still having fun
The girl who sang ‘Girls just want to have fun’ has a new look and a 10-year-old son, but she’s still rockin’ - and on New Year’s Eve Cyndi Lauper brings her band to the Sheraton Waikiki for a show she promises will kick it
By Kerry Miller
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ficult for you and everyone feels isolated. If there are people networking they can talk to each other and talk to experts. Education, wow, that’s good to have, just information for you to do what you want with it.”
For anyone who’s interested in lending a helping hand in their own area, Lauper has some advice.
“You can’t do everything. I pick what I can do and if I can do it at that time I do, if I can’t, I can’t, but I try. If you wanted to print up (a list of) places that people could help people in their own area, for Christmas or something, you make a donation and you give the donation,” she says.
Elsewhere on the musical scene, Lauper is set to release Savoir Faire in 2008, her first album of all new material since Sisters of Avalon in 1997.
“It’s a rhythm record and I’m very excited about that. It has a song with Basement Jaxx called Dragonettes, (another song featuring) Digital Dogs from England, some stuff with a Swedish guy, which I’m still in the process of finishing, and Alex Conlan, a guy named Axel, Blood Shy and a whole bunch of people. It was great,” she says.
Savoir Faire was preceded by 2005’s Body Acoustic, a collec- tion of acoustic versions of some of Lauper’s classics like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, She Bop and Time After Time. Lauper enjoyed reworking these famous songs and reveals that it’s important as an artist to change up what you do.
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“You have to find those different ways. You’ll kill yourself if you have to play it the same way every night, and kill yourself if you have to play it the way you did, you know, like 100 years ago or something. You’d be like ‘hey, that snare drum went out with the invention of electricity,’” she jokes.
“I think it’s more inviting to create a genre that it could fit in that is unexpected, because then you yourself find a whole new thing. I always laughed and I said I thought She Bop was a folk song, like one of those Jewel songs.
“I started playing it (She Bop) like that, killing myself, of course. But you know, around 1993-96 when Jamie Westorm came from England and played with us and did the record, he started playing off of the rhythm of my (Appalachian) dulcimer, and that was the basis of what we were doing. Sometimes it’s me, him and the drum, sometimes me, him and the keyboard and the violin and then add stuff. It was interesting,” she continues.
So ... aside from music, what does Cyndi Lauper do with herself?
“I have no time. I’ve got a kid, he plays hockey. So whenever I’m not working I’m watching him playing or trying to catch up with him. So anyway, that’s the story, morning glory.”
New Year’s Eve Spectacular Cyndi Lauper concert. The evening also includes dinner, drinks, fireworks, after party.
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, 2255 Kalakaua Ave., Waikiki, Concert 9:30-11:15 p.m., After Party until 1 a.m. Packages $230-$330 include dinner, concert and after party; general tickets $100, $125 or $150; After Party only $30 advance or $50 at the door. Call 1-877-750- 4400 or visit www.ticketmaster.com for tickets.
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