
How Cher’s ‘Believe’ helped inspire Lucy Dacus’s ‘Partner In Crime’
Lucy Dacus paired her 2022 cover of Cher’s ‘Believe’ with a stripped-back ‘Partner In Crime’ because the songs had been connected from the start.
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A breakup anthem built on defiance rather than despair, 'Strong Enough' finds Cher moving past recrimination into something colder and more final. The song strips away plea and negotiation, replacing them with the simple, repeated assertion that she no longer needs what he offers. Mark Taylor and Paul Barry wrote a track that lets her occupy the voice of someone who has already left, who has nothing left to prove and no interest in his explanations. The production sits in the pocket between pop and dance, giving the lyrics room to land without melodrama. Cher's delivery is measured, almost conversational in its refusal to perform hurt. The chorus locks onto a single idea and repeats it until it becomes a kind of mantra: the knowledge that he has to go. It's a song about the moment after the decision, when there's nothing left to negotiate, only the walk away.
"Strong Enough" is a single by Cher, from the album Believe, released 2022. The track is 3:44 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below.
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