I JUST FOUND OUT CYNDI LAUPER DIDN'T WRITE "Girls Just Want to Have Fun!"

That was her breakthrough song. Her signature song, however, is Time After Time, which she did co-write.

You don't have to write the songs that you sing. It doesn't make a fraud. She never claimed to be a singer-songwriter.

Madge has found Datalounge.

FUCK YOU R2!!! THAT ANNOYING SONG HAS NEVER GONE AWAY!!! WHY WON'T IT DIE???? ALL THE GOD DAMN FRAUS THAT GET UP AND DANCE AT WEDDING RECEPTIONS WHEN THAT GOD DAMN SONG GETS PLAYED??? I'M OVER IT!!!!

AND "TIME AFTER TIME" IS THE WORST DAMN SONG EVER RECORDED!!! I HATE IT!

OP, if this is wrecking your life, I hate to break it to you honey but...this is just the beginning of a lifetime of constant disappointment.

She also wrote Change of Heart, which is a classic.

Stupid premise for a thread, but OK.

Cyndi rewrote and interpreted Girls Just Want to Have Fun to the point that she should have been credited as a co-writer. (It seems she didn't take a credit.)

This is the original:

And the video of Cyndi's remake, which was a sensation on MTV:

I juts found out Madonna didn't write Holiday, Borderline, Like a Virgin, Material Girl, Crazy For You or Dress You Up!

The video for that annoying piece of shit song has been viewed 802,199,802 times on YouTube. For a 36 year-old song, that's pretty impressive. By comparison, Madonna's Vogue has only been viewed 107 million times.

In other words, OP, you are a minority.

She also didn't write Money Changes Everything or When You Were Mine. Still great songs.

Also Robert Hazard died in 2008. He's not getting checks for anything..

Isn't Time after Time her big hit?

She had 10 top-10 hits.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun went to #2.

Time After Time and True Colors hit #1. Both spent two weeks at #1, so they tie for her biggest hit.

One wishes OP would get on the escalator of life

I always loved Hazzard's "Escalator of Life", which was an undervalued New Wave Synthpop gem.

R4 Is that you Bill Taylor?

OP, you’re an idiot.

I just looked this up: Time After Time was ranked the #17 song of 1984, while True Colors was #41 of 1986. Those rankings reflect how high a song hits, plus how fast it rises and how long it lasts in the Top 100, so you could say Time After Time was her big hit.

And excuse me–she had 10 top-*40* hits. My mistake.

I've always preferred Greg Laswell's version. It's sung as if a man is contemplating his sexuality.

Totally forgot about True Colors. What a great pop song!

Lots of singers never wrote their “signature” song.

OP is an idiot. Everyone knew that. Jesus Christ.

She may not be making money on the publishing but she's made a killing just in mechanical royalties of the single.

Iron & Wine's cover of Time After Time is really beautiful.

I confess to tearing up the first time I heard it.

Cyndi didn't write In The Bleak Midwinter either, but I love her version. Lay aside all the party girl exterior and she has a very lovely voice.

So much melancholy R24

Meanwhile Cyndi was paying $502/month rent in a stabilized unit in the Apthorp apartment building on the UWS.

Girls Do Not Want to Have Fun, sexist pigs!!!!!!!

She's not making the money ya'all think in her Council Housing! And she pays licensing rights to Hazzards estate and heirs. Ha Ha. Suck it Lauper!!!!

The OP may have only just found out, but it hasn't been a secret for the last thirty-seven years... And it's not like Cyndi Lauper has been lying about it.

Just to put OP into another tailspin, in 2012 Cyndi wrote a Broadway musical called Kinky Boots. It won awards on Broadway and in London. Huge hit. And then Cyndi was slapped with a lawsuit by Benny Mardones and Robert Tepper, who alleged that Lauper had lifted the melody and some of the lyrics from their 80s hit, Into the Night for use as the show's finale. Cyndi denied the charge, and her/the show's lawyers have been in court-ordered mediation for several years. The case was finally settled on August 12, 2019, for an undisclosed figure and no admission of wrongdoing from Lauper.

[quote]She's not making the money ya'all think in her Council Housing!

Yeah, she's no Jan Maxwell, living in Rent Stabilized Heaven now.

That's incorrect, R27. Read the article.

She was paying $3,250 a month in the early '90s (more than $5,700 a month today, adjusted for inflation) and sued to have the rent set back to the stabilized rent paid before the tenant who sublet the apartment to her, which was a scheme by the building owners to have their apartments removed from rent stabilization.

The courts set the rent back to $988 a month in 2005.

But at that point she had been paying at least $3,250 a month, plus whatever increases the landlords wanted each year, for more than a decade, plus lawyer's fees.

Thank You r30! She's a hustler and a fraud! Just provin' my point!

(and my old roommate was in the the original broadway musical, but we don't talk about that.)

