Cyndi Lauper is a study in contrasts.

Arriving on the music scene with 1983’s enduring She’s So Unusual, she owned the Top 10 with the singles Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Time After Time, She Bop and All Through the Night and continued the run with albums like True Colours and others. She hit on every period in her career at the Vancouver date of the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell tour at Rogers Arena last night.

From the moment the lights went down and Blondie’s One Way Or Another began playing and the stage cannon fired a salvo of rainbow confetti over the hyped crowd, Lauper and her absolutely crack backing band were on the one.

She Bop began the night, and was more of a swaggering new wave rocker than many might have remembered. The recorder solo in the middle also served as a

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