Cher sings Fernando in Mamma Mia 2

Is there an older female singer still performing ?

Barbra

R2 She doesn’t perform no more

That was incredibly beautiful and amazing

So is M dead in this or not?

Is this really Cher or her wax figure at Madame Tussauds. I can't tell the difference anymore.

R3 Yes she does

This looks good I hate to admit but Cher has no shame she will use whatever she can to sound okay. Barbra would never do that. Also it has been just a couple of years since she has performed live. Her last concerts were to buy a painting I wish she would do one to bankroll a movie.

Why are her team afraid to tell her that she looks ridiculous as a blonde?!

But her face doesn't move. At all.

do she gots leg arthritis? she no dance much In dis movie. and the one leg premise???

What a shame that they can't let the scene speak for itself.

Do we really need all of the actors in the film telling us how wonderful Cher's performance is? The clip's dedicated more to their shilling than it is to Cher.

She looks like Ann-Margrock’s grandmother. Did Hanna-Barbera do the CGI?

Mes enfants, je suis arrivé !

Her face isn’t moving.

She can barely move her mouth.

I'm not feeling this song with her either. Maybe in the movie it makes sense. But in the stand alone video, the singing and "dancing" doesn't work for me at all. There must be other songs that would have suited Cher's voice better.

R5, I cannot quite piece it together. The synopsis says something to her character being dead. But M is credited, she gives interviews for this movie, and there seems to be original material with her, (not just flash backs), so I cannot really tell. She seems to have a very small part though in this one though.

I'm one of those gays who can't stand musicals, especially the ones filled to the brim with estrogen. I remember trying to watch the first Mamma Mia and thinking what the hell is this crap. It was like trying to watch any of the Sex and the City movies. This one looks just as tedious. Cher does look great, though, but sure her face doesn't move practically at all.

[quote]She can barely move her mouth.

George said not to.

She looks like a less attractive Olympia Dukakis now.

Aww, heck! I don't care about the plastic surgery. I would never have imagined Cher singing ABBA. But Benny and Bjorn approve, and listening to her sing, I do, too. Sometimes you have to allow yourself to simply be entertained, and not worry about the tasteful friends who will cluck over it.

Just an all around freak show. Cher doesn't even look human anymore.

Does she really need the money this badly?

I don't think a Cameo by Cher will be enough to get anyone to see this in the theaters

Are there any more gay icons the fraus are going to steal? They already kidnapped Bette Midler.

I'll rent it from the library (free) just to poke fun at it and snicker.

"Just an all around freak show. Cher doesn't even look human anymore."

BANG, BANG, you bitches shot me down!

Does Cher still have a fan base or have they all died by now?

R26, We're still here.

Well R19, I know there’s usually someone who will write ‘marry me’ after a cute post like yours. I won’t go that far, but I’d probably like to screw around.

I'm caught in that trailer's its tractor beam; mesmerized into immobility even while I want to flee in horror.

I adore Cher. But still, now, her star power slightly exceeds her appearance, but, just barely.

"Is this really Cher or her wax figure at Madame Tussauds."

That's a whole different ball of wax.

The first one felt as if someone had said, "Gals, instead of scrapbooking today, let's all direct a feature film!"

I love that Meryl gets in a dig that Cher is now playing her mother.

That white wig is doing her no favors.

Fernando is a very easy song to sing, with less than an octave required. It sounds like Cher but it's not much of a performance. Cher talks on Twitter about working on her new album all the time. But she doesn't sing live anymore, not even in her "concerts." She has grown slightly dim witted too, judging by the shit fest hour she did on The Talk. She just repeated old stories when prompted with little humor or detail. She and Meryl fell out a long time ago, so as usual Meryl is full of shit when she calls her "divine."

"She and Meryl fell out a long time ago, so as usual Meryl is full of shit when she calls her "'divine.'"

r34, tell us more. How do you know that?

I like Cher and I kind of like Abba, but the reverence of this clip is bizarre to me. They act like it’s some sort of great union of universally powerful forces. In reality, it’s an elderly pop icon cast in a silly movie to rake in lots of cash. Can we be honest?

She looks like she's having some trouble moving in that scene with Andy Garcia.

She's a great choice and I'm glad they're getting all the other songs like Angel Eyes in this movie.

There are some new shots of M in this trailer, like her ghost in the church.

