Cyndi Lauper takes a Detour...into country music
May 4, 2016 12:54 PM Subscribe
Cyndi Lauper has gone country with her new album, Detour. "My main concern was not making things clinical,...I wanted the beat to be dirty and sexy. It was supposed to be a mix of R&B and country."
She collaborates with several country singers including Willie Nelson ("Night Life), Emmylou Harris (title track), and Vince Gill ("You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly").
Country Weekly: 'Alison Krauss and Jewel are also featured on the record. Cyndi has chosen two Patsy Cline classics for the album, “Walkin’ After Midnight” and “I Fall to Pieces.” The colorful singer has evidently been a country fan for decades. “When I was a really young kid, country music was pop music, so this is what I grew up listening to,” she notes about Detour. “These songs are part of my earliest memories.” '
The Boot says this album was a long time coming: '“In 1990, I sang with k.d. lang, and she said, ‘There’s a little country in you,’” Lauper recently told The Boot and other reporters. “I finally, after all these years, got to sing, and [Detour]’s a real singer’s album. I realized when I was singing it that I kind of heard some of these songs growing up on my Aunt Gracie’s transistor radio — a little black and silver radio over the refrigerator, with the antenna out. It was always Patsy Cline or Loretta Lynn.” '
Detour will be released May 6.
She collaborates with several country singers including Willie Nelson ("Night Life), Emmylou Harris (title track), and Vince Gill ("You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly").
Country Weekly: 'Alison Krauss and Jewel are also featured on the record. Cyndi has chosen two Patsy Cline classics for the album, “Walkin’ After Midnight” and “I Fall to Pieces.” The colorful singer has evidently been a country fan for decades. “When I was a really young kid, country music was pop music, so this is what I grew up listening to,” she notes about Detour. “These songs are part of my earliest memories.” '
The Boot says this album was a long time coming: '“In 1990, I sang with k.d. lang, and she said, ‘There’s a little country in you,’” Lauper recently told The Boot and other reporters. “I finally, after all these years, got to sing, and [Detour]’s a real singer’s album. I realized when I was singing it that I kind of heard some of these songs growing up on my Aunt Gracie’s transistor radio — a little black and silver radio over the refrigerator, with the antenna out. It was always Patsy Cline or Loretta Lynn.” '
Detour will be released May 6.
I love her.
posted by rtha at 1:23 PM on May 4, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by rtha at 1:23 PM on May 4, 2016 [1 favorite]
She is an absolute treasure, I look forward to listening to this.
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 1:31 PM on May 4, 2016
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 1:31 PM on May 4, 2016
In an interview somewhere, I heard Lauper mention in passing that some people thought she was stupid because of her accent.
I had to drop what I was doing and sit down for a few minutes to come to terms with the idea that there were people who could think this great original genius was stupid.
posted by jamjam at 2:27 PM on May 4, 2016 [2 favorites]
I had to drop what I was doing and sit down for a few minutes to come to terms with the idea that there were people who could think this great original genius was stupid.
posted by jamjam at 2:27 PM on May 4, 2016 [2 favorites]
I really liked the blues album she did a few years ago and I'm looking forward to this one.
posted by maurice at 4:11 PM on May 4, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by maurice at 4:11 PM on May 4, 2016 [2 favorites]
I remember back in the '80s when I foolishly accused Madonna's "Material Girl" of copying Cyndi Lauper. And I still foolishly stand by that judgment.
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:12 PM on May 4, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:12 PM on May 4, 2016 [3 favorites]
Cyndi Lauper is a goddess. I'm very excited to hear her "End of the World".
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 8:44 PM on May 4, 2016
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 8:44 PM on May 4, 2016
Her "reality" show was first rate, hope it comes back. She is an industry and runs her life herself, very well it seemed.
posted by Freedomboy at 11:50 PM on May 4, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Freedomboy at 11:50 PM on May 4, 2016 [1 favorite]
Came here to also mention the Memphis Blues album which is so much better than you think "a blues album by Cyndi Lauper" will be, and then twice as good as that.
With everything else she's done, I'm pretty confident at this point that anything she decides to do with end up being pure magic and joy.
posted by hippybear at 12:35 AM on May 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
With everything else she's done, I'm pretty confident at this point that anything she decides to do with end up being pure magic and joy.
posted by hippybear at 12:35 AM on May 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
(For people outside my county, I should hasten to assure you that Ruki's parents really are all that.)
I have always been sort of OK with country, but preferring most other styles of music. My oldest daughter shyly admitted that she really likes country, so I hear more of it -- and now that I am sensitive to it, and listening for it, I hear it influencing all sorts of artists. If one of them -- especially one as awesome as Lauper -- wants to go whole-hog into it, then I say let 'em.
posted by wenestvedt at 7:57 AM on May 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
I have always been sort of OK with country, but preferring most other styles of music. My oldest daughter shyly admitted that she really likes country, so I hear more of it -- and now that I am sensitive to it, and listening for it, I hear it influencing all sorts of artists. If one of them -- especially one as awesome as Lauper -- wants to go whole-hog into it, then I say let 'em.
posted by wenestvedt at 7:57 AM on May 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
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I was four when She's So Unusual came out. Cyndi is my earliest memory. I wanted to be her (and if I couldn't be her, I'd have been okay with Dee Snyder instead). My dad bought the album from Columbia House, and I was convinced, in my limited understanding of the world, that Cyndi herself had mailed me the record because she knew how much I loved her. Kindly, my parents never corrected me.
posted by Ruki at 1:09 PM on May 4, 2016 [17 favorites]