Cyndi Lauper Live in Berlin: brightly colored women’s power party

Forty years later, the singer is on her “Girls Just Wanna have fun Farewell” tour through the world and her vocal power is still impressed. Even if occasionally slipping a few tones, it is a successful performance that the 71-year-old brings on stage in the multi-purpose hall at the Berlin Ostbahnhof on this Tuesday evening.

It starts with rainbow confetti and the masturbation anthem “She Bop” (including recorder solo), which the fans immediately catapulted into the eighties and thus largely into their youth. In the subsequent Prince cover “When You Were Mine”, the fan-mixed synth strengthens this feeling.

Both opening songs come from Cyndi Lauper’s debut album “She’s so unusual” published in 1983, which made it a star and is still her most successful today. With six songs, it forms the center of the approximately two -hour show, in which the singer always takes time for long announcements and anecdotes.

She sometimes comes off a little bit of the way, for example if she even gives information about the health -damaging ingredients of her house facade in a childhood memory. But a lot is funny or exciting, such as the story about the play “I Drove All Night”, which was actually written for Roy Orbison, but which she absolutely wanted to record first, “because I had never heard a song about a woman who drives”.

While the song is thundered by drums, the car can be seen from the video clip at that time as a projection – on the white train of Lauper’s costume that holds up. The singer often moves, sometimes on the stage, and has an impressive amount of colorful wigs. She then performs “Fearless” without artificial hair and without band accompaniment. A nice, almost intimate moment in the white light, where you can imagine the New Yorker in future smaller concert formats.

But that evening she is about glitter format. She wants to say goodbye, says Lauper in one place. And so the band, some of which consisted of old friends, can fully get in again at “Sisters of Avalon”. The title song of the album released in 1997 brings you lively over the ramp, but the concert highlights only then come: For “Time After Time”, Lauper asks the listeners to switch on the lamps of their mobile phones in order to then sing one of their most touching pop ballads with them.

At the line “If you’Re Lost you can look and you will find me”, there is a tear puller time, just as later in the admission part at “True Colors”, for which the singer comes on an upstream extra stage. She lets a long rainbow -colored band blow towards the hall corner, a greeting to the friend who died of the episodes of AIDS and who is devoted to the song.

As a tribute to the artist Yayoi Kusama, whose photo is shown late, Cyndi Lauper stages her greatest hit “Girls Just Wanna have fun”. The typical points of the Japanese determine the complete look of the concert final from the stage design to the red and white costumes. And as a guest singer, Peaches comes on stage with a funny mop wig. A women’s power party in four minutes. Great fun and a worthy departure.