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Bittersweet White Light
Pop · 1973 · 9 tracks · 35m

Bittersweet White Light

A collection of torch songs and jazz standards delivered in a smoky, low-register contralto. Orchestral, intimate, and deeply melancholic.

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Cher goes full jazz-club lounge singer and it's actually incredibly moody and gorgeous.

A heavy, velvet-draped melancholy that feels like a lonely night in a high-end hotel bar.

Bittersweet White Light · vs · Cher
Candlelit+3.0σ

Candlelit saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks · 35m
01
By Myself (album version)
3:29
02
I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good (album version)
3:54
03
Am I Blue? (album version)
3:47
04
How Long Has This Been Going On (album version)
4:23
05
The Man I Love (album version)
4:27
06
Jolson Medley: Sonny Boy/My Mammy/Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody (album version)
4:16
07
More Than You Know (album version)
3:44
08
Why Was I Born? (album version)
2:54
09
The Man That Got Away (album version)
4:09
Moments Worth Waiting For
The heavy, dramatic orchestral swell that opens The Man That Got Away, framing her voice in cinematic tragedy.
The vulnerable, almost conversational delivery of the opening lines in How Long Has This Been Going On.
The way her deep contralto anchors the Jolson Medley, turning upbeat vaudeville into something strangely haunting.
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