She Bop
The third single, an ode to self-pleasure that landed on a list of the Parents Music Resource Center.
Cyndi Lauper, from She's So Unusual (1984)
- Written by
- Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, Gary Corbett, Rick Chertoff
- Released
- 1984
- Album
- She's So Unusual
She Bop was written by Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, Gary Corbett and Rick Chertoff, and produced by Chertoff at Record Plant in New York. It is about female masturbation. Lauper has said that a copy of the magazine Blueboy lying around the studio gave her the impetus, and the magazine is named in the first verse. The Parents Music Resource Center put it on its Filthy Fifteen list in 1984, a controversy that fed the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker.
Released on 2 July 1984, it peaked at number three on the Hot 100 in the issue dated 8 September and spent 18 weeks on the chart. Edd Griles directed the video, whose animated sections were designed by Mark Marek, and it was nominated for Best Female Video at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards, losing to Tina Turner. Lauper re-recorded a quieter version for The Body Acoustic in 2005. Covers include one by the metal band Gwar in 2015, played in a medley with Blitzkrieg Bop for The A.V. Club.
On stage
- 2024-06-29, Glastonbury Festival, Pyramid stage Her second song of the set, after The Goonies 'R' Good Enough.
Covers and versions
- Gwar (2015) Played for The A.V. Club in a medley with Blitzkrieg Bop.
More songs by Cyndi Lauper
Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Time After Time, All Through the Night, True Colors
Sources
- She Bop, Wikipedia
- Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual, Pitchfork (2024-06-02)
- Cyndi Lauper at Glastonbury review, The Guardian (2024-06-29)