[Lyrics here.]
Video Description: Cher, with hair of flowing garbage, stands in the middle of a blue stage, singing and dancing. Parts of her body are interchanged with parts of other women's bodies, like a living Fashion Plates model, and sometimes she is replaced entirely by another woman. The women are of different races, ages, sizes, and abilities. There are back-up dancers who sometimes dance with Cher.
What do you think of this video? (There's no one right answer!) I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of women included in the video! Good job, Cher! But I'm not sure that the message reads as "solidarity" as much as it does "interchangeability." But given the usual roles women are offered in music videos *cough*, this is comparatively tremendous.
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