Cyndi hits the showers (wet shirtless dudes included)!

While tomfoolery in a public bathroom didn't fare so well for George Michael, its seems to be working just fine for chirpy pop singer Cyndi Lauper, whose new music video, "Into the Nightlife," opens with us catching the devoted fruit fly standing over the bathroom trough at New York City's gay bar staple Splash. Miss Cyndi, if you're nasty!

Could the 54-year-old girl who just wants to have fun be snatching the title of "Dancefloor Cougar Du Jour" from Madonna? She looks a little like Robyn's nutty auntie as she shuffles around the Chelsea hot spot, weaving through throngs of homo partygoers and their loyal lady friends, her voice slinking over chewy synths and thumping programmed beats. And I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

I mean, unlike that other seasoned female pop star who blew up in the early '80s, at least Lauper looks like she's having good, old-fashioned, authentic fun. Just check her out in that big-collared, the-velociraptors-have-escaped-Jurassic-Park getup she's wearing as she takes a stab at hypnosis in front of a kitschy spinning background. What...the...hell?

The verdict is in: Falling off your rocker trumps Timbaland. Toss in a handful of slippery abs and cameos from gay porn star turned musician Colton Ford, queer R&B gym bunny Ari Gold, and Cliks frontman Lucas Silveira, and it's clear that this clip is Cyndi's gift to club-hopping homos everywhere.

On a personal note, "Into the Nightlife" has the Out boys atwitter. It's not often that the picky queens in fashion, art, and editorial agree on a frothy toe-tapper, but this song not only got us shimmying out of our cubicles, it sparked a lyrical debate over what Lauper says at the beginning of the chorus. One staffer thought she was singing "I'll take ya till you're all sprung up" (huh?), another "I'll take ya till your hole's blown up" (ew), yet another "I'll take ya to the worst porno" (genius!).

The actual lyrics: "I'll take ya till ya all spun up."

For more on Cyndi and "Into the Nightlife" read our interview with her on Out.com.

-- JASON LAMPHIER

Comments

[hurroh]

re: "weaving through throngs of homo partygoers and their loyal lady friends,"

hey, just saying but mightn't those "loyal lady friends" be homos themselves, not just "loyal" hangers-on?

[noah]

i do love the song -- i just wish the video didn't look like it was made with a budget roughly equal to that of a pack of skittles.