In the '80s, Cyndi Lauper was pop's neon maverick, a bespangled pied piper kick-starting the party with feisty feminist tracks like the anthemic “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and winning over fans with her emotive vocals and plaintive calls for authenticity on songs like “Time After Time” and “True Colors”. Over the decades, she's explored myriad genres—from country (“Funnel of Love”) to jazz (“Walk on By”)—but pop has remained at the core of Lauper's identity, as on her synth-heavy 2008 dance hit “Into the Nightlife”.