OP what a troll. she's a national treasure and has done more for the gays, especially gay youth, than any tacky faggets on DL.

Inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Has won tony, grammy, emmy, etc.

Recently played to packed houses at carnegie hall and 2 nights at the hollywood bowl.

Can actually sing. Live. Without singing to track.

Won the first united nations humanitarian award - which means they invented it for her.

And OP, you've done?? Thought so.

R34 HEY, WHO ARE YOU CALLING TACKY! I WEAR MY CAFTAN WITH STYLE AND GRACE! Sometiimes it rides up, but I'M NOT A WHORE, DARLING!

I just found out that Mrs. Olson neither wrote nor sang the song "The Best Part of Waking Up is Folgers in Your Cup."

And? Madonna didn't write Like A Virgin. What's your point, OP?

[R33] I didn't make your point at all. I have nothing but respect for Ms. Lauper and her accomplishments, both as an ally and as a musician. There is absolutely no connection whatsoever between her recording and releasing a song which you assumed she wrote (and back in the day the 45 clearly listed the writers on the label), and someone thirty years later accusing her of copying parts of their song. Plagiarism is difficult to prove, but if the claimants had had a strong case they would have prevailed in court. Hence the arbitration. Ms. Lauper is as much a victim of extortion as she is a crook.

[quote] She also wrote Change of Heart, which is a classic.

Change of Heart hardly qualifies as a classic. You almost never it anywhere any more (unlike Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Time After Time, which will continue to be played forever).

R39, that's only because of fucking Clear Channel. Ever notice how all the 80s channels have the same 200 songs? It's cheaper to pick a select group of songs to showcase on these radio programs. Yet, as we all know, there are hundreds more classic 80s songs, many of which were played a lot back then, and have disappeared from radio. It's really sad, but that's the state of corporate media today. They sold us out.

R29 You're a fucking moron. You have no clue how the music business works. There's no such thing as "licensing rights" for a master recording being paid by the artist. Her record label probably got a blanket license (in perpetuity) through Harry Fox years ago that determines who gets paid a royalty.

Any time she sings the song, or gets radio play, someone pays a royalty to the performer and the owner of the composition.

Go play in another sandbox where you know what the fuck you're talking about.

[quote] OP what a troll. she's a national treasure and has done more for the gays, especially gay youth, than any tacky faggets on DL. Inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Has won tony, grammy, emmy, etc. Recently played to packed houses at carnegie hall and 2 nights at the hollywood bowl. Can actually sing. Live. Without singing to track. Won the first united nations humanitarian award - which means they invented it for her.

And she did it all while suffering from nasty psoriasis.

Change of Heart was fabulous. It went to No. 3 on the charts.

I related to it as a teen gayling hoping one of my straight friends would want to be more than friends.

Here's Cyndi kicking it out live. She can really sing.

R30 You dumbass! In defending this cunt you exposed that she's a plagiarist who steals other artist's work for her own financial benefit!!! Kinky Boots was stolen (just like most of her music), and she thought she could get away with it! She's a hustler and a grifter!

Several good versions of Time After Time, including....

...and my personal favorite, which I like even more than Cyndi's version - which is the definitive, of course.

^ Thank God for Cassandra Wilson. It's kind of a boring song to be honest. Cyndi's vocal affectations are better suited to her punk lite beginnings. She's screechy. All of her best songs are covers. Like this one.

Lauper is very good when she uses her training and drops the schtick.

[quote]You dumbass! In defending this cunt you exposed that she's a plagiarist who steals other artist's work for her own financial benefit!!!

Oh Honey you are never truly successful in music until you are sued for plagiarism.

Cyndi redid Girls for the "To Wong Foo..." soundtrack with a video featuring boys.

Wait till OP finds out what happened to Milli Vanilli. Hub-boy.

Cindy is not very good when she tries to redo a Fleetwood Mac classic You Make Loving Fub.

Is Cyndi poor?

I never listen to Lauper when I choose music but I do like her and her old hits sound nice on the car radio.

But now the song feels like pure misogyny. Bill Hazzard put her on the Patriarchal Peloton bike 40 yrs ago & never let her get off!

Dare you not to be touched by this gorgeous song that she did write with Mary Chapin Carpentar

The girl can sing live....

Has she ever looked more adorable than here? What a beautiful and vibrant lady

The Universe isn't fair. Cyndi (and Angelyne and La Toya Jackson as well) should've had the success that Madonna had.

It's no secret that she was a captivating pop star. During her heyday everyone liked Cyndi Lauper.

She does one of the best Prince covers IMO.

A question, if you will? The line through OP's post means that it was FF'd to all fuck?

Cyndi should cover my new song “Guys Just Want To Play With Their Dicks”

I love her. Her autobiography is really raw. She made some stupid mistakes regarding men and her wrestling thing seemed dumb, but was ahead of its time.

