She Bop

by

Cyndi Lauper

Album: She's So Unusual      Released: 1984

US Chart: 3     UK Chart: 46

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This is about masturbation: "They say that if I do it I'm going to go blind...," "I can't stop messin' with the danger zone."

Author Lucy O'Brien used the title for a book about women in rock.

Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff produced the album. Hyman and Bazilian had some hit songs with their group The Hooters a year later, including "And We Danced" and "Day By Day." They also played backup on the album.

Lauper wanted kids to think this was about dancing. She was hoping they wouldn't understand the real meaning until they got older.

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the 80's were raunchy - this and madonna " like a virgin" prince "head" michael jackson "billie jean".i knew almost every line means self - love but i didn't get any video visual clues.
- paul, geelong, Australia

The "He" in the line "I hope He will understand" refers to God. The lyrics in the album liner notes have it capitalized. You know, God hates masturbators? Sin? That whole thing.
- Cyndifan, Chicago, IL

I always thought this song was about lesbianism, with lines like "I hope he will understand" and "Ain't no law against it yet." It's comforting.
- Gilgamesh, Denver, CO

To this day, I still think that this song is about dancing. Think about it. She bop, he bop, we bop? Bopping is like dancing! It's kind of like saying, "She dances, He dances, we dance. Come on everybody, let's dance!"
- Annabelle, Eugene, OR

i feel so silly. i had no clue. i was just watching POP UP VIDEO on VH1 Classic. OMG!
- fawn, Philadelphia, PA

Oh my. I am a thousand year old now and I did not know that this song was anything about masturbation. I used to blast this song in my house and I used to sing it around the house. No one said anything. Confidentially, I did not even think about "bopping" until way, way, way after my teenage years. God, no wonder I am so naive. However, it does a lot for the complexion. I mean. . being naive helps the complexion.
- Beryl, New York, NY

WOW i never would of guessed Lauper would right something like that she seemed like a little sweet innocent girl now the song makes sense!!! i love the music video i would have never of got it met masturbation. i thought it was about robots now i don t get how subliminal it was to me!
- danielle, palm coast, FL

I never knew what this song meant until just now, it is pretty funny. I really do love this song though, it is pretty awesome. Now that I think about it though the lyrics all make sense.
- Nicole, Kenosha, WI

Uncle Siggy is Doctor Sigmund Freud, the person that discovered that is sex and not moral what guide humans through life(and also that we ALL masturbate when we are under 6). "The Id and Out" must refer to "The Ego And The Id ", one of his most important writings
- Matias, capital, Argentina

I love all the little clues throughout the video. The Burger Klone sign (I think) The book that says id and out. The scoreboard that says masterbingo - at one point in the video there appears to be some steam coming fron her "southern" region. However "I hope he will understand" lyrics has got me "boggled" - Why would'nt he understand?? The gas station that says "self service", Full service" and "Fill er Up" Great Video, Great Song!
- JeepStreet, Rapid, United States

This song has the nicest melodies. I love it. Cyndi's best in my opinion!
- Nelson, Melbourne

hey steph, I am bopping right now!!!
- jer, london, Canada

In the video there's a cartoon of Cyndi driving her car up to a gas station and pointing at a sign that says "Self Service."
- Don, Newmarket, Canada

mass-bopping...thats what she meant I guess. helping each other to bop. she bop he bop we bop....the whole world bop! even monkeys bop, ccyndi u know that?
- sum sum, New Delhi

I was about 16 when this song was on the radio, and it wasn't until I saw the video that I realized it was the so-called "English vice" LOL
- Bernard, Caracas, South America

Controversy, controversy.....these lyrics were tame compared to what gets radio play today. I think we all knew what was being said, but to be sung by a female was what shocked people more then anything. Songs of self pleasure are nothing new, but usually it's male artist and bands that belt out tunes about such topics.
- Dee, Indianapolis, IN

I'd always thought it was about sex, but now that I read the lyrics... Yeah, it's about m'ing!
- Eric, Cincinnati, OH

I'm with Kristy. (Kristy, call me!) lol
- Brian, Nashville, TN

"We-hell-I see them every night in tight blue jeans - in the pages of a blue boy magazine hey i've been thinking of a new sensation I'm picking up - good vibration - oop - she bop -" Mast.. song. definetely
- Randy, Cabimas, South America

"She bops, he bops, we bop, I bop, you bop, and they bop, she bop..." So, in other words, BOP = MASTURBATION... roflmfao!!!! Hell, I'd bop every chance i could!!!
- Kristy, saco, ME

I heard this song for the first time in ages just the other day. A local station was doing an 80's retro weekend. (Thanks to all things good). And I looked at my husband as we drove down the highway, boppin' our heads to the beat(this song is from our high school days) and I said "Holy Sh**!, I think she means maturbation!" He says "duh!" I never got that one. I guess Cyndi was right...some kids didn't understand it until they were older. Much older. LOL.
- Laura, Irvington, NY

This was an inside joke between Cyndi Lauper and the other person who wrote the song. Cyndi wanted to write a song about masturbation but wanted to make it a hidden meaning so it could get airplay.
- Heather, Fruita, CO

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