"Rolling Stone" Rob Sheffield stated how "there are no other careers remotely like hers, in the history of pop music" and referred to Cher as "the one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music." According to "Goldmine" magazine's Phill Marder, Cher "has been and remains today one of the Rock Era's most dominant figures". He described her as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to "advance feminine rebellion in the rock world [and the prototype of the female rock star, setting the standard for appearance, from her early hippie days to her later outlandish outfits, and her attitude—the perfect female punk long before punk even was a rock term." "Billboard" Joe Lynch described Cher as "a woman who pioneered an androgynous musical identity in the mid '60s", and who by doing so "teed things up for people like Bowie and Patti Smith".