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Cher or Sophie Ellis-Bextor? Since there's a debate and we love our queens.
I like both, but Sophie's version just has that little bit more joie de vivre...
Same. I had no idea Take Me Home was a cover until it came up yesterday!I didn't even know Cher had recorded this originally.
It really is HARD
what's the truthSEB by far
Cher is more HORNY DISCO CHIC whilst SEB is more of a SULTRY EARLY '00s POP DANCE GEM
It really is HARD
This struck me as a little ODD. The Cher version is easily more overt, and SEB's much more suggestive.SEB changed the lyrics (and took a songwriting credit STRAIGHT from the BANANARAMA school of CHANGE A WORD TAKE A THIRD ) because the original lyrics were considered too rude. Too much "I'm in ecstasy" and "making love" for a 2000s teen audience apparently. Hence the (A Girl Like Me) suffix in the SEB version.
This struck me as a little ODD. The Cher version is easily more overt, and SEB's much more suggestive.
CHER AND SOPHIE'S DOMESTIC!
Bextor's version of 'Take Me Home', released by Cher in 1979, is too 'overtly sexual' for the Oscar-winner...www.nme.com
In her autobiography Sophie said she completely made that up on the spot and the NME went with it.Don't know if that report at the time was wrong (or just sensationalist- I mean, Cher clearly couldn't give TWO FUCKS about a British cover version twenty years on) but fairly recently, SEB said it the other way around in an interview, that the record company had said she'd had to tone it down.
Yeah, basically.she said she'd lied in the interview for shits and giggles?
In her autobiography Sophie said she completely made that up on the spot and the NME went with it.
Actually, I just listened to both side by side and I will comment on something.
Whilst I do enjoy the polish and sass of Sophie’s, I must admit it’s a very soulless vocal from her. Is this intentional? I’m not sure if it is, or if it’s just because she’s… limited.
Yes, she’s very good at that whole persona but she’s often said it was like a default self defence mechanism. I think softening and appearing warmer with time has really helped her longevity as people have got to see what she’s really like. A bit like when people got to see a bit more of what Dannii Minogue was really like as a person in her final X Factor years.