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File:"She Bop" - Cyndi Lauper


She Bop features Lauper portraying a quirky sexual liberator leading the brainwashed masses to their own liberation. There are many double meanings indicating the song's true meaning, including a magazine that Lauper is staring at titled "Beefcake" and other sexual meanings such as the "self-service" sign and three gas pumps with the signs Good, Better and Nirvana in the cartoon part of the video, the vibrating motorcycle, the "masterbingo" part of the video with "Uncle Siggy" Sigmund Freud as host, and Lauper wearing sunglasses with a white cane in several scenes of the video. In fact, the video doesn't go as far as the lyrics, as the magazine referenced in the song "...in the pages of a Blueboy magazine" was a popular gay erotica magazine of the time, whereas the magazine Lauper holds represents the tamer erotica of an earlier era. Wrestler Captain Lou Albano, who was in the videos for "Time After Time" and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", appears in a drag in a scene where Lauper stands before a judge.

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