"Billboard" Keith Caulfield wrote that "there's divas, and then there's Cher." "The New York Times" Matthew Schneier stated, "has earned her mononym. Her star power is such that she has spored an entire industry of imitators, both figurative and literal." "Dazed" magazine's Shon Faye elaborates: "If Madonna and Lady Gaga and Kylie and Cyndi Lauper were playing football, Cher would be the stadium they played on, and the sun that shone down on them." According to Jeff Miers from "The Buffalo News", "Her music has changed with the times over the decades, rather than changing those times through groundbreaking work"; however, he felt that subsequent female pop singers were heavily inspired by Cher's abilities to combine "showmanship with deep musicality ... to make valid statements in a wide variety of trend-driven idioms ... to ease effortlessly between pop subgenres [and to shock without alienating her fans", as well as by her charismatic stage presence and the strong LGBT support among her fan base.