History Music / CyndiLauper

* ExecutiveMeddling: Cyndi went through this while working on the music for "Film/TheGoonies". For starters, filming the music video for the title track was less than an enjoyable experience. Richard Donner, apparently, was a pushy director and wanted things done a certain way and forced Lauper to keep going, even when she was exhausted. In a behind-the-scenes documentary of the video, the viewer can see Donner being pushy and doing lots of takes on scenes.

* HeyItsThatGuy!: A then-unknown Creator/JuliaStiles portrays a young-Cyndi in the music video for "Sally's Pigeons".

* LadyInRed: Wears one at the start of the "I Drove All Night" video. [[DoesNotLikeShoes And she's barefoot.]]

* AmericanAccents: Noo Yawk.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "She Bop." ''

* DomesticAbuse: Tackled in "Broken Glass".

Pop starlet Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, better known as '''Cyndi Lauper,''' (born June 22, 1953) is notable as being one of the earliest success stories of Creator/{{MTV}} as well as one of the most fondly-remembered pop stars of TheEighties. So visible was Cyndi, in fact, that for a time she was a serious rival to no less than Music/{{Madonna}}. Her debut album, ''She's So Unusual'' has sold 22 million copies worldwide - thus making it one of the decade's best-selling albums - and contains her most famous songs, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", "Time After Time", and "She Bop".

* ''[[ChristmasAlbum Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life]]'' (1998)

Pop starlet Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, better known as '''Cyndi Lauper,''' (June 22, 1953-) is notable as being one of the earliest success stories of Creator/{{MTV}} as well as one of the most fondly-remembered pop stars of TheEighties. So visible was Cyndi, in fact, that for a time she was a serious rival to no less than Music/{{Madonna}}. Her debut album, ''She's So Unusual'' has sold 22 million copies worldwide - thus making it one of the decade's best-selling albums - and contains her most famous songs, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Time After Time," and "She Bop."

Lauper was a member of rockabilly outfit Blue Angel, but their music didn't really go anywhere commercially, and the band dissolved. Soon after, David Wolff discovered her singing in a bar in New York, and became her manager (and, for a time, her significant other). With his help, she signed with Portrait Records (a subsidiary of Creator/EpicRecords) and released ''She's So Unusual'' in October of 1983. In addition to the enormous success, lead off by the single "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," Cyndi was a major teen idol and fashion icon for a time. In fact, Lauper was the first female to have four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 top five hits from a single album.

During this time, Wolff arranged for Cyndi to make a brief foray into the world of ProfessionalWrestling (namely, Wrestling/{{WWE}}, then the [=WWF=]), in a storyline where Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano insisted that he was her manager. Cyndi herself eventually showed up on Piper's Pit and negated these claims to [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper "Rowdy" Roddy Piper]] (eventually getting ''righteously'' pissed off at Lou in the process). Soon after, she became the manager of would-be Women's Champion Wendi Richter, who borrowed Cyndi's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" for a theme song.

Not wanting to be remembered as a "cartoon character," it wasn't long before she was back to music, and she released the follow-up to the debut, ''True Colors,'' in September of 1986. It didn't have the huge impact of the first record, but it did spawn a hit single in the title track. By this point, Cyndi was starting to move in a more contemporary direction, meanwhile Madonna was clearly taking over as the more provocative presence in mainstream pop. Undeterred, Cyndi continued on this path into TheNineties with the albums ''A Night To Remember, Hat Full Of Stars'' and ''Sisters Of Avalon,'' all of which made little headway commercially. Notable projects since include an album of old pop standards (''At Last,'' 2003) and an acoustic record (''The Body Acoustic,'' 2005).

Cyndi has always remained in the public eye to a certain extent thanks to 80s nostalgia, but she's also branched out into acting, with a recurring role on ''Mad About You,'' cameos on Series/QueerAsFolk, Series/GossipGirl and WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons. She wrote the music to the musical ''Kinky Boots,'' which earned her a Tony Award for Best Score, the first woman to earn this award.

YMMV tropes [[YMMV/CyndiLauper here]].

Cyndi's studio discography includes:

* She's So Unusual (1983)
* True Colors (1986)
* A Night to Remember (1989)
* Hat Full of Stars (1993)
* Sisters of Avalon (1996)
* Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life (1998)
* At Last (2003)
* Shine (2004)
* The Body Acoustic (2005)
* Bring Ya to the Brink (2008)
* Memphis Blues (2010)

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Music/LadyGaga.