Cher once said M was her best friend. I'm guessing they barely saw each other on this shoot. I love Abba so I'll look forward to this. Thankfully that "director" who shot the first one (and also helmed/ruined "The Iron Lady") is not back for this so maybe the sequel will be more of a professional job than the original!

I think Cher is fine, but she's old and feeble now and fast on her way to becoming a parody, a la Mae West.

WHO do these grisly Mamma Mia movies appeal to, apart from fraus? Are they all it takes to keep this franchise going? Hideous.

Meryl’s dig on Cher’s age (“Of course, she’s playing my MOTHER” *hair flip*) is the only good thing to come out of the Mamma Mia franchise.

How does she play Meryl's MOTHER??? Some sort of flashback or what?

I'm wondering if there has been some hip replacement surgery. She moves gingerly, and is often seen with a cane (one of Chastity's old ones?).

Cher basically ghosted M and stopped returning her phone calls. She did the same to Michelle Pfeiffer years later.

So Cher's a mean girl? I'd say she's out of her league with Meryl and it would be the other way around.

Cher sure doesn't look like your typical grandmother.

Love Cher. She's queen of the universe.

[quote] Meryl’s dig on Cher’s age (“Of course, she’s playing my MOTHER” *hair flip*) is the only good thing to come out of the Mamma Mia franchise.

I loved that! M is such a beitch!!

I like Cher but Abba songs were done to perfection with Agnetha and Anni-Frid. Nobody can do them better. The originals are the ones I love. Mamma Mia was terrible for its story and singing because original girls weren’t singing them. I prefer Agnetha but Frida’s mezzo is beautiful.

I'm not surprised Cher looks as if she is having trouble getting around.

I saw her in concert over a decade ago and they wheeled her out and everyone danced frantically around her while she moved her lips in approximation to the vocal track.

Live

Why did she stop taking M,s calls?

I saw the clip of her 'singing' Fernando on Graham Norton a few weeks ago and wondered if they had dug up Marni Nixon to ghost it for her.

It doesn't sound anything like her apart from a few of the spoken parts.

At this point, Cher is little more than a Cher impersonator.

This fucking movie is going to make a FORTUNE. The first one made $609M worldwide (vs a budget of $52M). Movie prices have since gone up, and this is frau bait extraordinaire!!!

Bitch is stealing my act.

It will bring out the Frau in everyone! I can feel my inner Frau stirring!!

Why hasn’t someone done a black parody called Yo Mamma starring Diana Ross and Queen Latifah?

Andy Garcia is de rigueur for frau bait movies.

R56 I'd watch that! And how about Mama Mia by Woody Allen? What genre would that be?

Have been Abba fan since mid 70's.

Loved their music even in the mid 80's when it required some courage to even mention their name.

Gained enormous respect for the group members when they refused $1B for a tour in late 90's.

When they prostituted their music in the "Mama Mia, yet another Big Greek wedding for morons" I thought, "well, nobody's perfect".

Now I'm sure Bjorn and Benny are purposely trying to destroy Abba's legacy through these Disney like attractions and sequels.

What a fucking liberty!!!

R58 That would be Papa Peeya starring Satchel Ronan Farrow, Woody himself, the ghost of Frank Sinatra, and Rosemary’s grown up baby Satan, with mashed up songs by Sinatra and R. Kelly. Ultimately, in the middle of a golden shower, Satchel would decide that it doesn’t matter who his father is because he has all the journalism awards and nobody can take that away from him. It will feature the same devil rape sequence as Rosemary’s Baby, except of course Mia will be raped by her own child, Satan, while Satchel and Woody watch. After Mia comes out of her devil rape daze, Satchel will explain to her that making a baby with her own grown devil baby is no better or worse than marrying your adopted Asian daughter, and they will all rejoice as Old Blue Eyes welcomes them to hell.

Boooooooooooring

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

R60 Rosemary's Baby IS Ronan.

R62 Don’t shoot the messenger. It’s Woody’s treatment, not mine.

Cher said in an interview it was always Meryl and the kids. Basically M was too much of a Frau for Cher to handle.

