She Bop

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She Bop
Image:Shebopcover.jpg
Single by Cyndi Lauper
Released	1983, 1989 and 1990
Genre	Pop
7" Vinyl Single (Worldwide)	7 min 16 sec
12" Vinyl Single (Worldwide)	11 min 36 sec
Record label	Epic Records, Portrait Records,CBS Records or MUTE Records
Producer	Rick Chertoff
Cyndi Lauper Singles Chronology
Time after Time (1983)	She Bop (1984)	All Through the Night (1984)

"She Bop" was the third commercially released solo single by singer Cyndi Lauper. It is to date her second-highest charting and second-most commercially successful single worldwide. It charted in the top 50 in 16 countries (12 in the top 10) including: #1 in Colombia; #3 in Israel, Japan and the United States; #5 in Austria and Canada; #6 in Australia. New Zealand and South Africa; #8 in Chile #9 in Sweden; #10 in Switzerland; #19 in Germany (#10 in German airplay); #34 in France and the Netherlands; and #46 in the United Kingdom.

The song was controversial owing to lyrics that subtly address masturbation:

Well, I see them every night in tight blue jeans--

In the pages of a Blueboy magazine

Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation

I'm picking up--good vibration--

Oop--she bop--

Do I want to go out with a lion's roar?

Huh, yeah, I want to go south and get me some more

Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine

They say I better stop--or I'll go blind

Oop--she bop--she bop

She bop--he bop--a--we bop

I bop--you bop--a--they bop

Be bop--be bop--a--lu--she bop,

I hope He will understand

She bop--he bop--a--we bop

I bop--you bop--a--they bop

Be bop--be bop--a--lu--she bop,

Oo--oo--she--do--she bop--she bop

(whistle along here)...

Hey, hey--they say I better get a chaperone

Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone

No, I won't worry, and I won't fret--

Ain't no law against it yet--

Oop--she bop--she bop--

She bop--he bop--we bop...

An accompanying music video aired heavily on MTV and featured Lauper as a quirky sexual liberator leading the brainwashed masses to their own liberation. (This was done in metaphor showing teenagers as disgusting fast-food consuming zombies.)

The single has seen released in over 32 variations across the world, the most common being a two track 7" vinyl single (with varying covers) and a two track 12" vinyl single (also with varying covers).

1 7" Vinyl Track Listing (Global)
- 1.1 Credits
2 12" Vinyl Track Listing (Global)
- 2.1 See also
- 2.2 Credits
3 External links

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7" Vinyl Track Listing (Global)

Length: 7 min 16 sec

Track	Title	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	She Bop (Special Version)	03:38	link	-
02	Witness	03:38	link	-

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Credits

Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, Gary Corbett and Rick Chertoff. Production: Rick Chertoff.
Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper, John Turi. Production: Rick Chertoff

Released with various sleeves in 1984 in Canada, Ecuador, Germany, Holland, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zimbabwe.

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