She Bop

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SHE BOP

“She Bop” is a song by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released as the third single from her debut studio album She’s So Unusual. It reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1984. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time”, and reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart. “She Bop” was her third consecutive Top 5 on the Hot 100. The song is also featured in the film Never Been Kissed. (More from Wikipedia)

At the studio, the Juvenaires were told that they would be singing back-up for John Madara; but as it turned out, his record company turned down the song “Do the Bop”.  Artie Singer took the song to Dick Clark, who suggested that they change the name to “At the Hop”, since “bop” was considered old-fashioned by then.  (Cyndi Lauper would later revive the term in a completely different context in her 1984 hit song “She Bop”). 

(August 2015)

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The infamous Filthy Fifteen, along with the reasons for their inclusion on the list, follow.  Not only is Prince listed first on the list, he was also the songwriter for #2, “Sugar Walls”; and Vanity, at #4, is a one-time Prince protegé. 
 
       1.   Prince – “Darling Nikki”   (sex, masturbation) 
 
       2.   Sheena Easton – “Sugar Walls”   (sex) 
 
       3.   Judas Priest – “Eat Me Alive”   (sex) 
 
       4.   Vanity – “Strap on Robbie Baby”   (sex) 
 
       5.   Mötley Crüe – “Bastard”   (violence) 
 
       6.   AC/DC – “Let Me Put My Love Into You”   (sex) 
 
       7.   Twisted Sister – “We’re Not Gonna Take It”   (violence) 
 
       8.   Madonna – “Dress You Up”   (sex) 
 
       9.   W.A.S.P. – “Animal (F--k Like A Beast)”   (sex)  
     10.   Def Leppard – “High ’n Dry”   (drug and alcohol use) 
 
     11.   Mercyful Fate – “Into the Coven”   (occult) 
 
     12.   Black Sabbath – “Trashed”   (drug and alcohol use) 
 
     13.   Mary Jane Girls – “In My House”   (sex) 
 
     14.   Venom – “Possessed”   (occult) 
 
     15.   Cyndi Lauper – “She Bop”   (sex, masturbation)
 
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Only a third of the songs on this list – “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, “She Bop”, “Sugar Walls”, “Dress You Up”, and “In My House” – were hits, and only the Twisted Sister number is really a signature song.  Most of the Filthy Fifteen are deep album cuts that, even at the time, were likely unfamiliar to many of the fans of these bands and artists.  For me, the Prince song “Darling Nikki” does not ring a bell; and the same goes for those by Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, Mötley Crüe, Judas Priest, and AC/DC.  If this was intended as a resource to help out parents instead of just a publicity stunt, adding the album names would have saved everyone a lot of time. 
 
(June 2016)