Recorded 2008 Bring Ya to the Brink
(2008) Memphis Blues
(2010) Release date 14 May 2008 | Length 49:36 Artist Cyndi Lauper Label Epic Records | |
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Released May 27, 2008 (2008-05-27) Producer Cyndi Lauper (also exec.)
Peer Åström, Axwell, Basement Jaxx, Johan Bobäck, Digital Dog, Dragonette, DJ Emz, Kleerup, Richard Morel, The Scumfrog, William Wittman Genres Pop music, Rock music, Pop rock, Dance-pop, House music Nominations Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album Similar Cyndi Lauper albums, House music albums | ||
Cyndi lauper bring ya to the brink japan special edition
Bring Ya to the Brink is American singer Cyndi Lauper's ninth studio album and was released on May 27, 2008 in the United States, with a worldwide tour later that summer. The album is a dance-oriented collection featuring collaborations with Basement Jaxx, Richard Morel, Max Martin and Kleerup, amongst others. Regarded as Lauper's strongest set of original material in recent years, the Songwriters Hall of Fame has regarded the album track 'High and Mighty' as one of Lauper's key songs, and the album received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronica Album in 2009. The song "Set Your Heart" was released as a promo-only single in Japan in early 2008 and "Same Ol' Story" was the first official single released worldwide on May 6, 2008. "Into the Nightlife" was released as the album's second official single.
Contents
- Cyndi lauper bring ya to the brink japan special edition
- Cyndi lauper high and mighty bring ya to the brink
- Album information
- Tour and Promotion
- Singles
- Track listing
- Floor Remixes
- Songs
- References
The album is Lauper's last album to date for Epic Records, her label since the 1980s.
Cyndi lauper high and mighty bring ya to the brink
Album information
Lauper visited England and Sweden during early 2007 where she wrote songs with dance artists such as The Scumfrog, Basement Jaxx, Digital Dog, Dragonette, Kleerup and Axwell. She also wrote and produced four of the album's tracks with Washington DC DJ Richard Morel. Art direction on the album was credited to Cyndi Lauper, Sheri Lee & Meghan Foley, with photography by Stefanie Schneider.
Tour and Promotion
To support the album, Lauper toured the world in 2008. She embarked on the Bring Ya to the Brink World Tour in support of the album in countries outside of the United States: The show ventured to Australia in the spring of 2008 and Japan, Europe and South America in the fall of 2008. In the United States she toured in the summer with the True Colors 2008 tour to support the album there.
The album listed at No. 7 on the Attitude Magazine's top ten albums of 2008 and also came in at No. 8 on Amazon's Best Pop albums of 2008.
"Echo" was featured in the Gossip Girl episode "Bonfire of the Vanity", in which Lauper had a cameo at Blair Waldorf's 18th birthday party celebration. "High and Mighty" was in an episode of Ugly Betty.
Lauper performed "Into the Nightlife" live on The Graham Norton Show, in series 4 episode 2, first broadcast on October 9, 2008.
Singles
Track listing
Floor Remixes
A remix album, Floor Remixes, was released February 18, 2009 as a limited edition CD/DVD set and a regular edition in Japan.
A single called "Girls Just Wanna Set Your Heart" was released in Japan on January 21, 2009. It is a mashup of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "Set Your Heart", mixed by Richard Morel.
Songs
1High and Mighty4:44
2Into the Nightlife4:01
3Rocking Chair3:39