History Music / CyndiLauper

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "She Bop":
-->"They say I better get a chaperone\\
Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone..."
** Cyndi has said she was furious when the Parents Music Resource Council named the song to their "Filthy Fifteen" list, as she felt she had written the song cleverly enough that kids wouldn't be able to guess its subject. Judging from the song's #3 placing on the Billboard charts, she was probably right, as the backlash came ''after'' the fact (and after she had - sort of - admitted the song's true meaning during a TV interview with Dr. RuthWestheimer).

** "All Through the Night," one of her big hits from ''She's So Unusual'', is a JulesShear cover.

** "Time After Time" received a well known jazz instrumental cover by Music/MilesDavis. It also became a Top 10 hit in 1998 for R&B singer Inoj, and Cyndi herself returned the song to the Adult Contemporary charts nearly a decade later singing it as a duet with SarahMcLachlan. Music/IronAndWine also covered the song.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: "She Bop" has a number of these: The Burger Klone restaurant with the fast moving hamburgers and the zombie-like customers represented the teenagers of the day and their need for in-demand fast food restaurants. Also the S.W.A.T. truck, which stands for “Suburban Wives Against Transgressors”. The S.W.A.T. Team could signify those who were against female's exploring and appreciation of their sexuality.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In "She Bop" the Burger Klone restaurant name substitutes Burger King; and "Over 20 Billion Sold Out" (with a changeable red board for the numeral) referencing how UsefulNotes/McDonalds, at the time the music video was released, put a running total on their logo signs outside the restaurant with the changeable numeral describing how many millions of customers were served to date.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Appears in performances with orange, pink, red, or whatever color she felt like at the time.

* TheCameo: Cyndi used lots of famous wrestlers in her music videos, including Wrestling/RandySavage, Captain Lou Albano, [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper Rowdy Roddy Piper]], Wendy Richter, The Fabulous Moolah, Wrestling/TheIronSheik, Wresting/NikolaiVolkoff, Wrestling/FreddieBlassie, and Wrestling/AndreTheGiant.

* IncestIsRelative: The song “Lies” more than hints at the horrors of incest.

* SesameStreetCred: She performed the song "I Want A Mom That Will Last Forever" for ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'', and the VillainSong "Lady in Pink" for ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans''.

** 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.]])

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In "She Bop" the Burger Klone restaurant name substitutes Burger King; and "Over 20 Billion Sold Out" (with a changeable red board for the numeral) referencing how McDonald's, at the time the music video was released, put a running total on their logo signs outside the restaurant with the changeable numeral describing how many millions of customers were served to date.

Pop starlet Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953), 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".

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.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. "Sally's Pigeons" is based off of a real life friend of Cyndi's who had a [[BackAlleyDoctor back alley abortion and died from it as a result.]] Cyndi herself had an abortion when she was 23 years old.

* CoverVersion: Music/{{Prince}}'s "When You Were Mine." Cyndi doesn't even change the genders in the song, so she's singing about [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning a man leaving her for another man.]]

** "Time After Time" received a well known jazz instrumental cover by Music/MilesDavis. It also became a Top 10 hit in 1998 for R&B singer Inoj, and Cyndi herself returned the song to the Adult Contemporary charts nearly a decade later singing it as a duet with SarahMcLachlan.

!!! "Girls just want to have tropes":
* AbusiveParents: Cyndi's struggled with this throughout her life. Her mother's second husband was a deadbeat drunk who threatened to rape Cyndi and her sister Ellen many times.

* GreasySpoon: One of the locations in 'She Bop'.

* RummageSaleReject: And damn proud of it. Then again, for her many fans, it's more like ImpossiblyCoolClothes.

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

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

** "Time After Time" received a well known jazz instrumental cover by Music/MilesDavis.

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 ''Series/MadAboutYou'', 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.

* RearrangeTheSong: ''The Body Acoustic'' is a compilation of her songs given acoustic rearrangements.

Pop starlet '''Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper''' (born June 22, 1953), 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".

* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Noo Yawk.

* DomesticAbuse: "Broken Glass"

* TheCameo: Cyndi used lots of famous wrestlers in her music videos, including Randy Savage, Captain Lou Albano, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Wendy Richter, The Fabulous Moolah, The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, and Freddie Blassie.

* PublisherChosenTitle: Much to Cyndi's anger, she was forced to change the title of the song "Good Enough" to "The Goonies R Good Enough". The official title of the song is just "Good Enough", as is the way Cyndi had titled it when it was written and the way she announced it at concerts. She never said the 'new' title, "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough", at any concert. It was changed, only in name, because Warner Brothers Studio insisted that the marketing pointed towards the film and that is when "The Goonies 'R'" was tacked on to the title of the song.