Cyndi Lauper

Released: December 22, 1984

Songwriter: Tom Gray

Producer: William Wittman Rick Chertoff

[Verse 1]
I said, "I'm sorry, baby, I'm leaving you tonight
I found someone new
He's waiting in the car outside"
"Aw honey, how could you do it?
We swore each other everlasting love"
I said, "Well yeah, I know, but when we did
There was one thing we weren't thinking of, and that's money"

[Chorus 1]
Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we're doing
That don't mean a thing
It's all in the past now
Money changes everything

[Verse 2]
They shake your hand
And they smile, and they buy you a drink
They say, "We'll be your friends
We'll stick with you 'til the end"
Ah, but everybody's only looking out for themselves
And you say, "Well who can you trust?"
I'll tell you, it's just nobody else's money

[Chorus 2]
Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
You think you know what you're doing
We don't pull the strings
It's all in the past now
Money changes everything

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Chorus 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, money
Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we're doing
We don't know a thing
It's all in the past now
Money changes everything

[Outro]
Hey, yeah, yeah
Money is everything, yes
Money changes everything, yeah
Money is everything
Money is everything, yes
Money changes everything, yeah, yeah

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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From the albums

She’s So Unusual (1983)
Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some (1994)
Wanna Have Fun (1996)
The Great Cyndi Lauper (2003)
The Essential Cyndi Lauper (2003)
She’s So Unusual: A 30th Anniversary Celebration (2014)

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