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Cyndi Lauper - Bring Ya To The Brink
| Billboard |
| During the course of 25 years, Cyndi Lauper has certainly played the singing minstrel, but also revealed deep lyrical introspection as an observer of society's foibles. On "Brink," she craftily meshes the two personas. Melodically, Lauper still just wants to have fun, with jaunty dancefloor jams (she traveled the world to work with beat masters Basement Jaxx, Digital Dog, Peer Astrom, Scum-Frog and Rich Morel), but after a twirl under the disco ball, listeners have the opportunity to explore layers underneath. "Same Ol' Story" is among Lauper's most inviting melodies ever, as she talks about how folks hold others to a different set of values than their own....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| Because she's kept herself so busy in the interim (releasing three albums that included a collection of standards, a pop album exclusive to Japan, and an anthology of acoustic reinterpretations of some of the best songs in her catalogue; acting in various television, film and theater productions; and founding the True Colors concert tour with the B-52s and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts to raise awareness about discrimination issues within the GLBT community), it's easy to miss the fact that Bring Ya to the Brink is Cyndi Lauper's first album of original material for U.S. audiences since her underrated, trip-hop-inflected 1997 set Sisters of Avalon. What surprises most about her latest album is the way it functions both as a logical stylistic follow-up to an album that's more than a decade old and as a solid and even forward-thinking set of contemporary dance-pop tracks....full text |
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| Blender |
| Cyndi Lauper remains a paradox of ’80s pop music: She’s as bright and shiny on the outside as her most whimsical hits, and as complicated and conflicted on the inside as the decade itself. Her knack for reflecting light in dark places gives the multifaceted star a disco-ball quality well-suited for dance tracks that double as sly social commentary....full text |
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