If any of them happened to be over 50, I was instructed by my editors to ask them how they felt about aging (blithely not realizing at the time how incredibly annoying that unrelenting question is).
When I was in my 30s and wrote for Rolling Stone, I regularly interviewed some of the most famous women in music. If any of them happened to be over 50, I was instructed by my editors to ask them how they felt about aging (blithely not realizing at the time how incredibly annoying that unrelenting question is). I received the same succinct answer from Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, and Cher: It sucks. (Or, as Cher recently expanded on Twitter in her inimitable Cher way, it “Sucks the Big 1.”)