She's so unusual

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She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper's studio album

Publication
(s)

December 1983

Label (s) Portrait Records

Genre (s)

Pop-Rock , New Wave

Title (number)

10

running time

38:42

production

Rick Chertoff

chronology
- She's So Unusual True Colors
(1986)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
She's so unusual
  DE 23 07/02/1984 (37 weeks)
  AT 5 01/01/1985 (16 weeks)
  CH 8th 06/10/1984 (29 weeks)
  UK 16 02/18/1984 (32 weeks)
  US 4th December 24, 1983 (77 weeks)
Singles
Girls just want to have fun
  DE 6th 03/12/1984 (18 weeks)
  AT 3 05/01/1984 (12 weeks)
  CH 6th 04/01/1984 (15 weeks)
  UK 2 01/14/1984 (12 weeks)
  US 2 December 17, 1983 (25 weeks)
Time after time
  DE 6th 05/28/1984 (21 weeks)
  AT 5 08/01/1984 (6 weeks)
  CH 7th 06/10/1984 (15 weeks)
  UK 3 March 24, 1984 (18 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/14/1984 (20 weeks)
She bop
  DE 19th 09/03/1984 (16 weeks)
  AT 5 10/01/1984 (12 weeks)
  CH 10 08/26/1984 (11 weeks)
  UK 46 08/25/1984 (6 weeks)
  US 3 07/21/1984 (18 weeks)
All through the night
  DE 35 December 24, 1984 (9 weeks)
  AT 5 01/01/1985 (12 weeks)
  CH 16 12/02/1984 (8 weeks)
  UK 64 11/03/1984 (6 weeks)
  US 5 10/06/1984 (19 weeks)
Money Changes Everything
  DE 54 02/11/1985 (5 weeks)
  US 27 12/22/1984 (13 weeks)

She's so Unusual is the debut album by the US singer Cyndi Lauper . With the album she achieved her commercial breakthrough as a solo artist. The music magazine Rolling Stone ranks it 487th on its list of the 500 best albums of all time . Four of the singles became top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album, produced by William Wittman , has sold nine million copies in the United States alone.

useful information

Until the beginning of 1982 Cyndi Lauper was the singer of the rockabilly band "Blue Angel". After it was dissolved, Lauper had to declare bankruptcy and began to work as a bar singer again. She met the music manager David Wolff, who put Lenny Petze in contact with Epic Records / CBS . Cyndi Lauper owed it to Wolff that Portrait Records (a sub-label of Epic Records) signed her. Lenny Petze organized a meeting with the music producer Rick Chertoff, who should produce Lauper's album. The artist had her own ideas of what she wanted to sing, and differences arose with Chertoff. He introduced her to a number of finished songs, which the artist mostly sounded too much like pop music. In particular , she turned down Girls Just Want to Have Fun because the text contradicted her feminist views. Chertoff and Lauper agreed that the singer would demonstrate her skills as a songwriter by revising the songs to suit her expectations. Because of these revisions, Cyndi Lauper received copyrights to some songs, which later led to a dispute with Robert Hazard over royalties for Girls Just Want to Have Fun .

The recordings took place in the Record Plant Studios in New York City , accompanied by Cyndi Lauper u. a. by Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian from the band The Hooters and studio drummer Anton Fig . In the play When You Were Mine is a cover version of Prince , Money Changes Everything is in its original version of "The Brains" according to Rolling Stone one of the lost anthems of the 1970s. The ballad Time After Time was created during a jam session in the studio. Lauper had leafed through magazines, when she noticed the title of an old film called Time After Time . Rick Chertoff began to play a few chords composed by Rob Hyman on the keyboard , to which Lauper sang improvised lines of text. At the point of the chorus she remembered the film title and the idea for the song was born.

