Hit Parade: Be the One to Walk in the Sun, Part 2

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In Part 2 of this episode, Chris Molanphy continues his analysis of how Cyndi Lauper, Aimee Mann, and The Bangles, three contemporary female acts with rock foundations and pop sensibilities, progressed out of their distinctive rock scenes and into the spotlight. They found critical and commercial acclaim and remain influential decades later, in a variety of media, from Hollywood to Broadway. What forces were they up against, and how did they fight to define themselves? Podcast production by Asha Saluja. Sign up for Slate Plus now to get episodes in one installment as soon as they're out. You'll also get The Bridge, our trivia show and bonus deep dive. Click here for more info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hip Parade, a podcast of pop-chark history from Slate magazine about the hits
0:12.0	from Coast to Coast.
0:13.6	I'm Chris Malanfee, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number
0:19.1	One series on our last episode.
0:22.6	We talked about the overlapping careers of rising 80s pop acts, Cindy Lauper, The Bangles,
0:29.7	and Amy Mann of Till Tuesday.
0:32.6	By 1985 Lauper had scored a string of hits off her quadruple platinum album.
0:39.2	Till Tuesday had a huge single fueled by Mann's cinematic music video performance, and the
0:45.8	bangles were appearing in Cindy's videos and on her tour, but still looking for a hit
0:52.2	of their own.
0:53.7	All of these artists now had to figure out their next moves without getting pushed around
0:59.4	by a meddling, often sexist music industry.
1:04.1	Cindy Lauper had made some interesting friends in her rise to fame.
1:10.0	One of them accompanied her to the 1985 Grammy Awards, where she won a major prize, Best
1:17.0	New Artist.
1:18.6	When she went up to accept the prize, she took along a muscle bound man named Terry Balea,
1:25.8	that are known as Hulk Hogan, and the Best New Artist is, oh, Cindy Lauper.
1:42.9	And all the world wrestling federation Captain Louis Albano, who has gone on to become a movie
1:48.6	star, and of course, Katrina Dominique, who started all the videos with me.
1:55.0	That's Hulk Hogan flexing behind the podium next to Cindy.
2:05.7	He was more than her bodyguard.
2:08.5	In her first flush of stardom, Lauper was co-promoting the World Wrestling Federation
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