Whether or not you enjoy Bette Midler’s music, it has never sounded dated. Maybe that’s because it’s never been timely, either.

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When Bette Midler chose to record “Hello in There”, she was not chasing a hit single or radio dominance. She was making a deliberate artistic statement

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Bette Midler – IN THE MOOD (Live in Texas, 1983) HQ Audio

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Bette Midler’s performance of "From a Distance" at the Grammys is one of her most memorable live moments, tied to the song's massive success in the early 1990s.

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Bette Midler has displayed a wide variety of talents over her storied career. Because she developed into such a force as an actress in films, it’s easy to forget that she first made a splash with the American public as a pop music star.

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Made up entirely of contemporary pop ballads, it dispenses completely with the sort of camp nostalgia favored by the Divine Miss M.

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This video explores how Bette Midler and the Divine Miss M became the toast of the Continental Baths in the 1970s.

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There's a "Divine Miss M," and there's a Bette Midler, two distinct but converging persons.

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Skittering on stage like a manical kewpie doll in a green-blue-and-pink dress, tottering in ankle-strap platform shoes, she proclaimed herself the "last of the truly tacky women

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Take the wonderful. sometimes scary opportunity to see how other artists may interpret the same songs The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler sings.

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