History Trivia / CyndiLauper

* CreatorBacklash: Lauper had such an unpleasant experience producing "The Goonies 'r' Good Enough," first having Creator/StevenSpielberg back out of the project after she dared to criticize his vision for the accompanying music video, then being forced to tack the title of [[Film/TheGoonies the movie it was made for]] onto the title for publicity and then having additional CreativeDifferences with Richard Donner for the music video, that she grew to loathe the song. It didn't appear on her compilations until 2003 and she didn't perform it live until a year later. She eventually warmed up to it when she was asked to record a parody of it for the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode, "The Belchies." Sean Astin (who played Mikey in ''The Goonies'') has said in a couple interviews that he always regretted everyone's demeanor while making that music video because him, the other child actors, and the crew were all very low-energy and catatonic, giving the impression that none of them wanted to work with Cyndi. In truth, though, everyone loved working with her, and everyone's indifferent attitude was because they had ''just finished'' making the film and everyone was ''exhausted''. Astin has said he's wished he could get back in touch with Cyndi to explain all this, as he feels parts of her animosity towards the song had to do with everyone's behavior during filming. Josh Gad's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SF_VyXQpyo "Reunited Apart"]] webisode on ''Film/TheGoonies'' did give Sean - and the entire rest of the cast - the chance to video conference with Cyndi.
* OldShame:

* OldShame: She's not too fond of her third album, 1989's ''A Night to Remember'' which she prefers to call "A Night to Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Cyndi Lauper dated Wrestling/HulkHogan during her stint with the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]]. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQn7MW9WjE in this clip]], Hogan [[WhatTheHellHero seems to suggest]] that he [[DomesticAbuse physically abused]] Lauper.

* LGBTFanbase: Thanks to her tireless work for LGBT rights, her colorful image, and songs like "True Colors", she's a huge gay icon and regularly shows up at LGBT events as support.

* CreatorBacklash: Lauper had such an unpleasant experience producing "Goonies 'r' Good Enough," first having Creator/StevenSpielberg back out of the project after she dared to criticize his vision for the accompanying music video, then being forced to tack the title of [[Film/TheGoonies the movie it was made for]] onto the title for publicity and then having additional CreativeDifferences with Richard Donner for the music video, that she grew to loathe the song. It didn't appear on her compilations until 2003 and she didn't perform it live until a year later. She eventually warmed up to it when she was asked to record a parody of it for the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode, "The Belchies."
** Sean Astin (who played Mikey in ''The Goonies'') has said in a couple interviews that he always regretted everyone's demeanor while making that music video because him, the other child actors, and the crew were all very low-energy and catatonic, giving the impression that none of them wanted to work with Cyndi. In truth, though, everyone loved working with her, and everyone's indifferent attitude was because they had ''just finished'' making the film and everyone was ''exhausted''. Astin has said he's wished he could get back in touch with Cyndi to explain all this, as he feels parts of her animosity towards the song had to do with everyone's behavior during filming.
*** Josh Gad's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SF_VyXQpyo "Reunited Apart"]] webisode on ''Film/TheGoonies'' did give Sean - and the entire rest of the cast - the chance to video conference with Cyndi.

* CreatorBacklash: Lauper had such an unpleasant experience producing "Goonies 'r' Good Enough," first having StevenSpielberg back out of the project after she dared to criticize his vision for the accompanying music video, then being forced to tack the title of [[Film/TheGoonies the movie it was made for]] onto the title for publicity and then having additional CreativeDifferences with Richard Donner for the music video, that she grew to loath the song. It didn't appear on her compilations until 2003 and she didn't perform it live until a year later. She eventually warmed up to it when she was asked to record a parody of it for the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode, "The Belchies."

* OldShame: She's not too fond of her third album, 1989's "A Night to Remember" which she prefers to call "A Night to Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.

*** Josh Gad's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SF_VyXQpyo "Reunited Apart"]] webisode on ''Film/TheGoonies'' did give Sean - and the entire rest of the cast - the chance to video conference with Cyndi and express their appreciation.