And she did it all while suffering from nasty psoriasis.

—See me!

@R42 are you shaming for having a skin disease that is completely beyond their control? many stars have diseases and don't come forward. Though not a Kardashian fan, she also spoke publicly about struggling with this disease. It's no walk in the park. You can't choose not to have a disease. You can choose, though, not to be an asshole.

I have a disease. I'm attracted to Men and constantly bending over and letting them do questionably horrible things to me! I'm hoping there's a pill for this affliction!!!

I'm 43 and a huge Blondie fan, but never knew up until a year or two ago that The Tide Is High was a cover. I still love Blondie and their version though.

She didn't write this, either....

It's hard to be me.

Everybody loved Cyndi Lauper until she started doing those fucking psoriasis commercials.

She also didn't write this one (one of my favorites of hers).

Miss R64 has Stated Her Boundaries!

Cyndi actually did a cover of the song, after she watched the MOVIE "Girls Just Want to Have Fun!" as that was the theme song.

She's more than minimally talented but she wasn't a big hit beyond her first record. Her last top 10 hit was 30 years ago. She wasn't "too quirky" - she was too fake and obnoxious. Not a nice woman, Cyndi Lauper. Why are the eldergays so attached to her based on a few songs? I love a powerful voice but she danced and screamed too much. I can't stand her hiccup style of singing. She presented herself as a gimmick and that's how the public treated her music. She's more talented than that, but she was over 30 when she had her first hit record. There is no valid comparison to Madonna, except that they happened at the same time, like Xtina and Britney.

R74 Cyndi Lauper is one award away from EGOT - Madonna is NOT

EGOTs are meaningless. John Legend and Rita Moreno have them.

In Cyndi’s TV commercial for the skin drug, why does it go to extreme soft focus for her close-up?

Cyndi is a makeup expert. I'll give her that. She's not a pretty woman but she always looked interesting and great. She can vary her looks in real live time, not only on video. Very creative chick. There's something sweet about her face - she's nice to watch perform. Too bad she wrecks it with so many dumb vocal tics.

This thread is hilarious. I don't know what happened in a generation where they think a singer has to write the songs they sing. It's never been like that. Our favorite singers from Sinatra to Dusty to Olivia didn't write their songs. They were interpreters which requires a really great voice. It requires really great talent to take someone else's song and completely reinterpret its meaning from what the writer intended, like what Aretha did with Respect and what Cyndi does with Girls. Yeah Mariah and Beyonce "cowrote" their songs but they really have no business doing so.

[quote] Cindy Lauper - I Drove All Night

R58 Oh, dear.

Most singers haven’t written the songs they’ve recorded

[quote]It requires really great talent to take someone else's song and completely reinterpret its meaning from what the writer intended.

Yeah, most people know most hit songs were written by someone else R78. We're surprised that Lauper had those hits without writing them. She's not exactly one of the great singers. Not a bad cover artist.

I thought R78 must be charlie - but even that ancient bore wouldn't suffer such delusional flashbacks of bad taste. Never compare Cyndi fucking Lauper with Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra or Dusty Springfield. Cyndi can barely sing compared to any of them. What the fuck?

Beyoncé is a vocal, performance and musical genius compared to Cindi gimmick Lauper. Beyoncé is also fucking fantastic in most every way. Bey has 50 songs you can love over and over and 100 videos more. She's seismically significant. You show your age old man @ R78. It must be charlie, reliving a night at the bathhouse. Gross. This thread is hilarious because some ancient white fag did poppers while fucking to Cyndi Lauper in 1984. He confused that with who the fuck knows?

Unlike the post 2000 lot of pop stars, Cyndi can sing. There's that.

[quote]Beyoncé is a vocal, performance and musical genius compared to Cindi gimmick Lauper. Beyoncé is also fucking fantastic in most every way. Bey has 50 songs you can love over and over and 100 videos more. She's seismically significant. You show your age old man @ [R78]. It must be charlie, reliving a night at the bathhouse. Gross. This thread is hilarious because some ancient white fag did poppers while fucking to Cyndi Lauper in 1984. He confused that with who the fuck knows?

Now THIS is funny.

My favorite of her songs is When You Were Mind. And just like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, it is a cover. So what?

Cyndi Lauper is quite possibly the most lovable and adorable human on this planet! Please fuck off, OP.

But she wrote this diddy. What a talent!

"My favorite of her songs is When You Were Mind."

She's not great. I guess you had to be there. A lot of the eldergay disco memories are that way.

[quote] But she wrote this diddy

Oh, deer

Take your ritalin r81. I never compared Cyndi Lauper vocally to any of those singers. In fact, Cyndi is not one of my favorite singers. I was just stating not all singers write their songs. I understand, r81. It's not entirely your fault.......