SHE’S SO UNUSUAL
She’s So Unusual is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released on October 14, 1983 by Portrait Records. The album is primarily new wave-based, with many of the songs being influenced by synthpop and pop rock. She’s So Unusual peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and stayed in the chart’s top forty for 65 weeks. It has sold over 6 million copies in the United States and 16 million copies worldwide. This makes it Lauper’s best-selling album to date and one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s. The album ranked at #487 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and ranked at #41 on Rolling Stone’s list of Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2012. (More from Wikipedia)
The only song on the Filthy Fifteen that I think deserves special attention is Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop”; the song is on her major hit album, She’s So Unusual. It really is a clever take on masturbation that got past a lot of people – in fact, the music video of the song that featured a judge and a tunnel and all the rest of it provided a lot of clues that the song didn’t.
(June 2016)
