# What did Madonna have that Cyndi Lauper didn't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-madonna-have-that-cyndi-lauper-didnt/564723 "2010-12-19T17:09:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-madonna-have-that-cyndi-lauper-didnt/564723/42 "2010-12-20T10:25:54Z")
Cindi Lauper talented?? Puh-lease, give me a break. I saw her when her first album came out opening for the Kinks. Saying she was dreadful is an understatement. The audience HATED her and couldn’t wait for her to leave. I was surprised her first album actually did so well. Chalk screeching on blackboards sounds better than her. I didn’t think much better of Madonna and in a lot of ways she is a repulsive piece of garbage (putting pictures of John McCain next to Adolf Hitler during your 2008 tour is the hate speech so typical of Obama supporters). But she does have a knack of changing her style every 18 months to keep fresh. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-madonna-have-that-cyndi-lauper-didnt/564723)._