* {{Retraux}}: ''She's So Unusual'' includes a short cover of "He's So Unusual" by Helen Kane; The arrangement is very similar to the 1929 original, and it's produced to sound as though it's playing off an old phonograph. The effect is heightened by the fact that it very abruptly segues into "Yeah Yeah", which has a much more contemporary NewWave sound to it.

* HeyItsThatGuy!: A then-unknown Main/JuliaStiles portrays a young-Cyndi in the music video for "Sally's Pigeons".

-->''"I love fashion. I went to Fashion Industries High School as a kid. I flunked out, of course. Guess my biggest revenge was to screw up fashion for a while."''

Lauper was a member of rockabilly outfit Blue Angel, but their music didn't really go anywhere commercially, and the band dissolved. Soon after, David Wolff discovered her singing in a bar in New York, and became her manager (and, for a time, her significant other). With his help, she signed with Portrait Records (a subsidiary of Epic Records) and released ''She's So Unusual'' in October of 1983. In addition to the enormous success, lead off by the single "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," Cyndi was a major teen idol and fashion icon for a time. In fact, Lauper was the first female to have four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 top five hits from a single album.

** She has had a recurring role on ''Series/{{Bones}}'' as Angela's psychic friend Avalon. She appeared in a cameo in the eighth season episode "The Woman In White" [[spoiler: where she sang "At Last" at Booth and Brennan's wedding]].

** She has had a recurring role on ''Series/{{Bones}}'' as Angela's psychic friend Avalon. She appeared in a cameo in the eighth season episode "The Woman In White" [[spoiler: where she sang "At Last" at Booth and Brennan's wedding]].

** Her album "At Last" features covers of jazz and '50s standards, such as "At Last", "The Sunny Side of the Street", "La Vie En Rose" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood".

* She has had a recurring role on ''Series/{{Bones}}'' as Angela's psychic friend Avalon. She appeared in a cameo in the eighth season episode "The Woman In White" [[spoiler: where she sang "At Last" at Booth and Brennan's wedding]].

** Music/TheBangles appeared in the music video for ''The Goonies R Good Enough''.

** [[Music/TheBangles]] appeared in the music video for ''The Goonies R Good Enough''.

* TheEighties: Cyndi is probably one of the first people you'd think of when you think of early 80s pop.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Orange, or whatever color she felt like at the time.

Pop starlet Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, better known as '''Cyndi Lauper,''' is notable as being one of the earliest success stories of Creator/{{MTV}} as well as one of the most fondly-remembered pop stars of TheEighties. So visible was Cyndi, in fact, that for a time she was a serious rival to no less than Music/{{Madonna}}. Her debut album, ''She's So Unusual'' has sold 22 million copies worldwide - thus making it one of the decade's best-selling albums - and contains her most famous songs, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Time After Time," and "She Bop."

** Also, Music/RoyOrbison's ''I drove all night''. Orbison recorded it in 1987, Cyndi released her version in 1989. (Though technically speaking, Orbison's version was only released in 1992, [[AuthorExistenceFailure four years after his death.]])
* ADateWithRosiePalms: "She Bop." ''"They say I better get a chaperone / because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone..."''

* [=Intergenerational=] Friendship: With Music/LadyGaga.
* LadyInRed: Wears one at the start of the ''I drove all night'' video. [[DoesNotLikeShoes And she's barefoot.]]

!!Tropes associated with Cyndi Lauper include:

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "She Bop." ''"They say I better get a chaperone / because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone..."''

* InterGenerationalFriendship: With LadyGaga.

During this time, Wolff arranged for Cyndi to make a brief foray into the world of ProfessionalWrestling (namely, Wrestling/{{WWE}}, then the [=WWF=]), in a storyline where Captain Lou Albano insisted that he was her manager. Cyndi herself eventually showed up on Piper's Pit and negated these claims to [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper "Rowdy" Roddy Piper]] (eventually getting ''righteously'' pissed off at Lou in the process). Soon after, she became the manager of would-be Women's Champion Wendi Richter, who borrowed Cyndi's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" for a theme song.

Pop starlet Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, better known as '''Cyndi Lauper,''' is notable as being one of the earliest success stories of Creator/MTV as well as one of the most fondly-remembered pop stars of TheEighties. So visible was Cyndi, in fact, that for a time she was a serious rival to no less than Music/{{Madonna}}. Her debut album, ''She's So Unusual'' has sold 22 million copies worldwide - thus making it one of the decade's best-selling albums - and contains her most famous songs, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Time After Time," and "She Bop."