YOU DON’T
KNOW
CYNDI
LAUPER
SONGWRITERS: Cyndi Lauper & Jan Pulsford
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SISTERS OF AVALON
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1996
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton(born
June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. Her
career has spanned over 40 years. Her album She's So Unusual(1983)
was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on
the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just
Want to Have Fun", "Time After
Time", "She Bop",
and "All Through the Night"—and
earned Lauper the Best New
Artist award at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in
1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion
picture The Goonies(1985)
and her second record True Colors(1986).
This album included the number-one single "True Colors"
and "Change of
Heart", which peaked at number three. In
1989, she had a hit with "I Drove All Night".
Since 1983, Lauper has released eleven studio
albums and participated in many other projects. In 2010, Memphis Blues became Billboard's most successful blues album of the year,
remaining at number one on the Billboard Blues Albums chart for 13 consecutive
weeks. In 2013, she won the Tony Award for best original score for composing the Broadway musical Kinky Boots,
making her the first woman to win the category by herself. The musical was
awarded five other Tonys including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In 2014,
Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast
recording. In 2016, the West End production
won Best New Musical at the Olivier
Awards.
Lauper has sold over 50 million records
worldwide. She has won awards at the Grammys,
Emmys, Tonys, the New
York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV Video
Music Awards(VMAs), Billboard Awards,
and American
Music Awards(AMAs). An inductee into both the
Songwriters
Hall of Fame and the Hollywood
Walk of Fame, Lauper is one of the few
singers to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). She won the inaugural
Best Female Video prize at the 1984 VMAs for "Girls Just
Want to Have Fun". This music video is
recognized by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest music videos of the era. She is featured in
the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame's Women Who Rock exhibit. Her
debut album is included in Rolling Stone's
list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,
while "Time After
Time" is included in VH1's list of the 100 Best
Songs of the Past 25 years. VH1 has
ranked Lauper Nº 58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.
Sisters of Avalon is the fifth studio album
by American singer Cyndi Lauper. It was
released in Japan on October 15, 1996 and worldwide on April 1, 1997, by Sony Music
Entertainment. Thematically the album
expounded on the issue of complacency and ignorance in popular culture and the discrimination of minorities, gays, and women. Songs like
"Love to Hate" and "You Don't Know" address the
entertainment industry and media and their corruption. "Ballad of Cleo and
Joe" is a song about the double life of a cross dresser.
"Say a Prayer" is about the AIDS epidemic.
The album was heavily praised by multiple
music critics due to Lauper's creative growth and eclectic themes. However, the
album's release was delayed and sold only 56,000 copies in the United States,
according to Nielsen SoundScan. Since its release, the album has been met with
continued praise including the Songwriters'
Hall of Fame noting the title track as one of
Lauper's key songs in her catalog.
You don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
You just need to belong somehow
Relying on rhetoric
Not well versed on topics
Any idea what you're talking about?
Revisions of history
Fair well in some company
But don't shove that bullshit down my throat
You don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
To find something to swear to
Till you don't know what's right from wrong
You just need to belong somehow
Left suppresses right
Right suppresses left
So what's the left, and what's right?
You're told what to wear
You're told what to like
I'd be nice if you'd think for yourself
sometime
But you don't
Now you don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
To find something to swear to
Till you don't know what's right from wrong
You just need to belong somehow
You just need to belong somehow
Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity
You'll play it safe every time
So life turns up empty
And you're so dissatisfied
Who are you blaming blaming this time this
time?
Don't you know?
Now you don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
To find something to swear to
Till you don't know what's right from wrong
You just need to belong somehow
You just need to belong somehow
You don't, you don't know where
You don't know where you belong
You don't know where you belong
You don't know where you belong.
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