She's So Unusual

Infobox Album |
Name = She's So Unusual
Type = Album
Artist = Cyndi Lauper


Released = December 1983
Recorded = 1983
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = Portrait Records
RK-38930
Producer = Rick Chertoff, William Wittman
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Aajy67uu030jw link]
* "Alternative Press" (Favorable) [http://www.buy.com/retail/proreviews/product.asp?sku=60448845&loc=109&PageFormat=7 April 2001, p. 84]
* "Rolling Stone" rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/223792/review/19132049?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview link]
*Slant Magazine rating|4.5|5 [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=344 link]
Last album =
This album = "She's So Unusual"
(1983)
Next album = "True Colors"
(1986)

"She's So Unusual" is the solo debut album by American 1980s iconic pop singer Cyndi Lauper.

Album information

The album, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music), catapulted Lauper to stardom with such hits as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "She Bop" and "Time After Time". As of 2002 it has sold more than nine million copies worldwide [ [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060719/idol_release_20060725/20060725?s_name=idol2006&no_ads= Canadian Idol 2006] ] . The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard pop albums chart (US), and stayed in the top-forty of the "Billboard 200" for sixty-five weeks; remaining on the charts for 172 weeks.

With a series of quirky videos, Lauper dominated MTV for several months. Her bizarre fashion, consisting of multiple layers of thrift store clothing and dozens of accessories, influenced fashion for the last half of the 1980s.

The album was nominated for five Grammies: Record of the Year (Girls Just Want To Have Fun), Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Girls Just Want To Have Fun), Song of the Year (Time After Time), Album of the Year, and Best New Artist, winning the last one.

Track listing

# "Money Changes Everything" (Tom Gray) – 5:06
# "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" (Robert Hazard) – 3:58
# "When You Were Mine" (Prince) – 5:06
# "Time After Time" (Rob Hyman, Lauper) – 4:03
# "She Bop" (Rick Chertoff, Gary Corbett, Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt) – 3:51
# "All Through The Night" (Jules Shear) – 4:33
# "Witness" (Lauper, John Turi) – 3:40
# "I'll Kiss You" (Lauper, Shear) – 4:12
# "He's So Unusual" (Al Sherman, Al Lewis, Abner Silver) – 0:45
# "Yeah Yeah" (Hasse Huss, Mikael Rickfors) – 3:18

# "Money Changes Everything" (Gray) – 4:35 (Live) (From the Portrait Promotional 12-inch)
# "She Bop" (Chertoff, Corbett, Lauper, Lunt) – 5:20 (Live)
# "All Through The Night" (Shear) – 4:48 (Live)

# "Money Changes Everything" – 4:35 (Live) 2008 Japanese exclusive

*Tracks 11 to 13 are bonus tracks on the 2000 remastered version.

*"Right Track, Wrong Train" (Lauper, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Kent) was recorded for the album but only appeared on the b-side of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"

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