Cher’s DJ Play Me a Christmas Song at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

The best part was watching her struggle to take off her coat.

I can't believe the bitch didn't have any twinky male dancers!

They would have loved this shit.

It was all-female. BOO!!

I love that big gay CEO of Macy’s shimmying in the background. It’s taking every bit of his self-control to keep himself off the stage and dancing with Cher.

The performance was a microcosm of the entire parade - shit.

Dancers were alums from the New York School for the Almost Talented.

Good for her. The GAY VIP seating behind her, sheesh!

It was fantastic!

[quote]It’s EVERYTHING !!

It's "Do You Believe."

Can you imagine the pressure that queen on Cher’s right was feeling as he was praying her arm would slip out of that jacket on the right beat? I’m sure he’s been regaling every one of his girlfriends for the last 5 days about how exciting and stressful the performance was.

R9

I detected a quick flash of annoyance on Cher's face during jacketgate.

Ha! You can't detect anything on Cher's current face anymore!

Straight to gay bars' playlists!!

She knows her audience!

The voice modulation sounds all weird and distorted, like a kidnapper calling in a ransom request.

I was thinking the voice toy from Home Alone 2 Lost in New York.

[quote] The voice modulation sounds all weird and distorted

That's her real voice now.

Cher no longer exists.

Her current version is animatronic, from head to toe.

The face was fully reconstructed, and her voice is synthetic.

Talkboy, r14.

A performance like this gets only 15 replies. This place is really slipping.

Morticia Addams can sing, sort of.

We're embarrassed for her, R17.

Gay porn star pops in as one of the backup dancers at around 00:31.

This will be a worldwide hit. She is so talented.

As much as I don't like the song and don't see the appeal of a "live" performance of a song that's been autotuned past the point of human vocal recognition, I have to give her credit for honing her lipsyncing skills. She didn't miss a syllable. Though I always hate when a performer switches from mouthing the words of the background chorus to the main lyric mid-sentence.

I love Cher. But that was just embarrassing. She sounds terrible. She had a good long run.

She's 77 and looks recently refreshed to great success, especially in that German clip at R21.

Surgery has drastically changed her appearance, but she does look great, really pretty amazing in the German TV clip.

Cher nearly 60 years ago:

Was there a Chaz float?

r11 r10 here

That's what makes it even more threatening!

R24 I think she always goes blonde on German TV

[I love that big gay CEO of Macy’s shimmying in the background. ]

Ok, the thought of that is making giggle like a 4th grade girl. Thanks, R3!

W. T. F. is Flavor Flav doing in the audience?!?

At least I didn't come out trynna look like a 20 year old ho in daisy dukes.

Dolly.

Her voice is almost completely synthesized now. Sounds like a throat cancer victim's artificial voicebox.

R28 I forgot about this song. It's pretty good.

R32 Just the intro is robotic. And it's on purpose, Rose. You do remember she pioneered this, first of all artists, with Believe. It's a signature sound for Cher.

I loved her outfit. Festive glamour fit for a legend of her age. Meanwhile Madge is fingering herself in some half filled area in New Jersey.

Arena

You were more correct the first time R35 / 36

A Cher thread on DL with 35 replies.

There aren’t gays here anymore it’s all women and straight guys who got banned from other places for racism.

I thought our girl looked great.

The song is meh, but that 77 year old woman is still killing it.

Cher is marvelous; I thoroughly enjoyed the show.

Why are you thoroughgoing cunts so vile? Cher is our ally. Of course, if a man is handsome with a great body, you slobber over him, regardless of his character.

R40 maybe I’m tired of female singers playing the gay disco card. R38 or maybe the Gays moved on?

The eldergays that I know haven’t moved on. Not even close.

Gasp

She really does almost elbow that poor black male dancer when he reaches for her coat. I’m sure he was doing exactly as instructed but Cher didn’t look too pleased for a second there. Luckily, the guy on our left got the coat off her.

I like the song now that I have heard it a few times. It's not going to be the next new Christmas classic, like Mariah Carey managed to make 30 years ago, but it's better than a lot of other attempts. Basically a throwback to the kind of music she made with Believe but with a few Christmas lyrics thrown in. It's too bad there isn't more of a Christmas sound to the song, but I am guessing there may be remixes that go for that.

So, Irving Berlin is safe?

She did a Christmas song before

Many times, R47!

She and Darlene Love "sang" BABY PLEASE COME HOME last night on the (endless) Rockefeller tree lighting show. The lip synch was off by a good six or seven seconds!!

She's a bore.

I think Cher had great taste in men. Sunny Bonebroth (Sorry don't know his exact name because I was born in the 90s) looked cute without a mustache.

Never got what she saw in Greg Allman. Druggie wreck.

R52 Sizemeat.

Yeah that occurred to me. But druggies don't get it up all that often, do they? Or maybe that's why she ditched him.

Heroin addicts can fuck, they just can't cum.

It's troubling that I know this.

They also get terribly constipated.

I'm not proud to know this, either.

She dyed her hair pretty fast

Life-like (almost)!

R45, I like your assessment of the song and agree 100%.

Sure, she probably has pancake makeup on her face applied with a trowel, but with all the shit she's had done to her face over the years, how does she get the skin so smooth, not even a trace of bags under her eyes. You can only stretch skin so far. It's like she's wearing some sort of plastic mask.. See her at R57.

It's a miracle! Dreams are made of collagen.

Do people really go dancing all night long on Christmas?

Looks like Mom was wearing a codpiece for this one.

I heard this song on the radio on my way to work today.

I can't believe it - can she have ANOTHER hit at 77?

Honestly - there are NO Christmas modern dance songs - and she's here to fill that.

It's genius and I love her for it!

Just bought the album. Love it!

R65 do you have the amazon com exclusive cover?

New performance with different intro instrumental. She is very creative.

Some choreographer is going to list this credit prominently on their resume, which makes me sad.

I like the version in R67. Cher seems much more into it than she did at the Macy’s parade. She’s actually moving like she’s enjoying the song.

agree with r69

The YAAAAAAS KWEEEEEENS have arrived.

Here she is performing in the UK. This certainly gives American reality TV a run for its money in the tacky department.

She’s a dear old thing, Who should not try to sing.

She stole my money!

She’s known for Bob Mackie’s leather and lace, and also for that frozen, plasticized face.

R47 Who knew Larry Fortensky could Sing so gut! 🇩🇪

Song has a good hook- good mediocrity- but I do like Cher.