Cyndi Lauper Time after time 2023, Remastered musically visualised

Genius Annotation Written by Lauper, with assistance from Rob Hyman, Time After Time is one of the alltime great love ballads. It was Laupers first, 1 hit and arguably her signature song. After Lauper had already recorded the large majority of her debut albumShes So Unusualher producer Rick Chertoff insisted she needed one more song. Chertoff introduced her to Hyman and they began working on the song. Lauper came up with the title while reading TV GuideTime After Time was a 1979 science fiction movie starring Malcolm McDowell as H. G. Wells, portraying him inventing a time traveling machine. Laupers label initially wanted this song to be her first single before she convinced them to go with Girls Just Want To Have Fun. In her memoir, Lauper recounts: When the album was completed, the label wanted the first single to be Time After Time. But I kept saying to them, Listen to mereleasing a ballad first defines you in a certain way. You become known as a balladee