- Cher says in a new Paper interview that she's not a fan of her own voice.
- The "Believe" singer admitted that if she had the choice, she would've chosen a different voice.
Cher says that she's not a fan of her own voice.
"I just never liked my voice that much," the singer told Paper in an interview published today. "If I had my choice, I probably would have another one, but I didn't get my choice. I got my mother's voice."
She went on to explain that she finds her own voice "weird" because she has a "strange style" of singing.
"It doesn't sound like a man, it doesn't sound like a woman. I'm somewhere more in-between," Cher said. "I do what you do when you can't hold a note: I don't pronounce my Rs. I guess some consonants are hard to sing, so I just gotta leave them open."
And despite being a Grammy Award-winner with 12 top-10 hits on Billboard's Hot 100 charts, Cher's musical success through the decades has done little to change her own opinion of how she sounds.
"I mean, people seem to like it and I'm happy as a clam, but I wouldn't have picked it. I liked it on my mother and it's definitely my mom's voice," Cher said in the interview. "My mom's is softer, mine is edgier — different, but the same, but I don't think I would have picked it."
The 77-year-old also admitted in the interview that she wasn't always excited about every album that she released during her career.
"I've made so many albums, and some of the ones I thought were as good as I could like an album of mine weren't hits. And then other ones that I was not that excited about [were]," she added.
The singer released her first holiday album "Christmas" last Friday, featuring duets with guests such as Michael Bublé, Stevie Wonder, and Tyga.
Cher even revealed in an album trailer video on Instagram what finally convinced her to release a Christmas album. Her response? "The record company."