YMMV / Cher

• Covered Up: "The Shoop Shoop Song" was originally by Mary Clayton. Betty Everett's version was the first version that became a hit.
• Critical Dissonance: 3614 Jackson Highway was a commercial dud on release, but at the time it was one of her more critically acclaimed albums.
• LGBT Fanbase: She's one of the most frequently drag-queened women in the world. There is a reason that the stereotype "All gay men love Cher" exists. During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show she talked about attending a gay wedding where someone mistook her for an impersonator, and asked to hire her as she was the best he'd ever seen. Graham retorted that her being there automatically made it the gayest wedding ever. This is also helped by the fact that her first child came out as a lesbian in the Nineties before transitioning as Chaz Bono a decade later. There's a bit of irony to this as, like most Californians of Armenian descent, Cher is believed to have been a Republican back in the day. She began to sour on the GOP in the nineties, especially after Chaz came out and the party became less tolerant of LGBT rights. Not long after Sonny Bono's death, she turned against the GOP completely and has thrown more than a few verbal bombs at George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and (especially) Donald Trump while raising millions for pro-women and pro-gay charities. However, she remains a registered Independent.
• Memetic Psychopath: Thanks to the likes of Groundhog Day, South Park, and Captain Underpants, Cher has been jokingly considered a musician who creates the musical equivalent of Brown Notes.
• She Really Can Act: She's described going to a theater that was showing trailers for her first film Silkwood, and seeing the previously rapt audience burst into guffaws when she appeared as her only previous acting was in her variety show. The film's director Mike Nichols assured her the laughing would stop when they actually saw the film, and he was right.
• Signature Song: Depends on the decade. "I Got You Babe" with Sonny Bono for Sixties Cher, "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" and "Dark Lady" for Seventies Cher, "If I Could Turn Back Time" for Eighties Cher, and "Believe" for Nineties Cher.

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