“She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper

"She Bop" was the third single Cyndi Lauper pulled from her 1983 debut, She's So Unusual, landing on Portrait in July 1984, and underneath its new wave bounce is a song about female masturbation. It stirred up a controversy on its way to becoming one of her biggest hits.

She wrote it with Steve Lunt, Gary Corbett and Rick Chertoff, who produced, with William Wittman engineering and serving as associate producer. It climbed to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 that September, made the top ten in Australia and New Zealand and went all the way to the top in Israel, though with little promotion behind it in Britain it stalled at 46. The video, crammed with animation and visual effects, drew a Best Female Video nod from the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards.

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