Cher didn't waste a lot of time on motherhood. Meryl is a funny but very uncool woman. When they met on Silkwood, Streep had not yet become the grand lady of all cinema. She's a pain in the ass to Cher who likes to stay up all night, braid her girlfriends hair and make prank calls. Sober. Meryl likes to drink and gossip and brag about herself... and her dull kids. What can Cher possibly say about her kids? No one's in prison and she hasn't seen them since Dancing With The Stars.

r65, you're very amusing and you certainly paint what I would guess is a fairly accurate portrait of Streep. But why would she be a "pain in the ass" to Cher? That doesn't make much sense.

At this point Cher is basically a copy of her own drag queens. Good on her for still getting out there. The song, well it’s Fernando sung by Cher, exactly how you imagined it.

"But her face doesn't move. At all."

I'm guessing about 10 snakes gave up their good lives and venom for that one ABBA song.

Does this mean Mamma Mia 3 will feature Madonna singing an ABBA tune?

I'm looking forward to the movie. Yes, the story is probably lame and Pierce Brosnan is probably as stiff as possible again. But the first musical/movie was lighthearted and easy. And full of positive, non-cynical energy. The older I get the more I detest cynical behavior, fictional or real. So this light-hearted fluff is all I need. It's also not new to Abba fans. That's what Abba was all about until their last two years.

Fernando doesn't seem to be my favorite song in this movie. And I hate how "young Pierce Brosnan" (don't know the actor) butchers Waterloo. But When I kissed the teacher is actually better in this version than the original version.

Better than this R70? Better than young Agnetha singing with her glorious clear high voice?

I’m ready for Julianne Moore to star in the Ace of Base musical called “The Sign.”

Oh Agnetha's voice is unmatched. But the energy is so much stronger in the movie's version, imho, and the arrangements are a bit more interesting without taking anything away from the original version. The song suits Lily James, which I think is not the case with Cher and Fernando. Imagine what better things Cher could have done with SOS or Waterloo instead.

The "singing" was terrible in the first movie. It amuses me that people put down the worldwide stage hit sung by top Broadway performers, but forget to complain about how terrible Meryl, Pierce Brosnan, Firth and Julie Waters were. Streep is not ever a singer, no matter how many times she gets cast as one.

Paul McCartney and many others have high praise for ABBA songs. They can be covered inventively and beautifully. But they are not all throways. They shouldn't be mimicked by non professional singers.

Cher is a Contralto, Fernando is meant to be sung by a soprano. Unless they change the song significantly I can't see Cher doing a good job on it.

Wow! CGI Cher is amazing! You almost believe she's alive

I've never seen Mamma Mia, the movie or the show, and I have no idea what the fuck it's even about. I have no desire to find out, either.

It's called a key change R75. This is not opera. Fernando does not require Joan Sutherland. Elvis would record Fernand very well. He and Cher have practically the same intonations and timbre. It don't take a soprano to sing that pretty lil ditty.

The audience will be filled with DLers

Well Cher's next album is all ABBA. Believe it or not, Cher does sing live in Vegas. I've seen the latest show a few times. Definitely slowed down on any dancing, but she looks great for 72. Cher never should have fucked with her mouth though- and she knows it. It's not fixable.

"Does this mean Mamma Mia 3 will feature Madonna singing an ABBA tune?"

It would be titled: "Mamma Mia-Here I 'Ho Again"

I'm sure the movie insisted on her character being blonde due to her playing Meryl's mom & Lily's grandmother. Cher absolutely looks her best with blank hair. It highlights her deep brown eyes (her best feature IMO) and her skin tone.

Here's a recent interview from about 3 months ago from when she was in Sydney.. She looks lovely & is very charming.

[quote]It's called a key change

Yet they didn't, Cher's voice was blended into the background with a soprano supporting singer doing the verses.

Show me one clip or youtube video of Cher singing live in her last Vegas show R80. She doesn't.

R83 is also full of shit. Do you even know the vocal fach of a soprano? Someone might have sung some harmonies but the melody is sung by Cher, in her small contralto range.

There is a soprano in the chorus singing the melody, R84 and it's not Cher.

How is it Cher that looks more natural and looks about same age (even younger) than Madonna? And Madge is over a decade younger ? Both are italians, right?

Cher is Armenian. Full name - Cherilyn Sarkasian.

Cher’s neck and hands look many decades younger than Madonna’s, and Cher is 71 and Madonna is 59.

It may be their spirits. That Cher interview above shows that she is a gracious and loving person, and every Madonna interview shows her to be sniping and acrid.

