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Bring Ya To The Brink
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 78 Ratings

  • Summary: The eighth studio album sees the '80s star returns with new dance music.

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Into The Night Life
Cyndi Lauper - Into the Nightlife Got this endless itch to ride Into the night Fortune cookie says I'm right Kung Foo like Shake your body Mister... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Billboard
    80
    There's an overall retro feel to the production that will no doubt delight minions, but those same faithful are old enough to appreciate meaning behind the melodies.
  2. Observer Music Monthly
    80
    Her new dance album – her 11th – is a brilliant collaboration with the likes of Basement Jaxx and the Scum Frog.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    While the rest of Brink is not as immediately memorable, all those bright bleeps and thumps will surely keep you--and Lauper's career--moving. [20 June 2008, p.67]
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  4. AllMusic
    70
    Bring Ya to the Brink is one of the more intriguing detours along the way.
  5. PopMatters
    70
    Bring Ya to the Brink escapes just being a club-tailored album, for underneath the glossy production is some of Lauper’s strongest writing in her 25-year solo career.
  6. Hot Press
    70
    Cyndi’s lost touch with the zeitgeist a bit, and parts of this sound like she’s trying to keep up but this is generally a really good record.
  7. The New York Times
    40
    Made with a handful of production teams, it’s a stubbornly fluorescent record, long on thudding downbeats and short on nuance or grace.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. SteveB
    Jun 2, 2008
    10
    WOW!!! This album is in my top 5 so far this year, what a nice come back.
  2. MaxxM.
    May 30, 2008
    10
    Great CD and great songs. Cyndi is the best. The pop and rock queen knows what she is doing. Great vocalist and great lyrics. Best cyndi!
  4. Haandy
    Feb 14, 2022
    10
    Completamente inovador e a frente do seu tempo, queria mais músicas pop e eletro assim
  5. DarrenM.
    Jun 6, 2008
    10
    Best cd I've heard so far this year. Love it!
  6. SteevenS.
    Jun 16, 2008
    10
    Sounds like a newer version of she's so unusual, new vibe and very up to date. My younger friends are enjoying it, their comments were Sounds like a newer version of she's so unusual, new vibe and very up to date. My younger friends are enjoying it, their comments were "and who would of thought? Cyndi Lauper?… Expand
  7. FrankL.
    Jun 22, 2008
    10
    Great Album! The best in the 2008!!
  8. ALexH.y
    Jun 12, 2008
    8
    Cyndi takes on all comers of the dance music world, fusing trance, house, pure pop, R'nB effortlessly, and while some of the really full Cyndi takes on all comers of the dance music world, fusing trance, house, pure pop, R'nB effortlessly, and while some of the really full on hi-energy leaves me a bit cold, the album is a great antidote to the over-egged oap in crotch tight spandex.… Collapse

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