Cher as songwriter on "Not.com.mercial" (2000)

35 Years in a business and finally lady writes her own material. 

You would expect that it would be something unusual, something original or unexpected as all this time she depended on "kindness of strangers" to write her music - and no matter what you might think,she did have luck with songwriters who kept her at the top of ever-changing profession even if the songs were often no more than catchy bubble gum of the moment. In whole of her discography there is one subdued and serious album ("It's a Man's World" 1995.) that didn't have great success and showed that audience prefers trashy and flashy material to a serious artist. Clearly she understand this and that is why this experiment was sold only trough her web site as not a typical Cher album - recent smash success of her dance album "Believe" served her well and inflamed new interest in her but music is basically return to more serious atmosphere of "It's a Man's World" except that it's not half as good.

As songwriter Cher has nothing much interesting to say - she follows usual cliché used hundreds of times in love songs, heartbreak, always-on-a-run outlaw, biker girl and so on, you get the picture. ("Born with a hunger") No deep thoughts, intimate perspective or different Cher - in fact this is kind of return to her 1980s image. Mildly controversial "Sisters Of Mercy" that sounds like theme for movie "Magdalene sisters" and song about Kurt Cobain that actually is not bad ("(The Fall) Kurt's Blues") are the only interesting songs here, the rest sounds very much like Chris Rea who I always find terribly boring. No wonder this was sold only to fans. 

Perhaps curious and brave experiment but really nothing specially interesting here.