To paraphrase Cyndi Lauper and Paul Simon: She’s still so unusual after all these years. Lauper, at 71, is nearing the end of the U.S. leg of what is being billed as a farewell tour. And as much as she remains something of a unicorn now, it’s a chance to force ourselves to recall how really singular she was when she came on the scene four decades ago — a time when we generally thought women in music could be kooky and flamboyant, or that they could be sensitive and intelligent, but the idea that they could be all of these things at once still seemed a little bit
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