered your channel! You are hilarious and very entertaining and I am watching your videos while I work and it’s making my day so much better! Also you should be an actress if you’re not already!

[@EmpressReacts]

Somebody send me a script😊😎

[@mikepaulsboe8966]

I watch a lot of reaction videos but I have fell in love with your boundless energy.

[@EmpressReacts]

thank u!

[@DanCrowleyNYC]

I was a senior in high school when this came out and I remember it being EVERYWHERE. So much fun. I was surprised that the follow-up single, Strong Enough, wasn't a bigger hit cuz I thought the melody was more interesting and sounded like a late-90s update of I Will Survive. There were a few really great tracks on this album!

[@EmpressReacts]

Interesting ‼️

[@RBS_]

...should I even BOTHER to give trivia on THIS!? ...My FINGERS will drop off!! ...ha-HAA!! ...I'll just say, that this tune shot 'auto-tune' into the stratosphere...take of it, what you WILL....

[@craigcraigster4999]

"I'll just say, that this tune shot 'auto-tune' into the stratosphere...take of it, what you WILL...." You can safely assume what I take of it RBS -- 'nuff said. 🤐

[@craigcraigster4999]

Ahh, the infamous Cher "wobble" song, AKA the gerbil sound. 😄 Cher insisted on keeping the final auto-tune effect after coming across a vocoder-tweaked track by an artist named Andrew Roachford, her producers played with the auto-tune software ad nauseam to get an entirely different sound though, and they were nervous as hell when they first presented it to Cher, but she LOVED IT and felt her fans would make it a dance club smash, and was she ever right! As for this song being the genesis of the heated auto-tune debate and its affect on the entire industry to this day, there's enough already written about that to fill a book or two -- or two thousand. 😐

[@Braedensground]

Great Reaction, Empress! I never noticed the young couple. Oh well. Check out her follow up songs. ' Song For The Lonely' and 'The Music's No Good Without You' both huge dance hits that should have been more popular. The Remixes are 🔥

[@todddepue681]

Brilliant song, no question. Don't recall the first time hearing but I can't forget the 500,000 times I heard it after that! 🤣🤣 For a while, it seemed like it was the ONLY song ever played in any gay bar you'd walk into.

[@tapanim6576]

Personally I like the older stuff from Cher, but this is still very good.

[@sharpasanylynx]

'Finally Cher is free' I'm dead

[@michaelasay8587]

Empress....do more Cher! Gypsys, Tramps and thieves, Half Breed, Dark Lady!!!

[@chriskershaw4164]

1st time I heard Believe I liked it but didn't think it would be a hit in the US Pop chart, thought it was too club/techno for mainstream. I was totally wrong, was happy for Cher to have #1 hit again a few decades after her first #1, crazy ass long career. Would be an interesting trivia question longest time span of having #1 songs on the chats.

[@korver1]

And now those young kids in video who were 25 are now 50. Time marches on

[@salvadordehyrule7261]

I'm a Madonna and a Cher fan 😄 Actually, when I heard this song I thought it was a man 😂 Kudos to her for being the oldest woman to top Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

[@randysiler5551]

It's not auto tune It's a vocoder.

[@craigcraigster4999]

That debate has been going on for years, but according to a UK Yahoo News article about the song and a NY Times Cher interview from 1999 which are both easily Googled (KZbin doesn't allow external links here in the comments, otherwise I would), Cher heard a track by British singer-songwriter Andrew Roachford which used a vocoder to manipulate his voice, and she thought it sounded cool and wanted a similar approach for Believe, but her producers wanted to try auto-tune instead, and when they presented that altered Believe version to Cher she flipped out with joy, and the auto-tune version remained. Although capable of detecting pitch and intended to, ahem, "correct" flat or sharp notes (which mathematician, inventor, and software developer Andy Hildebrand referred to as "auto-correlation," not "auto-tune"), there were extreme settings in the software which could instantaneously "correct" pitch from note to note (amazing!) in an extremely unnatural way, which is what was done for Believe to create that now infamous Cher "wobble." A good comparison of auto-tune vs. vocoder would be Believe (extremely tweaked auto-tune settings) vs. the opening lines of EW&F's "Let's Groove" (vocoder). [I won't even get into Frampton's use of a Talk Box on his live recording of "Do You Feel Like We Do" on the Frampton Comes Alive double LP, totally different tech.] Anyway . . . don't shoot me, I'm just the auto-tune vs. vocoder messenger. 😂

