The pop balladeer brings 1980s hits Time After Time and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun to a sweltering crowd
, who takes to the Pyramid stage looking every inch the rock chick of yore in her silver bustier and matching trousers and platform trainers, beneath a blue blazer also attached with streams of icy-blue tulle. There are also fingerless net gloves.
But Lauper’s voice, reedy even in her heyday, is not as robust as it once was, and it can be hard to pick out the melody of the less well-known inclusions of her setlist. The playful interplay between Lauper and her male backup singer on Rocking Chair is fun to watch, but the song is messy and hard to follow, undercutting Lauper’s blazing stare down the barrel of the camera in its conclusion.There may be some sound issues at play, it seems, from Lauper’s brief exchange with a team member.
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