Cyndi Lauper - Detour Review (Cyndi Lauper - Detour 2016 Album Review)

Rating: 60/100 - Genre: Country/Pop-Rock  Year: 2016

When Cyndi Lauper decided to call her eleventh album Detour, she wasn’t joking. It’s not the fi rst time she’s strayed away from familiar territory – her last album, for instance, was a blues collection. But perhaps only those who know her best could have expected 40 minutes of country covers. She acquits herself surprisingly well: that bubblegum voice, complete with helium-powered whoops, might initially feel out of place on opener Funnel Of Love and the honkytonk shuffl e of the title track, a duet with Emmylou Harris, but she still provides a credible partner to Willie Nelson on his own Night Life, and as she opens up on the pedal steel fl avoured tearjerker, Misty Blue, one begins to wonder why she didn’t do this before. Then she sings The End Of The World, and you realise sometimes she lacks the sophistication to lift a country song from pedestrian to celestial. She’s not off-key, it’s true, but if this were playing in a bar you’d wonder where the karaoke machine was. A duet with Vince Gill – on Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty’s uproarious You’re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly – also suffers when Lauper seems to mistake it for She Bop and indulges that hiccup routine of hers. Still, what’s a country album without a little tragedy?

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