Cher might have spent the past six decades atop the charts, but even she admits her new music is something special.

It’s been three years since the diva released ‘Dancing Queen’, her album of ABBA cover versions, off the back of her starring role in ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’.

And in a new interview with USA Today, she opened up on her forthcoming 27th studio album, revealing: “I’m still working on it. It’s weird.

“I’ve never heard an album like this before and it’s a very hit-and-miss thing because all of the songs I want to sing don’t necessarily fit my voice. 

“So I have to do like three or four songs to find one that’s the right one.”

While Cher didn’t clarify why the record is so different to her previous releases, she did offer renewed hope of more future recordings, after previously hinting her new album would be her last.

Speaking back in December, she suggested: “I’m just recording an album now… this might be my last album. I feel like Tony Bennett and Betty White. But it could be my last album.”

However, backtracking on the comments, she now admits: “I always say really stupid things. I’m continuously saying things that put me into a box when someone goes, ‘You said that, what’d you mean by it?’

“I don’t know, it sounded right. I’m 75 years old, it’s not like I’ve got a huge career in front of me. I’m going to have to rest on my laurels.”

Cher previously confirmed new music for 2021 – along with further movie projects and philanthropic work.

“I’m going to have some [new music],” she teased. “I’ve been doing a lot – I did the Bobbleheads movie, I did Scooby Doo…”

Cher’s last LP of original recordings, Closer To the Truth, came in 2013.

Meanwhile, she’s also been busy on her quest to free Kaavan – ‘the world’s loneliest elephant’ – and the trip will unfold in her new documentary ‘Cher & The Loneliest Elephant’, in which she travels to Islamabad, Pakistan to oversee Kavaan’s transfer to a sanctuary in Cambodia.

Cher first became involved with the campaign to free Kavaan in 2016, when footage of the elephant chained in his tiny habitat went viral online, attracting the attention of numerous animal rights organisations.

When the Islamabad high court ordered that Kavaan be released in May, Cher tweeted: “This is one of the greatest moments of my life.”

‘Cher & The Loneliest Elephant’ premieres Thursday, April 22 on Paramount+.