Word: lauper
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...norms, and appropriate the new drug for purely recreational use, just as men are doing with Viagra. Sure, we need dashing partners and the leisurely evenings in which to enjoy them, but these improvements could be years in coming, if ever. In the meantime, my feminist guru is Cyndi Lauper, with her revolutionary dictum: Girls just wanna have fun. If Big Pharma comes up with something to advance that agenda, bring...
...instinctively knows which lyrics matter, repeating "On my head, on my head" during the chorus until the song feels like a gospel ballad. Never mind that Bacharach - who conducted the orchestra - inserts one of his signature flugelhorn solos into the bridge; Raindrops is Isley's song now. Cyndi Lauper doesn't have Isley's voice - or anybody's voice - and the thought of her attacking the Etta James classic At Last (it's like Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech for chanteuses) at first seems like a profoundly bad idea. But throughout her standards album, also titled...
...term jelly shoes may conjure up cringe-worthy flashbacks of 1980s neon clothes and She's So Unusual--era Cyndi Lauper videos, but the flexible plastic footwear has come back into fashion in a big way. Designer Michael Kors has jelly shoes in his summer collection, Burberry is offering classy updated jelly thong sandals with the company's trademark plaid encased in the transparent soles, and trendy teens around the U.S. are digging out vintage versions of the original squishy sandals. One of the most popular retro styles is the Melissa Love System jellied tennis shoe (left). Introduced...
...last time the music business fell into a slump, Madonna was a Cyndi Lauper wannabe, the theme from Miami Vice was a No. 1 hit and the rising star known as Prince still had a name that didn't look like a typo. The year was 1985, and although shipments of recorded music were down 4%, the worst the industry had to worry about--hair spray and tight pants aside--was that some listeners liked to mix their own cassette tapes with favorite tunes from the latest Phil Collins or Duran Duran albums. Record companies dealt with this casual piracy...
...find a suitable comparison is a challenge. At times her voice takes on the fullness of Melissa Etheridge, at times the angsty adrenaline of Alanis Morisette or the quiet pensiveness of the new and improved Tiffany. And every now and then there is even a hint of Cyndi Lauper strangeness. It grates, it climbs, it answers...