Shine (Cyndi Lauper album)

Infobox Album
Name = Shine
Type = studio
Artist = Cyndi Lauper


Released = 2004
Recorded = 1999/2000
Genre = Dance-pop
Length = 54:47
Label = Epic
Producer = Cyndi Lauper, William Wittman
Reviews =
Last album = "Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life"
(1998)
This album = "Shine"
(2001)
Next album = "At Last"
(2003)

"Shine" was an album released exclusively in Japan in 2004 by singer Cyndi Lauper. The album was ready for release in 2001 but Edel Records, the label it was recorded with, folded. The leaked tracks from a demonstration disc quickly circulated on the Internet and by 2002 Lauper realized there was no point in trying to release it in a widespread fashion. Two E.P.s were released instead: One was also called "Shine" and the other was called "Shine Remixes".

The album expounds on the sound Lauper developed with her 1997 album "Sisters of Avalon". Mostly pop songs, it flirts with electronica while incorporating old-fashioned instruments like sitars and fiddles. The songs are not lyrically linked, and explore themes ranging from the Madonna-Whore Complex to celebrity life. The track "It's Hard to be Me" was penned about Anna Nicole Smith; Smith attempted to buy it as the theme song to her reality show, but Lauper declined.

Track listing

All songs were written by Cyndi Lauper and Jan Pulsford, except where noted.
#"Shine" (Lauper, William Wittman)
#"It's Hard to Be Me" (Lauper, Rob Hyman, Wittman)
#"Madonna Whore" (Lauper, Wittman)
#"Wide Open"
#"Rather Be with You" (Lauper, Doc Fleming, Marcello Nines)
#"Who Let in the Rain" (Lauper, Allee Willis)
#"Comfort You"
#"Eventually" (Lauper, Ryuichi Sakamoto)
#"(Waiting For) Valentino"
#"This Kind of Love" (Lauper, Nines)
#"Higher Plane"
#"Water's Edge" (Lauper, Hyman)
#"I Miss My Baby"

*If song name is in bold lettering, it was on the EP
**The "Illicit Mix" of Shine was also on the EP

Charts

Chart Shine EP Sales