Funny how neither one of Cher's kids look anything like her. You'd think those Armenian genes would've been stronger.

A striking realization: Cher’s child has had multiple surgeries to reconfigure his body from female to male anatomy...and still, Cher probably has had several times more elective surgeries than Chaz has had.

any footage recently of her walking much? she seems to be impaired somehow , the dancing scene of her barely dancing with a Garcia is down right weird

bet she uses an electric wheelchair

R91 She’s 71.

That’s one of the things about convincing cosmetic surgeries: you might look younger (or strange looking but not elderly like Joan Rivers was), but your body still wears down. Old is old, no matter how the facade appears.

I cant find any recent footage whre she stands on her own... full body shot. minus aid from stairs, a person, or whatev

What is the tessitura of the soprano for song Fernando R85? Where do you not hear Cher sing the melody in that clip?

R93 This is a photo that accompanies stories from this year. She is standing on her own onstage.

March 2018 from Australia. Standing on her own.

she has very ! realistic doubles....I wonder...

maybe sumpin happened before mamma mia, cause she don't stand on her own in it, barely moves, maybe recent bout of osteoporosis.

YES, she must have had one of those very common sudden-onset osteoporosis attacks, because those happen. Often. People are just fine one day and then the next day their bones are holey.

Maybe Cher had her foot bones removed prior to filming? She's always under renovation.

Cher is an actor and singer...she can be blond if she wants, I just hope she won't do something else to her face. Older woman have to lighten their hair color as they get older. Black hair on an old woman screams witch.

I love ABBA, and I love Cher. She is one of the very few remaining (to this old queen) distinctly American voices. The fact that ABBA approves means something to me. I never cared for 'Fernando' when it first came out, but I now like Cher's version, very much. To the Euro DLers, I'm going to ask modestly, do you recognize her distinctive American intonations in her recordings? Many other singers seem to bridge continents, but Cher has her own way of phrasing and sounding words that always makes me notice (when I otherwise wouldn't).

She still has a very good body.

R96'a link.

R82, Thanks for that!

[quote] The audience will be filled with DLers

Let's flash mob a screening and make this happen. A DL Mamma Mia screening would be fun

R84, it isn't her last Vegas show- it is an ongoing residency. I don't need to see someone's shitty cameraphone YouTube video. I've been there. NO lipsynch.

Hell, she sang 3 songs live for the Today Show when her last album CD came out in 2014. At 8 in the morning.

There's a reason she's an icon.

She looks creepy tbh and doesn’t do the song justice. Ugh

The movie is way too disturbingly white. Why is everyone so rich in it? Cheap

Yeah, they could have had the decency to hire Monique for the island.

In my head, I've gone through the whole ABBA catalogue (while I tried to get to sleep last night), and I can't think of another ABBA song that was appropriate for Cher's voice. I think her version is beautiful. Just like the prior 'Mamma Mia', I enjoy seeing all these 'serious' actors losing every bit of pretense and stuffiness to engage in something that's totally entertaining. Movie musicals are very much a thing of the past, so when someone is able to produce one now, I'm always amazed. There has always been an element of unbelievability in movie musicals: you can either go along with it, or not.

I can't wait for her Dancing Queen! Such a perfect title.

R89

You must have slept thru basic biology. A black haired person can definitely have a blonde haired child. Cher's mom is blonde & Sonny's mom was blonde.= 2 recessive genes.

This is utter bullshit that Cher can't walk or needs aid. Here she is 2 weeks ago at the Families Belong Together march.

r111 it's not that common.

R113 My mother's hair was jet black; my father's hair was dark brown. I was born a towhead blonde. My hair darkened a little as I got older, but it's still definitely blonde.

She sounds great at R112...her voice and energy are young.

She was so beautiful when she was younger ...she'd probably look a lot better today if she had stayed away from the surgery.

I’m sorry, but she looks like the fucking SAW puppet! “Fernando...wanna play a game?”

True, r115. Cher was gorgeous when she was younger. It's too bad she didn't keep the plastic surgery to a minimum, she would look so much better now.

The only plastic surgery I think was bad is her lips. She's allergic to collagen & back then the only alternative was the insertion of Gortex.

Of course now they have alternatives that aren't permanent.

The late great Way Bandy said Cher had the most perfect lips but alas no more.

