Warren recalls Cher said “F*ck you, bitch! You’re hurting my leg! OK, I’ll try it. I just don’t think my aesthetic taste lies in her direction.” According to MSN, she also said “I don’t want to listen to what I do, I don’t want to see it and I don’t want to hear my voice.” She generally disliked her own music, wishing she could make art like her contemporaries Bruce Springsteen or Pete Seeger.ĭespite Cher’s negative view of “If I Could Turn Back Time,” she decided to record it – but only so that Warren would get out of her personal space. The singer told Billboard “I’m not a Cher fan.

Warren underestimated Cher’s view of her own songs. She said Cher despised “If I Could Turn Back Time.” However, Warren said “If you look at Cher’s song history, she’s not always the best judge of her own material.

She framed it and hung it on the wall, side by side. Cher posing for photos on January 1988 in New York City | Joe McNally/Getty Imagesĭiscussing “If I Could Turn Back Time” with The Hollywood Reporter, Warren had slightly different memories of Cher recording the track. She found it very funny and sent copies of my will to my whole family.