Arcade Fire w. Cyndi Lauper

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Arcade Fire are playing just about every single festival in the U.S. this summer — including Bonnaroo in June — but the Canadian collective delivered one of their most memorable performances of the year at New Orleans' Jazz Fest this past weekend. The group brought out Cyndi Lauper for a joyous rendition of her classic "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." The '80s pop star also stuck around to guest on Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II."...

http://www.spin.com/articles/arcade...91e439ef-05_10_11_Newsletter&utm_medium=email

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[CrystalGeezer]

That's so cool!

 

[Skylarker]

Lauper didn't even write this song...which is fine, but basically what we have here is a has-been popstar "helping" a temporarily successful indie rocker interpret a song that neither one of them actually wrote.

 

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Click for links to a very recent documentary on Arcade Fire -

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