Cher Celebrates Her 77th Birthday, Shares A Pensive Post About Aging On Twitter

There are things in this world that are fleeting, there are things that are temporary, and then there are things that are truly eternal. The sun, the moon, the stars, people's love for Keanu Reeves, the high and low tides, and among such eternal things in our life, Cher certainly occupies a decent place.

A living legend of American and world music, the ageless diva and goddess of vocals recently celebrated her 77th birthday and shared her thoughts on aging physically and spiritually on Twitter. So our post today is about Cher, age, music and, of course, love.

Incredibly, Cher released her first solo recording back in 1964. To understand the scale, it is enough to remember that The Beatles and Louis Armstrong were the leaders of the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles that year, Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize, and Jim Brown - his first and only NFL championship ring, Joe Biden graduated from college, and Donald Trump was the baseball team captain at the New York Military Academy.

Cher's unique vocals seemed to accompany us always, from childhood to adulthood. On May 20, the great singer and actress turned 77, and on that day she honestly admitted on Twitter that she keeps hearing these numbers but can't understand them. "Please tell me... when will I feel OLD. This is ridiculous," Cher wrote. Well, we understand it perfectly - at least those of us who are already fully aware of what aging is...

Back in 2008, during a joint interview with Tina Turner on the Oprah Winfrey show, Cher said that 'aging in show business sucks', while Turner who's 7 years older, just calmly objected: 'That number doesn't mean a thing. It just doesn't.' Yes, the realization that your biological age is just two (or three, if you're lucky) pretty random digits really comes with time.

Although who, if not Cher, knows that time is relative? A quarter of a century ago, she triumphantly returned to music with her album Believe, eclipsing all the young stars of that time (and also making a real vocal revolution with that very 'Cher effect'). By the way, it was Cher who was directly involved in two outstanding musical effects - the already mentioned vocal auto-tune, as well as the famous 'Wall of Sound', because she worked as a backing vocalist for The Ronettes when they recorded their hit Be My Baby in 1963. Again, a quarter of a century passed between the two revolutions in the field of sound.

And now, twenty-five years after the resounding success of Believe, Cher celebrates her 77th birthday, still full of strength and creative energy. In the end, she is absolutely right - it is not important how old you are nominally. What matters is how old you feel, and this is confirmed by numerous researchers. "Biological age is a better predictor of morbidity risk than chronological age," The Guardian quotes Dr Steve Horvath, a UCLA professor who pioneered the first 'clock' to indicate human aging by examining chemical changes to DNA. "It is in some ways a tautology: if it wasn't better, we wouldn't call it biological age."

When Tom Brady wins the Super Bowl at 43, and LeBron James at 38 leads a far-from-the-strongest team to the finals, when two guys in their 80s are likely to meet in the upcoming presidential election, it means a lot. For example, the fact that we are gradually winning the fight against aging, and if even in your ninth decade you feel pretty young, it means, in fact, that you are exactly as old as you feel.

Numerous commenters to the singer's original Tweet also agree with this, emphasizing that age per se means almost nothing. "I believe that the person will know when they are truly old without someone to tell that they are too old!" someone in the comments wrote. Most of the commenters just congratulated Cher on her birthday. "We all love you so much! Happy Birthday Girl!" - so it sounds like perhaps all great comments. And I can feel something inside me say I really don't think she's old enough, no. Do you believe in age over Cher?