She's So Unusual [Red Vinyl]

by Cyndi Lauper

Overview

One of the great new wave/early MTV records, She's So Unusual is a giddy mix of self-confidence, effervescent popcraft, unabashed sentimentality, subversiveness, and clever humor. In short, it's a multifaceted portrait of a multifaceted talent, an artist that's far more clever than her thin, deliberately girly voice would indicate. Then again, Lauper's voice suits her musical persona, since its chirpiness adds depth, or reconfigures the songs, whether it's the call to arms of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" or the tearjerking "Time After Time." Lauper is at her very best on the first side, all of which were singles or received airplay, and this collection of songs -- "Money Changes Everything," "Girls," "When You Were Mine," "Time," "She Bop," "All Through the Night" -- is astonishing in its consistency, so strong that it makes the remaining tracks -- all enjoyable, but rather pedestrian -- charming by their association with songs so brilliantly alive. If Lauper couldn't maintain this level of consistency, it's because this captured her persona better than anyone could imagine -- when a debut captures a personality so well, let alone a personality so tied to its time, the successive work can't help but pale in comparison. Still, when it's captured as brightly and brilliantly as it is here, it does result in a debut that retains its potency, long after its production seems a little dated. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	10/30/2020
Label:	Legacy / Sony Music
UPC:	0194398018010

Tracks

1. Money Changes Everything
2. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
3. When You Were Mine
4. Time After Time
5. She Bop
6. All Through the Night
7. Witness
8. I'll Kiss You
9. He's so Unusual
10. Yeah Yeah

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Cyndi Lauper   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Ellie Greenwich   Guest Artist,Vocals (Background)
Anton Fig   Guest Artist,Drums,Percussion,Electronic Drums
Rick Chertoff   Guest Artist,Percussion
Rick DiFonzio   Guest Artist
Rick DiFonzo   Guest Artist,Guitar,Guitar (Electric)
Jules Shear   Guest Artist,Vocals (Background)
Kenni Hairston   Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
Richard Termini   Synthesizer
Eric Bazilian   Bass,Hooter,Vocals,Saxophone,Guitar (Bass),Vocals (Background)
Rob Hyman   Vocals,Keyboards,Synthesizer,Vocals (Background)
Peter Wood   Synthesizer
Maeretha Stewart   Vocals (Background)
John McCurry   Vocals
Neil Jason   Guitar (Bass)
William Wittman   Guitar
Dianne Wilson   Vocals (Background)
Maretha Stewart   Vocals (Background)
Sandy Gennaro   Drums
Krystal Davis   Vocals (Background)
Diane Wilson   Vocals (Background)
John K.   Bass

Technical Credits

Rick Chertoff   Producer,Arranger,Composer
William Wittman   Engineer,Mixing,Arranger,Associate Producer
Traditional   Composer
Stephen Broughton Lunt   Composer
Cyndi Lauper   Arranger,Composer
Ellie Greenwich   Composer
Eric Bazilian   Arranger,Programming,Demo Engineer
Lennie Petze   Executive Producer
Walter Turbitt   Engineer
John Jansen   Engineer
John Turi   Composer
Rob Hyman   Arranger,Composer,Digital Transfers
Robert Hazard   Composer
Rod O'Brien   Engineer
Jules Shear   Composer
Prince   Composer
R. Hazard   Composer
Arthur Baker   Remixing
Al Lewis   Composer
A. Lewis   Composer
Al Sherman   Composer
Steve Lunt   Composer
Gary Corbett   Composer
John Agnello   Assistant Engineer
Ryan Smith   Remastering
Mikael Rickfors   Composer
Abner Silver   Composer
Tom Grey   Composer
M. Rickfors   Composer
Danny Verde   Remix Producer
Dan Beck   Product Manager
Tom Gray   Composer,Composer
Hasse Huss   Composer
John O. Senior   Digital Transfers
Lisa Barbaris   Reissue Executive Producer
T. Gray   Composer
Yolanda Be Cool   Remixing,Additional Production
Nervo   Remixing
Steven Redant   Remix Producer
Bruce Dickinson   Reissue Producer