Sunday Samples 4
I had a hard time picking out a song this week. Of course, Wednesday was Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, pop music brings us — as John Cusack told us at the beginning of High Fidelity — “literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss.” It’s an embarassment of riches.
So I’ve settled on an old favorite by Cyndi Lauper. I still remember when I was four and my father brought home She’s So Unusual shortly before Christmas. I didn’t know why at the time, but I couldn’t get enough of that album. If you ever need a weird-cute image, imagine a precocious four-year-old dancing around to “She Bop” in blissful ignorance of what its lyrics mean.
Today’s selection was originally written by Prince, but Cyndi makes it undeniably hers with a pop-punk edge, and a subtle gender-bending twist by not “correcting” any of the lyrics. After the jump, Cyndi Lauper’s “When You Were Mine”.
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