Comments on: Music Tidbits: Cyndi Lauper

By: Raiders757

Raiders757 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:36:41 +0000

Her awful New York accent is almost worse than her music, and as bad as I think it is, I'm sad to say that it's still ten times better than the Pop garbage of today. Yuk!

By: Scotchdrnkr

Scotchdrnkr — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:38:37 +0000

I've always liked her music but never been much of a fan of her act/weird costume thing. But I have to give her credit she definately has aged well. I would have never know it was her in the she hates goonies picture if you hadn't told me.

By: mother hubbard

mother hubbard — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:27:05 +0000

Yep I'm a heterosexual...am out of the closet now...let it be known...

Holy smoke. How friggin' hilarous is that?

By: earbox

earbox — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:58:46 +0000

She's also the only living person to share writing credit on a Billy Joel song in his solo career, having cowritten "Code of Silence." (The only dead person is Beethoven, whose Pathetique Sonata formed the basis of "This Night.") (I qualify this as "in his solo career" as I don't know any of his material from before then--his days in either The Hassles or Attila--and it's entirely possible that some of those songs were collaborations.)

By: atanguay

atanguay — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:10:47 +0000

'True Colors'...wow, what a song. Beautiful.

By: Supernovaload

Supernovaload — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:30:46 +0000

She also guested at Roger Waters' live Performance of "The Wall" in Berlin. Reportedly, she was surprised and modest when he asked her to participate, but she went all out in a remarkable performance.
She also minds her own beeswax and stays out of the tabloids, which is no mean feat these days.

By: Katie Valk

Katie Valk — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:26:46 +0000

I've known Cyndi since the Blue Angel days and proud to count her as one of my best friends. She is bright, talented, demanding of herself and a real stand up gal. Hulk is not her cousin, her fiance at the time, Dave Wolf, managed Capt Lou and thus the wrestling connection. Go Cyn!

By: Chaos

Chaos — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:53:01 +0000

By the way, its/was World Wrestling FEDERATION, not Foundation

By: jefftexas

jefftexas — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:40 +0000

Don't try to get her autograph or ask to have a picture taken with her! She was very rude, very very rude. I am no longer a fan.

By: zerovoltage

zerovoltage — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:42:19 +0000

i think the WWF connection is because Hulk Hogan is her cousin.

By: Jill Harness

Jill Harness — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:06:03 +0000

Dandy, she was around 45 when I saw her live. Please reread it.

By: Dandy

Dandy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:50:03 +0000

Your math is off just a bit...

If Cyndi was born in 1953 she would be 55, not 45.

By: zav

zav — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:27:58 +0000

I wanted to not like Cyndi, but I really dug her "Money Changes Everything" cassette when I heard it in the mid '80s. Surprisingly good. Also Jill, you might want to change "She Hate The Goonies" to "She Hates The Goonies".

By: MarcHaBa

MarcHaBa — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:42:03 +0000

I love Cyndi, she's amazing! And I can't believe she's older than my Mom (I'm 36). Her last album (Bring Ya to the Brink) so deserved a Top10. In a word she's brilliant. Long may she rock!

By: JoeM

JoeM — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:53:18 +0000

Cyndi rocks!

By: matt

matt — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:35:22 +0000

it's a shame she's not a polite person to work with. not in the musician/performer manner, but in the support staff for the venue (an atypical venue) manner. very difficult and uppity. ah well. she bop.

By: Babycakes

Babycakes — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:27:00 +0000

thanks, great read.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:20:45 +0000

Let me add one: She's a tough cookie. From AOL Music: Somewhere over Massachusetts is a bird that apparently doesn't care for '80s pop. At a 2004 radio concert in Mansfield, Cyndi Lauper was doused with a blob of bird poop while reaching for the high note in her classic hit 'Money Changes Everything.' The fowl fecal critique landed directly in Lauper's open mouth, but the Brooklyn-born rocker simply wiped her tongue on her sleeve and kept on singing.