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Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual
Funko Pop! Rock Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
This Funko celebrates the debut of studio album by songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released on October 14, 1983. In this figure Cyndi Lauper wears the same outfit worn during the Press Shoot in London 6/15/1983.
My Funko here and my Cyndi Lauper collection here
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She Bop · Cyndi Lauper
Released on: 1983-10-14
She's So Unusual Album.
1983 Epic Records,
#cyndi lauper#classic memories#vintage vinyl#80s classic#classic Aethstetic#shes so Unusual album#1983
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#She's So Unusual#Cyndi Lauper in 1983. She was 29 or 30 years old in this picture. Her first studio album#released that year#making her famous worldwide.#WetBodyJuice#oldschool
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She's So Unusual
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Daily drawing 7 sep 2023
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun at 40. Oh my.
#cyndi lauper#girls just wanna have fun#shes so unusual#80s music#daily drawing#drawing of the day#watercolor#brush and ink#traditional art#axel medellin#axelmedellinart#axel medellin art
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Review #184: She’s So Unusual, Cyndi Lauper
You’re receiving a fair warning right at the outset: there are going to be no less than two references to The Simpsons in this review – possibly more -- and I’m not even a little bit sorry about it.
I think that Cyndi Lauper is one of the very first female artists I ever knew the name of and recognized, and knew her record from start to finish. I don’t think it was this one. I believe it was a compilation CD called Twelve Deadly Cyns… And Then Some, that had a really striking image of her with bright yellow hair and a bright red hat. It had all of the major hits from this album, and the next few, as well as the most interesting remix of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun that was done by the guys from Redbone, and was very much my first introduction to the bassline from Come And Get Your Love. That shit worked.
Anyway, I wish that every three-year-old girl got to hear Cyndi Lauper like this because she’s fucking iconic. Powerhouse voice. Uninhibited. Artist. Creative genius. A girl’s girl and a woman’s woman. I’d love to get drunk with her and play a round of cards. I bet she’s been treated like a child while navigating this industry. I just feel it in my bones and guts. Because of the earnest, girlish, sincere, whimsical music she’s making, as well as her unapologetic cute and girly aesthetic and small frame. But she’s always demanded to be taken seriously. She’s the inspiration I’ve carried around as an experienced professional in my field: I can have a bubble tea pencil case with a smiley face on it, and cute stationary, and a notepad with a bird on it, and a cute haircut and fun outfits. It doesn’t mean I’m childish, or any less good at my job, and I will rip you a new asshole if you fucking cross me or any of my employees, cool? Do not be fooled by the enamel pins on my jacket. I could stab you with them if I wanted. I just don’t, that’s all.
My notes: Money Changes Everything, which it does, has a harmonica solo in it, and I think we all need to take a moment and bow down to the boldness of that. How many harmonica solos do we hear outside something like Bob Dylan? It’s pretty few and far between and it’s really fucking great in this song. Every single track on this album is deep, fun, and interesting. And some of them have harmonica solos! When I was a doofy little teen, I used to have a necklace with a tiny harmonica on it. It was ugly as could be, but it was pretty cool. I recently started looking into whether there were any cute, adult versions of it. There are. And I am once again inspired by Saint Cyndi to be cute, functional, and badass.
I’m going to save Girls Just Wanna Have Fun for last because I have so much to say about it. So next up will be Time After Time, which to be honest is every bit as iconic. Genuinely. It’s absolutely beautiful. Stunning. Moving. How does one write a song so incredibly poignant and dedicated to someone? Can anybody listen to this synth ballad and not just feel their heart plunge into it? Maybe they can. Maybe they’re a monster. Not a Simpsons reference, but to illustrate my point: even April Ludgate, known to be cold-hearted and dead inside, can’t resist the pull of this song.
