Shine (Cyndi Lauper album)

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Shine
Shine cover
Studio album by Cyndi Lauper
Released 2003
Recorded 1999/2000
Genre Dance-pop
Length 54:47
Label Epic
Producer Cyndi Lauper, William Wittman
Cyndi Lauper chronology
Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life
(1998)		 Shine
(2001)		 At Last
(2003)

Shine was an album released exclusively in Japan in 2004 by singer Cyndi Lauper. The album was ready for release in 2001 but Edel Records, the label it was recorded with, folded. The leaked tracks from a demonstration disc quickly circulated on the Internet and by 2002 Lauper realized there was no point in trying to release it in a widespread fashion. Two E.P.s were released instead: One was also called "Shine" and the other was called "Shine Remixes".

The album expounds on the sound Lauper developed with her 1997 album Sisters of Avalon. Mostly pop songs, it flirts with electronica while incorporating old-fashioned instruments like sitars and fiddles. The songs are not lyrically linked, and explore themes ranging from the Madonna-Whore Complex to celebrity life. The track "It's Hard to be Me" was penned about Anna Nicole Smith; Smith attempted to buy it as the theme song to her reality show, but Lauper declined.

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Cyndi Lauper and Jan Pulsford, except where noted.

  1. "Shine" (Lauper, William Wittman)
  2. "It's Hard to Be Me" (Lauper, Rob Hyman, Wittman)
  3. "Madonna Whore" (Lauper, Wittman)
  4. "Wide Open"
  5. "Rather Be with You" (Lauper, Doc Fleming, Marcello Nines)
  6. "Who Let in the Rain" (Lauper, Allee Willis)
  7. "Comfort You"
  8. "Eventually" (Lauper, Ryuichi Sakamoto)
  9. "(Waiting For) Valentino"
  10. "This Kind of Love" (Lauper, Nines)
  11. "Higher Plane"
  12. "Water's Edge" (Lauper, Hyman)
  13. "I Miss My Baby"
  • If song name is in bold lettering, it was on the EP
    • The "Illicit Mix" of Shine was also on the EP

[edit] Charts

Chart (2003) Peak
Position
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart 120

[edit] Chart Shine EP Sales

Chart (2002) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard's Top Independent Albums Chart 42
U.S. Amazon Sales 4
Amazon Canada 2
Amazon Japan 257