Lhe 1980s were those of Cyndi Lauper, or they were not. “Time After Time”, “True Colors”, “She Bop”… and, above all, “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”, sweet pop and anthem to female freedom. In the decade that witnessed the heyday of Prince, Michael Jackson and Madonna, the New Yorker knew how to carve out a special place for herself.
Celebrated for her hits, admired for her voice adaptable to all genres, engaged in fights for minorities, Cyndi Lauper, 70, was in every way a pioneer. A feminist icon, driven by the desire to break conventions and get out of the boxes where we wanted to assign her. At least that is the message carried by Cyndi Lauper: Let the Canary Singdocumentary by Alison Ellwood and available since June 5 on Paramount +.
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Cyndi Lauper had been requested numerous times and had repeatedly refused to participate in a documentary retracing her life and career. Until today: “When I met Alison Ellwood, I immediately knew that I could trust her to tell my story honestly, which is very important to me,” she said in last May during a public statement.
A marked path
If we do not judge the honesty, we will see that Alison Ellwood does not aim to confuse her viewer. No major digressions, complex narrative interweaving […] Read more
