Cyndi Lauper - "True Colors" C/D?

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Hoping to find something redeemable, I whipped out my cassette copy to hear on my way to work. The two big singles ("Change of Heart" and the title song) are crappier than I remember, there's a dreadful Marvin Gaye cover, and some overproduced filler. "Maybe He'll Know" is the only song to evoke the charm of the debut.

Will anyone defend this debacle?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I think its sweet she'd always have her goofy boyfriend in the vids.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

To remind her of the goofiness she lost. She should have kept Captain Lou by her side.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I can do without "Change of Heart," personally, but the title song needs to exist, or else the terrorists will have won.

― The Mad Puffin, Monday, 6 June 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

The song somehow worked better as a Kodak commercial.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

My wife and her sister will be around to kick you at about sevenish.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

You know, the title track was number one in the States on the day I was born, and yet I've never heard it.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 6 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Well, I don't remember ever hearing it, although apparently it was playing in the hospital cafeteria after I was born.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 6 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Missy Maerz just informed me a few weeks ago that it was about coming out. But then, it took me a solid year to figure out that "She Bop" was about self-pleasuring...

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

"Like a wainbow..."

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

This may seem silly but I like the Aztec Camera cover of this.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

T/S: "True Colors" versus "Time After Time".

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I saw the thread title and was coming to say classic just for Roddy Frame's version. Which means, I think, Cyndi Lauper is a bit on the dud side, but the song itself is lovely.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

You know, the title track was number one in the States on the day I was born, and yet I've never heard it.

Impossible! the song was a Kodak commercial jingle for like 10 years!

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

ts: cyndi lauper's voice vs. kate bush's voice

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Time After Time eats True Color's lunch. but I still kinda like True Colors.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Cyndi Lauper's voice + Kate Bush's voice = The Knife

― Seb (Seb), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

I like the song, never heard the album. Classic as a gay rights anthem, if nothing else.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

"gay rights anthem"? I had no idea. I've never heard it in gay bars. If Cyndi showed her true colors with this song, it's no wonder I'd prefer the "you" stayed closeted.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I don't know about gay bars, but it was all over the place in the late '80s/early '90s along with rainbow flags and "Silence = Death" sidewalk stencils.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Gay rights anthem doesn't necessarily mean 'It's Raining Men', Alfred ;)

She wrote it for a close friend who was battling with AIDS. She's been a pretty vocal supporter of gay rights since her sister came out, but she always seemed to move in those circles anyway, being the free-thinking gal she is. I loved the song even before I knew the story behind it, but
it does change the way you hear the song. I don't have this album, but I
have a few of her others and I think she kicks ass.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

"true colours "is brilliant 11/10 (phil collins cover is really bad).
"change of heart" is good but not great.7/10
"maybe he'll know" is brilliant and shoulda been single.9/10
"The Faraway Nearby " weird and wonderful 6/10
"911 " takes a few listens 5/10
"One Track Mind " another sex song,nice chorus 5/10.
nothing else .

― lyndi cauper, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Alfred, "Maybe He'll Know" is a remake of a tune by her pre-"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" band, Blue Angel.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

The song=Classic
The album=dud

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Gay rights anthem doesn't necessarily mean 'It's Raining Men', Alfred ;)

Oh, I know. But the song always seemed mawkish....I'm in the minority.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

twelve years pass...

Still in the minority, I presume.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2018 01:26 (eight years ago)

YOU PRESUME RIGHT

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 April 2018 01:47 (eight years ago)

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2018 01:53 (eight years ago)

VG otm

― thots and players (rip van wanko), Thursday, 19 April 2018 02:04 (eight years ago)

Yep vg!!!

― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Thursday, 19 April 2018 04:58 (eight years ago)

Nah, this song sucks.

― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 April 2018 05:35 (eight years ago)

it is kind of dud, esp when held against "Time After Time" which is undeniable

― niels, Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:13 (eight years ago)

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