Diabetes Late Nite Inspired by Cyndi Lauper

Divabetics just want to have fun!

Join us for our seventh anniversary of diabetes podcasting with musical inspiration from Cyndi Lauper. 

In the 30 plus years since Cyndi Lauper released her career-defining hit, Girls Just Want To Have Fun has been described as a "rebellious sing-along" and an “feminist anthem”. 

The song's music video was one of the first to feature women of multiple races. The one thing I really wanted was to have multi-racial girls so that every little girl could actually see herself in it, and it would be kind of contagious that everyone was entitled—no matter what race or color or anything—you were entitled to this joyful experience, Cyndi Lauper said.

The result was a song and video that caught the attention of the mainstream by defying it. For a minute, I made it popular to be the odd guy out, Lauper said. All of the sudden, the straight guy was the odd guy out, just for a minute—and that, to me, was justice.

Guests included Susan Weiner RD, MS, CDE, CDN , Megrette Fletcher MEd, RD, CDE, Susan McCaslin, Poet Lorraine Brooks, Janis Roszler MSFT, RD, LD/N, CDE, FAND, the Charlie’s Angels of Outreach and Mama Rose Marie.

Throughout this podcast we will be playing selected songs from the Essential Collection of Cyndi Lauper courtesy of SONY Music.