Sentence examples for she-bop from inspiring English sources

In the 1980's, Cindy Lauper and England's Buzzcocks deflowered the ears of innumerable American teenagers with pop anthems that extolled the joys of self-love: "She-Bop" and "Orgasm Addict," respectively.

"She Bop" was slowed into a French-style waltz, with the singer surrounded by concertina, fiddle and guitar.

Some old songs were thoughtfully tweaked: for "She Bop," Ms. Lauper slackened the tempo and strummed an acoustic guitar, producing something that could almost have been made by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

She had her first album cover outside the wax museum of Coney Island," for "She's So Unusual," her 1983 solo debut, which produced four Top 5 Billboard hits, including "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "She Bop" and "Time After Time".

Lauper's recent multigenre diversions bespeak an artist with curiosity and craft to spare, but what makes this show is the quirk factor: She Bop turns southern gothic, complete with pedal steel flourishes, Time After Time is zazzed up by her dulcimer playing and Girls Just Want to Have Fun becomes a duet with the English singer/actor Matt Henry.

And then, three years later, she bopped her way out.

"She bopped into my life like a little ray of sunshine," Mr. Okerman said.

(Ryan is particularly hilarious as she bops and swoops maniacally around the stage).

Her smile, as she bops around, is huge, unforced, radiant; just like that, she's been possessed by pure joy.

"There was an old lady on the platform," Mr. Willis said, "the quintessential old lady, and she bops me on the head with her umbrella.

They burst through steady rain in plumes of red, yellow, and gold, visible through the window just past the young d.j.'s shoulder as she bopped in the booth of Le Bain, at the top of the Standard Hotel.