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THE BODY ACOUSTIC
Epic/Daylight
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Leave it to lifelong pop-cult weirdo Cyndi Lauper to subvert the creaky tradition of the aging rocker’s late-career roots-music make-under. Joined by her long-time producer, Rick Chertoff, Lauper recasts her old hits in tasteful new arrangements that accentuate the tunes’ timeless singer-songwriter verities more than their ’80s-pop eccentricities. (After all, you don’t call in Sarah McLachlan, as she does for "Time After Time" and "Water’s Edge," to get the party started.) Smothered in acoustic guitars and syrupy strings, though, Lauper still can’t help but let her freak flag fly. In a brisk "Money Changes Everything" she gets a bizarro assist from Adam Lazzara of Long Island emo brats Taking Back Sunday. She spruces up "All Through the Night" with a surprisingly simpático guest verse from dancehall veteran Shaggy. And Japanese hyper-pop duo Puffy AmiYumi show up for a zippy ska version of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." Just to keep us guessing, Lauper gives her most sedate reading to "She Bop," her once-controversial ode to masturbation. Nothing beats hearing "I can’t stop messing with the danger zone" over warm campfire guitar strums. Cyndi Lauper | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 East Merrimack Street, Lowell | Dec 17 | 617.931.2000
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