Do You Believe In Life After Love?

What are your memories of October 19, 1998 - the moment Cher's "Believe" instantaneously became the soundtrack to all of our lives?

As much of a game-changer as "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

First time 100 times I heard this song I thought I was stroking out. Maybe I did, actually. It's that horrific.

My cousin went to Italy that summer and when she came back she said that she couldn’t believe that all they played was that damn Cher song all day. lol

Same in PV. And we know what's happening there these days.

Some straight guys use this as their "ironic" go-to karaoke song

The first taste of autotune that I really remember.

R7 it was 1998, so lyrics about wet orgasms and binge drinking weren’t yet in the mainstream.

I was going to UCLA and living in WeHo. My neighbor downstairs played it EVERY morning to get ready.

[quote]became the soundtrack to all of our lives?

not MINE, gurl.

I absolutely loved it.

My favorite Cher song since "If I Could Turn Back Time."

It's kind of an empowering song, with a cool video to back it up.

Wasn't there a cute guy in the video, as well? I'm sure that didn't hurt.

A drag queen with a spot-on Cher impersonation performed it (lip sync) at the biggest gay club in my city. I was shooting a student short video at that time. I believe I still have the footage of it somewhere!

I also remember South Park spoofing it.

R7 Excuse me? Life after LOVE - I mean, how is that not lyrical genius? Because the question up until then had always been 'Do you believe in life after death'. I mean, feel the irony! Feel the cleverness! I mean, like, the song strings you along... ' Do you believe in life after...' and then you're expecting the word 'death' and then it's like 'love' and the irony and cleverness hits you like a sledgehammer. So clever!

With over 113 million views, the "Believe" video has made a few Malibu house payments from Youtube alone.

I still prefer One by One from the album prior to Believe. Such a great song. But I totally get why Believe was such a big hit, although I much prefer Strong Enough and All or Nothing.

Picture it... Halloween 1998... Splash Bar on 17th... I’m drunk, making out with a hung Brazilian and just did a rail of coke... the heavens part and send an Angel’s melody to the DJ booth... the Gays enter a new era

It really felt that way, R16.

It was like entering a new gay "Golden Age," and that was the anthem.

I think that Madonna's "Ray of Light" also came out around that time, which was just as fabulous.

For months I thought she was singing, 'do you believe in love after love?' And I thought the song was about polyamory.

Once you hear the remix of "One By One' the original sounds too slow

I'm not feeling the lyrics.

Do you believe in life after love? Do you remember love? Do you believe in life after love? Do you remember love? Do you believe in life after love? Do you believe in life after love? Do you believe in life after love? Life after love Life after love Life after love I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good for you I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good for you I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good (for you) I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good I'm too good for you Do you believe in life after love? Do you remember love? Do you believe in life after love? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you remember love? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe in life after love? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you I'm too good for you

Reminds me of hot guy at Hula’s in Honolulu.

It was a prescient song for Gays. We were emerging from the darkest period in our history; treatment & medications were finally coming out, so that HIV/AIDS was no longer a death sentence. We had lost so much and so many we loved. So indeed, do you believe in life after love?

Bitch, please. "I'm to good for you."

For whom, AIDS?

R23 types nappy-headed LSA refugee

That was my moms 44th birthday.

I don't want to miss a thing!

Rupaul's favorite Cher song

It reminds me of the worst night of my social life - up until then and in the years since. Substation Soho nightclub in London. Dreadful people. Nasty drugs. Pushy crowd. And I lost the friends with whom I was staying and at whose place my luggage was for my flight home the next morning.

And that fucking song being played at least every hour.

Anyway I found my mates, just made my flight and spent the subsequent 24 hours with a blanket over my head coming down like the twin towers. But even now it makes me shiver with horrific restrospection.

My fave Cher song is Dark Lady but mostly because of the cartoon I think...lol

I believe I was wasted that night.

I had exactly the same experience as R16. Went to the "Web", was approached by a very cute guy with "do you want to fuck?", went upstairs with him to a penthouse on Madison Avenue..... at some point we were fucking on the terrace in view of all the skyscrapers. And all the while I had that song in my ears. Ah, memories....

Wait, nobody posted Adam Lambert's virtuoso performance of "Believe" that made Cher cry at the Kennedy Center?

Cher is my all-time number one, and I still think that South Park sendup is fucking hilarious.

I don't care what Rupaul likes and doesn't like, but that's also my favorite Cher song, R28.

I graduated high school that June, and eventually bought the album and took it with me on a college trip to Europe in May/June 1999. Before the album was released, I couldn't wait to hear it on the radio, and it was the last time I remember taping anything off of a radio broadcast for later listening.

R34 Hearing Adam Lambert sing one of my songs would make me cry too.

Cher - Queen of the Universe

R30 Me too. I watched "Moonstruck" for the 9000th time tonight. So good.

Cher - Strong Enough

My favorite and the best version - The Farewell Tour

Yes, I do believe in life after love...if you can find it a second time 'round.

It has not aged well. She should not have done that stupid auto tune effect.

It was this stupid ass song that ruined music forever with that AutoTune shit. Now it’s on EVERYTHING.

I always thought “All or Nothing” from the Believe album was way better than the title track.

Cher - The Way of Love

Forever and always my favorite. Cher is gorgeous.

“If I could turn back time” is ten years older than “Believe” and sounds better. It is clearly Cher’s signature hit.

I prefer "All Or Nothing" too, R43. And while I recorded "Believe" from the radio, when I got the album, this immediately became my favorite.

Even now when I hear this song I think it sounds like she says "Love after Love."

I was 18 and my much older boyfriend would "sneak" me into clubs - he was a fireman and he once he flashed that badge? The door guy would just let us pass. Then we'd do lines (well, I would. He couldn't.) of blow and dance the night away to that song. I wasn't a Cher fan by any stretch, but I loved that damn song. Ah, very good times.

I remember when someone here posted a leaked MP3 file before it was officially released.

She lip syncs to a great track there R39, but lipped it is. Why couldn't Cher leave when she could still move and sing a bit? The never ending farewell tour. How can we miss her if she never fucking leaves? She still tweets ridiculous things about "performing." Bitch hasn't sung a thing live in 20 years.

But her rich heavy vocals remind me that she had some great ballads and a few bangers when I was a kid. I like Strong Enough, Save up All Your Tears, After All and Walking in Memphis. If I Could Turn Back Time was aiite.

A perfect example of the shitty arrested-development taste in music that gay men have.

R51 well we can’t all listen to Talking Heads, Bob Dylan and obscure bands you don’t really like but listen to because it’s cool; if we did, who would you use to feel better about yourself?

"Heart of Stone" is one of her best vocals

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