Cyndi Lauper Leaves ‘Em Wanting More With Gratifying Farewell Tour: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic To paraphrase Cyndi Lauper and Paul Simon: She’s still so unusual after all these years.
Lauper, at 71, is nearing the end of the U.S. leg of what is being billed as a farewell tour. And as much as she remains something of a unicorn now, it’s a chance to force ourselves to recall how really singular she was when she came on the scene four decades ago — a time when we generally thought women in music could be kooky and flamboyant, or that they could be sensitive and intelligent, but the idea that they could be all of these things at once still seemed a little bit out of our grasp.
Now that’s not quite such a H-O-T-T-O-G-O take, as it was then: Lauper pretty well established for all time that girls just want to be multi-faceted.
The setlist for the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour” runs to 16 songs, which is quite a few more than the 11 she was doing on average when she last did an arena tour, back in 2014.
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