Track list

  1. Money Changes Everything (Tom Gray) - 5:06
  2. Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Robert Hazard) - 3:58
  3. When You Were Mine ( Prince ) - 5:06
  4. Time After Time ( Rob Hyman , Lauper) - 4:03
  5. She Bop (Rick Chertoff, Gary Corbett, Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt) - 3:51
  6. All Through the Night (Jules Shear) - 4:33
  7. Witness (Lauper, John Turi) - 3:40
  8. I'll Kiss You (Lauper, Shear) - 4:12
  9. He's so Unusual (Al Sherman, Al Lewis, Abner Silver) - 0:45
  10. Yeah Yeah (Hasse Huss, Mikael Rickfors ) - 3:18

reception

The Rough Guide to Rock describes the album as a “crazy mix of energetic pop and thoughtful ballads” and the hit single Girls Just Want to Have Fun as the “anthem for bored teenagers and young feminists”. Kurt Loder of the music magazine Rolling Stone found Cyndi Lauper to be one of the best junk rock singers since Maureen Gray in a contemporary review and compares her voice with the girl pop of the era before the Beatles . In his criticism, he criticized the fact that there were songs on the album, Witness and He's so unusual , that did not belong there. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic described the album as a "ludicrous mixture of self-confidence, exuberant pop music, unabashed sentimentality, subversiveness and intelligent humor". Slant Magazine stated that it was the balance between kitsch and sincerity that made this album a classic and in 2003 voted it one of the "50 Most Important Pop Albums".

successes

In addition to the top ten placements of the album and the single releases in many national charts , the album reached six platinum status in the USA in 1997 . At the 1985 Grammy Awards , Cyndi Lauper was voted best newcomer , and the album received an award for best album package for its artistic design .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date
  2. ↑ Sources chart positions (album): DE / AT / CH
  3. ↑ She's so unusual in the Official UK Charts (English)
  4. ↑ Cindy Lauper albums on the US Billboard 200 album charts
  5. ↑ Sources Chart placements (singles): DE ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / AT / CH @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  6. ↑ Cindy Lauper in the Official UK Charts (English)
  7. ↑ Cindy Lauper Singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart
  8. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Cyndi Lauper, 'She's So Unusual'. Rolling Stone Magazine, May 25, 2012, accessed April 16, 2014 .
  9. ^ Bob Batchelor, Scott Stoddart: The 1980s. American Popular Culture Through History . Greenwood Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33000-1 , pp. 129 .
  10. ^ A b Peter Buckley: The Rough Guide to Rock . Rough Guides, 2003, ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0 , pp. 584 .
  11. ↑ cf. Lewis, p. 95
  12. ↑ a b Kurt Loder: Cyndi Lauper: She's so unusual (Review). Rolling Stone, January 19, 1984, accessed September 12, 2016 .
  13. ↑ cf. Lewis, p. 97
  14. ↑ Vital Pop: 50 Essential Pop Albums. Slant Magazine, June 2003, accessed February 19, 2010 .

literature

  • Lisa A. Lewis: Gender politics and MTV: voicing the difference . Temple University Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-87722-942-1 , pp. 91-99 .

Web links

Cyndi Lauper
Studio albums

She's So Unusual • True Colors • A Night to Remember • Has Full of Stars • Twelve Deadly Cyns… and Then Some • Sisters of Avalon • Merry Christmas… Have a Nice Life • At Last • Shine [Full Length] • The Body Acoustic • Bring Ya to the Brink • Memphis Blues • Detour

Singles

You Make Loving Fun • Girls Just Want to Have Fun • Time After Time • She Bop • All Through the Night • Money Changes Everything • When You Were Mine • The Goonies 'R' Good Enough • True Colors • Change of Heart • What's Going on • Boy Blue • Maybe He'll Know • Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China) • I Drove All Night • My First Night Without You • Heading West • A Night to Remember • Primitive • The World Is Stone • Who Let in the Rain • Sally's Pigeons • That's What I Think • Hat Full of Stars • Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) • I'm Gonna Be Strong • Come On Home • You Don't Know • Sisters of Avalon • Ballad of Cleo and Joe • Early Christmas Morning • Disco Inferno • Shine • Walk On By • Until You Come Back to Me • Stay • Time After Time (Acoustic) • Above the Clouds • Same Ol 'Story • Into the Nightlife