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Cyndi Lauper – She Bop Lyrics

10 years ago

This is my known interpretation of this song: that it is about female masturbation. The opening about 'well I see them every night in tight blue jeans' refers to her looking at sexualized men in magazines, specifically the 'Blue Boy' magazine. This magazine actually existed and Cyndi says she thought it was a "woman's" magazine, but it wasn't. But she never removed it from the lyrics. Her new sensation and good vibration is the pleasure she receives from the masturbation after being turned on by the magazine. Some references to 'down there' are 'south' and 'the danger zone'. She also says that 'they say I better stop or I'll go blind'. This saying was taught to her in her Catholic school days and was used to frighten children from doing things deemed immoral by the Catholic Church. And bopping is also slang for masturbation. Another little fact about this song: Cyndi recorded it naked.

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Cyndi Lauper – Lies Lyrics	10 years ago
I interpreted this song to be about incest, which Cyndi was a victim of. I believe it was her grandfather than committed the incest, not her stepfather, even though her stepfather was also abusive. It also seems to mention sex trafficking, talking about Stolen from Japan. At least that's how I see it.

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Cyndi Lauper – Boy Blue Lyrics

10 years ago

Cyndi wrote this song about her friend Gregory Natal, one of her best friends and a gay man who died of AIDS at age 27 in late 1985. He lived life as a homeless teen after being thrown out of his home by his mother after she came in upon his father raping him. She threw out the kid and kept the rapist. His nickname was Boy Blue because the nursery rhyme of Boy Blue was his favorite poem. I don't agree with Cyndi on my opinions of homosexuality, but I have to say this song is catchy, good, and her performance of it in 1987 'live in Paris' was phenomenal.

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Cyndi Lauper – Sisters Of Avalon Lyrics

10 years ago

I interpreted this song as to be about the power of sisterhood and how women need to stick up for each other; in this case, a girl is experiencing FGM (female genital mutilation), commonly just called female 'circumcision', which is illegal in the U.S. but not in African and Asian countries. The narrator 'hears' the girl's cries 'in the howling wind'. She barely hears it because the victims of FGM are rarely heard, as are female victims of other crimes, as everyone in the first world countries that could do something about wretched practices is too busy with their own life. The girl is in agony, is having nightmares, and is unsure of her future. Meanwhile her family celebrates it as a ritual, as if the mutilation was great. Cyndi says that when she was writing the song she was learning about a story of a girl who was about to be mutilated and her family was celebrating it, so that was her inspiration for much of the lyrics.

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Cyndi Lauper – 911 Lyrics	10 years ago
I interpreted this as the troubles of a sexual relationship. It may be about couples who are "active" at different times, because in an interview on Good Sex, Cyndi said she's active at night and her partner (Dave Wolff at the time) was active in the mornings. This is why the lyrics read 'oh he likes mornings, I like the moon').

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