Songoftheday 10/3/13 - Well I see them every night in tight blue jeans in the pages of a blue boy magazine...

Cyndi Lauper - "She Bop"
from the album She's So Unusual (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14

Today's song of the day is by the quirky vocalist Cyndi Lauper, whose debut disc She's So Unusual had already spun off a top-10 single with "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" and a #1 follow-up with the ballad "Time After Time". For her hat trick Cyndi did a complete 180 and put out (no pun) the giddy dance-pop of "She Bop". With veiled references to masturbation in the lyrics and a synth-driven track written with producer Rick Chertoff, Stephen Lunt, and Gary Corbett (who would go an be the keyboard man for the metal group Cinderella), "She Bop" was racy enough to draw the kids in but vague enough to get played on the radio and MTV...

"She Bop" became Cyndi's third straight top-10 single in September of 1984, and the dance remix (used in the start of the video) topped out at #10 as well. But while the record also made the top-10 in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, it didn't even make the top-40 in England, stopping at #46.

Although it would be her most "novelty" of tracks (well, until the Goonies theme), she sells it enough with her personality and the big synth riff still make it cool...

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..here she is live in 1983...

...and again four years later in Paris...

Up tomorrow: A Latin loverboy finds a love Supreme.