Cyndi Lauper has a fairly strict pre-tour diet — but that doesn’t mean the singer is willing to do (or take) anything to lose weight.
“You see how thin everybody is now and the clothes aren’t made for big girls,” Lauper said in an interview with The Sunday Times published on Sunday, February 2. “I don’t want to wear a girdle and be squeezed like a sausage when I sing, and I won’t do the Ozempic thing. Do you think we have time to order some borscht?”
Lauper met with the outlet’s reporter at a Russian restaurant in New York, hence the question about borscht. The conversation started with Lauper’s style choices. “I always think with a little red lipstick you don’t even have to put on a lot of other make-up,” she explained. “But when I wore it in 1988 they wouldn’t let me in the hotel because they thought I was a whore. Do you want to order the brown bread and butter caviar?”
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The “Time After Time” singer will head out on tour on February 8. Her first stop is in Glasgow and the tour will wrap up on April 19 in Osaka, Japan.
The tour news was announced in June 2024, while Lauper spent most of the year touring the United States.
“The announcement of her farewell tour arrives alongside Let the Canary Sing, a feature-length documentary film that explores Lauper’s extraordinary life and career,” read a press release shared at the time. “The documentary will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, June 4.”
In the same month Lauper expressed regret that she and Madonna were not closer friends in the 1980s. “It was like apples and oranges,” she told The New York Times. “I would have liked to have had a friend.”
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The pair released their first records in the same year. Lauper’s immediately spawned the hits “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Time After Time,” while Madonna’s launched the breakaway single “Holiday.”
Lionel Richie inadvertently escalated the so-called competition between the two women when he chose Lauper over Madonna for the charity song “We Are The World” in 1985.
Lauper also had plenty of nice things to say about Taylor Swift that same month. In an interview on the BBC’s One Show, she said of the “Folklore” singer, “I think that as an artist she writes some wonderful songs. I first started listening during the pandemic … when she went and hibernated and did that record. That wonderful folk record. It was wonderful.”
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