Once again I find myself in love with Cyndi Lauper. It shouldn't surprise me, yet every time I'm reminded of it, it takes me by surprise.



I'd obviously seen random clips of her throughout her career, and in interviews where I found her absolutely adorable, intelligent, and charming (in her own way, accent included haha), and eventually stumbled on a concert special of hers years ago. I remember pausing on the channel because she was singing one of her older songs I was familiar with, and I ended up stuck for the rest of the hour amazed by how good she was live. After that I was hooked.



It's been a while since "The Body Acoustic" and "At Last", (which Kayla may remember as the awesome covers album that I would carry around with me whenever we made those high school trips to GI, along with Bette Midler's Rosemary Clooney songbook, torn between which to buy), both of which were pretty tame projects and not your typical "new Cyndi music", but I'd heard she had a new album out, and didn't really look into it until a couple of weeks ago when I saw her perform on the New Now Next awards.

I was shocked when I heard what sounded more like a Kylie Minogue or Madonna tune start thumping away, haha. But I LOVE it. This song has been in my brain ever since, and I actually think the club scene sound totally fits Cyndi. I know her gay boys must be loving it as well.



Now that she has a new album out (as do the B-52s) I'd actually really like to see her out on the True Colors tour, unfortunately they didn't come by this way and the tour's nearly over by now. The line-up this year seemed great though, of course the B-52's and Rosie were back, but they also had newer acts like The Cliks (who I love) and more comedians like another favorite of mine Wanda Sykes. I'm kinda bummed thinking about it actually.

(A great interview last year on "The View" about the 1st Annual True Colors Tour)

My Space
My Tube
My Demo Reel