Cyndi Lauper's Farewell Tour Extravaganza: Music, Activism, and Eternal Fun

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Cyndi Lauper has been front and center in the headlines this week as her monumental Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour enters its final North American stretch, with sold-out dates igniting nostalgia from Toronto to Cincinnati and culminating with a soon-to-be emotional finale at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles according to numerous reports including AOL. She just lit up the Blossom Music Center outside Cleveland on July 30 and, barely pausing for breath, is slated for more shows all packed with multi-generational fans and riotous singalongs. Critics across outlets from the New York Times to Billboard are tripping over themselves to praise her, with Billboard calling her performances commandingly hilarious and noting she’s lost none of her vocal punch. Each concert has doubled as a pop-culture time capsule and a living art installation, fusing her iconic hits with collaborations by contemporary visual heavyweights like Yayoi Kusama and Christian Siriano. It’s pure spectacle, brilliant showmanship, and dazzling color—right down to multiple wig changes every night and a finale that rips straight into a confetti-strewn dance party.

But this isn’t just a musical swan song. Lauper’s tour is deeply tied to activism, with voter registration drives sharing her stage and nearly $200,000 raised so far for her Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights Fund, showing the advocacy that has defined her recent years is only intensifying. According to official statements carried by the Riverbend Music Center and AOL, Lauper insists this is farewell only to full-scale touring, not to music or public life. She remains emphatic that while she’s turning 72, retirement isn’t in her vocabulary—she simply wants to leave big tours on a high note.

The farewell season has drawn star-studded cameos from the likes of Chaka Khan and Sam Smith, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination, and a victory lap of TV spots, from Graham Norton to the TODAY Show. Her recent documentary Let The Canary Sing is streaming on Paramount Plus, and she was celebrated in fittingly flamboyant style as the Empire State Building glowed canary yellow in her honor. Social media from Instagram to Threads is ablaze with fan selfies, video snippets, and backstage glimpses, including partnerships with the League of Women Voters, highlighting both her enduring sense of fun and her relentless activism. Cyndi Lauper’s current run is more than a farewell; it’s a living testament to her legacy and a joyous, defiant reminder that girls—and icons—just want to have fun forever.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cindi Lauper has been front and center in the headlines
this week as her monumental Girls Just Want to Have
Fun Farewell to Her enters its final North American stretch,
with sold out dates igniting nostalgia from Toronto to Cincinnati
and culminating with assume to be emotional finale at the
Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. According to numerous reports, including AOL,

(00:23):
she just lit up the Blossom Music Center outside Cleveland
on July thirtieth, and barely pausing for breath is slated
for more shows, all packed with multi generational fans and
riotous singalogues. Critics across outlets from The New York Times
to Billboard are tripping over themselves to praise her, with
Billboard calling her performances commandingly hilarious and noting she's lost

(00:47):
none of her vocal punch. Each concert has doubled as
a pop culture time capsule and a living art installation,
fusing her iconic hits with collaborations by contemporary visual heavyweights
like yayok Usama and Christian Siriano. It's pure spectacle, brilliant
showmanship and dazzling color, right down to multiple wig changes

(01:09):
every night. And a finale that rips straight into a
confetti swan. So Lauper's tour is deeply tied to activism,
with voter registration, drives, sharing her stage and nearly two
hundred thousand dollars raised so far for her girls just
want to have fundamental rights fund showing the advocacy that
has defined her recent years is only intensifying. According to

(01:30):
official statements carried by the Riverbend Music Center and aol
Lapper insists this is farewell only to full scale touring,
not to music or public life. She remains emphatic that
while she's turning seventy two, retirement isn't in her vocabulary.
She simply wants to leave big tours on a high note.
The farewell season has drawn star studded cameos from the

(01:52):
likes of Chaka Khan and Sam Smith, a Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame nomination, and a victory lap of
TV spots from Grand Norton to The Today Show. Her
recent documentary, let The Canary Sing, is streaming on Paramount Plus,
and she was celebrated in fittingly flamboyant style as the
Empire State Building glowed canary yellow in her honor. Social

(02:13):
media from Instagram to threads, is ablaze with fan selfies,
video snippets, and backstage glimpses, including partnerships with the League
of Women Voters, highlighting both her enduring sense of fun
and her relentless activism. Cyndi Lauper's current run is more
than a farewell. It's a living testament to her legacy
and a joyous, defiant reminder that girls and icons just

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want to have fun forever. And that is it for today.
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