True Colors (Cyndi Lauper album)

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True Colors
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors.jpg
Studio album by
Cyndi Lauper
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1986
RecordedNovember 22, 1985 – May 31, 1986
Studio
Genre Pop
Length37:57
Label Portrait
Producer
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Lennie Petze
Cyndi Lauper chronology
She's So Unusual
(1983)		True Colors
(1986)		 The Best Remixes
(1989)
Singles from True Colors
  1. "True Colors"
    Released: August 1986 [1]
  2. "Change of Heart"
    Released: November 1986
  3. "What's Going On"
    Released: March 1987
  4. "Boy Blue"
    Released: May 1987
  5. "Maybe He'll Know"
    Released: 1987 (Netherlands)

True Colors is the second studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released on September 15, 1986, by Portrait Records. [2] The album spawned several commercially successful singles as "True Colors", "Change of Heart", and "What's Going On" reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, with the first two charting within the top five. The album was produced by Lauper herself together with Lennie Petze.

Contents

Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album earned Lauper several awards and accolades, including two nominations at the 29th Annual Grammy Awards. True Colors peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart. The album is Lauper's second best-selling release with around seven million copies worldwide.

Background and production

By the end of 1985, Lauper was established as one of the best-selling artists in the world. Her first studio album She's So Unusual (1983) was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America [3] and received a diamond certification in Canada for sales in excess of one million copies, making her the first singer to achieve such a feat at that time. [4] According to Billboard magazine, the music industry was eyeing the singer's next steps anxious to know if she could maintain the success of her debut. [5]

In her autobiography, the singer says that she initially planned for Rick Chertoff, who produced She's So Unusual, to produce what would become her second album; however, the experience with him was problematic and she changed her mind, and she likewise refused to produce the album with Rob Hyman since he was affiliated with Chertoff. [6] True Colors was then produced by her and Lennie Petze, with Lauper also composing most of the songs on the album. [6]

"The second album says, 'Have the courage of your convictions and love yourself a little'," Lauper told The New York Times in 1986, adding that she wanted its songs "to say, 'Love yourself', because we really are taught not to. When babies are born, they're just nuts about everything about themselves. Then, as we get older, we're taught that, oooh, that's disgusting, and that if we like ourselves then that's considered conceit. That's part of the album, too—not to be so hard on yourself." [7]

The title song, written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, has been covered by many other artists, and was used as the theme song for the 1988 Summer Olympics, the 2003 Rugby World Cup and for Kodak cameras and film.

In 2010, the song was also featured on the soundtrack of Sex and the City 2 . True Colors was reissued in a Japanese exclusive limited edition box set 11-track digitally remastered CD album.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Classic Pop Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Village Voice B− [11]

True Colors received favorable reviews from music critics. In the Chicago Tribune , Lynn Van Matre praised it as a "winning effort" with "plenty of fun", [12] while Ian Cranna singled out Lauper's "outstanding, marvellous voice" for praise in Q , stating that "she breathes life into the songs, and slowly but surely the strengths of this LP begin to reveal themselves through the unorthodox structures and treatments." [10] Jimmy Guterman from Rolling Stone wrote that Lauper "sounds more comfortable at any given moment on True Colors than she did on all of She's So Unusual", and that the album "seems to indicate her extreme ease in her new surroundings". Noting that "she's found a new sense of peace—or at least she's heading in that direction", Guterman also opined, however, that "her uneasiness gave her early work much of its spark; what places True Colors a notch below her debut is that Cyndi Lauper just isn't that unusual anymore." [13] The Village Voice 's Robert Christgau was less impressed, commenting that the first side of the LP consists of "cheap sentiment" and is "disheartening" and that "the second isn't much more than a relief", before concluding, "girls just want to have money—and no fun changes everything." [11]

In a retrospective assessment for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne wrote that while True Colors is "ambitious" and "some of the stretches really pay off", some of its aspects "date badly", like the "highly reverberated and artificial sounding drums and keyboards" which "were really popular at the time". He concluded that despite those problems "there really wasn't that much music recorded by this artist during her most popular period, so fans will no doubt want to own it all." [8] Writing for Classic Pop , John Earls said that although the album's "unusually subdued" cover songs "suggested severe writers' block", the remaining tracks "had no such worries, whether in the peerless title track or the doo-wop delight in 'Change of Heart'." [9]

