MTV Video Music Awards: Cher turns back time in a familiar costume | Mail Online
Ageless Cher Turns Back Time to 1989 in a very familiar outfit at the MTV Video Music Awards
By Andrea Magrath
She is 40 years older than most of last night’s attendees and hasn’t had a major hit since 1998, but Cher was the name on everybody’s lips at the MTV Video Music Awards.
The singer stole the show in a barely-there outfit reminiscent of the costume made famous in her video for her 1989 song If I Could Turn Back Time.
It was an updated version of the controversial jewelled outfit, complete with her trademark over-the-top curled hair and leather jacket.
At 64, Cher’s choice to recreate the famous look was certainly brave. The see-through black body stocking left very little to the imagination, but the singer proved she still has an incredible body.
She acknowledged the age difference between her and the audience when she arrived on stage to present Lady Gaga with the award for Video of the Year for Bad Romance.
‘I have shoes older than most of these nominees,’ she told a cheering audience. ‘I’m the oldest chick with the biggest hair in the littlest costume.
‘Back in the day, I used to get thrown off MTV for wearing things like this that seem so tame now,’ she added. ‘That’s when Lady Gaga was Baby Gaga.’
If I Could Turn Back Time was banned from several TV stations in 1989, including last night’s awards hosts, MTV, who would only show the racy video after 9pm.
It was not the first time Cher has recreated her most famous look though. Just last year the singer wore the exact same costume in Las Vegas for the Hit Man: David Foster and Friends event.
Lady Gaga, who was the night’s big winner with eight awards, fought back tears on stage as she accepted her Moonman statue from the icon.
‘I never thought I’d be asking Cher to hold my meat purse,’ she joked. The Paparazzi singer was dressed in a typically eyebrow-raising ensemble made out of meat.
Even Cher, herself an outrageous dresser over the years, looked hesitant to give her young contemporary a congratulatory hug in the raw costume.
Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta gave a tearful speech as Cher looked on, and stayed true to her word that she would reveal the name of her new album on stage.
The 24-year-old sang a few a lines from Born This Way, ‘I’m beautiful in my way because God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track baby. I was born this way.’
MTV News reports that the usually collected star was overcome as she left the stage arm-in-arm with Cher, and had a rare show of emotion as the pair embraced backstage before Lady Gaga composed herself and went to celebrate with her entourage.
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