Review: Cyndi Lauper – “Hey Now (Remixes and Rarities)”
This review has to start with a couple of admissions. First, I
happen to think Cyndi Lauper (especially in her later albums) is an
underrated songwriter and performer. Most people think of
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and dismiss her as an 80’s pop
culture icon (which she was, but she’s a lot more than that). Some
of her later ballads are sung with great emotion and are among the
best-written songs I’ve ever heard. On the other hand, I really
HATE remixes, especially when they’re done solely to try to make
“danceable” a song that was never intended to be dance
music. So I approached this album with a mix of excitement and
fear… excitement that the “rarities” would be more of
Cyndi’s great songwriting and fear that the remixes would suck, as
remixes tend to do.