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"Cher has dismissed comparisons between Lady Gaga and Madonna. The legendary singer - who released her new album Closer to the Truth in the UK this week - praised the performers for being themselves and shot down any notion of imitation.  Asked who is the young Cher in modern music, the star told Attitude magazine: &amp;quot;None. There is no young me. If you get to be that, if you get to a certain level, you have to be the young you. &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t be the young anybody else. That&amp;#039;s why Gaga is Gaga and Madonna is Madonna. All these people are themselves. You can&amp;#039;t be the young anybody. &amp;quot;Until I&amp;#039;m dead. Maybe when I&amp;#039;m dead, someone will go, &amp;#039;Oh that&amp;#039;s the young Cher,&amp;#039; but I like Gaga because of her audacity.&amp;quot;   She added: &amp;quot;I wish Amy Winehouse was here because I really liked her. Aside from her music, I liked the fact that she was so authentic - not looking like anybody else and not caring. &amp;quot;If her eye make-up was smeared, that was fine... there was no veneer there. She was all wood. I really loved her. &amp;quot;Rihanna is a great artist. I think there are a lot of great artists out there now. There are a lot of mediocre ones too, but that&amp;#039;s always been.&amp;quot; Cher is currently on course to claim her first UK Top 40 single in 12 years with &amp;#039;I Hope You Find It&amp;#039;, while Closer to the Truth could become her highest charting album in 22 years. Watch the lyric video for Cher&amp;#039;s new single &amp;#039;I Hope You Find It&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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