{"id":973921,"date":"2019-12-06T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923370"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:21:41","slug":"cyndi-lauper-officially-releases-hope-first-single-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/cyndi-lauper-officially-releases-hope-first-single-in-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyndi Lauper Officially Releases \u2018Hope,\u2019 First Single in 3 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Cyndi.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cyndi-lauper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cyndi-lauper\" data-tag=\"cyndi-lauper\">Cyndi Lauper<\/a> has officially released her optimistic \u201cHope,\u201d the singer\u2019s first single since 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lauper has been performing the song since 2017, when her battle with psoriasis inspired her to pen the track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ve39PhJzz2A?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m so excited to finally release \u2018Hope\u2019 as a single. The song doesn\u2019t really have too many words. I wanted everyone to get the message through the&nbsp;<i>feeling<\/i>&nbsp;of it,\u201d Lauper said in a statement. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWith all the craziness going on in the world, we might not agree on much, but I think we can all agree that the world could use a little hope right now. I hope that people get that from the song.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lauper last released her country music album <em>Detour<\/em> in May 2016. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHope\u201d follows the news earlier this week that Lauper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cyndi-lauper-high-note-global-prize-lgbtq-916048\/\">receive<\/a> the inaugural High Note Global Prize for her efforts to help prevent and end homelessness among LGBTQ youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cyndi-lauper-hope-new-song-923370\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyndi Lauper has officially released her optimistic \u201cHope,\u201d the singer\u2019s first single since 2016. Lauper has been performing the song since 2017, when her battle with psoriasis inspired her to pen the track. [embedded content] \u201cI\u2019m so excited to finally release \u2018Hope\u2019 as a single. The song doesn\u2019t really have too many words. I wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 12:07:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}