*** Josh Gad's "Reunited Apart" webisode on ''Film/TheGoonies'' did give Sean - and the entire rest of the cast - the chance to video conference with Cyndi and express their appreciation.

** She said the failure of the film ''[[Film/{{Vibes}}'' hit her hard and that she had trouble reconciling with it for years.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Cyndi Lauper dated HulkHogan during her stint with the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]]. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQn7MW9WjE in this clip]], Hogan [[WhatTheHellHero seems to suggest]] that he [[DomesticAbuse physically abused]] Lauper.

* CreatorBacklash: Lauper had such an unpleasant experience producing "Goonies 'r' Good Enough," first being forced to tack the title of [[Film/TheGoonies the movie it was made for]] onto the title for publicity and then having CreativeDifferences with Richard Donner for the music video, that she grew to loath the song. It didn't appear on her compilations until 2003 and she didn't perform it live until a year later. She eventually warmed up to it when she was asked to record a parody of it for the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode, "The Belchies."

** Sean Astin (who played Mikey in ''The Goonies'') has said in a couple interviews that he always regretted everyone's demeanor while making that music video because him, the other child actors, and the crew were all very low-energy and catatonic, giving the impression that none of them wanted to work with Cyndi. In truth, though, everyone loved working with her, and everyone's indifferent attitude was because they had ''just finished'' making the film and everyone was ''exhausted''. Austin has said he's wished he could get back in touch with Cyndi to explain all this, as he feels parts of her animosity towards the song had to do with everyone's behavior during filming.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Cyndi Lauper dated HulkHogan during her stint with the [[{{WWE}} WWF]]. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQn7MW9WjE in this clip]], Hogan [[WhatTheHellHero seems to suggest]] that he [[DomesticAbuse physically abused]] Lauper.

* CreatorBacklash: Lauper had such an unpleasant experience producing "Goonies 'r' Good Enough," first being forced to tack the title of [[Film/TheGoonies the movie it was made for]] onto the title for publicity and then having Creative Differences with Richard Donner for the music video, that she grew to loath the song. It didn't appear on her compilations until 2003 and she didn't perform it live until a year later. She eventually warmed up to it when she was asked to record a parody of it for the Bob's Burgers episode, "The Belchies."

* CreatorBacklash: Lauper's history with the song "(Goonies 'r') Good Enough," her AwardBaitSong from ''Film/TheGoonies'', is a long, arduous one.
** For one, she was forced by Warner Bros. to [[PublisherChosenTitle change the title of the song]] from "Good Enough" to "The Goonies 'r' Good Enough" to better tie it into the movie, despite the song itself having nothing to do with the titular characters.
** While filming the music video, she frequently [[CreativeDifferences butted heads]] with director Richard Donner, who demanded far more takes than she was willing to give.
** In the end, she grew to hate the song so much that she refused to put it on a compilation until 2003 and wouldn't even perform it live until a year later.

* 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.

* OldShame: "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" from (of course) ''Film/TheGoonies'' soundtrack. She hated the song for a long time, and it took until 2003 for her to even include it on a compilation, and until 2004 to even sing part of the song live.
** In 2012, she recorded a parody of the song, "Taffy Butt," for a Goonies-inspired episode of WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers at her son's insistence.
*** Lauper is also not too fond of her third album, 1989's "A Night to Remember" which she prefers to call "A Night to Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.
* 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.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Cyndi Lauper dated HulkHogan during her stint with the [[{{WWE}} WWF]]. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQn7MW9WjE in this clip]], Hogan [[WhatTheHellHero seems to suggest]] that he [[DomesticAbuse physically abused]] Lauper.

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

*** Lauper is also not too fond of her third album, 1989's "A Night to Remember" which she prefers to call "A Night to Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.

*** Lauper is also not too fond of her third album, 1989's "A Night To Remember" which she prefers to call "A Night To Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.

* Lauper is also not too fond of her third album, 1989's "A Night To Remember" which she prefers to call "A Night To Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.

*** Lauper is also not too fond of her third album, 1989's "A Night To Remember" which she prefers to call "A Night To Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.

** In 2012, she recorded a parody of the song, "Taffy Butt," for a Goonies-inspired episode of WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers.