Cyndi Lauper

I don't like you, but I love you
Seems like i'm always, thinking of you

Oh, you treat me badly, I love you madly
You really got a hold on me

You really gotta hold on me
I don't know want you, but I need you

Don't want to kiss, but I need too

Oh ho, you treated me wrong now
My love is strong now
You really gotta hold on me
You really gotta hold on me

I love you, all that want you to do
Is just hold me, hold me, hold me

Don't want to leave here, don't want to stay here
Don't want to spend another day here

Oh, I just don't fit now
I just can't quit now
You really gotta hold on me
You really gotta hold on me

And I love you, and all that I want you to do
Is hold me, please, hold me, squeeze, hold meeee

An 80’s pop starlet that skyrocketed her way to the top of the mainstream game, Cyndi Lauper has made her mark as an artist both socially and musically.

Beginning her solo career in the 1983 with hit debut album She’s So Unusual, Lauper came to be a household name with the four top-five hits that came with the record, including breakthrough single “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and the visceral, chart-topping “Time After Time”. Her camp attitude, electrifying vocals, and unrelenting earworms made an impression on the general public, and she would take home Best New Artist and Best Album Package at the Grammy’s for She’s So Unusual, amidst 4 other nominations. Lauper would never reach the same sort of stardom again musically following She’s So Unusual, but her legacy was far from over.

She’s So Unusual set the ground for her next True Colors. Released in 1986, the album most notably contained title-track “True Colors”, which would grow to become a primary anthem of the gay rights movement. Lauper would later serve as a key advocate of the LGBT community, and she has fairly consistently addressed homophobia throughout her career.

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