[@coachtomas]

A banger, but Cher can't ever be forgiven for introducing auto-tune/vocoder (whatever) to the world. Grrr ! BUT Cher is an icon. This song is amazing, could replace the dance beats and it would be an equally epic ballad imo.

[@tapanim6576]

You are so right. We all can do without the auto-tune/vocoder bullshit. And the reality is that most of the singers doesn't even need it. It just makes everything sound soulless, cold and the same. Music needs character, rawness and the imperfections makes it unique and special.

[@craigcraigster4999]

Hey Stephen, see my reply to Randy Siler's comment below re auto-tune vs vocoder, you might find it interesting. 👍

[@RBS_]

...I wasn't gonna do it...but, here-we-GO... ***"BELIEVE" TRIVIA TIME!!*** ...do U believe!??... - ...Cher came off a poor selling Album in 1995 (although she gave her BEST Vocals on it), "It's A Man's World"; The 2nd single from THAT, "One By One", was remixed by Junior Vasquez and became a HUGE G-y Dancefloor hit, Fall 1996 - Summer 1997(!)..... -...but, Cher was about to lose her (UK) record contract, unless she turned in a 'fun' Pop Album, that sold some units...She got with Brian Rawlings & Mark Taylor (aka, "Metro"), and recorded some tunes, after it was decided Junior Vasquez shouldn't produce the entire Album... - "Believe" (the Song), was worked on like CRAZY, after some re-takes & re-do's; the "vocoder" effect was added, BUT! ...Cher wanted a change in the lyrics...SHE added, "...and, maybe I'm too GOOD for you..." (3:27)...and got co-writer credit...The Song is released, and................ - ....hits #1 in 21 Countries, Worldwide... - sells 10 MILLION copies Worldwide... - ...is in the Guinness Book of World Records, for biggest selling single by a Female, & Oldest Artist to hit Number One (at 56)... - is on Cher's best selling Album, highest charting Album, & biggest Worldwide selling Album.. - put 'auto-tune' on the map....for better, or WORSE.... - re-ignited her career as a Singer, Diva, Icon, & GAY Icon.... ....P.S., the "tubes" in her hair (in the Video), was LITERALLY added at the last minute, when Cher saw one of the Male Dancers twisting straws between takes, and asked him to put some in her WIG! (1:12) ...do you "Believe" I still came up with damn trivia!??? ...ha-HAAA!!

[@craigcraigster4999]

Can't get enough of those tubes. 😂You correctly referred to the warble as the vocoder "effect" since it was actually achieved through trial-and-error auto-tune manipulation which caused those instantaneous note flutters -- it was unique and cutting-edge for it's time, but sounds gimmicky to me today, and every time I hear the song I can't help but just sit there in anticipation of the next warble-wobble. But Cher likes it and I like Cher, so bring on more of that Cher vocal voodoo -- and hair tubes!

[@EthansTarot]

Wait until you get to the Madonna music era when she starts using auto tone/vocal effects a lot 😩

[@mikepaulsboe8966]

Empress right on with the lip synching if you dint mind me asking do you have Native American heritage? Your cheekbones make me think so

[@EmpressReacts]

my cheekbones have been commented on since i was little. i've never done an ancestry test before so im not sure

[@mikepaulsboe8966]

@@EmpressReacts Yes definitely due a 23 and me test. Thanks for your reply I really enjoy your reactions and energy Best to you and Pressure . If you ever do that test I would be curious to know if I am right. Have a great day y’all

[@mikepaulsboe8966]

Empress do you wear contacts or is that the real color of your eyes if so I have very old interesting story that you and Pressure would find riveting