Neither Cher’s career is in question, nor is any harm expected for the nicknamed Goddess of Pop. His career, which spans seven different decades, includes successes ranging from the Oscar to the Grammy and the Emmy to the Golden Globe. The Californian singer is one of the most recognized names in a genre that many consider that she started. She was also a pioneer in the use of auto-tunea tool he used in his most successful song: Believe. Song that she now remembers with a veteran’s mentality and that, she says, It contains his greatest failure as a professional.
The year was 1998. The 77-year-old performer was already enjoying a transgenerational recognition, but he still needed to polish his grip in the industry. When that song exploded, he quickly perceived this absence with a youthful mistake: she forgot to ask to be included in the list of composers of the songwhich, in the end, had the consequence that the Californian He would stop earning millions of dollars in profits and rights that he can no longer claim today.
I was so stupid…
According to Cher herself in an interview with BBC Radio 2that still haunts him today. You can’t even imagine how much I regret it. There were about thirty people who wrote it (the song) and I was one of them. But I was so stupid… I didn’t even ask them to include me among the composersthe artist has confessed, unable to shake off the guilt and with a tone typical of someone apologizing in court.
Para ms inri, the verses that correspond to the author of Cherand which are not recognized for their error, are the most popular, the chorus itself: Cause Ive had time to think it through/ and maybe Im too good for you (Because I’ve had time to think long and hard / and maybe I’m too good for you, in Spanish).
I wrote that and my line of thought then was that a girl can show her annoyance in one verse, but not in two, at least not in my songs., he added. If one pays attention to the names that appear as composers of the song, one can find names like Brian Higgins, Paul Barry, Stuart McLennen, Steve Torch, Matthew Gray o Timothy Powell, incluso el de los productores Mark Taylor y Brian Rawling; many, but not Cher’s.
In any case, the success of the song was undeniable and its sales figures, which has added close to 11 million copies since then, endorse the musical triumph. He also made a tremendous profit from it. I could have made a lot of moneyhe laments, but neither does old water move the mill nor has that, in any case, brought him a major disaster.