Le Guide du CD/FNAC of France gave the album between 4-5 Stars, "“The second album by the craziest redhead of American Pop, True Colors follows the huge hit album, She’s So Unusual. Inhabiting the youthful energy that characterizes her, Cyndi Lauper reuses the recipe for success of her first album, with a touch of maturity, makes this opus an accomplished album. Her cover of “What’s Going On,” by Marvin Gaye, and the hits “True Colors” and “Change Of Heart,” propels the album and confirms the influence of the artist.”[ citation needed ]

The pan-European magazine Music & Media named True Colors one of its "albums of the week" in the issue dated October 4, 1986. [14] The magazine felt the album "boasted several hit singles", noting the album began "confidently" with "Change of Heart", had a "striking" cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", with "good build up and atmosphere", and showcased "terrific vocal form" on the song "Boy Blue". [15]

Commercial performance

In the United States, True Colors has been certified double platinum by the RIAA and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. It topped the Australian chart for four weeks and, in Japan, outsold She's So Unusual , although that was not the case in most countries. The album produced the singles "True Colors" (No. 1 Billboard Hot 100), "Change of Heart" (No. 3), "What's Going On" (No. 12), and "Boy Blue" (No. 71). Each single had a music video although the video for "Boy Blue" was just a live performance from her Zenith concert in Paris. According to Lauper's official website, the album was certified 4× Platinum in Australia and Platinum in Italy. [16] The album sold around 7 million copies worldwide. [17]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)PublisherLength
1."Change of Heart"
Stone & Muffin Music Corp., Rella Music4:22
2."Maybe He'll Know"
Rella Music, Turi Music4:25
3."Boy Blue"
Rella Music, Perfect Punch Music, Liquid Crystal Music4:46
4."True Colors"
Denise Barry Music, Billy Steinberg Music3:46
5."Calm Inside the Storm"
Scratch & Shift Music; Rella Music3:54
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)PublisherLength
6."What's Going On"
Jobete Music Corp., Stone Agate Music Division4:39
7."Iko Iko"
  • Rosa Lee Hawkins
  • Barbara Anne Hawkins
  • Joan Marie Johnson
  • Sharon Jones
  • Marilyn Jones
  • Boogaloo Joe Jones
  • Jesse Thomas
Arc Music Corp., Melder Publishing Company, Trio Music Co., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing2:08
8."The Faraway Nearby"
  • Lauper
  • Tom Gray
Rella Music, Gray Matter Publishing3:00
9."911"
  • Lauper
  • Lunt
Rella Music, Perfect Punch Music3:16
10."One Track Mind"
  • Lauper
  • Jimmy Bralower
  • Lennie Petze
  • Bova
Rella Music, Fancy Footwork Music, Liquid Crystal Music, Red Sox Music 3:41
Total length:37:57
Bonus track (2008 Japan reissue)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."True Colors" (Live at Summer Sonic, 2007)
  • Kelly
  • Steinberg
 
35th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks (2021)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Heading for the Moon" (B-Side of "True Colors")
  • Lauper
  • Arthur Stead
  • Lunt
3:19
12."True Colors" (Junior Vasquez Pride Mix)
  • Kelly
  • Steinberg
13:36
Total length:54:52

Personnel

Production

Accolades

YearNominee / workAwardResult
1987"True Colors" Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated
"911" Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated
"True Colors" MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video Nominated
"What's Going On" MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography Nominated

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for True Colors
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [45] Gold35,000^
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [46] Platinum300,000 [47]
Canada (Music Canada) [48] 2× Platinum200,000^
France (SNEP) [49] Gold100,000*
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong) [50] Gold10,000*
Japan—404,000 [51]
New Zealand (RMNZ) [52] Platinum15,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [53] Gold25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [54] Silver60,000^
United States (RIAA) [55] 2× Platinum2,000,000^
Summaries
Worldwide—7,000,000 [17]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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