So is the the best thread to make other remarks about Mamma Mia 2? The young actor playing the flashback Harry (Colin Firth gay character) is very handsome. Don't know if he can sing, but one of my favorite underappreciated Abba songs would be perfect for the character and the relationship with a young Donna (I know, Mary, etc.)

I only wanted a little love affair / now I can see you are beginning to care

That's only natural, but why did it have to me?

I wonder if she even realizes how absurd that curly white wig looks on her? I mean, at least the other white wig is half way believable.

Women of 70+ do not have that much hair ever; and so it just looks incongruent with her face and serves to actually make her look older and senile. I suppose that no one dare tell her the truth about anything to do with her appearance.

A Supporting Actress Oscar nod is in the cards for her with this. Wouldn’t that be delicious?

Pure unadulterated escapism. Can't wait for it.

R120

Cher still has a great head of hair. Her BFF who posts everything to IG has pics of Cher at home, at her Mom's, traveling, etc.. where Cher has her own natural hair. It's not waist length like back in the day but it's about 24 in long.

I hate her with a blonde wig b/c it just suits her coloring.

Correction= DOESN'T suit her coloring.

What color is Cher these days?

R123 Hmm. I am not saying that you are wrong or lying, but I remember seeing her au naturel in New Orleans back when she was dating Gregg Allman. As you know she was all about the wigs even in her youth, so seeing her with a very thin/sparse shag was a shock to me.

Rarely does a woman's hair get thicker and filler as she ages. It seems a bit fishy to me that it is so long and healthy at 70+ when it was too fine and sparse to wear past her shoulders at 30.

I can't get the link to post, but her regular hair looks about the same as back in the day. Most of her vacation and traveling pictures are no wig, usually with a hat.

Paulette's IG has some good pictures too as the other poster said.

R126

What are you talking about? Cher's hair was lush, thick & to her ass while married to Greg. It wasn't at her shoulders at any point during that time.

She cut it & layered it during her time with Gene.

During Mask she allowed them to dye & perm her hair and it badly damaged it. Afterward she had to cut it to a pixie to get the damage off & she swore she'd wear a wigs in a film before she ever allowed her hair to be damaged for a job again.

This photo is from her Mom's recent 92nd birthday.

R128, one of my pictures with her is right after Mask. She had a black and blonde mohawk and was wearing earrings made out of her cut off hair. One of my favorites.

Let me tell you something about Cher and her mobility issues. In 1968, my brother and I hung with her on the set of the movie Chastity for about a half hour, on location in Phoenix, AZ. And she was SITTING the entire time. And this was way back in 1968, okay? And btw she was very nice to both of us.

So let me get this straight: Fernando is the pizza boy all grown up?

R131

How cool!

[quote]and she was SITTING the entire time. And this was way back in 1968

And there's a YouTube video of her on the Mike Douglas Show in 1969...and she's SITTING through the entire interview!

So yeah, she was having mobility issues even way back in the 1960s.

OP's photo....is she playing a ghost????

It's interesting how gossip spreads. Cher uses a cane in the new movie, and all of a sudden she has mobilty issues, despite dozens of YouTube and IG videos and pictures proving otherwise.

R136 She barely moves in the Mama Mia trailer. There's plenty of reason to speculate on her mobility just watching her struggling to bend her knee in the Fernando number.

R137, she's done plenty of concerts and talk shows since the filming but speculate all you want.

R138 Sweetie, don't get yer granny panties all in a bunch. We all love our Cher, but the bitch is 72, okay? Most people would EXPECT a few mobility issues.

GMAB! Did you ever think the slow 'dancing' number in MM2 is because they are doing some sort of Latin dance thing? I've seen plenty of Tango-esque shit on DWTS that's like that.

I've seen her this year & she dances & skips in her show without aid. The clip upthread from 2 weeks ago shows her walking un-aided at the Family reunification march.

She maybe 72 but she's very fit 72 who exercises 6 days a week in her home gym.

I just watched the clip. Cher doesn't seem to be struggling to bend her leg. It's the fucking style of the dance.

Cher walks just fine. It's moving her mouth to the playback she has trouble with. She's a very bad lip syncher - just go to one of her "concerts."

I heard that Cher is so immobile, that when she poops, she has to SIT on the toilet. The WHOLE time.

R142, you must be confusing her with Britney. Dementia is such an insidious disease.