She Bop is one of my favorites. I think I loved it when I was really tiny. It makes sense that I would have. I loved nonsense. I still love nonsense. It’s a lot of nonsense (Oop, she bop, she bop, she bop, he bop, we bop, I bop, you bop, they bop, be bop, a lu bop), but it’s positioned over some very serious-sounding synths and electric drums. That’s my exact shit and always has been. There’s a good chance Cyndi Lauper and this song are largely responsible for my entire persona, in hindsight. That’s fine with me. I think this song is about bad boys and having crushes on them (hey, hey they say I better get a chaperone, because I can’t stop messin’ with the danger zone). Cyndi Lauper has always been completely about her uninhibited noises. Woops, and breaths, and squeaks, and squawks. They’re amazing, and they add absolutely everything to the experience. Simpsons reference #1 coming up here. They made it the butt of the joke, but I loved it. Cyndi Laupi (yes, Laupi), singing the National Anthem at a baseball game, with all that breathy, squeaky, baritone nonsense. Absolutely fucking hilarious. Also the way in which I mostly learned the words to the National Anthem (you try knowing it when you grew up in Europe? I do not accept your judgment, and frankly I’m still pretty shaky on the words and I don’t care).
Every track on this album slaps, and you should listen to it, but it is one of those where you kind of have to focus on the singles/iconic tracks because they are iconic for a reason. So here we go. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. I want to say that this song is so happy and upbeat and means everything to every girl and woman that knows it, which, is like, all of them, ever, and if it isn’t, it should be. However. There’s also a sad undertone to it, or at least I have always felt one. It’s always just tugged at my heart a little bit. I actually have no idea whether that’s just me or whether that’s a universal experience. It’s like a gentle feminist wish. She’s singing about oppressive experiences — from parents, from partners, from society:
“Oh Mama dear, we’re not the fortunate ones”
“Oh Daddy dear, you know you’re still number one”
“Some boys take a beautiful girl, and hide her away from the rest of the world”
It genuinely hurts my feelings. I’m not sure a song has ever so captured the simplicity of experience. Just trying to exist. Just trying to walk in the sun. Just trying to go home and chill after work, and for some reason, it’s just hard to do. But, in singing it, she’s fulfilling the wish, because she’s having fucking fun. It’s fun. I don’t know man, that’s really cool. I love this song. But it’s way deeper than I imagine a lot of people have ever given her credit for. I imagine to a lot of people, it’s just a silly little party song. But it’s not. And if you want to fight with me about that, I’ll get my cute enamel pins ready. Here’s Homer Simpson singing it, which I have always found extremely endearing. Do you think it’s lost on him? Probably. That’s sort of what’s endearing about it.
#album review#music#music review#rolling stone top 500#cyndi lauper#she’s so unusual#the simpsons#parks and rec
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Cyndi Lauper photo shoot for She's So Unusual with Annie Leibovitz, Coney Island, 1983 (via Billboard).
#Cyndi Lauper#She's So Unusual#Annie Leibovitz#1980s#Punk#New Wave#Pop#MTV#Girls Just Wanna Have Fun#Coney Island#New York#NYC#Style#Photo#Rare Photos#She Bop#Time After Time
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The Goonies R good enough. 💰💎☠️🗡
#cyndi lauper#she’s so unusual#the goonies#goonies never say die#goonies#goonies r good enough#live music#mtv#music video#one eyed willy#treasure hunt#treasure map#stage design#time after time#girls just want to have fun#she bop#true colors#kinky boots#goonies movie#steven spielberg#80s music#80s movies#80s nostalgia#goon squad#goon docks#astoria oregon#astoria#corey feldman#josh brolin#cannon beach
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Day One Thousand and Seventy Six
Sometimes you picture me, I'm walkin' too far ahead You're callin' to me, I can't hear what you've said Then you say, "Go slow", I fall behind The second hand unwinds
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Happy Cyndi Day!
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#cyndi lauper#girls just want to have fun#hitmakers 1986#she's so unusual#80s#1980s music#music facts#gif#my gifs#that semicolon...
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Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Official HD Video)
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Song 🎵 of the day: Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper (1983) from She's So Unusual #cyndilauper #timeaftertime #shesounusual #80s
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Daily drawing 22 june 2023
Happy 70, Cindy Lauper
I saw her in concert when I was about 12... favorite singer ever and my greatest crush.
#cyndi lauper#happy birthday#shes so unusual#daily drawing#drawing of the day#watercolor#traditional art#axel medellin#axel medellin art
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So I got a new monster to replace Banaba (RIP). Her name is Smooty.
theres a problem tho
She HATES fighting.
i can't exactly pivot to entering her in water polo contests or anything so this marks the beginning of smooty's horrible little life im sorry sweetie.
#lab grown media#monster rancher#smooty#Btw I made her using the album 'shes so unusual' by cyndi lauper#battle specimen
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