Boy Blue (Cyndi Lauper song)

Boy Blue (Cyndi Lauper song)

Infobox Single
Name = Boy Blue


Caption =
Artist = Cyndi Lauper
from Album = True Colors
A-side = Boy Blue
B-side = The Faraway Nearby
Released = 1987
Format = 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl
Recorded = 1986
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = Epic
Writer = Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, Jeff Bova
Producer = Cyndi Lauper, Lennie Petze
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "What's Going On"
This single = "Boy Blue"
Next single = "Maybe He'll Know"
Misc =

"Boy Blue" is a pop song written by Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, and Jeff Bova for Lauper's second album "True Colors" (1986).

It was released as the album's fourth single in 1987 (see 1987 in music). The single version is a remix (which cuts much of Lauper's more impressive vocal wailing, presumably in effort to make it more commercially accessible). Charting at #71 on the Hot 100, it was Lauper's first solo single that failed to make a real impact on the charts. Proceeds from the sale of the single were donated to AIDS organizations.

The official video was a live clip of the song in Paris, France and it was pulled from the concert video "Cyndi Lauper in Paris." The video received heavy airplay on Mtv when the single was released (during June & July of 1987) and was rarely played after.

ong information

Thematically like "True Colors" on the album, Lauper wrote this song for a friend who died of AIDS, and the title comes from a poem by Eugene Field called "Little Boy Blue". This poem is based on a kid's story:

"Little Boy Blue"The little toy dog is covered with dust,But sturdy and staunch he stands;And the little toy soldier is red with rust,And his musket moulds in his hands;Time was when the little toy dog was new,And the soldier was passing fair;And that was the time when our Little Boy BlueKissed them and put them there."

Here is what Cyndi says about this song:

""I tried to write about my friend. I knew he really loved 'That's What Friends Are For.' I know that maybe he would have liked me to do a song like that. Instead I wrote about him personally. I don't know that my lyrics were good enough, I don't know that anything was good enough. Maybe it was too personal. I don't know. But I wrote it for him. It was because of him that I keep trying to do stuff. And other friends. So many talented people, so many of our friends and so many gifted people have passed on. Or struggle everyday. Just to live. And it was because of my friends and others that I do this. Maybe that song wasn't good enough I don't know."

And when she was talked about her intense live performance that was released as the video for the song, she responded:

"I used to cry every night when I sang that song. I was so mad. You know, you go through so much and I was so mad. I was mad that my friend was gone, I was mad at the way people treated me...We didn't know what the hell it was. We didn't know anything. Then all of a sudden it was out in the open and everyone was talking about it, but when he first told me about it I didn't understand. I didn't know. And then all of a sudden my friend was ill and ill and ill and then...It was so hard. I was so angry and every night I would sing my guts out, but you'd open your eyes after and it was the same. But sometimes, in a lot of ways, it was healing."

Chart performance

Official versions

# Live Version 5:36
# Remix 3:58


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