Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/27/listen-to-cyndi-laupers-incr.html
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CHILLS!
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Wondering whether I’m feeling rude/contrary enough to post Exude link… No I guess not.
Just the thing for Ekoarak parties!
Several years ago Howard Kramer mentioned on Who Charted that the reason that Carly Rae Jepson blew up was the little hyper-specific ornamentations and pronunciation spins she put on things, in that case “Annnd All the otha-boys” from “Call me Maybe.” It was relatively obvious, and not super profound, but it made me pay attention to why I enjoy some of the pop singers I do, including Carly Rae Jepson. This isolation definitely brought out all the micro-vibrato twists at the ends of phrases, and whoops in a way that I hadn’t heard in Cindy Lauper (who CRJ clearly loves) before. Sia is great in a similar way at having a bunch of different voices and for using lyrics as a means to make interesting sounds, rather than just singing words.
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You can hear her hopping and skipping around before she starts to sing
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Hell yeah!
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From the days when you actually had to be able to sound good on your own, without digital airbrushing… so pure.
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For real chills try the White Rabbit isolated vocal track
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I was never a huge fan of Cyndi Lauper, but I did appreciate that she was an out in front nutball and didn’t ever shy away from that.
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She came to Seattle and hung out.
I think I may have met her.
She went around and stuff with an underage boy-toy.
He was never asked to show ID.
She was a big booster of women in music.
I have a lot of respect for that.
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This is also a great example of real plate reverb! Don’t get to hear that often in 2020 outside the context of full song mixes from back in the day. Thanks
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My boss used to listen to Howard Stern in the morning and I remember her coming on one day and doing this live version of True Colors. It was just some shitty winter morning at a desk job in Manhattan. For some reason it hit me, hard. I had to go outside and have a smoke so no one would see me cry.
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Cyndi Lauper rules. When I was a kid, my dad, a “working-class” sort of guy, played a lot of Motown “girl groups” he was into, and he often embraced 80s pop music when it came around. Nowdays everyone is hyper-polarized culturally, but I don’t think it was like that as much back in those days, and sometimes I worry that will be forgotten.
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Had a similar experience. There were better singers, but sometimes she had something genuinely magical.
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The press was saying she was going to eclipse Madonna. Her vocal style is so fun and bright, full of playful, fully controlled and conscious inflections, you can hear why.
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Cyndi is more talented than Madonna in every way except for self-promotion. She was definitely more weird. Captian Lou Albano was in her biggest video, fer crissakes.
And she’s still great. I saw a recent video of her doing a Black Flag song with Henry Rollins. Madonna would never do that.
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If this is the “isolated vocal track from the recording session”, why can I hear the instrumental in the background? It sounds like the dubious “MR removed” videos that K-Pop stans make to prove that their faves are brilliant live vocalists.
Leakage from the headphones in the vocal booth.
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