Cher has dementia? Well that explains it. Maybe she has Lewy Bodies Disease like Robin Williams did? That would explain her inability to walk OR sing and that strange mask like appearance to her face!! She hasn't long but she's been around long enough.

You think the hair on her head is real?!? Are you kidding me? She's been wearing wigs since Sonny.

Yes, she has long, black hair when she isn't wearing wigs. Are you "special"?

Cher is nappy headed with all those baby hairs and her kitchen is a mess. She's balding in her center part. So like so many black women before her, she wears wigs most of the time.

She was so exotically beautiful in old clips from the 1970s. Now, she is a mask and a croak that many people recognize as "CHER"

I wondered if Cher's not moving around much in the trailer clips was about very, very careful lighting and camera angles.

In any case, I am looking forward to the movie. It looks like fun. With popcorn.

R148

You are either a troll or stupid.

Cher wears her natural hair at home or when she's not working. There's nothing wrong with her hair. She likes wigs because of the variety & because she refuses to damage her hair after the fiasco during Mask.

R128 Nope. I'm sorry but you were fooled by the wigs. I was engaged to a musician in a southern rock band who were playing the Superdome with the Allman Bros. when Cher was first dating Gregg Allman. I got to see her "behind the scenes" where she was far from camera ready and her hair was anything but lush and thick.

I am not hating. I don't consider myself a huge Cher fan, but I admire her longevity and her honesty. She was doing good human hair wigs log before Beyonce and all the black divas completely normalized them in the late 20th century.

Cher invented the human hair wig and Diana Ross invented the weave. Streisand invented curly perms. All the more reason to celebrate them. (except streisand, who is a monster in any hair)

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I'm not sure why we should even care, let alone argue, about whether Cher "always" wears wigs. I think I just assumed that all along since at least her first "farewell tour."

Many, many actors and other media types wear hairpieces, extensions, wigs, toupees. Women and men, younger and older. Think local tv news anchors, especially the prematurely balding ones, and vain male politicians and executives.

The white wigs were kind of a joke, right ? Everyone knows she's not old enough to play Meryl's mother.

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OST is out now.

I don't know who was casting the guy who botched up "Waterloo". And "Kisses of Fire" must be part of a comedy with Julie Walters. It's just weird. But there are some really good performances in it, "I wonder" or "My Love My Love." And "When I kissed the teacher is just fun.

Link is about Young Donna. When you listen to Meryl Streep you realize right away that's Miranda Priestly speaking. It's just too nice to be true.

Cher and Joan, nice interview. Cher started out with a lot of promise on film. Now she's a cartoon, but I bet she's okay with that too.

R157

What does OST mean?

Sorry, it means Original SoundTrack.

Here's Super Trouper.

OT, talk show glamour and royalty, Dame Edna with Cher, begins at 6.55

Cher has a lot of talent, that's why she's lasted so long.

I have seen Cher multiple times the past 5 years. In March, 2018 at National Harbor - very good, her own voice, very personable, no mobility issues. Is she 1965 Chita Rivera? No - but she moves around & dances away the whole show. Pretty darned impressive. I saw her at the Verizon Center about 4 or 5 years ago in DC....in one number, she was in some kind of cart / chariott, belting out a tune and floating around high atop the Verizon Center. Any other human being would have been horrified. Nope - she just kept singing. I think she looks great, regardless of how old she is. My guess is she has good genes - her mother is 92 and still is quite a dish. Cher is one of the all time great stars, so let's appreciate her. Smart, kind, a good heart. And she's on twitter frequently bashing that a-hole Trump all the time. Bravo Cher.

Cher is also quite witty and intelligent. She's a good interview. I think she should do another standards - Great American songbook album. "Bittersweet White Light" was overproduced by Sonny - I always liked her solo number on Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.

Someone asked Cher about a standards album not too long ago and she said I was doing that in the 70s, but you never know.

R162, That was fantastic!

R162

Thanks so much for posting the special with Dame Edna & Cher.

I'd never see it before. So funny.

There is a huge risk that this thread derails to a Dame Edna thread. Love Dame Edna ... and Madge. This was a great clip, R162.

So, to bring it back, has anybody else listened into the MM2 soundtrack? What do you think? To quote Meryl, I, too, had no idea that Lily James had these singing chops. She is really good.

Someone has collected it together

Did they kill Donna? The main question at the moment.

