It’s hard to believe that Cher turns 67 today—partially because she looks so good and partially because she’s been around forever. In fact, the more we look at today’s pop culture, the more we realize how much she’s done to shape it—from her look and her music to her complicated romantic life.

Below, we call out some of the current trends and achievements that Cher got to years before everyone else. Let’s hope the Dark Lady has another couple of decades before she really retires, because the music's no good without her.

For more birthday goodness, check out Cher's 10 Most Underrated Moments.

Autotune

The 1998 release of Believe marked Cher’s third (or maybe fourth) comeback. The album’s title single also changed the sound of pop music forever, laying on the autotune so heavily that it altered her voice. Those robotic, disjointed vocals are so everywhere now, but at the time, the sound was so new it was called “the Cher effect.” T-Pain owes her a swimming pool full of wigs.

Playing the Witch in Into the Woods

It looks like a movie version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods is finally happening. But this is hardly the firs time it's been proposed: When the idea of an adaptation  first surfaced in the ‘90s, Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal were barely old enough to understand the show. But the ex-Mrs. Bono was selected to lend her signature vibrato to the Witch, the show's iconic villain. Sorry, Meryl, but your Silkwood co-star beat you to the punch. (And if you bow out, Cher’s still our best bet for the part.)

Extreme Plastic Surgery

Getting a full-body overhaul is pretty common in Hollywood today, but it was positively deviant when Cher started taking altering what God gave her. “If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own,” Cher once responded to criticisms about her cosmetic procedures. For better or worse, that mentality paved the way for everyone from Detox to Heidi Montag to joyfully go under the knife.

The Dangerously in Love cover

Beyoncé knows (and mimics) a good thing when she sees it.

Dude Drag

"Born This Way" wasn't the only time Lady Gaga “drew inspiration” from a more established artist: Mama Monster’s male alter ego, Jo Calderone, bears more than a passing resemblance to the Elvis fan who goes “Walking in Memphis” in Cher’s 1995 video. Truth be told, Jo’s a little more believably masculine, but there’s always something special about your first time.

Total Chart-Topping Domination

Forget being the first—sometimes being the only one is the way to go. Cher is the lone musical artist to have Number One hits in every one of the last six decades. The trend started in 1965 with “I Got You Babe,” and continues into the present with 2010’s “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” from Burlesque. Half of today’s pop icons might not live long enough to qualify for such an achievement.

As Cher said at the opening of her Farewell Tour: “Follow this, you bitches.”