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It looks like a lot of good fluffy fun. Lily James is lovely, and can really sing well, evidently.

Cher made a good decision to come on board. Many millions of young people who never heard of her will know her now.

Two questions, from watching the clips: I recognize the actress playing the teacher in When I Kissed the Teacher...but from where, and who is she (I assume she's British)? And, is "My Love, My Life" a new song? Not familiar with it.

Celia Imrie (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Bridget Jones), r174.

Ol Parker wrote & directed the Marigold movies and is the writer/director of MM2. He is married to Thandie Newton.

I saw the original but can't remember which of the 3 men was the father of Donna's baby?

My Love, My Life is an oldie.

My Love My Live is from Arrival (1976), originally sung by Agnetha. Personally, I like both versions a lot. Very 70s.

Streep is dead in the movie and we still have to listen to her terrible singing? Lily James might just save this take your Mamma to the movies, movie.

R172 glad they made it totally differently, but it is surprising Meryl cannot act the story with her voice. She is actor after all. But I love the original. Agnetha’s beautiful voice and Frida’s stunning harmonies in the back. The video shows Agnetha’s beauty and this gay man loved her even more.

HBO ran a lengthy preview this afternoon that also featured clips of two of my favorite obscure ABBA songs- "Why Did it Have to Be Me" and "Andante, Andante."

Lily James and the boys playing the young versions of Donna's three lovers are going to make this silly movie very good. The extended returning cast plus Cher will hopefully make it great?

Wow, I was all set to trash Mamma Mia 2, but the uploaded versions of "The Day Before You Came" and "My Love My Life" were beautiful.

I thought Lily James and Collins were the same person.

The entire cast had a dinner party this weekend at Mosimann's in London. Meryl was there too.

Has the London premiere already happened? Or are they all there waiting?

Meryl may have a small part in the new movie, but good for her for recording a couple of songs and praising her colleagues, especially Lily James as her character's younger self.

The premiere is tomorrow.

Meryl appears in the movie in some capacity. And there's a apparently a full cast performance by the looks of this picture. Meryl is next to Cher.

I heard the original film last night while trolling the net. ridiculous plot but the songs were very good and evoked a better time. Meryl has a good voice but no idea how to apply it to pop, her phrasing and tone need work, she's not funky enough. Brosnan should never sing.

But he will. I assume. I wonder if they at least gave him auto tune this time.

Mother and daughter, reunited.

Cher has announced that she'll be releasing an album of ABBA cover songs.

Old news R190.

No need for that attitude, r191. Thanks, R190; I didn't know. Looking forward to that album. I wonder who produces it. Bjorn & Benny maybe?

R192, it was posted on this thread last week.

Cher needs to have her lips removed. She can't project with her singing voice anymore and volume was about all she had going for her. That and a crazy vibrato. I love a good contralto. Cher's a contralto. But her uncontrolled vibrato and mouth singing and affectations give a sameness to Cher's sound that is not unlike Elvis or Tanya Tucker or Rod Stewart. If it hits the right part of your brain I guess she is endlessly fascinating? She can sing but she's not really a vocalist and only certain songs sound good within her vocal limitations. Hard to fault the old broad, she did get better as a singer in mid career, much like Diana Ross did. Very few stars bother to do that. But she's not better anymore.

Seems MM2 is getting good reviews. I’m shocked.

R195

The reviews all say MM2 is better than the first one.

That Kathie Lee & substitute Hoda hour on Today, Monday from London, was cut off in the last ten minutes by news out of Helsinki (which needed to happen, and what a huge disgusting bit of business that news conference was).

As an ABBA fan I was recording the broadcast, and was looking forward to the boys playing young versions of Lily James's boyfriends together out on the town, which is the segment that got preempted by breaking news.

[quote] But he will. I assume. I wonder if they at least gave him auto tune this time.

Brosnan talks/sings a song briefly and he sings in the group songs. We are thankfully spared from solos by Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard.

Lots of coverage of the weekend press and world premiere in London --looks like a good and fun movie.

But even as Cher is all over the place (good on her) along with Meryl and all the other new and "legacy" cast (including Christine Baranski, doing her best at a star turn), Julie Walters is absent! Why? I hope she is well, and maybe doing something better. She is a Dame of the Empire now, yeah?

R194, you remove your shrunken grey balls- please.